"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only
the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself." --Benjamin
Franklin
"In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do
it." --Charles Baudeliare
"When in doubt, do it." --Oliver Wendell
Holmes
"People living deeply have no fear of death." --Anais
Nin
Stop worrying:
"Worry compounds the futility of being trapped
on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues." --Cullen
Hightower
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never
happened." --Thomas Jefferson
"What is there to be afraid of? The
worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things.
My first record was horrible." --John Mellencamp
"Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not
exceeding the limit." --Elbert Hubbard
"You take people as far as they
will go, not as far as you would like them to go." --Jeanette
Rankin
"To learn is to change." --George B. Leonard
Get by
with a little help from your friends:
"A man wrapped up in himself makes
a very small bundle." --Benjamin Franklin
"Everyone needs help from
everyone." --Bertolt Brecht
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A
thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." --Herman
Melville
"If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions." --Maude
Adams
"Help your children understand that excellence in education cannot
be achieved without intellectual and moral integrity coupled by hard work and
commitment." --National Commission on Excellence in Education
"There
is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast."
--Brian Koslow
Motivate yourself:
"I wish it, I command it. Let
my will take the place of reason." --Juvenal
"I don't make deals for
the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do
it." --Donald Trump
"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's
the opposition." --Nick Seitz
"Purpose is what gives life a meaning." --C. H. Parkhurst
"He who postpones the
hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he
crosses." --Horace
"Earnestness and sincereness are
synonymous." --Corita Kent
Don't try to "understand" music, just enjoy
it:
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt
it." --Igor Stravinsky
"I'll play it first and tell you what it is
later." --Miles Davis
"When words leave off, music
begins." --Heinrich Heine
"The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself." --Charles W.
Eliot
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never
enjoy the sunshine." --Morris West
"I always entertain great
hopes." --Robert Frost
Think of jokes about friends as labeled,
"Dangerous, handle with care.":
"Better lose a jest than a
friend." --Thomas Fuller
"Some one is generally sure to be the
sufferer by a joke." --William Hazlitt
"There's no possibility of
being witty without a little ill- nature." --Richard B.
Sheridan
"Half of today is better than all of tomorrow." --Jean de La Fontaine
"Skill
and confidence are an unconquered army." --George Herbert
"Friendship
is a plant which must be often watered." --Anon.
Ask yourself, "Do I
really want to follow the crowd?":
"Fashions are induced
epidemics." --George Bernard Shaw
"A best-seller was a book which
somehow sold well simply because it was selling well." --Daniel J.
Boorstin
"I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't
even understand." --Jane Wagner
"Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them." --Norman Vincent
Peale
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally
faithful to himself." --Tom Paine
"Worry is the cross that we make for
ourselves by over anxiety." --Francois de Fenelon
If you want to use
colorful words and phrases, avoid embarrassment by getting them right:
"The chickens have come home to roast." --Jane Ace
"It's time
to button down the hatches, or is it batten down the hedges?" --Barbara
Straus
"It looks like a flaw in the ointment." --Annie
Loth
"Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it." --Thomas
Eakins
"Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty
things I dabble in." --Dwight L. Moody
"It does not matter how slowly
you go, so long as you do not stop." --Confucius
Make it terrific -
never mind perfect
"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing
is perfect. There are lumps in it." --James Stephens
"Nobody can be
perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be
perfect?" --Laurence Peter
"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, /
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." --Alexander
Pope
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." --Beverly Sills
"We must
endure what fortune sends." --Greek proverb
"Concentrate on finding
your goal, then concentrate on reaching it." --Colonel Michael
Friedman
Talk less, think more:
"They never taste who always
drink: / They always talk, who never think." --Matthew Prior
"It does
not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold
it." --Paul Johnson
"But far more numerous was the herd of such, / Who
think too little, and who talk too much." --John
Dryden
"During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave
personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more
objectively." --Brian Koslow
"Everything is sweetened by
risk." --Alexander Smith
"Luck is believing you're
lucky." --Tennessee Williams
Accept yourself - and then get on with
life:
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content
with what you have." --Doris Mortman
"My recipe for life is not being
afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions." --Ertha
Kitt
"If you make friends with yourself you will never be
alone." --Maxwell Maltz
"Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself." --Audrey
Giorgi
"The best people to listen to are those who have already been
successful accomplishing exactly what you are seeking to accomplish." --Brian
Koslow
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without
insight." --Thomas Carlyle
Pick a target and hit it:
"One
cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while
you try to hold down the other." --Chinese proverb
"As you emphasize
your life, you must localize and define it . . . you cannot do
everything." --Phillips Brooks
"People can have many different kinds
of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the
others." --Marcel Proust
"Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no
sex." --Katharine Graham
"One major obligation is not to mistake
slogans for solutions." --Edward R. Murrow
"The best thinking has been
done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil." --Thomas Edison
Resist the pressure to eat fad foods you don't like:
"In Mexico
we have a word for sushi: bait." --Jose Simon
"I will not eat oysters.
I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead." --Woody
Allen
"Eating an artichoke is like getting to know someone really well."
--Willi Hastings
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his
facts." --Bernard M. Baruch
"My motto - sans limites." --Isadora
Duncan
"It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the
ground." --James H. Boren
Don't overestimate what you know:
"To
be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." --A. B.
Alcott
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." --Will
Rogers
"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't
know." --Laurence Peter