January 2004 Quotes

The true secret of giving advice is,
after you have honestly given it,
to be perfectly indifferent whether
it is taken or not, and never persist
in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Advice

Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
Sir John Denham
Ambition

How much more grievous are
the consequences of anger
than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius
Anger

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
Apathy

No matter what side of the argument you
are on, you always find people on your
side that you wish were on the other.
Jascha Heifetz
Argument

I've learned from experience that
the greater part of our happiness or
misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Attitude

The real character of a man is
found out by his amusements.
Joshua Reynolds
Amusement

The weaker the man in authority...
the stronger his insistence that
all his privileges be acknowledged.
Austin O'Malley
Authority

Problems arise in that one has to find
a balance between what people need from
you and what you need for yourself.
Jessye Norman
Balance

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes
us little; we owe it everything. The only
true happiness comes from
squandering ourselves for a purpose.
John Mason Brown
Bargain

There will come a time when
you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour
Beginnings

Love is whatever you can still betray ...
Betrayal can only happen if you love.
John LeCarre
Betrayal

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
Bragging

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Ghandi
Bravery

It is my ambition to say in ten
sentences what other men say
in whole books - what other men
do not say in whole books.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Brevity

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
Budgets

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.
Dan Zadra

It is hard to begin to move when you
don't know where you are moving, how
to move, or if you are going to get there.
Peter Novio Zarlenga

You can complain because roses
have thorns, Or you can rejoice
because thorns have roses.
Ziggy

Ability may get you to the top, but
it takes character to keep you there.
John Wooden
Ability

Absence is to love what wind is to a fire;
it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
?Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
Absence

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-
assessment and repentance that demands
personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces
humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
Eric Zorn

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
Napoleon