Favorite Quotations
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
Thomas Edison
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Albert Schweitzer
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
Booker T. Washington
"Laugh at yourself at least once today."
John Ortberg
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
Arthur C. Clark
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
William Shakespeare - "Hamlet"
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
Peter Drucker
"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."
Lee Iacocca
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
Sam Walton
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal."
Vince Lombardi
"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
Winston Churchill
"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
Harry S Truman
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
Henry Ford
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."
Scott Adams
"Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers."
Ross Perot
"Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are."
Howard Hughes
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."
Colin Powell
"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."
Nicholas Butler
"Struggle diligently against your impatience, and strive to be amiable and gentle in season and out of season, towards every one, however much they may vex and annoy you, and be sure God will bless your efforts."
St. Francis De Sales
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“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx,
“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”
John Wayne
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon
"One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him."
Chinese Proverb
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
Heraclitus
"If you shoot an arrow at a monkey from an airplane and the monkey throws a coconut at the incoming arrow to stop it, but he misses ... how can you tell what time it is?"
Scott Adams at Dilbert.com
"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly away from the monitor with your cursor."
Juuso Heimonen.
"The river is no wider from this side than the other."
Old Irish Proverb
Success: "per aspera ad astra!" / "To the stars through difficulties"
Apollo 1 plaque at Launch Complex 34
"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
John Mason
"Always be first-rate version of yourself, instead of second-rate version of somebody else."
Judy Garland
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but rising every time we fall."
Confucius
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
Anais Nin
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
Robert E. Lee
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton
"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart."
Alan Alda
"The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe."
Michio Kaku
"The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced."
Aldous Huxley
"He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can never loose."
Jim Elliot
"We are called to live as faithful people of the paradox."
Rev. Dr. Leigh Bond
"Afraid of what?"
Christian missionary Jack Vinson before his execution in China.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Christ Jesus
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things;
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
Of cabbages and kings,
And why the sea is boiling hot,
And whether pigs have wings."
Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter
Charlie Brown, "Rerun! What are you doing here?"
Rerun, "I'm with Linus... He's across the street knocking on doors telling people about the Great Pumpkin. I'm standing over here so no one will know I'm with him..."
Charlie Brown, "What kind of an evangelist are you?"
Rerun, "I'm a semi-evangelist."
Peanuts by Charles Schultz
