Friday, April 17, 2009

A "few" more quotes

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-Lao Tzu

"He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven"
-Hindu Saying

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Do, or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda

"I know more ways not to do something than any man alive"
-Thomas Edison

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance"
-Derek Bok

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood"
-Marie Curie

"Ninety percent of success is showing up"
-Woody Allen

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent"
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"We have as much time as we need"
-Melody Beattie

"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present"
-Anonymous

"Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight"
-Anita Defrantz

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right"
-Mary Kay Ash

"The key to change ... is to let go of fear"
-Rosanne Cash

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you"
-Althea Gibson

"Find something you are passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it"
-Julia Child

"I want to do it because I want to do it"
-Amelia Earhart

"We dont know who we are until we see what we can do"
-Martha Grimes

"A word after a word is power"
-Margaret Atwood

"No one can figure out your worth but you"
-Pearl Bailey

"Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision"
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing is too difficult - you only need to know how"
-Yiddish Proverb

"You really can change the world if you care enough"
-Marian Wright Edelman

"Find a need and fill it"
-Ruth Stafford Peale

"I dont want to be a passenger in my own life"
-Diane Ackerman

"Don't agonize. Organize"
-Florynce Kennedy

"Dont compromise yourself. You're all you've got"
-Janis Joplin

"Be a how thinker, not an if thinker"
-Anonymous

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything"
-Geena Davis

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing"
-Hellen Keller

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity"
-Oprah Winfry

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse"
-Florence Nightingale

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs"
-Joan Didion

"This work is about transformation-from the person we are to the person we really are, in the end we can't be anyone else"
-Marion Rosen

"Fall seven times. Stand up eight"
-Japanese proverb

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there"
-Will Rogers

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, then you must take it"
-Charles Buxton

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with my problems longer"
-Albert Einstein

"It is not knowledge but the act of learning which grants the greatest enjoyment"
-Gauss

"It is better to solve one problem five different ways than to solve five different problems"
-Poyla

"The import thing is to not stop questioning"
-Albert Einstein

"STARING is not a viable problem solving strategy"
-Margaret Kenny

"They know enough who know how to learn."
-Henry Adams

"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has its price."
-Joan Didion

"People often say that this or that person has not found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something that one creates."
-Thomas Szasz

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
-Benjamin Mays

"Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball."
-Billy Jean King

"An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself."
-Albert Camus

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
-Shakespeare's Hamlet

"If today's students can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."
-Jesse Jackson

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
-Dolly Parton

"Of all the traps and pitfalls of life, self-disesteem is the deadliest and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use- I cant do it.'"
-Maxwell Maltz

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander Time; for that's the Stuff Life is made of."
-Benjamin Franklin

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
-Helen Keller

"From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings."
-Helen Hayes

"Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind: it forces you to stretch your own."
-Charles Scribner Jr.

"Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject."
-Thomas Mann

"What one has to do usually can be done."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Memory is the art of attention."
-Samuel Johnson

"The reward of study is understanding."
-Babylonian Talmud

"When you can't solve the problem, manage it."
-Robert Schuller

"Learning without thought is labor lost…"
-Confucius

"People seldom hit what they do not aim at."
-Henry David Thoreau

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
-Phyllis Bottome

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."
-John Foster Dulles

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