Published by JazzyMoon on January 15, 2008 03:23 pm
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- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
- It is always the best policy to speak the truth–unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome
- War doesn’t determine who’s right - only who’s left. Bertrand Russell
- Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C.S. Lewis
- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw
- If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse. Henry Ford
- There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. Vincent Van Gogh
- The most important thing she’d learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. Jill Churchill
- The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life. Sir Hugh Walpole
- If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer. Martin Luther King
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Ralph W. Sockman
- Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. Samuel Butler
- It’s my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln
- Bring me solutions, not problems. Margaret Thatcher
- Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls. Henry Ford
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C. S. Lewis
- Never mistake a clear view for a short distance. Paul Saffo
- Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill
- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
- It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. Mark Twain
- Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold Geneen
- The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. John Sladek
- You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Einstein
- Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right. Woody Allen
- Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. Henry Ford
- You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Margaret Thatcher
- One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown
- Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
- Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw
- The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. Anonymous
- Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. Henry Ford
- I don’t think I’ve mastered anything.I’m still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That’s what life is like. Harrison Ford
- When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
- If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher
- A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
- Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better. Samuel Beckett
- The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught. Marquis de Vauvenargues
- I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet. Muhammad Ali
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. Henry Ford
- Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe
- Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
- Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
- Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
- If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim. Margaret Thatcher
- My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. Indira Gandhi
- The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King
- The road to success is always under construction. Anonymous
- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. Ambrose Bierce
- Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Henry Ford
- Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. Thomas Paine
- A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; A woman loses hers after four kisses. H.L. Mencken
- When I can’t handle events, I let them handle themselves. Henry Ford
- He who can does - he who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Isaac Asimov
- Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
- Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. Emerson
- The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King
- He who enjoys doing and enjoys what is has done is happy. Goethe
- The greatest sin of our time is not the few who have destroyed but the vast majority who sat idly by. Martin Luther King
- Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa
- Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington
- It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. Admiral Grace Hopper
- It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
- An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. Henry Ford
- Lead, follow or get out of the way! George S. Patton
- Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude. Dr. Martin Luther King
- A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. Hippocrates
- If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right! Henry Ford
- You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin
- I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln
- I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. Martin Luther King
- The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. Edgar Poe
- Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato
- He that would live in peace and at ease, Must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. Benjamin Franklin
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford
- Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor nor should life rest on a single hope. Epictetus
- Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln
- If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
- In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson
- Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Anonymous
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I am flattered to be on this list (#19: “Never mistake a clear view for a short distance”) but I cannot take credit for quote, as it is an old folk aphorism that I have merely helped bring to people’s attention.
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Haha Congratulations, you are a reference =P. Nice website btw =)