Everyday Reflections
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." |
Steve Jobs |
"With self-discipline most anything is possible." |
Theodore Roosevelt |
"There is no better friend than a book." |
Ernest Hemmingway |
"Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away." |
F. de laRochefoucauld |
"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." |
Salvador Dali |
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." |
Plutarch |
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." |
Conficius |
"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets." |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
"A woman used her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." |
G.K. Chesterton |
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." |
Mark Twain |
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house." |
William Thackery |
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary." |
Robert LouisStevenson |
"Vision is the art of seeing things |
Jonathan Swift |
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!" |
George BernardShaw |
"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start." |
Charles Baudelaire |
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." |
John Ruskin |
"I married an archaeologist because the older I grow the more he appreciates me." |
Agatha Christie |
"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." |
Pablo Picasso |
"Wit is educated insolence." |
Aristotle |
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." |
Lucius AnnaeusSeneca |
"True friends stab you in the front." |
Oscar Wilde |
"The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty." |
George BernardShaw |
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." |
Albert Einstein |
"All that glitters is not gold." |
WilliamShakespeare |
"Burdens become light when cheerfully borne." |
Ovid |
"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have." |
Albert Einstein |
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." |
Pablo Picasso |
"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." |
Benjamin Franklin |
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." |
Anais Nin |
"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans." |
John Lennon |
"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror." |
Francois Rabelais |
"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything." |
Theodore Roosevelt |
“In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.” |
Benjamin Franklin |
"Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men." |
George BernardShaw |
"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation." |
Anatole |
"There are only two tragedies in life : one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it." |
Oscar Wilde |
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." |
Albert Einstein |
"There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met." |
William ButlerYeats |
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." |
Somerset Maugham |
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." |
Voltaire |
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." |
Abraham Lincoln |
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." |
Mark Twain |
"It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create." |
John Saxe |
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." |
Emile Zola |
"If there's a way to do it better ... find it." |
Thomas Edison |
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
"Don't find fault, find a remedy." |
Henry Ford |
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." |
Winston Churchill |
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." |
John F. Kennedy |
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." |
Moliere |
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
"Ability is nothing without opportunity." |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
"Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?" |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." |
Honore de Balzac |
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"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, |
Abraham Lincoln |
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." |
Sir Francis Bacon |
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"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." |
Orlando A. Battisa |
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"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad |
Anna Freud |
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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously." |
Henry Kissinger |
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"More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause." |
Rose Kennedy |
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"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the |
Martin Luther King |
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"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life." |
Immanuel Kant |
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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the |
John F. Kennedy |
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"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness." |
Tennessee Williams |
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"No man is rich enough to buy back his past." |
Oscar Wilde |
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"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." |
Voltaire |
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"We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are." |
Anais Nin |
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"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." |
William Penn |
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"The customer is never wrong." |
Cesar Ritz |
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"If it can't be cured it must be endured." |
Salman Rushdie |
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive |
Dalai Lama |
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"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat |
Martin Luther King |
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"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." |
John F. Kennedy |
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"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." |
Jacques Bossuet |
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"Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." |
Ingrid Bergman |
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"Knowledge is power." |
Sir Francis Bacon |
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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once." |
Woody Allen |
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"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." |
Aristotle |
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"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." |
Gracie Allen |
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"After all is said and done, more is said than done." |
Aesop |
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