Monday, November 2, 2009

Quotes!

"Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow."
-- Swedish Proverb

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

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence."
-- Helen Adams Keller, American Author and Lecturer

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective
management is discipline, carrying it out."
-- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward
one goal in unison."
-- James Cash Penney, Founder of J.C. Penney Stores

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
-- Max De Pree

"Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on
harvesting golden delicious."
-- Bill Meyer

"It's our attitude in life that determines life's attitude toward us."
-- Earl Nightingale, Motivational Speaker

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow
that files feels the attraction of earth."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, author

"Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless."
-- Mary Kay Ash, Entrepreneur

"Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage
are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the
room is empty or standing alone when you're misunderstood."
-- Charles Swindoll

"Dig the well before you are thirsty."
-- Chinese Proverb

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep
your foot on first."
-- Frederick Wilcox, writer

What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and
exploits it as an opportunity."
-- Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material
gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement."
-- Claude M. Bristol

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
-- Winston Churchill, British prime minister

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."
-- Denis Diderot, French Philosopher and Writer

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president

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