"Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look
yourself in the eye." --Meridel LeSueur
"All happiness depends on a
leisurely breakfast." --John Gunther
"Education is not a problem.
Education is an opportunity." --Lyndon B. Johnson
If you fail, just
incorporate that failure into your future success plans:
"The great
question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with
failure." --Laurence Peter
"In the game of life, it's a good idea to
have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to
maintain an undefeated season." --Bill Vaughan
"You never know where
bottom is till you plumb for it." --Frederick Laing
"The man who views the worlds at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of
his life." --Muhammid Ali
"As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word
that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler." --Calvin
Trillin
"There is no substitute for hard work." --Thomas A
Edison
Increase your wealth by paring your shopping list:
"The
covetous man is always poor." --Claudian
"That man is rich whose
pleasures are the cheapest." --Henry David Thoreau
"All fortune
belongs to him who has a contented mind." --The
Panchatantra
"Records are made to be broken." --Baseball saying
"Everything in nature
invites us constantly to be what we are." --Greta Ehrlich
"Home ought
to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and
disciplined, and ready for life." --Kathleen Norris
Things might look
up if you do the same:
"Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of
life." --Philip Butler
"Optimism is essential to achievement and is
also the foundation of courage and of true progress." --Nicholas Murray
Butler
"Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education,
pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am
going to complete every pass." --Ron Jaworski
"Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest." --Thomas Fuller
"Make yourself
necessary to somebody." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you learn to live
for others, they will live for you." --Paramahansa Yogananda
You can
find inspiration anywhere - even in an advertising slogan:
"We try
harder." --Avis Car Rental
"Live today. Tomorrow will cost
more." --Pan Am
"The greatest tragedy is indifference." --The Red
Cross
"Faith is necessary to victory." --William Hazlitt
"I have learned to use the
word 'impossible' with the greatest caution." --Werhner von Braun
"My
opinion is a view I hold until . . . well, until I find something that changes
it." --Luigi Pirandello
Most who quote books mostly quote men - so
make an effort to hear what women have said:
"Self-pity in its early
stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become
uncomfortable." --Maya Angelou
"People do not wish to appear foolish;
to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they were willing to actually remain
fools." --Alice Walker
"It may be necessary temporarily to accept a
lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good." --Margaret
Mead
"We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves: fear, desire, hope, still
push us on toward the future." --Michel de Montaigne
"When you
produce results you gain credibility. When you have credibility, you will have
an easier time producing results." --Brian Koslow
"Throw out an
alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to
instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's
time to start your day." --Sharon Gold
Create the emotional tone
of your environment:
"If we lead good lives, the times are also good. As
we are, such are the times." --St. Augustine
"Hope is like a road
in the country; there never was a road, but when many people walk on it, the
road comes into existence." --Lin Yutang
"A human being fashions his
consequences as surely as he fastens his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he
says, thinks or does is without consequences." --Norman
Cousins
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument." --William G.
McAdoo
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is
never thrown away." --Sir Arthur Helps
"An optimist expects his
dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to." --Laurence J.
Peter
Take a book break and read whatever you like:
"You should
only read what is truly good or frankly bad." --Gertrude Stein
"A man
ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do
him little good." --Dr. Samuel Johnson
"No tow people read the same
book." --Edmund Wilson
"All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye." --Alexander Pope
"No one is useless
in this world who lightens the burdens of another." --Charles
Dickens
"If at first you don't succeed you're running about
average." --M. H. Alderson
Avoid litigation whenever you
can:
"Agree, for the law is costly." --William Camden
"Two
farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the
other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer." --Jewish
parable
"It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a
lawyer's hands." --Spanish proverb
"I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the
risk." --Dr. Joyce Brothers
"We aim above the mark to hit the
mark." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The man who removes a mountain begins by
carrying away small stones." --Chinese proverb
Don't be bullied by
what "everyone else" is doing:
"What the crowd requires is mediocrity of
the highest order." --Auguste Preault
"A man of correct insight among
those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the
clocks in the town give the wrong time." --Arthur Schopenhauer
"The
race of men, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity." --Carl Van
Doren
"Success is a journey, not a destination." --Ben Sweetland
"From the discontent
of man, the world's best progress springs." --Ella W. Wilcox
"Were it
not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this
office." --Abraham Lincoln
Don't become too comfortable with being
unhappy and complaining:
"Query: Whether it be not delightful to
complain? And whether there not be many who had rather utter their complaints
than redress their evils?" --Bishop George Berkeley
"Is your cucumber
bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is
enough. Do not go on to say, `Why were things of this sort ever brought into the
world?'" --Marcus Aurelius
"Consolation for unhappiness can often be
found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy." --Francois La
Rochefoucauld
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best
thing in the world for you." --Walt Disney
"Happiness comes of the
capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be
needed." --Storm Jameson
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is
not mandatory." --W. Edwards Deming
If you have to look at the
calendar, concentrate on today's date:
"One today is worth two
tomorrows." --Benjamin Franklin
"The future belongs to those who live
intensely in the present." --Anon.
"It's not that `today is the first
day of the rest of my life,' but that now is all there is of my life." --Hugh
Prather
"You have enemies? Good! It means you've stood up for something at least once in your
life." --Anon.
"Energy will do anything that can be done in this
world." --Goethe
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone
call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you
waiting?" --Stephen Levine
Above all, try to be brave:
"Courage
is the ladder on which all other virtues mount." --Clare Booth
Luce
"Wealth lost - something lost; Honor lost - much lost; Courage lost
- all lost." --German proverb
"Courage is the most important of all
virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with
consistency." --Maya Angelou
"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up." --James A.
Garfield
"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in
growing with them." --Bernard M. Baruch
"Age does not protect you from
love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." --Jeanne
Moreau
Be forgiving of your friends:
"To find a friend one must
close one eye - to keep him, two." --Norman Douglas
"The essence of
true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses." --David
Storey
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of
yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job." -Laurence
Peter
"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new
information from age and experience. --Terence
"It is better to fail
in originality than to succeed in imitation." --Herman Melville
"The
more people you influence, the more power you have." --Brian
Koslow
Make sure you know an expression before using it:
"Marge
and I are insufferable friends." --Jane Ace
"I resent
insinuendoes." --Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley
"My husband doesn't
munch words." --Mary Carter
"Ya gotta do what ya gotta do." --Sylvester Stallone
"They know enough who
know how to learn." --Henry Adams
"Danger can never be overcome
without taking risks." --Latin proverb
Stop wasting time and energy on
worrying:
"Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it falls
due." --W. R. Inge
"When I look back on all these worries I remember
the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble
in his life, most of which had never happened." --Winston
Churchill
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more
people worry than work." --Robert Frost
"The only way to keep a good reputation is to continuously earn it." --Brian
Koslow
"If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you
expect other people to be entirely to your liking?" --Thomas a
Kempis
"Flattery is alright - if you don't inhale." --Adlai
Stevenson
Evaluate yourself by what you do, not by how you
look:
"I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes
less and less an issue and what you are is the point." --Susan
Sarandon
"I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a
refugee when I get up in the morning . . . I generally look like one major
bowwow. I mean arf." --Connie Chung
"If you're considered a beauty,
it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around." --Cybil
Shepherd
"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete
yourself." --Betty Friedan
"Every man, through fear, mugs his
aspirations a dozen times a day." --Brendan Francis
"If we really want
to live, we'd better start at once to try." --W. H. Auden
Say "no" to
negativity:
"The biggest quality in successful people, I think, is an
impatience with negative thinking." --Edward McCabe
"I cannot discover
that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not
possible." --Henry Ford
"The Wright brothers flew right through the
smoke screen of impossibility." --Charles F.
Kettering
"A great many people think that polysyllables is a sign of culture." --Barbara
Walters
"People are more easily led than driven." --David H.
Fink
"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our
hopes." --John F. Kennedy
Don't insist on certainty, lest it leave you
inert:
"Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of
fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy." --Richard
Barnfield
"There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is
assurance sufficient for the purpose of human life." --John Stuart
Mill
"What men really want is not knowledge but certainty." --Bertrand
Russell
"They can because they think they can."
--Virgil
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo."
--Dr. Sara Jordan
Take a positive attitude toward that accumulation of birthdays:
"I had rather wear out than rust out."
--George Whitefield
"Ah, but I was so much older then, / I'm younger than that now."
--Bob Dylan
"You are as old as the last time you changed your mind."
--Tim O'Leary
"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
--Helen Keller
"Life is hard. Next to what?"
--Anon.
"Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them." --Voltaire
Make your own acquaintance:
"The first job is to get some clarity of understanding about yourself, what you are, and where you are going."
--Harry D. Gideonse
"Know thyself."
--Anon. (ancient Greece)
"The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature."
--Paul Bowles