Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Colin Powell: Great leaders
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.” Colin Powell
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Bruce Lee: Knowing oneself
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” —Bruce Lee.
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Roy H Williams: A smart man and a wise man
“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. ” —Roy H Williams
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Dr. Joyce Brothers: Success
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist, television personality and advice columnist
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Dr. David M Burns: Imperfect fault
“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.” —Dr. David M Burns
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Thomas A Kempis: Good times
“Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you.” —Thomas A Kempis
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Zoe Koplowitz: Have a dream
Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You’ll get there, I promise. Zoe Koplowitz, marathon runner who is afflicted with multiple sclerosis and diabetes
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Pat Teske: Bad training runs
Relish the bad training runs. Without them it’s difficult to recognize, much less appreciate, the good ones. Pat Teske Related articles Training versus Exercising (smileforamile.wordpress.com) Week 6: Half-marathon update (fitgirlhappygirl.com)
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Sam Waterston: Effort
“There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. ” —Sam Waterston
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George Eliot: Lunacy, at large
“Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.” —George Eliot, Middle March.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Excess wisdom
“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Christy Turlington Burns: Running
“Running is a lot like meditation. You get a sense of seeing your life and putting some order to it.” ~Christy Turlington Burns, Supermodel and founder, Every Mother Counts. Related articles Fab Ad: Christy Turlington for Chanel (fabsugar.com) Christy Turlington Slips Into a New Avon Scent (bellasugar.com) Christy Turlington Burns On The Defense After No…
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Evelyn Spence: Running
“Running is as much about settling into a lifelong groove as it is about constantly changing course.” —Evelyn Spence, Hello, New York. Goodbye., Runner’s World, May 2012.
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Lawrence G Lovasik: Kindness
“Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.” —Lawrence G. Lovasik.
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Colin Powell: Capital
Colin Powell: Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can…
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Ray Bradbury: Insanity
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. –Ray Bradbury, writer (1920-2012).
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Thomas Paine: Harder the conflict
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink…
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Confucius: Forgiveness
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE) Related articles On Forgiving (gargisharma1.wordpress.com) Forgiveness (liveyourpassionnow.wordpress.com) A Forgiving Heart (ucofnh.wordpress.com) The Secret of Forgiveness (sharinhislove.wordpress.com) We Are All in Need of Forgiveness (jcrylequotes.com) The Art of Forgiveness (spiritualbabbles.wordpress.com)
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Colin Powell: Area under the curve
“No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.” ― Colin Powell, It Worked for Me:…
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Theodore Roosevelt: Get busy
“When 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.
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Colin Powell: Priorities versus options
“Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them.” —Colin Powell
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Laurell Hamilton: There comes a point
“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself.” —Laurell Hamilton.
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Tab Hunter: What people believe
“People believe what they want to believe. ” —Tab Hunter. Embed from Getty Images Related articles 25 Quotes To Change Your Thinking (kickingthepants.com) A Quote,An Incident & A Return! (nabadip.wordpress.com) Quotes to Live by (FoundtheMarbles.com)
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Too high, too low?
“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.” -Michelangelo
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Edward Everett Hale: Being one
“I am only one, / But still I am one. / I cannot do everything, / But still I can do something; / And because I cannot do everything, / I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” —Edward Everett Hale, author (1822-1909)
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Alysia Montano: Running
I was running within myself. I was very present with myself. It’s when I worry about others that things begin to fall apart. Alysia Montano, winner of the Women’s 800m race at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. Related articles Alysia Montano returns to U.S. Olympic track trials as the favorite at 800…
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Anne Lamott: Hundred years
“A hundred years from now? All new people.” —Anne Lamott. Embed from Getty Images
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Arthur Schopenhauer: An hour's reading
“I’ve never know any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.” —Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Chaim Potok: Troubling work
“Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I’m working on it. ” —Chaim Potok.
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William Penn: Right is right
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ” —William Penn
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Elie Wiesel: In the face of suffering
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. –Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
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Dathan Ritzenhein: Belly fire
“People say I’m a big talent. But a lot of runners have good leg speed. The reason I keep coming back is because I have a fire in my belly.” —Dathan Ritzenhein.
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Georges Danton: Dare
“In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare. ” —Georges Danton
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Terry Pratchett: Short sword, sharp pen
“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ” —Terry Pratchett
