Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
?Winston Churchill
( subject: courage )
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow
from flying over your head, but you can prevent
them from building nests in your hair.
?Chinese Proverb
( subjects: control )
After all, when you come right down
to it, how many people speak the
same language even when they speak
the same language?
?Russell Hoban
( subject: communication )
Beware of one who flatters unduly;
he will also censure unjustly.
?Arabian Proverb
( subject: censure )
... love from one being to another can only
be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize
and protect and comfort each other.
?Han Suyin
( subject: comfort )
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities,
but we cannot dodge the consequences
of dodging our responsibilities.
?Sir Josiah Stamp
( subject: consequences )
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
?German Proverb
( subject: conscience )
All you need in this life is ignorance
and confidence, and then success is sure.
?Mark Twain
( subject: confidence )
The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually
busy man does not get much further.
?Sir Heneage Ogilvie
( subject: busyness )
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and
pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
?Maya Angelou
( subject: blood )
One only needs two tools in life:
WD-40 to make things go,
and duct tape to make them stop.
?G. M. Weilacher
( subjects: building )
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and
realize that one's safety factor was determined by
the lowest bidder on a government contract.
?Alan Shepherd
( subjects: budgets )
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
?Mahatma Ghandi
( subject: bravery )
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest.
A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
?Ann Landers
( subject: bragging )
Conditions are never just right. People who delay
action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
?William Feather
( subject: actions )
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
?Lou Holtz
( subject: attitude )
When one person makes an accusation, check to be
sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those
whose case is weak who make the most clamour
?Piers Anthony
( subject: accusation )
The basic difference between being assertive
and being aggressive is how our words and
behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
?Sharon Anthony Bower
( subject: assertiveness )
Advice is what we ask for when we already
know the answer but wish we didn't.
?Erica Jong
( subject: advice )
The world is a dangerous place to live;
not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people
who don't do anything about it.
?Albert Einstein
( subject: apathy )
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want
to test a man's character, give him power.
?Abraham Lincoln
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog
has but one. But that is the best of all.
?Desiderius Erasmus
( subject: ability )
No two people have the same reality
( author: Gary Zukav )
If you want help, help others. If you want trust, trust others.
If you want love, give it away. If you want friends, be one.
If you want a great team, be a great teammate.
That's how it works.
( authors: Dan Zadra )
When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.
( authors: Henny Youngman )
Everyone should learn to do one thing
supremely well because he likes it, and one
thing supremely well because he detests it.
( authors: Brigham Young )
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
( authors: Douglas Yates )
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age.
As long as you're learning you're not old.
( authors: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow )
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile
things, but just look what they
can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly
There are two ways of
spreading light: to be the candle
or the mirror that reflects it.
( authors: Edith Wharton )
