May 20 Quotes for the Week

“The wheel is come full circle.”  William Shakespeare

“The least movement is of importance to all nature.  The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”  Blaise Pascal

“Failure is success if we learn from it.”  Malcolm Forbes (Unfortunately, I don’t.)

“It’s easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top.”  Henry Ward Beecher

“Confidence is contagious.  So is lack of confidence.”  Vince Lombardi

“Individual commitment to a group effort-that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”  Vince Lombardi (Ouch…I don’t work well in groups!)

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May 13 Quotes for the Week

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers who read my blog!

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”  Lewis Powell

“Fine art is knowledge made visible.”  Gustave Courbet

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”  Eleanor Roosevelt

“Art is the signature of civilizations.”  Beverly Sills

“Character is power.”  Booker T. Washington

“Dignify and glorify public labor.  It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.”  Booker T. Washington

May 6 Quotes for the Week

“All your life you are told the things you cannot do.  All your life they will say you’re not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you’re the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this.  They will tell you no, a thousand times no, until all the no’s become meaningless.  All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.  And you will tell them yes.”  From a Nike Ad

“Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t bee able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know, so it keeps on flying anyway.”  Mary Kay Ash

“My interest is in future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”  Charles Kettering

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”  Indira Gandhi

“Never give up on anybody.”  Hubert H. Humphrey

“In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.”  Ferdinand Foch

“My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent.  I shall attack.”  Ferdinand Foch

April 29 Quotes for the Week

“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.”  Winston Churchill

“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”  Wernher von Braun

“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”  Henry Thoreau

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”  Theodore Roosevelt

“Winning is habit.  Unfortunately, so is losing.”  Vince Lombardi

“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, then you will be fired with enthusiasm.”  Vince Lombardi

“You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.”  Sacha Guitry (Believe me, I’ve tried the latter.)

April 22 Quotes for the Week

“Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.”  Dr. Seuss

“So many books, so little time.”  Frank Zappa

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make something else is the greatest accomplishment.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”  Malcolm X

“There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  Albert Einstein

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”  Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”  Mark Twain (I need to remember this whenever I am in a reading funk.)

April 15 Quotes for the Week

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”  Oscar Wilde

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”  Mahatma Gandhi

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”  Albert Einstein

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”  Maurice Switzer (I need to remember this one…)

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”  Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”  Oscar Wilde

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”  Maya Angelou

March 22 Quotes for the Day

“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.”  Elmer Letterman

“You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and everything you do affects not only you but others.”  Holly Lisle, Fire in the Mist (I need to learn this, too.)

“Having a dream is what keeps you alive.  Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.”  Mary Tyler Moore

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”  Plato

“One of the ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present.  In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.”  Stephen Covey

March 21 Quote of the Day

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has achieved in life as by the obstacles he has overcome.” Booker T. Washington

March 14 Quote of the Day No. 2, Which Was Really Intended to Have Been for March 15, Except for the Fact That I Messed Up

“None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.”  Ferdinand Foch

March 14 Quote of the Day

“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”  Vince Lombardi