“It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are
comfortable with them and have spent years building systems
and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has
worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we
forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we
have become used to seeing it that way through a particular
set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need
to throw the old ones away.”
– Kenichi Ohmae
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything.”
– Edward Phelps
“If men could regard the events of their own lives with more
open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not
really desire the things they failed to obtain.”
– Andre Maurois
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen,
others make it happen.”
– Michael Jordan
“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that
one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a
strong won’t.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and
to work and to play and to look up at the stars.”
– Henry Van Dyke
“It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a
pessimist who is always right.”
– Unknown
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.”
– Epictetus
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can
start today and make a new ending.”
– Maria Robinson
“Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry
with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves
reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are
only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its
condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze
inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.”
– Kirsten Zambucka
“Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours
and use them well.”
– John Templeton
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm
and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can
have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
“If it’s sanity you’re after, there’s no recipe like
laughter.”
– Henry Rutherford Elliot
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
– Richard Buckminster Fuller
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if
we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not
be so welcome.”
– Anne Bradstreet
“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a
negative decision in the low time. Never make your most
important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be
patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are
dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.”
– Dom Helder Camara
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take
without forgetting.”
– Elizabeth Bibesco
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it
foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”
– Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get
inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you
believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you
act upon them.”
– Jim Rohn
“Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the
smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying
to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a
single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could
expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you
will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been
worthwhile.”
– Arnold Toynbee
“Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it
embarrasses your children.”
– Marilyn Penland
“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power
working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of
paramount importance that we know how to harness and control
this great force.”
– Irving Berlin
“If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the
habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.”
– Epictetus
“For myself, losing is not coming second. It’s getting out of
the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I
have won every race I’ve been in.”
– Ian Thorpe
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are
going, because you might not get there.”
– Yogi Berra
“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but
in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart
is developed.”
– Vincent Van Gogh