Quote of the day

[annie]

“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.”

SHELLY

[annie]

“Truth and non-violence are my God.”

MAHATMA GANDHI

[annie]

“Where wealth accumulates, men decay.”

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

[annie]

“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”

ORLANDO A. BATTISTA

[annie]

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

» The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

» Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

» Where there is love there is life.

» It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

» Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

» You must be the change you want to see in the world.

» An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

[annie]

Leadership ... the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are pessimistic.
-- George W. Cummings
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
-- Richard Moss
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use in being a damn fool about it.
-- W.C. Fields
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
-- Socrates
Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.
-- Lane Frost
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.
-- Dan Dierdorf
It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the hurt stays in the heart.
-- Ella Higginson
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
-- George Bernard Shaw
It is the man who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.
-- Source Unknown
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
-- Winston Churchill
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
-- Ovid
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
-- Alfred E. Smith
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
-- Marcus T. Cicero

[annie]

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
-- Marcelene Cox
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces --a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
-- George Eliot
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Everything is sweetened by risk.
-- Alexander Smith
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
-- I Ching
For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
-- Emmitt Smith
Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
-- Warren G. Bennis
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
-- Lawrence D. Bell
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost

[annie]

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

-- Decouvertes

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

-- Muhammad Ali

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"

-- George Bernard Shaw

"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."

-- Ralph Gerard

[minisoji]

“Tears are words the heart can't express”

[annie]

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action."

David J. Schwartz