Human Being | |
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 11 likes | |
Mankind | |
All mankind is divided into three groups: those that are immovable, those that are movable and those that move. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 6 likes | |
Identity | |
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. — Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Israeli Prime Minister 10 likes | |
It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 7 likes | |
You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are. | |
World | |
Hard work conquers all. Labor omnia vincit. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 99 likes | |
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 2 likes | |
Life | |
If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 16 likes | |
There's an old saying, “Life begins at forty.” That’s silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 3 likes | |
Create a life you can’t wait to live. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 9 likes | |
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 6 likes | |
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 6 likes | |
Right & Wrong | |
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 7 likes | |
Nothing is wrong if it makes you happy. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 14 likes | |
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 5 likes | |
Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 13 likes | |
Faith | |
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 4 likes | |
All it takes is faith and trust. — from the film Peter Pan 4 likes | |
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. | |
Hell | |
If you’re going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 22 likes | |
Present | |
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes | |
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it the present. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 5 likes | |
Timing | |
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 5 likes | |
Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes | |
It is very important in life to know when your cue comes. | |
Time | |
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 2 likes | |
Either you run the day or the day runs you. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 4 likes | |
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes | |
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes | |
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 11 likes | |
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. | |
Past | |
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 4 likes | |
Future | |
The future depends on what you do today. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 7 likes | |
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 5 likes | |
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 4 likes | |
Age | |
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 17 likes | |
Procrastination | |
I could do great things, if I weren't so busy doing little things. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist | |
Speed | |
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 5 likes | |
It is better to act quickly and be wrong than to hesitate and let the time for action pass. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist 1 likes | |
Learning | |
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes | |
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 17 likes | |
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes | |
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 11 likes | |
People think of education as something they can finish. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 17 likes | |
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes | |
Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 5 likes | |
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman (ending comment in the Stanford Commencement in 2005) 3 likes | |
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes | |
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. | |
Distance | |
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 4 likes | |
Road | |
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes | |
Normality is a paved road. It’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow on it. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 7 likes | |
All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire. | |
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go. | |
Beginning | |
Every moment is a fresh beginning. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 5 likes | |
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes | |
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes | |
The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 3 likes | |
Better never begin than never make an end. | |
There's an old saying, “Life begins at forty.” That’s silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 3 likes | |
Difference | |
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. | |
Similarity | |
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes | |
Opposites | |
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. | |
Complexity | |
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial. — Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician 3 likes | |
Adaptation | |
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 9 likes | |
When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 4 likes | |
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 36 likes | |
Usefulness | |
Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied. | |
Futility | |
Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 5 likes | |
No Change | |
Security breeds stagnation. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 4 likes | |
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 3 likes | |
New | |
One has to do something new in order to see something new. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes | |
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 2 likes | |
Confusion | |
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 4 likes | |
Rules | |
Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 2 likes | |
It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 6 likes | |
Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free but it can’t go anywhere. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 6 likes | |
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 8 likes | |
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