Quotes - December 2007

Friday, 21 December 2007
"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
--Charles Horton Cooley,
sociologist

Thursday, 20 December 2007
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt,
thirty-second U.S. president

Wednesday, 19 December 2007
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
--Epictetus,
Greek philosopher

Friday, 14 December 2007

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
--Benjamin Spock,
pediatrician and author

Wednesday, 12 December 2007

"To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job."
--Chin-Ning Chu,
Chinese-American business consultant and author

and here are a bunch of quotes that we shared with you throughout the year:

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
--Winston Churchill,
British prime minister

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worthwhile."
--Herm Albright,
writer

"When you step into a turnaround situation, you can safely assume four things: morale is low, fear is high, the good people are halfway out the door, and the slackers are hiding."
--Nina Disesa,
as chairwoman of McCann-Erickson Worldwide

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"
--Steven Wright,
comedian, actor

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
--Thomas Edison,
inventor and businessman

"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others."
--Edward L. Flom,
CEO of Florida Steel

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
--Eleanor Roosevelt,
former first lady and American political leader

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're OK, then it's you."
--Rita Mae Brown,
writer and activist

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."
--Audrey Hepburn,
Academy Award-winning actress, humanitarian

"Rule No. 1: Use your own good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules."
--Bruce, Jim and John Nordstrom,
co-presidents of Nordstrom department store, in the employee handbook

Quotes - November 2007

Friday, 30 November 2007
"When you cease to dream, you cease to live."
--Malcolm S. Forbes,
former publisher of Forbes magazine

Thursday, 29 November 2007
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
--Doris Lessing,
Nobel Prize in Literature recipient

Wednesday, 28 November 2007
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."
--Carl Sagan,
astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Thursday, 15 November 2007
"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."
--Margaret J. Wheatley,
writer and management consultant

Wednesday, 14 November 2007
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
--Dale Carnegie,
writer and public speaker

Thursday, 8 November 2007
"Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."
--George Iles,
author

Quotes - October 2007

Friday, 26 October 2007
"I believe people run marathons every day of their lives in one way or another, and we need to remember to give ourselves the finishers' medals we deserve."
--Zoe Koplowitz,
author and marathon competitor

Monday, 22 October 2007
"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower,
thirty-fourth U.S. president

Friday, 19 October 2007
"When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, 'Let's go, let's go,' and ceilings start to move up."
--Zig Ziglar,
self-help author

Thursday, 18 October 2007
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
--Margaret Fuller,
journalist and women's rights advocate

Wednesday, 17 October 2007
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
--Winston Churchill,
British prime minister

Tuesady, 16 October 2007
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
--B. F. Skinner,
psychologist, inventor and author

Monday, 15 October 2007
"Conventionality is not morality."
--Charlotte Bronte,
English novelist

Quotes - September 2007

Wednesday, 26 September 2007

"Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it."
--Jules Renard,
French author

Tuesday, 25 September 2007

"The cure for grief is motion."
--Elbert Hubbard,
writer and publisher

Wednesday, 19 September 2007

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means."
--Albert Einstein,
German-born Swiss-American physicist

Tuesday, 18 September 2007

"I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful."
--Bob Hope,
entertainer

Monday, 17 September 2007

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."
--Ray Bradbury,
writer

Friday, 14 September 2007

"Always be prepared to win. That's what I focus on. Keep working toward perfection."
--Willie Davis,
professional football player, Hall of Fame member

Thursday, 13 September 2007

"Example has more followers than reason."
--Christian Nevell Bovee,
author and lawyer

Wednesday, 12 September 2007

"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world."
--Margaret Laurence,
Canadian novelist and short story writer

Quotes - August 2007

Tuesday, 28 August 2007

"Rule No. 1: Use your own good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules."
--Bruce, Jim and John Nordstrom,
co-presidents of Nordstrom department store, in the employee handbook

Monday, 27 August 2007

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."
--Leon J. Suenes,
writer

Friday, 24 August 2007

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
--Mel Brooks,
comedian, film maker

Friday, 17 August 2007

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
--Robert Louis Stevenson,
Scottish novelist and poet

Tuesday, 14 August 2007

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
--Robert Frost,
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Monday, 13 August 2007

"Vanity began to whisper to me that I was of some importance, and my beloved tutor warned me against its siren power."
--Rebecca Webb Lukens,
first female CEO of a U.S. industrial company

Friday, 10 August 2007

"A word to the wise ain't necessary; it's the stupid ones who need the advice."
--Bill Cosby,
actor and comedian

Thursday, 09 August 2007

"You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day."
--Ken Griffey Jr.,
professional baseball player

Monday, 06 August 2007

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
--Lorraine Hansberry,
writer and playwright

Friday, 03 August 2007

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
--Herbert Agar,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Thursday, 02 August 2007

"I've learned that failure preceded success, and the right decisions are an extension of the wrong ones."
--Alex Spanos,
founder of A.G. Spanos Cos.

Quotes - July 2007

Friday, 27 July 2007

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
--Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain,
writer

Thursday, 26 July 2007

"Ego is the drug of stupidity."
--Dr. Tom Amberry,
basketball coach and motivational speaker

Wednesday, 25 July 2007

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
--Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian spiritual and political leader

Monday, 23 July 2007

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
--Percy Bysshe Shelley,
English poet

Friday, 20 July 2007

"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."
--Albert Einstein,
German-born Swiss-American physicist

Thursday, 19 July 2007

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
--Peter F. Drucker,
writer, professor and consultant

16 July 2007

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
--Frederick Douglass,
abolitionist, writer and speaker

Tuesday, 10 July 2007

"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.'"
--Mary Kay Ash,
founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

Friday, 06 July 2007

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."
--Samuel Goldwyn,
film producer

Wednesday, 04 July 2007

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
--Coretta Scott King,
civil rights activist

Monday, 02 July 2007

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worthwhile."
--Herm Albright,
writer

Quotes - June 2007

Friday, 29 June 2007

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."
--Albert Camus,
Nobel Prize-winning French writer

Tuesday, 26 June 2007

"It's not what you have but how much you can borrow that's important in business."
--Walt Disney,
co-founder of Walt Disney Co.

Monday, 25 June 5 June 2007

"A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all."
--Chinese proverb

Friday, 22 June 2007

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
--Booker T. Washington,
educator and author

Thursday, 21 June 2007

"A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams."
--Dot Richardson,
Olympic gold medalist and orthopedic surgeon

Tuesday, 19 June 2007

"Be big: Think big. Act big. Dream big."
--Conrad Hilton,
hotelier

Monday, 18 June 2007

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."
--William Feather,
publisher and author

Friday, 15 June 2007

"Life is not life unless you make mistakes."
--Joan Collins,
British actress and author

Tuesday, 12 June 2007

"I have a theory of relatives, too -- don't hire 'em."
--Jack L. Warner,
Warner Bros. co-founder

Monday, 11 June 2007

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
--H. G. Wells,
English author

Friday, 08 June 2007

"Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde,
Irish playwright, novelist and poet

Thursday, 07 June 2007

"It takes 20 years of hard work to become an overnight success."
--Diana Rankin,
writer and public speaker

Wednesday, 06 June 2007

"The most effective way to do it is to do it!"
--Amelia Earhart,
aviation pioneer

Tuesday, 05 June 2007

"A man must learn to forgive himself."
--Arthur Davison Ficke,
poet

Friday, 01 June 2007

"It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly."
--Charles Lindbergh,
pioneering aviator

Quotes - May 2007

Thursday, 03 May 2007

"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
--Carl Sandburg,
two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and poet

Friday, 04 May 2007

"Lying is done with words and also with silence."
--Adrienne Rich,
poet and teacher

Thursday, 10 May 2007

"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."
--Dorothy Thompson,
journalist

Friday, 11 May 2007

"How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time."
--Fred Brooks,
software engineer and author

Monday, 14 May 2007

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
--Michael Pritchard,
motivational speaker

Thursday, 18 May 2007

"A closed mind is a dying mind."
--Edna Ferber,
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

Monday 21 May 2007

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
--Anne Frank,
German-Jewish diarist, Holocaust victim

Thursday, 24 May 2007

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
--Eleanor Roosevelt,
former first lady and American political leader

Friday, 25 May 2007

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
--Winston Churchill,
British prime minister

Saturday, 26 May 2007

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."
--Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain,
writer

Tuesday, 29 May 2007

"Every wall is a door."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson,
poet and philosopher

Wednesday, 30 May 2007

"Not failure, but low aim is a crime."
--James Russell Lowell,
poet, diplomat and satirist

Thursday, 31 May 2007

"Ability is sexless."
--Christabel Pankhurst,
English suffragist

Quotes - April 2007

Sunday, 01 April 2007

"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise."
--James Russell Lowell,
poet and writer

Tuesday 03 April 2007

"Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced."
--Barbara Tuchman,
historian and writer

Wednesday, 04 April 2007

"When you step into a turnaround situation, you can safely assume four things: morale is low, fear is high, the good people are halfway out the door, and the slackers are hiding."
--Nina Disesa,
as chairwoman of McCann-Erickson Worldwide

Friday, 06 April 2007

"Look at all the positives and negatives of a situation, and then go back to one thing -- what your heart tells you."
--Chris Weinke,
Heisman Trophy winner, professional football player

Saturday, 07 April 2007

"He who angers you conquers you."
--Elizabeth Kenny,
Australian nurse

Wednesday, 11 April 2007

"My advice is find a niche and then become the best there is in that field."
--Darla Moore,
vice president of Rainwater Inc.

Thursday, 12 April 2007

"The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath."
--Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart,
columnist

Monday, 16 April 2007

"My parents always told us to find out what we were good at and not worry about what others think."
--Lornah Kiplagat,
Dutch-Kenyan long-distance runner

Wednesday, 18 April 2007

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
--Michael Altshuler,
professional leadership coach

Thursday, 19 April 2007

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."
--Audrey Hepburn,
Academy Award-winning actress, humanitarian

Friday, 20 April 2007

"You don't have to win to be a winner."
--Duke Snider,
Major League baseball player

Saturday, 21 April 2007

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."
--George Lucas,
film writer-director-producer

Monday, 24 April 2007

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
--C. S. Lewis,
Irish author

Tuesday, 25 April 2007

"It's better to waste money than it is to waste time. You can always get more money."
--Hal Sparks,
actor and comedian

Thursday, 26 April 2007

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
poet

Monday, 30 April 2007

"I cannot give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody."
--Herbert B. Swope,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Quotes - March 2007

Thursday, 01 March 2007

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
--Alfred Hitchcock,
film director and producer

Friday, 02 March 2007

"There is no use worrying about things over which you have no
control, and if you have control, you can do something about them
instead of worrying."
--Stanley C. Allyn,
former CEO of National Cash Register Co.

Tuesday 13 March 2007

"He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have."
--Don Juan Manuel,
Spanish writer and nobleman
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
--Jean Kerr,
author and playwright

Wednesday, 14 March 2007

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
--Marcus Aurelius,
Roman emperor, stoic philosopher

Thursday, 15 March 2007

"To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
--Bernard Baruch,
financier and presidential adviser

Tuesday, 20 March 2007

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
--James M. Barrie,
Scottish novelist and dramatist

Thursday, 22 March 2007

"Life is a quest and love a quarrel ..."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Thursday, 29 March 2007

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
--Bruce Feirstein,
screenwriter and humorist

Friday, 30 March 2007

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
--Wilson Mizner,
playwright and entrepreneur
"Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow."
--Horace
"We should not judge a man's merits by his qualities, but by the use he makes of them."
--Francois de la Rouchefoucauld

Quote for Wednesday, 28 February 2007

"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others."
--Edward L. Flom,
CEO of Florida Steel