August 2012
62 posts
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the...
– Jorge Luis Borges
I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
– Chief Joseph
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
– Booker T. Washington
You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
– John Keats
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is...
– John Dewey
Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
– Satchel Paige
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind,...
– Bodhidharma
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
– John Steinbeck
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
– Pope John Paul II
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
– John Stuart Mill
What you get is a living, what you give is a life.
– Lillian Gish
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old...
– John Maynard Keynes
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and...
– James Truslow Adams
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
– Auguste Rodin
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
– Emile Zola
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
– J. Paul Getty
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
– - Jean-Paul Sartre
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can...
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the...
– Alexander Graham Bell
The only routine with me is no routine at all.
– Jackie Kennedy
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
– Immanuel Kant
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
– Benjamin Disraeli
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
– Thomas A. Edison
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss...
– Eleanor Roosevelt
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.