"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. "
-Confidence:" Confidence..........i will do it..........i will!"
-Defeat:" Defeat never comes to a man until he admits it."
" But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but never defeated."
" Accept defeat without being defeated."
-Destination:" What you get by reaching your destination isn't as nearly as important as what you become by reaching that destination."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
-Failure And Success:"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of
value."
"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very
worst is not to try."
"Someone who is afraid of failure and afraid to face challenges will never taste success."
"If at first you don't succeed try again. The word impossible is not in my dictionary"
"One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure."
" Dare to dream - dare to try - dare to fail - dare to succeed."
"You learn from successful failures."
" Keep on learning - from your successes so you repeat them - from your failures so you never make the same one twice."
" Many of life's failures are men who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Fear:"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
" All glory comes from daring to begin."
"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start."
-Fool:"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
" Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
-Generosity:"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
-History:"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."
"History is a vast early warning system."
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
-Hope:"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to
be no hope at all."
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
"Don't lose hope - when it gets darkest the stars come out."
-Imagination:"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of
imagination."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
"Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
"Imagination
is the only weapon in the war against reality."
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to
function."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Justice:"If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us."
"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer."
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
"The more laws, the less justice."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
-Laugh:"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
"Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by
comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."
-Life:"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"All life is an experiment."
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
-Listening:"Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking."
"A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before
he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."
"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him."
-Love:"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion."
"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place."
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have
truly lived are the moments when you have
done things in the
spirit of love."
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
"The best proof of love is trust."
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
-Memory:"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
"We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory."
"Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it."
-Mistake:"It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something."
"No one is listening until you make a mistake."
-Mystery:"The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail."
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Path:"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail!"
"Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone."
"Go far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see further."
" Every exit is an entry into somewhere else."
-Peace:"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
-Personality:"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
-Problems:"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how
to solve the problem. But when I have finished,
if the solution
is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
-Progress:"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing
it."
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
"All things are difficult before they are easy."
"The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind."
-Strength:"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength."
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
-Time:"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
"One thing you can't recycle is wasted time."
"You may delay, but time will not."
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
"Time is the fire in which we burn."
" Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently."
-Truth:"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that
do."
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
-Value:"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-Winning:" Winners never quit and quitters never win."
" Winning is not everything but the effort to win is."
-Wisdom:"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
-Work:"Love your work and you do not have to work anymore."
" If you wonder how to do a job: get started, and wonder how you did it."