2003 - May 2004
Success is that old ABC -- ability,
breaks, and courage.
-- Charles Luckman --
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they
should be. Now put the foundation under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau --
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
-- William Boetcker --
Leadership is doing what is right when
no one is watching.
-- George Van Valkenburg --
You can discover more about a person in
an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-- Plato --
Life is like a dogsled team. If you
ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard --
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr --
Kites rise highest against the wind; not
with it.
-- Sir Winston Churchill --
Don't ever take a fence down until you
know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost --
Each day of our lives we make deposits
in the memory banks of our children.
-- Charles R. Swindoll --
Good is not good where better is
expected.
-- Thomas Fuller --
I don't like that man. I must get to
know him better.
-- Abraham Lincoln --
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
-- Chinese Proverb --
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others
throw at him or her.
-- David Brinkley --
Argue for your limitations and sure
enough they're yours.
-- Richard Bach --
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one
thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings --
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
-- Lucretius --
A man always have two reasons for doing
anything; a good reason and the real reason.
-- John Pierpont Morgan --
Say nothing good of yourself, you will
be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
-- Joseph Roux --
We see things not as they are, but as we
are.
-- H. M. Tomlinson --
The whole secret of life is to be
interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
-- Hugh Walpole --
The eyes of other people are the eyes
that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine
houses, nor fine furniture.
-- Benjamin Franklin --
Income these days is something you
cannot live without or within.
-- Anonymous --
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us
nothing but the shape of the spoon.
-- E. M. Forster --
The brighter you are, the more you have
to learn.
-- Don Herold --
Don't dwell on reality; it will only
keep you from greatness.
-- Rev. Randall R. McBride,
Jr. --
Be true to your work, your word, and
your friend.
-- Henry David Thoreau --
Blessed is the man who, having nothing
to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
-- George Eliot --
In matter of principle, stand like a
rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
-- Thomas Jefferson --
Nothing is a greater impediment to being
on good terms with others than being at ill ease with yourself.
-- Balzac --
Too many people don't care what happens
so long as it doesn't happen to them.
-- William Howard Taft --
You can only live once, but if you live
right, once is enough.
-- Joe E. Lewis --
What we see depends mainly on what we
look for.
-- John Lubbock --
I have never had a policy. I have simply
tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
-- Abraham Lincoln --
Always do right; this will gratify some
people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain --
Do what you can, with what you have,
where you are.
-- Theodore Roosevelt --
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99
percent perspiration.
-- Thomas Edison --
Life consists not in holding good cards,
but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings --
The tragedy of life is not that a man
loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown --
There is more to life than increasing
its speed.
-- Gandhi --
And in the end it's not the years in
your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln --
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle --
The price of greatness is
responsibility.
-- Winston Churchill --
Wisdom begins in wonder.
-- Socrates --
It is not the length of life, but the
depth of life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Courage is the price that life exacts
for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart --
It is a mistake to try to look too far
ahead.
The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
-- Sir Winston Churchill --
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
-- Napolean Hill --
29 April - 3 May 2002
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all
resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol
22 - 26 April 2002
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help
others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?
Brian Tracy
15 - 19 April 2002
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
8 - 12 April 2002
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain
1 - 5 April 2002
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
Jonathan Swift
25 - 29 March 2002
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Dr. Denis Waitley
18 - 22 March 2002
Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own
estimate.
Unknown
11 - 15 March 2002
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale
11 - 15 March 2002
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
4 - 8 March 2002
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable
combination for success.
Napolean Hill
25 February - 1 March 2002
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
18 - 22 February 2002
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
11 - 15 February 2002
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Thomas Traherne (1636–1674), British clergyman, poet, mystic. Centuries, "Fourth Century," no. 20 (written c. 1672, first published 1908).
4 - 8 February 2002
Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to do it. Love is, indeed, one kind of desire; but it is a kind that takes us out of ourselves and carries us beyond ourselves, in contrast to the kind that is self-seeking - a kind that includes the desire for the "extinguishedness" of Nirvana. Love is freedom; conscience is constraint; yet, in two points, our relation to love is the same as our relation to conscience. We are free to reject love's appeal, as we are free to reject conscience's command; yet love, like conscience, cannot be rebuffed with impunity. Rebuffed, love will continue to importune us; and this for the reason for which a violated conscience does. Love's authority, like conscience's, is absolute. Like conscience, too, love needs no authentication or validation by any authority outside itself. Speculations about love's credentials, or lack of credentials, cannot either enhance or diminish love's absoluteness.
A.J. (Arnold Joseph) Toynbee (1889–1975), British historian. Experiences, pt. 1, ch. 9, Oxford University Press (1969).
28 January - 1 February 2002
In Rousseau's view (1762). . . most of the problems of education are problems of motivation, as teachers try to rush things. They talk of geography before the child knows the way around his own backyard. They teach history before the child understand anything about adult motivation. . . . It would be far better, to let questions arise naturally. . . . When a child is self-motivated, the teacher cannot keep him from learning.
quoted in The Rise and Fall of Childhood, by C. John Sommerville, ch. 12 (rev. 1990).
21 - 25 January 2002
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
14 - 18 January 2002
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up children without surrounding them with books. Children learn to read being in the presence of books.
Horace Mann (1871-1950)
7 - 11 January 2002
The time to read is anytime; no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948)
1 - 4 January 2002
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writing so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
3 - 6 October 2001
The man who
does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
24 - 29 Sepember 2001
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
17 - 22 Sepember 2001
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.
- Lavetta Sue Wegman
10 - 15 Sepember 2001
Find out what you like doing
best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
- Katherine Whitehorn
3 - 8 Sepember 2001
Misfortune, no less than
happiness, inspires us to dream.
- Honore De Balzac
4 - 9 June 2001
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
- Philip James Bailey
28 May - 2 June 2001
People will forget what you said...people will forget what you did....BUT, people will never forget how you made them feel !
- Anonymous writer
21 - 26 May 2001
Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.
- Jean-Louis Etienne
14 - 19 May 2001
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
- William Drayton
7 - 12 May 2001
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
- Frank A. Clark
30 April - 4 May 2001
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But
nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin
23 - 28 April 2001
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold
weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
16 - 21 April 2001
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
9 - 14 April 2001
2 - 7 April 2001
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
- Frank A. Clark
26 - 31 March 2001
19 - 24 March 2001
Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard
12 - 17 March 2001
Traditional grammar can be seen as a set of linguistic
rules which arises naturally via logical associations of meaning in the process of
writing.
- Terri Leong
5 - 10 March 2001
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a
friend; one human soul we can trust utterly; who knows the best and the worst of us, and
who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the
world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel
and reproof in the day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who again, will comfort and
encourage us in the day of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight
our own battle as we can
- Charles Kingsley
26 February - 3 March 2001
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
19 - 24 February 2001
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
- Eurpides
12 - 16 February 2001
The most important thing in communication is to hear
what isn't being said.
- Peter F. Drucker
04 - 09 February 2001
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually
expect it to beckon
us with beepers and billboards.
- William Arthur Ward
29 Jan. - 3 Feb. 2001
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
- Jan McKeithen
22 -27 January 2001
If you ask enough people, you can usually find someone who will
advise
you to do what you were going to do anyway.
- Weston Smith
15 - 20 January 2001
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
- William Ellery Channing
08 - 13 January 2001
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate
into
hard work.
- Peter F. Drucker
01 - 06 January 2001
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances,
but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
25 - 30 December 2000
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn Vos Savant
18 - 22 December 2000
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
- Geena Davis
11 - 15 December 2000
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
- Joe Paterno
4 - 8 December 2000
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
27 November - 1 December 2000
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.
Elizabeth Rundle Charles
20 - 24 November 2000
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
13 November - 18 November 2000
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Charles C. Colton
6 November - 11 November 2000
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Eurpides
30 October - 4 November 2000
Language
The limits of my language are the limits of my world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 October - 28 October 2000
Progress
Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did
not forsee.
Ludivig von Mises (1881-1973)
15 October - 21 October 2000
Confidence
There is a kind of greatness which does not depend upon fortune;
it is a certain manner that distinguishes us, and which seems to destine us for great
thing; it is the value we insensibly set upon ourselves; it is by this quaility, that we
gain the deference of other men, and it is this which commonly raises us more above them,
than birth, rank or even merit itself.
La Rochefoucauld
9 October - 14 October 2000
Use of Life
Do not expect too much, and do not expect it too quickly.
"Everything comes to those who know how to wait."
Sir John Lubbock
1 October - 6 October 2000
Discovery
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and
thinking what no body has thought.
Abert Szent-Gyorgyi
11 June - 17 June 2000
Experience
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that;
for it is true, we may give advice but we cannot give conduct. Remember this; they that will not be counseled cannot
be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you over your knuckles.
Franklin
4 June - 10 June 2000
Genius and Talent
Genius is the highest type of reason - talent the highest type of the understanding.
Hickok
28 May - 3 June 2000
Books
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under
solitude, and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget
the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our
disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead,
who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.
Collier
21 - 27 May 2000
Necessity
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Neck
14 - 20 May 2000
Glory
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror
is nought, but the first slave.
Thomson
7- 13 May 2000
Gift
The manner of giving, shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
Lavater
29 April - 6 May 2000
Genius and Talent
Genius is the highest type of reason - talent the highest type of the understanding.
Hickok
25-28 April 2000
Chinese Proverbs