Quotes of the day (QOTD)

[Penthome]

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.
  - Pam Davis
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
  - Samuel Johnson
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
  - Henry David Thoreau

[Penthome]

Og Mandino
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again."
Anne Sexton
"Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort."
Robert J. Shiller
"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. -Mark Victor Hansen

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
  - Jef Mallett
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.
  - Robert Frost
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
  - Howard Scott

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.-Robert Kioysaki.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it.  When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."  - Mary Kay Ash

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

[mona]

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Give a woman microcredit.....,she, her husband, her children and her extended family will eat for a lifetime. --Bono

[mona]

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

- William James

[Penthome]

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics - many times. Winston Churchill

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
  - Elbert Hubbard
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
  - Mark B. Cohen
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
  - Noelie Altito

Catherine de Hueck Doherty
"Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you."
William Carlos Williams
"In summer, the song sings itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

[mona]

: Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude. - Temitope Olonilua

[Penthome]

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
  - Paul Valery
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
  - George W. Bush
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
  - George Bernard Shaw

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. -Zig Ziglar

Martha Stewart
"Life is too complicated not to be orderly."
Victor Hugo
"To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation."
Austin Phelps
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."

[Penthome]

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

- Aldous Huxley

Louis Pasteur
"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. "
Benjamin Disraeli
"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few."
Malayan Proverb
"Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm."

[Penthome]

"What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do" - John Ruskin

[Penthome]

Do your work with all your heart and you will succeed. There is so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.
Albert Schweitzer

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.-Michael Althsuler.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
  - Isaac Newton
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
  - Tommy Cooper
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
  - Dave Barry

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve. -Mary Kay Ash

John Masefield
"I have seen flowers come in stony places/ And kind things done by men with ugly faces/ And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,/ So I trust too."
Steve Jobs
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."

[Penthome]

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
  - Jeph Jacques
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
  - Edith Sitwell
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
  - Bill Cosby

Salma Hayek
"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."
Man Ray
"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them."
Aldous Huxley
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

[Penthome]

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
  - Edward Abbey
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
  - H. G. Wells
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
  - Fran Lebowitz

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

T. S. Eliot
"Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel."
Izaak Walton
"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
Jacquelyn Mitchard
"Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture."


"The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power."
- Hugh White

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt

[Penthome]

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
  - Nikola Tesla
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
  - Oscar Wilde
I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
  - Adrienne E. Gusoff

Kirby Larson
"It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions."
Mary C. Taylor
"Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost."
Marie de Sevigne
"When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it."

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. -Earl Nightingale

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.-Colin Powell.

[mona]

Think highly of yourself,the world only takes you at your own estimate.   
   -Unknown

[davidenko]

True

[Penthome]

"He, who every morning plans the
transactions of the day, and follows that
plan carries a thread that will guide him
through a labyrinth of the most busy life"
- Victor Hugo

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

"Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go."
- William Feather

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
Audrey Hepburn

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
  - Laurence J. Peter

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
  - Sir Frederick G. Banting

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
  - Pierre Beaumarchais

Miguel de Cervantes
"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."

Doris Lessing
"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh."

Mary Hemingway
"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."

[Penthome]

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
  - Joan Rivers
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
  - Thornton Wilder
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
  - National Lampoon

[mona]

If you want to know your past; look into your present conditions.
If you want to know your future; look into your present actions.
 
 ~Chinese Proverb

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

[davidenko]

A promise means everything. But once it's broken, sorry means nothing.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

[mona]

 Life gives you the options....You can either "Do Wrong" ....or You can "Do Right" .....It's all on you.....

[Penthome]

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
  - Mary Wilson Little

[Ken]

When u marry the right one, you are COMPLETE ....and when u marry the wrong one, you are FINISHED.....but when the right one catches u with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!