|
"You can do anything, but not everything."
- David Allen
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least."
- Anonymous
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
- Wayne Gretzky
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."
- Ambrose Redmoon
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Gandhi
"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean."
- Lin-Chi
"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
- A. A. Milne
"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."
- Abraham Maslow
"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
- Baltasar Gracian
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
- Basho
"Watch your thoughts; 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."
- Lao-Tze
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
- John Ruskin
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
"Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching"
- Anonymous
"Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not."
- Virgil Garnett Thomson
"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
"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
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Nelson Mandela
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
- Nelson Mandela
"It is not the length of life, but the depth of life."
-Anonymous
"When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the fire department generally uses water."
-Anonymous
"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."
-Anonymous
|
Wisdom