My compilation of quotations and the greatest thoughts that shaped the future of many losers whom we now revere like GODS. The best part is I don’t expect a check!.
Nothing grows well without space and air.
Patricia Monaghan
If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours
Noam Chomsky
It is extremely important that you show some insensitivity to your past in order to show the proper respect for the future.
Roberto Goizueta
The finest leadership training program in the world, per word - ask questions and LISTEN! James Lundy
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.
Voltaire
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau - from Ken Lizotte
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
Robert Browning
Be careful how you interpret the world. It is like that.
Erich Heller - from Darlene Pineda
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in not using the strength.
Henry Ward Beecher
Leadership means inspiring others to commit their energy to a common purpose.
Dick Richards
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whomI find myself unable to learn anything.
George Herbert Palmer - from James Hodge
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. Marshall Ferdinand Foch
People want chaos for about five minutes. After thatthey want a back rub and some money. Bruce Sterling
People don’t tell you when they stop trusting you. Gerald Weinberg
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. Christopher Morely
More than anytime in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippman
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
Vernon Howard - from Ivy Sea Online
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest unexplored territory in the world is the space between our ears.
William O'Brien
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot build character by taking away man's initiative. You cannot help men permanently by doing for themwhat they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
The next time you do something really nice for someone else, keep it to yourself and revel in the abundant joy of giving.
Richard Carlson
The deepest need of the human heart is the need to live for something more important and bigger than one's self. When you turn your life over to some kind of cause or crusade that involves adding value to human lives, you step into the highest possibilities of the human being that you are. Automatically, your life begins to work.
Robin Sharma
Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
Bits & Pieces
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not entirely absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Bertrand Russell
You never conquer the mountain. You only conquer yourself.
Jim Whittaker
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin - as featured by edu-leadership.com
Never give up on anybody.
Hubert H. Humphrey
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill - from The Ravenwerks Newsletter by Paula Gamonal
The conversation is the relationship.
Susan Scott
Be open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future.
Great Performance Inc.
Success in marriage/business does not come merely through finding the right mate,but through being the right mate.
Barnett Brickner
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw - from Paula Gamonal's Ravenwerks Information Center Newsletter
Growth requires a temporary surrender of security.Gail Sheehy - from Ravenwerks
How can I become the kind of person to whom people will speak the truth?Susan Scott
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Abba Eban
He who has a ‘why’ to live for can bear with almost any ‘how.’ Friedrich Nietzsche
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.Aesop
Love makes Time pass away and Time makes Love pass away.Nothing is forever in this passing world.Premjith Singh
In times of massive change, it is the learner who will inherit the earth,while the learned stay foolishly tied to a world that no longer exists.Eric Hoffer
Lighten up. Take in some fresh air and sunlight. Face challenges eagerly. Look through the eyes of appreciation. Relish adventure. Forgive your parents and cut yourself some slack. Make someone happy. Never be disheartened. Re-invent. Reach. Risk. Refuse, resist and re-use. Walk the dog. Surrender. Do not wait for a better world. Dance with the stars. Let it go. Expect the best. Know all difficulties in your life have purpose. The Body Shop
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am here to live my life out loud. Emile Zola
Change your thoughts and you change the world.
Norman Vincent Peale
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
Steve Allen
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Sir Winston Churchill
If it was easy, everybody would be doing it.
Buffalo Brains
Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.
James Bertrand
Life is a crisis - so what!
Malcolm Bradbury
Your life will always be filled with challenges. It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.Richard Carlson
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and god. It was never between you and them anyway. Mother Teresa - from Darlene Pineda
Some people make things happen, Some watch things happen, while others wonder what happened. Successories
Either they believe in me, trust me, and are willing to take the risk that I will deliver success, or they don't. It's that simple. There's no haggling. I don't negotiate. Michael Bloomberg
All appears to change when we change.Henri Amiel - from Oprah's favorite quotes
In the long run ... we are all dead.John Maynard Keynes
Communication involves more than just "saying something". Its real essence lies in "being heard". Susan J. Kline
Managing what's true now is the first giant step toward creating what you want. Roger White
We can make as many mistakes as we want -- as long as we don't make the same one twice and we learn from those we make.Sam the big red dog
Blame nobody! Expect nothing! Do something!Bill Parcells - from Tom Peters
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach - from Ken Lizotte
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington
No one ever lost credibility by being interesting!Tom Antion
You know less than you think you do.John Mauldin
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.Casey Stengal - from Darlene Pineda
Always be happy, but never be satisfied.Author unknown - from Ravenwerks
What good are dreams if they come true?Frederick Exley - from the Dictionary of Quotations
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
The journey of life is always under construction.Robert Lambert
Genius is eternal patience.Michelangelo
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land,or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.Helen Keller - from Bettina Grahek
As someone who has faced as much disappointment as most people, I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. I trust that the challenges we face in life are always lessonsthat serve our soul's growth.Marianne Williamson
Three outstanding attitudes - obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, and the illusion of invulnerable status - are persistent aspects of folly. Barbara Tuchman
If you empower dummies you get bad decisions faster!
Rich Teerlink
The task you face is to reconcile yourself with the future and craft for yourself a destiny, rather than take refuge in the drama of your past.Alberto Villoldo - from Ivy Sea
If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten. Kenneth Blanchard
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain,
And most fools do.
Benjamin Franklin
You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem. Eldridge Cleaver
Idle dreamers have given true visionaries a bad name. Robert Fritz
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. Donald Trump
You can have anything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar
An old Grandfather, whose grandson came to him with anger at a schoolmate who had done him an injustice, said, "Let me tell you a story. I too, at times, have felt a great hate for those that have taken so much, with no sorrow for what they do. But hate wears you down, and does not hurt your enemy. It is like taking poison and wishing your enemy would die. I have struggled with these feelings many times." He continued, "It is as if there are two wolves inside me; one is good and does no harm. He lives in harmony with all around him and does not take offense when no offense was intended. He will only fight when it is right to do so, and in the right way." "But the other wolf, ah! He is full of anger. The littlest thing will set him into a fit of temper. He fights everyone, all the time, for no reason. He cannot think because his anger and hate are so great. It is hard to live with these two wolves inside me, for both of them try to dominate my spirit”. The boy looked intently into his Grandfather's eyes and asked, "Which one wins, Grandfather?"
The Grandfather solemnly said, "The one I feed." From Azriela Jaffe's "
Create Your Own Luck" Newsletter
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. Stephen Covey
My interest is in the future because I will be spending the rest of my life there." Charles Kettering - from Helene Mazur
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. William Shakespeare
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them. Evelyn Waugh
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert Service
The lighter your load, the faster you fly. Jeppesen
Learn from the mistakes of others, you’ll never live long enough to make them all yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enjoy yourself. If you can't enjoy yourself, enjoy somebody else. Jack Schaefer
Misery is optional; people are disturbed not by what happens to them but how they view what has happened to them. Epictetus
Fortune favors the brave.
Terence
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal
When you win, nothing hurts.
Joe Namath
Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them. Will Rogers
Just do it! Nike
If you hit every time ... the target is too near
or too big.
Tom Hirshfield
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes
When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.
William Shakespeare
Grouches are nearly always pinheads, small men who have never made any effort to improve their mental capacity. Thomas Edison
There’s a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having money in the bank. Tom Robbins
Life is just high school with money. Frank Zappa
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. Peter Ustinov
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. Garrison Keillor
The peace and solitude of the game allows me to symbolically evaluate my life and role in society and stand back to find out what the hell is really going on. So I figure that if one approaches life with the almost belligerent attitude of record breaking, then that person recognizes that anything is possible at any time under any circumstances. If you play golf, it will make perfect sense.
I have often wondered why the best team efforts seem to come from groups that stage plays. Perhaps it is because each member has an integral role that connects to an overall theme and because of the compelling need to succeed together to please an audience. Clifford Bolster
By design and by talent we were a team of specialists, and like a team of specialists in any field, our performance depended both on individual excellence and on how well we worked together. None of us had to strain to understand that we had to complement each others’ specialties; it was simply a fact, and we all tried to figure out ways to make our combination more effective. Bill Russell
Let us become the change we seek in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it. Benjamin Franklin
Most ailing organizations have developed a functional blindness to their own defects. They are not suffering because they cannot resolve their problems, but because they cannot see their problems.John Gardner - from Greg Smith's Navigator Newsletter
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose. Capt. Jean Luc Picard
EngageCapt. Jean Luc Picard
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you will help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann W. von Goethe
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
Aristophanes
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait. G.K. Chesterton
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
Profit is like oxygen, food, water and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life. J.C.Collins & J.I.Porras
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Charles Kettering
It’s not where you look, it’s how. Serengeti
He who allows oppression shares the crime. Erasmus Darwin
In business as in art, what distinguishes leaders from laggards, and greatness from mediocrity, is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.G. Hamel & K. Prahalad
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Francis Bacon
The most utterly lost of all days, is that in which you have not once laughed. Sebastion Roch Chamfort
Think you've got the big picture? Think again. The Limited
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. William Blake
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth,
and they think it is hell.
Harry S. Truman
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. Niccolo Machiavelli
In times of change and danger when there is quicksand or fear under men’s reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone beforecan stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos
The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance. Peter Senge
Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. Sir Isaac Newton
I can live with doubt and uncertainty, I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. Richard Feynman
What seems mundane and trivial is the very stuff that discovery is made of. The only difference is our perspective, our readiness to put the pieces together in an entirely new way and to see patterns where only shadows appeared just a moment ago. Edward Lindmann
The most common lie is that with which one lies to oneself;lying to others is relatively an exception. Friedrich Nietzche
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden
Strategy is the art of creating value. R. Norman and R. Ramirez
The one with many strategic factors in his favour wins ... the one with few strategic factors in his favour loses. Observing the matter this way, I can see who will win and who will lose.
Sun Tzu
Make it so.
Capt. Jean Luc Picard
Change the game.
FILA
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It always comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observingthe means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
Kenneth Blanchard
Management is, all things considered, the most creative of all arts. It is the art of arts. Because it is the organizer of talent.
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. Ashleigh Brilliant
Your rules do not apply here.
Obsidian
The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
When people are born they are supple, and when they die they are stiff. When trees are born they are tender, and when they die they are brittle. Stiffness is thus a cohort of death, flexibility is a cohort of life.
Tao-Te Ching
Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence.
Masatoshi Naito
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated. Robert McNamara
Don’t look back in anger or ahead in fear, but around you with awareness. James Thurber
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character,give him power. Abraham Lincoln
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
Watch your thought, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character, Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I can live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it in to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
