Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Buddha: All that we are…
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. ” ~Buddha
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Benjamin Franklin: Strictest law, severest injustice
“The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.” ~Benjamin Franklin.
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Frank Shutts: Success
“One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.” ~Frank Shutts
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Isabel Allende: Peace
“Peace requires everyone to be in the circle—wholeness,inclusion.” ~Isabel Allende.
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Bertolt Brecht: The way things are…
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. ” ~Bertolt Brecht
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Years and days
“The years teach much which the days never know.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Thomas Carlyle: The person you honor…
“Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. ” Thomas Carlyle
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Unknown: Relegate and delegate
“The business world reaches out for and rewards leaders who can relegate and delegate.” ~Unknown
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Oprah Winfrey: Integrity
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” ~Oprah Winfrey.
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Tom Robbins: Living for, dying for and killing for
“There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.” ~Tom Robbins
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Mark Twain: Anger
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain.
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Herbert Agar: Truth
“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” ~Herbert Agar
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Alan Rickman: Mavericks and misfits
“Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. ” ~Alan Rickman
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Arthur Conan Doyle: First of criminals
“When a doctor does wrong, he’s the first of criminals—he has nerve and knowledge.” ~Arthur Conan Doyle.
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John C Maxwell: Leadership
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.” ~John C Maxwell.
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Joseph Joubert: Genius and labour
“Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes them.” ~Joseph Joubert.
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Dean Karnazes: The human body
“The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.” —Dean Karnazes.
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Colleen DeReuck: Work horse
I don’t rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I’m a cart horse. I work hard. Colleen DeReuck, U.S. Olympian
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Steve Prefontaine: Success
Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. Steve Prefontaine
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Vash Young: Value for money
“I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business. ” ––Vash Young Related articles Understanding Money Market Accounts (ally.com) Would you do anything for money? (christianpf.com)
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Amos Bronson Alcott: Thought
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.” —Amos Bronson Alcott.
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William Cobbett: A single leap
“It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. ” –—William Cobbett
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Helen Adams Keller: Test of democracy
“The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.” —Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author (1880-1968).
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Josh Billings: Not by the horns, but by the tail
“Don’t take the bull by the horns, but by the tail, then you can let go when you want to.” ~Josh Billings.
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Peter Munk: Not Einstein
“I’m not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused. ”—Peter Munk.
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Joe Theismann: Gain an advantage
“I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage. ” —Joe Theismann
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John Wooden: Success
“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.“ —John Wooden, American basketball player and coach.
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Desmond Tutu: Humanity
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” ~Desmond Tutu.
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Eric Sevareid: Crime or suicide
No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. –Eric Sevareid, journalist (1912-1992)
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Rupert Murdoch: The fast and the slow
“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.” ~Rupert Murdoch.
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George Orwell: Liberty
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~George Orwell.
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Ayn Rand: Power of production
“The power of production is not the same thing as the power of coercion by physical force.” ~Ayn Rand.
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Christopher Hitchens: Evidence
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” ~Christopher Hitchens
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Gilbert K Chesterton: Neighbour
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.” ~Gilbert K Chesterton.
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Dalton Trumbo: Love and taxes
“Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don’t understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.” —Dalton Trumbo
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William Booth: Maximum income
“The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. ” ~ William Booth
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Silence and music
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001)
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Voltaire: Love
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.” —Voltaire,French writer and philosopher.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Thoughts and actions
“The ancestor of every action is a thought. ”~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Peter Sellers: Identity
“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am. ” ~Peter Sellers
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Norman Vincent Peale: Stretched bow
“You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. ”~Norman Vincent Peale
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Eduardo Galeano: History
“History never really says goodbye. History says, “See you later.” ~Eduardo Galeano.
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Socrates: Faith
“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.” ~Socrates
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Muhammad Ali: Just a job
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ~Muhammad Ali
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Octavio Paz: Language
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears. -Octavio Paz, poet, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1914-1998)
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Victor Hugo: Evil
“Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it. ” ~Victor Hugo
