Quotes of Inspiration

 

 

 

Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

-Malcolm Muggeridge

 

Conquest is easy.  Control is not

-Unknown

 

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

-Vernon Law

 

It often takes more courage to change ones opinion than to keep it.

-Willy Brandt

 

One kind word can warm three winter months.

-Chinese proverb

 

While the builders of the cages sleep with bullets, bars and stones, they do not see your road to freedom that you build with flesh and bone.  There is no limit to the amount of good that people can accomplish, if they don't care who gets the credit.

-Peter Gabriel

 

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.

-H.L. Mencken

 

Have the courage to live. Any one can die.

-Robert Cody

 

Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer.

-Norwegian proverb

 

A single death a tragedy.  A million deaths is a statistic.

-Stalin

 

Ageing isn't that bad if you consider the alternatives.

-Maurice Chevalier

 

It's kind of fun to do the impossible

-Walt Disney

 

Don't be depressed cause you don't know what to do...Be depressed when you stop thinking of things to do.

   -Villin "D"        

 

Driven by Knowledge...Success my Destination

-Villin "D"    

 

Hard work never killed anyone

-Unknown

 

Sometime you got to rock the boat in order to have smooth sailing.

-Unknown

 

Falling down don't make you a failure staying down does.

-Unknown

 

Success is a road, and it is paved with the bricks of failure.

-Unknown

 

Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

-Dostoyevsky

 

If you always do what you always did then you'll always get what you always got.

-Unknown

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

-Longfellow

 

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

-Condorcet

 

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

-South

 

There is a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them how we will.

-William Shakespeare

 

I have learned to seek happiness by limiting my
desires rather than in attempting to  satisfy them

-JohnStaurt Mill

 

My strength is as the strength of ten
Because my heart is pure.

-Tennyson

 

A goal is a purpose, " a reason to be in the race."
-Russ von Hoelscher



Some extrinsic motivation helps to build self esteem. But total submission to external motivation leads to destruction of the individual. Extrinsic motivation in the extreme crushes intrinsic motivation.
-W. Edwards Deming

 


From a stress standpoint, you're better off making a choice and having it turn out to be the wrong choice than to have the choice made for you, even if it's right
-Psychologist Eric Margenau