Opportunities Today : October 2006 Issue

Frame of Mind

 

 

• Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
– John Wooden
• The harder you work, the luckier you get
– Gary Player
• Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out
– James B. Conant

• When an old person dies, a library is lost
– Tommy Swann

• Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so
– Tagore

• To travel hopefully is better than to arrive
– Sir James Jeans
• I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
– Helen Keller
• In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principles, stand like a rock
– Thomas Jefferson
• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself
– Henry Ward Bucher
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear
– Mark Twain
• Don't be afraid to take big steps. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
– David Lloyd George
• One man with courage is a majority
– Andrew Jackson
• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
– Mother Teresa
• I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody
– Ben Franklin
• It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
– Somerset Maugham
• Well done is better than well said
– Ben Franklin
• A friend is a gift you give yourself
– Robert Louis Stevenson
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
– Abraham Lincoln
• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness
– Bertrand Russell
• Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time
– Chilton
• No legacy is so rich as honesty
– William Shakespeare
• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom
– Thomas Jefferson
• Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Imagination is more important than knowledge
– Albert Einstein
• Always be a little kinder than necessary
– James M. Barrie
• There is no experience better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
– John Andrew Holmer
• This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
– William Hyon Phelps
 
Days to remember around the World ! - ( During October 2006 )
1st October - Independance Day (Nigeria)
2nd October - Dassera / Gandhi Jayanti (India)
9th October - Independence Day (Uganda)
10th October - Moi Day (Kenya)
14th October - Nyerere Day (Tanzania)
16th October - Day of Goodwill (South Africa)
20th October - Kenyatta Day (Kenya)
21st October - Diwali (India), Deepavali (Singapore)
24th October - Bhaubij (India)
25th October - Ramdan Eid (India), Idd-Ul-Fitr (Kenya)
27th October - Labour Day (New Zealand)
31st October - Halloween (Japan, Switzerland, USA)