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Paulo Coelho: Love your enemy
“Love your enemy. But don’t forget he is not your friend..” —Paulo Coelho. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/111697325
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Zig Ziglar: Failure
Cover of Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar Failure is an event, not a person. So regardless of what happens to you along the way, you must keep on going and doing the right thing in the right way. – Zig Ziglar. Related articles by Zemanta How Do You Acquire An Entrepreneur’s Mindset? (tokitover.com) Seth…
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Virginia Woolf: Fame and obscurity
Image by spratmackrel via Flickr “While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth…
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E L Doctorow: Writing
“Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.” -E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931).
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William A Ward: Adversity
“Adversity causes some people to break; others to break records.” – William A Ward.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: What to do?
Image via Wikipedia “Always do what you are afraid to do.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in “Runners”.
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Hippocrates: Walking
“Walking is man’s best medicine.” —Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 BCE)
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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt
Image via Wikipedia “Faith and doubt are both needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.” ~Lillian Smith, quoted in “Moms Know Best”
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Afflicting the comfortable
Image via Wikipedia In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. –John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006) Related articles by Zemanta A Harvard Economist on Why He Supports The Daily Beast Manifesto (thedailybeast.com) 1 reviews of John Kenneth…
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Elaine Agather: Backbone, funny bone and wishbone
“The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone to go with it.” – Elaine Agather.
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Anonymous: Self-portrait
Image by maureen_sill via Flickr Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. – Anonymous
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Francis Picabia: Round heads
Image via Wikipedia Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction. –Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)
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Samuel Johnson: Praise and flattery
Image via Wikipedia Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. –Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
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Horace Mann : Truth and greatness
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.” —Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859).
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Evan Esar: Success
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” ~ Evan Esar
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Determinism and free will
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.”~ Jawaharlal Nehru
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Lao Tzu: Time
Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’ ~Lao Tzu Related articles by Zemanta Advantages of Time Management (socyberty.com) On Staying Motivated (socyberty.com)
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Hafez: Right and wrong
Image via Wikipedia “Now is the time to understand / That all your ideas of right and wrong / Were just a child’s training wheels / To be laid aside / When you finally live / With veracity / And love.” —Hafez, poet (1315-1390).
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Reba McEntire: Wishbones, backbones and funnybones
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.” ~Reba McEntire, quoted in “Count Your Blessings“.
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Edith Hamilton: On Education
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.” —Edith Hamilton, educator…
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Francesca Reigler: Happiness—an attitude
Cover via Amazon “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” ~Francesca Reigler, quoted in “Count Your Blessings“.
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George Fisher: Perfection
“When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target.” ~George Fisher, quoted in “Teens Talk Getting In… To College”
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Paulo Coelho: Love
“Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel…” —Paulo Coelho. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/111697325
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Oscar Wilde: Mask and men
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
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Arthur Buddhold: Passionate success
“Follow your passion, and success will follow you.” ~Arthur Buddhold, quoted in “Tales of Golf and Sport” http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/137870124
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Roman Jakobson: Languages
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. -Roman Jakobson, linguist (1896-1982)
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Rosalyn Carter: Confidence
If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. – Rosalyn Carter. Embed from Getty Images Related articles by Zemanta A Queen Before Her Time (beliefnet.com)
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Aharon Barak: Democracy
Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand. -Aharon Barak, law professor, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel (b.1936)
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Tom Krause: Courage
Image via Wikipedia “Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” ~ Tom Krause.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset: Attention and You
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. – Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Bob Dylan: Naked President
But even the President of the United States / Sometimes must have / To stand naked. – Bob Dylan
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Enjoyment and Endurance
“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Henri Frederic Amiel: Make Use Of Suffering
Image via Wikipedia You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. –Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881) Related articles by Zemanta Integrity (linusfernandes.com) Magniloquent French Sage Bernard-Henri Levy Stumped by Dastardly Totalitarian ‘Wikipedia’ [Phil-lol-sophers] (gawker.com) Montaigne, philosopher of life, part 5 |…
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Linda Ellis: Carnival of life
I’ve learned that life is like a carnival with all its sights and sounds; sometimes you need to skip the rides and just hang out with the clowns. ~ Linda Ellis
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John Lennon: Life
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ~John Lennon, quoted in “Teens Talk Getting In… To College” Related articles by Zemanta John Lennon’s 70th Birthday To Be Marked By Two Month Festival (beatcrave.com) John Lennons Bio ‘Nowhere Boy’ Movie Poster (screenhead.com)
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Erich Fromm: Man’s Birth
“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.” ~ Erich Fromm
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Zig Ziglar: Friends
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
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Aldous Huxley: Try to be a little kinder
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than “try to be a little kinder.” -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
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Paulo Coelho: Path in life
“You may not know your path, but you must know what you don’t want in life.” —Paulo Coelho.
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Thomas Edison: Capabilities
“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” ~ Thomas Edison http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/158250780
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Hugh Allen: Several small opportunities
“Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.” ~Hugh Allen, quoted in “Teens Talk Getting In… To College”.
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Michel de Montaigne: Differences
Image via Wikipedia “There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.” — Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592).
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Les Brown: Opinion and reality
“Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” —Les Brown.
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Anonymous: Smiling outside, smiling inside
Cover via Amazon “It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.” ~Anonymous, quoted in “Like Mother, Like Daughter“.
