Showing posts with label words of wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words of wisdom. Show all posts

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Aristotle - Friends

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Bo Bennett - Dreams

"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Arthur Rubinstein - Success

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

Monday, April 7, 2008

Elbert Hubbard - Character

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

Friday, April 4, 2008

Garrison Keillor - Getting what you want

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

John Lennon - Life

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

Monday, March 31, 2008

Michelangelo - Goals

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

Friday, March 28, 2008

Demosthenes - Attitude

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Jonathan Kozol - winning

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

Friday, March 21, 2008

Anais Nin - Life

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Carlos Castaneda - Maturity

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Goethe - Worth

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Socrates - Love the word

"One word frees us
Of all the weight and pain in life,
That word is Love"

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Lao Tzu - Love

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Thursday, February 7, 2008

George Carlin

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

John F. Kennedy - Country

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

Vote for Obama!

Monday, February 4, 2008

Mahatma Gandhi - Freedom

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."