Tuesday, May 27, 2008

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
-Confucius-

Monday, May 26, 2008

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”
-Sir Winston Churchill-

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, It is the only thing that ever has.”
-Margaret Mead-

“Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.”
-Lin Yutang-

Friday, May 9, 2008

"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit."
-D. Elton Trueblood-

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
-Andre Gide-

“It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.”
-Eric Lindros-

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
-Albert Einstein-

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
-Paul Boese-

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
-Vince Lombardi-

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

“A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.”
-William John Bennett-

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
-Norman Vincent Peale-

“True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
-Sam Ewing-

"Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.”
-Seth Godin-

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
-Daniel J. Boorstin-

Sunday, May 4, 2008

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
-Henry Ford-

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt-
26th President Of The United States

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
-Ayn Rand-
Russian born American Author