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Kirk's Favorites:
Motivational Sayings - Quotes - Positive Words
Your Own Way
The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist
expects it to change; The realist [simply] adjusts the sails.
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William Arthur Ward quotes (American
dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)
Remove the rock from you shoe, rather than learning to limp comfortably.
There are no straight lines in nature. -various
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in a pretty an well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and
loudly proclaiming WOW! What a Ride!"
-Peter Sage, Entrepreneur and Speaker
"There are many things that catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart. Pursue them." -anonymous
"Live a life of adventure, not a life of maintenance."
"The only true regrets in life are the chances we do not take"
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
"Trust your hunches. There usually based on facts filed away just below the conscience level."
"Chance favors the prepared mind." -Louis Pasteur
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Never let it be too late." -Billy Bob Thornton on the Tonight Show
"The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living." -Stephen R. Covey
"What we leave behind is not as important as how we live." -Jean Luc Picard Star Trek Generations
"In the end, everything will be OK. If its not OK, its not the end." -KOAI thought of the day.
"We don't see things as THEY are, We see things as WE are."
Organization & Planning
"Plan Weekly, Adapt Daily"
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." Sallust, Appius Claudius
"Your success in life is directly proportional to your planning and control." -Charles Givens
"Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up."
"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." -George S. Patton
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
"Pressure usually comes when we have no plan." -Jim Smoke
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" -Dr. Robert Schuller
Leadership
"The difference between failure and success in life is how you deal with problems." -Anthony Robbins
"You don't get in life what you WISH for, you get what you GO for." -Unknown
"Always make new mistakes." -Ester Dyson
"I never give them hell; I just tell the truth and they think it is hell." -Harry S. Truman
"It is amazing what you can accomplish when you do not care who gets the credit." -Harry S. Truman
"The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority."
"Win-win sees life as cooperative, not a competitive arena." -Stephen R. Covey
"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities." -Stephen R. Covey
"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." -Frank Tyger
"He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail." -Abraham Maslow
"Behind every great idea is the mundane, everyday work that makes it a reality."
Character
"Amateurs are those who practice until they get it right. Professionals are those who practice until they can't get it wrong." -Unknown
"Fatigue is the result of inaction." -Stephen Chandler
"The only normal people are the ones you do not know very well."
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
"A man reveals his character even by the simplest things he does." -Jean de La Bruyere
"Keep company with those who make you better." -English Saying
"The heart is wiser than the intellect." -Anonymous
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself." -Thomas Paine
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." -Aldous Huxley
"We do not need more national development, we need more
spiritual development.
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power.
We do not need more knowledge, we need more character.
We do not need more law, we need more religion.
We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that
are unseen."
-John Calvin Coolidge
"An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do." -Michael Josephson
"THOUGHTS become WORDS become ACTIONS become HABITS become CHARACTER."
Knowledge
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" -T.S. Eliot
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
The preceding items have been collected by me over the years. I do not claim authorship of these. If they do not have a author indicated, its because I did not collect it with the quote!
Send me your favorites to add to the collection!
