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Edmund Burke: Tolerance
“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.” ~Edmund Burke.
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Bob Marley: Corruption
If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already. ~Bob Marley
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Joyce Carol Oates: Being Alice
“I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.” —Joyce Carol Oates, writer (b. 1938).
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George Eliot: Certainty
“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.” —George Eliot.
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Edward Koch: A clean bandage
“In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.” ~Edward Koch
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Plato: Poetry
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. ” —Plato.
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David Jenkins: God
“No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ” David Jenkins
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Imagination without taste
“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. ” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Ibycus: Friendship
“Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.” Ibycus
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Ruth Benedict: Happiest excitement
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil. ~Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), U.S. anthropologist. An Anthropologist at Work, part 2 (1959).
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Sarah Caldwell: Learn everything you can
“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. ” Sarah Caldwell
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Samuel Johnson: Bellywise
“He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. ” Samuel Johnson
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Bob Glover and Shelly-Lynn Florence Glover: Consistency and discipline
Consistency requires discipline. Force yourself out the door. Bob Glover and Shelly-Lynn Florence Glover, The Competitive Runner’s Handbook
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Francois Rabelais: Monk's habit
“A habit does not a monk make. ” Francois Rabelais
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Gilbert K. Chesterton: Familiar things, foreign nations
“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ” Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gertrude Stein: War
“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. ” Gertrude Stein
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Dale Carnegie: Business success
“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. ” Dale Carnegie
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Erma Bombeck: Dreams and dreamers
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely. –Erma Bombeck, author (1927-1996)
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Bobby Knight: Preparation, not luck
“I don’t believe in luck — I believe in preparation.”– Bobby Knight, American basketball coach. ELMENDORF AIR FORCE, Alaska — Coach Bobby Knight, Texas Tech University basketball, watches his players practice at the fitness center here Nov. 21. Coach Knight spoke with Airmen and Soldiers before his team began practicing for the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska…
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Nathaniel Emmons: Reason and wit
“Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.” Nathaniel Emmons
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Jean de la Bruyere: Unconcealed folly
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ” —Jean de la Bruyere.
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Igor Sikorsky: Spark
The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.” — Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aviation pioneer
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Anatole France: Beautiful path
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” — Anatole France, French poet
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Ezra Pound: Expression
“A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.” —Ezra Pound.
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Dr. Mark Goulston: Apologies
“Never assume that part of the apology can be left unsaid. To really repair a rift, even [the] unsaid needs to be spoken out loud.” — Dr. Mark Goulston, author, writing at Harvard Business Review’s HBR Blog Network. Embed from Getty Images
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Og Mandino: Success
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.” Og Mandino
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Publilius Syrus: Favors
“The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. ” Publilius Syrus
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James E. Casey: Success
“One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself. ” James E. Casey
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Charles Dickens: Nonsense
“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.” —Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870).
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Jacqueline Cochran: Risk
“To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. ” Jacqueline Cochran.
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Orison Swett Marden: Finding one's place
“You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. ” Orison Swett Marden
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Albert Einstein: Solving the created
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~Albert Einstein
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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)
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Shalane Flanagan: Running
No excuses. Just do the work. Shalane Flanagan
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Peace
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
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Benoit B Mandelbrot: Grand promise
“…the promises that science makes to society to win its support. The grand promise is to endeavor solving the great mysteries… But there is also a more practical promise. It consists in helping society to improve, to prevent it acting on the basis of theories that sound nice but are not true to the facts,…
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George Eliot: Buzzing glory
“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. ” —George Eliot.
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Aleksandr Pushkin: Dear illusion
“The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.” —Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, and playwright (1799-1837).
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Oprah Winfrey: So fall down…
“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground. ” —Oprah Winfrey.
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Abraham Lincoln: Knowing better
“I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. ” —Abraham Lincoln
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Martin Luther King Jr.: End of our lives
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.
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Kristin Armstrong: Running
As you know there are many reasons why I run, but perhaps one of the finest is the community that running manifests. Celebrate your community, any chance you get —Kristin Armstrong, South Meets West, Mile Markers blog, Runner’s World.com
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Dean Inge: Honesty
“Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not. ” ~Dean Inge.
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Robert Francis Kennedy: Ripples and currents
“Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls…
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Helen Rowland: The hardest task
“The hardest task of a girl’s life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious. ” Helen Rowland
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Cesare Pavese: Moments
We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese
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Publilius Syrus: Identity
“It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.” —Publilius Syrus.
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Peter Jennings: Objectivity
“I’m a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective. ” Peter Jennings
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Madonna: True bravery
“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.” Madonna
