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27 November 98

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. (Paul Goodman)

There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want; and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.  (Logon Pearsall Smith)

26 November 98

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. (Colin Wilson)

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. (Jerry Seinfeld)

25 November 98

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. (Buddha)

Procrastination . . . is the thief of our self-respect. It nags us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.
(Thomas S. Monson)

24 November 98

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. (John Burroughs)


Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. (Michael Korda)

23 November 98

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. (Kahlil Gibran)

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?  (Col. Harland Sanders)

20 November 98

It matters if you just don't give up. (Stephen Hawking)

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. (Napoleon Hill)

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. (Margaret Thatcher)

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. (Alexander the Great)

19 November 98

The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word. (J.R. Sizoo)

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. (James Corbett - Boxer)

18 November 98

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)


We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. (Hazlitt)

17 November 98

Begin today! No matter how feeble the light, let it shine as best it may. The world may need just that quality of light which you have. (Henry C. Blinn)

Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is! (Anne Frank)

16 November 98

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. (Gloria Gaither)

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
(Henry Drummond)

13 November 98

So long as men shall be on earth There will be tasks for them to do, Some way for them to show their worth; Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds Than ever have been done before: There always shall be human needs For men to work and struggle for. (Edgar Guest)

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.  (Dale Carnegie)

12 November 98

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now. (Mildred McAfee)

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. (Margaret Young)

11 November 98

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us. (Thomas Paine)

Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. (W. K. Hope)

10 November 98

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
(The Sanskrit)

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he becomes. (Bhagavad Gita)

9 November 98

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. (James Allen)

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. (Christopher Morley)

6 November 98

Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought.  (Saint Basil)

 

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
(Oriental Proverb)

5 November 98

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. (Christopher Morley)

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. (Josh Billings)

4 November 98 - Ideas! Some solid ideas!

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. (John H. Vincent)

 

 

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. (Alfred North Whitehead)

 

 

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

 

 

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. (Morris Leopold Ernst)

 

 

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
(Elbert Hubbard)

 

3 November 98

1. If it ain't no big deal, don't worry about it.
2. If you can't do anything about it, don't worry about it.
3. If it's someone else's problem, don't worry about it.
4. If it's easily fixed, it don't matter whose fault it was.
5. If it's done it's done, if it can't be undone--don't worry about it.
6. If there's no damage, don't make a project out of it.
   (Louie's "IF" Rules, created and cultivated by Louis Spanoudis)
   

Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.  (Wethern's Law)

2 November 98

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. (Lord Chesterfield)

 

To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. (Chinese Proverb)

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