Monday, April 13, 2009

Quotes

Here are a new batch of quotes! Enjoy!

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
-- Buddha

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions
and content with your knowledge."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of the
immortals"
-- David Ogilvy, Advertising Executive

"Go out on a limb - that's where the fruit is"
-- Will Rogers, Humorist

"When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered
is how much has been escaped."
-- Samuel Johnson, Essayist

"All life is a chance. The person who goes farthest is the one who is
willing to do and dare."
-- Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
-- James Michener, Author

"I will prepare, and someday my chance will come."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

"There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life
that is less than the one you are capable of living"
-- Nelson Mandela, 11th President of South Africa

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were
failures, so I did 10 times more work."
-- George Bernard Shaw, Writer and Critic

"A great drive, a powerful determination and a consuming desire will
easily compensate for a little or limited talent."
-- Robert Schuller, Clergyman

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."
-- Robert Browning

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
-- Bruce Barton, Executive

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
-- William Faulkner

"The barriers are not erected that can say to aspiring talents and
industry, "This far and no farther.""
-- Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary
to resolve it."
-- Rene Descartes

"sometimes when you innovate, you make mistake. It is best to admit them
quickly and get on with improving your other innovations."
-- Steve Jobs, Apple Co-Founder

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