Thoughts 01SEP2010

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet - Joseph Joubert
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly - Isaac Asimov
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 30AUG2010

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth - Daniel Webster
What gets measured gets managed - Peter Drucker
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you - Calvin Coolidge

Thoughts 27AUG2010

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure - William Feather
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it - Plutarch
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live - Elbert Hubbard

Thoughts 26AUG2010

Hope is the dream of a man awake - French Proverb
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead - Louisa May Alcott
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 25AUG2010

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character - Joseph Le Conte
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one - Henry David Thoreau
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions - Albert Einstein

Thoughts 24AUG2010

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in - Napoleon Bonaparte
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way - Abraham Lincoln
Behind an able man there are always other able men - Chinese Proverb

Thoughts 23AUG2010

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to no one - William Shakespeare
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist)
He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted - Lao Tzu

Thoughts 20AUG2010

Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all she have - Author Unknown
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born - Anais Nin
Some men see things as they are and say why ... I dream of things that never were and say why not - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

Thoughts 19AUG2010

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them - J. Petit Senn
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think - La Bruyere
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes - St. Clement of Alexandra

Thoughts 18AUG2010

Use life to provide something that outlasts it - B. C. Forbes
Life for every person should be a journey in jubilance! - Charles Fillmore
Life is like a combination lock; your goal is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want - Brian Tracy

Thoughts 17AUG2010

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? - Unknown
If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within - Dan Millman
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency - Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Thoughts 16AUG2010

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough - Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and warm handshakes - these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and fighting their unseen battles - John Hall

Thoughts 13AUG2010

Life is change... Growth is optional... Choose wisely... - Author Unknown
Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it - Author Unknown
Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life - Author Unknown

Thoughts 12AUG2010

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness - William Arthur Ward
Don't expect to enjoy the cream of life if you keep your milk of human kindness all bottled up - Author Unknown
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain - Charles Fenno Hoffman

Thoughts 11AUG2010

Life is a team sport. Sometimes you give and sometimes you get - Ann Pearson
Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together - Joseph Joubert
As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move - Katharine Hepburn

Thoughts 10AUG2010

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds - Buddha
You don't get in life what you want. You get what you are! - Les Brown
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets - Henry Miller

Thoughts 09AUG2010

The only limitation in your life is the limitation of your own thinking - James A Ray
A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you - Thomas Leonard
Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal - Les Brown

Thoughts 06AUG2010

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late - Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness - it is usually returned - Cort R. Flint
Nothing multiplies so much as kindness - John Ray

Thoughts 05AUG2010

Those who do a kindness because they expect to be repaid are always disappointed - Chinese Proverb
Funny thing about kindness. The more it's used, the more you have of it - Unknown
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love - Lao Tzu

Thoughts 04AUG2010

Leadership is the practical application of character - Richard Meinertzhagen
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you - Max De Pree
See and think of yourself as a leader and then do what leaders do. Dare to go forward - Brian Tracy

Thoughts 03AUG2010

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are - Milton Berle
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles - Washington Irving

Thoughts 02AUG2010

One tree can start a forest, one smile can start a friendship, one touch can show you care, one love can make life worth living - Unknown
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction - Unknown
Good leaders guide the willing and persuade the stubborn - Unknown