Friday, October 30, 2009

More WORDS OF WISDOM to inspire and guide us...

"It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
- Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you'll drift in that direction."
- Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway, CEO

"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
- Marie Curie, physicist

"The highest form of success... comes... to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president

"Strategic advantage lies in the leverage of knowledge."
- Robert Buckman, leadership coach

"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."
- Charles deGaulle, statesman

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Writer

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw, Writer

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure
."
- Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager

"Happiness is mostly a byproduct of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."
- Benjamin Spock, Pediatrician

"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
- Tobias Wolff, Writer

The greatest conflicts are not between two people, but between one person and himself."
- Garth Brooks, singer

"The most powerful element in advertising is the truth."
- William Bernbach, ad executive

"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."
- Julia Child, chef

"I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course."
- Ben Hogan, golfer

"If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton, Singer

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