Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Words to Live in....

These are just a few Quotes that I like to go back and read from time to time and I wanted to share them today....



The ability to entertain thought without accepting it is the sign of an educated man... Aristotle

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.
            -- Robert Frost

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
            -- Mike Ditka


You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
            -- Woodrow Wilson

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.-- Will Rogers

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.- Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.- John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
 Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. - Jack London

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
            Raymond Lindquist


My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
            Trieu Thi Trinh

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
            Harriet Beecher Stowe

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.-- Mark Twain

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
            -- Thomas A. Edison

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.-- Bertrand Russell

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.-- Bob Dylan

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