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