Quote: One Resolution

One resolution I have made,

and try always to keep, is this:

To rise above the little things.

 

 

--John Burroughs

Quote: In Five Years

You're the same today

as you'll be in five years

except for the people you meet

and the books you read.

 

 

-- Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones

 

Quote: A Better Man

Be at war with your vices,

at peace with your neighbors,

and let every new year find you a better man.

 

-- Benjamin Franklin

Quote: Wisdom

 

Wisdom begins in wonder.

 

-- Socrates

 

Quote: Christmas

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!

 

-- Henry Livingston

Quote: Plans

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night,

and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Quote: Harvest

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

 

-- William Blake

Quote: Stealing Money

If you ever have to steal money from your kid,

and later on he discovers it's gone,

I think a good thing to do is

to blame it on Santa Claus.

 

-- Jack Handy

Quote: Deadlines

The remaining work to finish

in order to reach your goal

increases as the deadline approaches.

 

-- Bove's Theorem

 

Quote: Work

I like work. It fascinates me.

I sit and stare at it for hours.

 

 

-- Oscar Wilde

Quote: Time

Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so.

--Douglas Adams

Quote: Secret of Life

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.

If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

 

-- Groucho Marx

Quote: Wrong Direction

It's better to walk alone

than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

 

 

-- Diane Grant, Canadian playwright and screenwriter

Quote: Secret of Business

The secret of business

is to know something

that nobody else knows.

 

 

-- Aristotle Onassis

 

Quote: New Endings

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,

but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

 

-- Maria Robinson

Quote: Facebook

If you don’t have a crazy Facebook friend,

you are the crazy Facebook friend.

 

-- Jimmy Kimmel

Quote: Our Finest Moments

Our finest moments

 

are most likely to occur when we are feeling

 

deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled.

For it is only in such moments,

propelled by our discomfort,

that we are likely to step out of our ruts

and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

 

 

-- M. Scott Peck

Quote: Bathing

People often say that motivation doesn't last.

Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily.

-- Zig Ziglar

Quote: Parachutes

Minds are like parachutes;

they work best when open.

-- Thomas Dewar, Scottish businessman

 

Quote: Be Yourself

To be yourself

in a world that is constantly trying to make you

something else

is the greatest accomplishment.

 

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: Happy Thanksgiving!

 

If I have enjoyed the hospitality

of the Host of this universe,

Who daily spreads a table in my sight,

surely I cannot do less

than acknowledge my dependence.   

 

--G. A. Johnston Ross

Quote: Blessings

 

When I started counting my blessings,

my whole life turned around.

 

--Willie Nelson

 

Quote: Smart Kids

Children are smarter than us.

Know how I know that?

I don’t know one child with a full-time job and children.

--Bill Hicks

Quote: Dreamer

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

 

-- Harriet Tubman

Quote: Daily Trivia

In the absence of clearly-defined goals,

we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia

until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

--Robert A. Heinlein

 

Quote: Full Circle

In helping others,

we shall help ourselves,

for whatever good we give out

completes the circle

and comes back to us.

 

 

-- Flora Edwards, American author

Quote: Long Meetings

Blessed is the man who,

having nothing to say,

abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

--George Eliot

Quote: Consequences

Men are not punished for their sins,

but by them.

--Elbert Hubbard

Quote: Defeat

Never, never, never

give up.

--Winston Churchill

Quote: Say What?

If you don't say anything,

you won't be called on to repeat it.

--Calvin Coolidge

Quote: Sleep

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes,

as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: Genius

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

--Oscar Wilde

Quote: Sins

Other men's sins are before our eyes;

our own are behind our backs.

--Seneca

Quote: Silence

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

--Josh Billings

Quote: Challenge Yourself

Above all, challenge yourself.

You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have,

what you can accomplish.

--Cecile M. Springer

Quote: Spooky

Hold on, man.

We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title.

--Shaggy

Quote: Enemies

 

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

 

--Woodrow Wilson

 

Quote: Courage

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;

Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

 

--Winston Churchill

 

Quote: Happiness

Happiness is like a butterfly:

the more you chase it, the more it will elude you,

but if you turn your attention to other things,

it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

 

 

-- Henry David Thoreau

 

Quote: Housework

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes

And six months later, you have to start all over again.

 

--Joan Rivers

Quote: Newspapers

 

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

 

 

-- Italo Calvino, Italian journalist and writer

 

 

Quote: Just a salad! Just a salad!

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

--Woodrow Wilson

Quote: Do Unto Others

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory;

 

let us now commit it to life.

 

-- Edwin Markham, American poet

 

Quote: Permission

No one can make you feel inferior

without your consent.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote: Hockey

I went to a fight the other night,

and a hockey game broke out.

 

 

--Rodney Dangerfield

 

Quote: Ego

If you are all wrapped up in yourself, 

you are overdressed.

--Kate Halverson

Quote: Against the Stream

 

“The man who is swimming against the stream

knows the strength of it.” 

 

 

--Woodrow Wilson

 

Quote: Daydreams

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

-Edgar Allan Poe

Quote: World Domination

“We are currently not planning on conquering the world.”

 

– Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google

 

Quote: Love

Love conquers all things

except poverty and toothache.

--Mae West

Quote: Seeds

Every adversity,

every failure,

every heartache

carries with it the seed

of an equal or greater benefit.

 

 

-- Napoleon Hill, American author

 

Quote: Chaos

 

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order."

 

 -- M.C. Escher

 

Quote: Mystery

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

--Oscar Wilde

Quote: Success

“How far you go in life depends on your being

tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving

and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life

you will have been all of these."

-- George Washington Carver

Quote: A Big Man

“It takes a big man to cry,

 

But it takes an even bigger man

 

to laugh at that man."

 

 

  

-- Jack Handy

 

 

Quote: Well Done

“A thing well done is worth doing."

 

 

 

-- Hugh Leonard, Irish dramatist

Quote: October

October

And the leaves are stripped bare

Of all they wear

But what do I care?

October

And kingdoms rise

And kingdoms fall

But You go on.

--U2, Irish Rock Band

Quote: Leadership

Management is doing things right;

leadership is doing the right things.

-- Peter Drucker

Quote: Autumn

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. 

--F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quote: Decisions

When you come to a fork in the road,

take it.

--Yogi Berra

Quote: Life's Order

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, 

but in their significance to ourselves,

they find their own order...

the continuous thread of revelation. 

--Eudora Welty

Quote: The Inside Scoop

What lies behind us

and

what lies before us

are

tiny matters compared

to 

what lies within us.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote: Faith

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Quote: A Good Job

Security

is

a kind of death.

--Tennessee Williams

Quote: Trophies

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. --William Lyon Phelps