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On April 3rd, 2010 /
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- "Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful. generous, or honest." – Maya Angelou
- "Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can." – Henry Drummond
- "The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Its not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." – Roy Disney
- "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." – Jim Rohn
- "No man is free who is not master of himself." – Epictetus
- "We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams." – Anonymous
- "It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow." – Anonymous
- "There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit." – Anonymous
- "There is no luck except where there is discipline." – Irish Proverb
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On March 29th, 2010 /
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- "People are like stained-glass window. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." – Confucius
- "It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." – Irish Proverb
- "Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change." – Brian Tracy
- "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi
- "In order to accept change, we need to find meaning in it." – Mary Norton Gordon
- "It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear." – Terence
- "Instil great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow." – Christy Borgeld
- "Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction." – Anne Sullivan
- "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." – Ambrose Redmoon
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On February 23rd, 2010 /
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- "You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them." – Anonymous
- "You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." – Anonymous
- "A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself." – Anonymous
- "Be who you are in every situation." – Michael Johnson
- "How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it." – Anonymous
- "People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." – Anonymous
- "Whether you think you can or think you can't – you are right." – Henry Ford
- "There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary." – Emmanuel
- "Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations." – Anonymous
- "A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks." – Anonymous
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- "The quality of the food you ingest affects the quality of your thoughts. In this information age, where rich ideas are the foundation of success, eating well is not just sound health practice. It is the foundation of success."
- "As you start your day, so you live your day. Rise early and enjoy the exceptional tranquility that the day's earliest hours bring before the crush of daily events clamour for your mind's attention."
- "Anything less than a conscious commitment to peak personal performance is an unconscious commitment to weak personal performance."
- "Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world."
- "Most ineffectiveness stems from the fact that most people do not have the self-discipline to do what they know they should do, when they have to do it."
- "Secrets to every great relationship:promise-keeping, aggrsive listening, being consistently compassionate and, finally, most importantly, truth-telling."
- "Every time you avoid doing right, you fuel the habit of doing wrong."
- "Each time you don't return a phone call when you said you would or miss a meeting you promised to attend, you erode trust. That's the connection between promise-keeping and human relations."
- "Don't be so busy striving to make a living that you forget how to live a life."
- "Stop wishing for fewer problems and start searching for greater wisdom. By reading great works and consistently exposing your mind to the great thinkers, you will come to understand the ageless laws of nature and humanity."
- "Take control of the information that you feed your mind and ensure that it is the kind that will add value to your life. Set the goal of listening to wise people through their books or audio aids."
- "Happiness does not arrive when you achieve certain things. It comes through a state of mind that you create by the way that you process and interpret the events of your life."
- "The best way to inspire your children to develop into the kind of adults you dream of them becoming is to become the kind of adult you want them to be."
- "Deferring what is easy to do and preferring those activities that your heart tell you are the right ones always lead you to the family life of your dreams."
- "Before anyone will lead you a hand, you must first touch their hearts."
- "Most people spend more time focusing on their weaknesses than developing their strengths. And as a result of this, most people never connect with the greatness that it is their duty to discover."
- "The ultimate purpose of life is to manifest our highest talents in a way that adds value to the world and makes it a better place to be."
- "Deep fulfilment in life doesn't come from accumulating objects but from actualizing ourselves."
- "The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day."
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- Be the change, You want to see in the world.
- Sometimes we forget one step of a ladder of life, and think we are jumping.
- Action is the real measure of intelligence and Belief is the death of intelligence.
- Common sense is not so common.
- Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
- Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
- Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
- Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Anger is a short madness.
- A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- All lasting business is built on friendship.
- An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
- All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
- Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
- Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
- Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
- A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
- Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
- All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Pretending can be the biggest enemy for the person who wants to grow.
- All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
- Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.
- Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
- Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
- I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
- I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
- It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
- Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- Education is the transmission of civilization.
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