Opportunities Today : September 2007 Issue

Quotes

 

 

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity
- O.A. Battista

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand
- Chinese Proverb

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires
- W. A. Ward

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion
- Washington Irving

A picture is a poem without words
- Horace

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression
- Haim Ginott

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye
- Cervantes

Be your own judge and you will be happy
- Mahatma Gandhi

You may give gifts without caring but you can't care without giving
- Frank Clark

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper
- Chinese proverb

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
-Oscar Wilde

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong
- Abraham Lincoln

Without dialogue there is no communication, and without communication there is no true education
- Paulo Freire

Education begins with life
- B. Franklin

Don't be too quick to believe anything you read
- Roman Orator

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near
- J. Krishnamurti

Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see
- Proverb

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate
- Samuel Butler

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn
- Abraham Lincoln

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit
- Rabelais

As long as there is life, there is danger
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow
- James Michener

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
- Vernan Law

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different
- Marchant

He who fears you present will hate you absent
- English proverb

I don't make jokes I just watch the government and report the facts
- Will Rogers

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him
- Buddha

Imagination is useful only as long as it remains practical
- Alexis R. Wiren

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world
- Thomas Browne

Jealousy arises from a lack of confidence, not in others, but in oneself
- Eugene Cloutier

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart
- John Bunyan

Instinct is the nose of the mind
- Madame de Gerardin

Keep a secret; it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master
- Will Henry

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity
- Sri Ramakrishna

It is more blessed to give than to receive
- The Bible

There is much more learning than knowing in the world
- Thomas Fuller

Gossip is that which no one claims to like but everybody enjoys
- Joseph Conrad

Happiness is a wondrous commodity : the more you give, the more you have
-Madame de Stael

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere
- Frank Clark

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good
- Bertolt Brecht

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, states, and providence than to see their real import and value
- Hegel

It is too late to learn to swim as the vessel sinks
- Ernest Bramah

Living is the art of getting used to what we didn't expect
- Eleanor Wood

Mistakes are to life what shadows are to light
- Ernest Junger

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error
- Cicero

There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it
- Proverb

Forgotten is forgiven
- F.S. Fitzgerald

God is truth
- Mahatma Gandhi

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important
- T.S. Eliot

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough
- Albert Einstein