"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." -- Winston Churchill " I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known." -- Confucius " A room without books is like a body without a soul." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero " Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity." -- Jim Rohn "Successful, happy people live their lives in accordance with natural laws." -– Brian Tracy "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." -- Rene Descartes "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -- Francis Bacon "See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little." -- Pope John XXIII "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." -- Sandra Carey "We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." -- May Lamberton Becker "Good questions outrank easy answers."
-- Paul A. Samuelson "Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure." -- George Eliot "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." -- Thomas A. Edison "Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage." -- Charles Luckman "There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness...
The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way." -- Andrew Jackson "I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable
profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring it." -- Rose Kennedy "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education
I received from her." -- George Washington "Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it." -- George Bernard Shaw "A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts." -- Washington Irving "It's better to be aware of your sorrows so that you can appreciate what you have rather than dwell on what you never received." -- Caroline Yawn "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations." -- George Bernard Shaw "Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved." -- Van Kaam " The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live." -- Eliot Hubbard " Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." -- Mark Twain " We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." -- William Osler " Life is half spent before one knows what life is." -- French Proverb "Does he or she know you, like you, and trust you? Does he want to see you succeed? Does she want to help you find new business? If so, then you have yourself a 'Personal Walking Ambassador.'" -– Bob Burg "Call people back immediately. One of the biggest challenges most salespeople have is that they don't want to pick up messages and call people back. Return calls now. It's the only way you can build up a solid clientele." -– Tom Hopkins "If you roll out the red carpet for a billionaire, they won't even notice it. If you roll out the red carpet for a millionaire, they expect it. If you roll out the red carpet for a thousandaire, they appreciate it. If you roll out the red carpet for a hundredaire, they tell everybody they know." -– Patricia Fripp |