Sunday, January 3, 2010

Quotations

'Disappointment, defeat and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.' - Paulo Coehlo.

'By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.' - Charles Wadesworth.

'I have not failed, I have merely found ten thousand ways that won't work.' - Thomas Edison.

'When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.' - George Bernard Shaw.

'Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.' - Elmer G. Letterman.

'What you can't enforce, do not command.' - Sophocles.

'Our great glory is not in never failing, but in getting up every time we do.' - Confucius.

'I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.' - Anwar el-Sadat.

'If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.' - Edgar Watson Howe.

'Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.' - John Lancaster Spalding

'The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.' - Michel de Montaigne.

'Behind every great fortune there is a crime.' - Balzac.

'By sacrifice you shall attain all things; let such sacrifice be your fulfilling cow of plenty.' - Bhagwad Gita.

'It's not the years in your life that counts, it's the LIFE in your years.' - Abraham Lincoln.

'You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.' - George Burns.

'Falling in love is easy but staying in love is something very special.'

'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.' - Pablo Picasso

'People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.' - David H. Commins.

'There is money to be made in the market place, but under the cherry tree there is rest.' - Ruskin Bond.

'If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.' - Yugoslav Proverb.

'If you win, you need not have to explain..
If you lose, you should not be there to explain!' - Adolf Hitler.

'Life is like an ever shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change & all pattern alter.' - Sharon Salzberg.

'You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.' - William Henry Hudson.

'We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.' - Jonathan swift.

'A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.' - Arthur Golden.

'We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.' - Francis Bacon.