" THOUGHTS OF THE DAY"
"There are million things that I don't know. But there is one thing I can do, that is to love you day in and day out for the rest of my life."
--- Copyright © 2003 Farhan Nabi Khan
"Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes."
--- Bobby Bonilla
" Leadership is not magnetic personality-that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"-that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
--- Peter F. Drucker
"Mirror...Mirror...Discrimination is an act of fear and restricts yourself from growing. Tolerance closes opportunities to challenge yourself. Acceptance is opening and expanding your mind. Don't be afraid to know who you really are."
--- Copyright © 2003 Roberta Trujillo
"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity."
--- Omar Idn Al-Halif
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
--- Theodore Roosevelt
"It is nature of a man to rise to greatness, if greatness is expected of that man."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sam C., Age 15 --- Victoria, Australia
"If you are anticipating the worst while hoping for the best, you will get the worst. The things that happen to you are in direct accordance with the things wherein you place your faith. Believe you are licked and you are."
--- Harold Sherman
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
--- Henri Poincare
"To be yourself is to be alive."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Venkat Ram --- Tamilnadu, India
This quote is aimed at making people know that life is not another's creation. What we create is life.
"The Difficult we do immediately.
The Impossible takes a little longer."
--- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers slogan
"He who cannot forgive others destroys a bridge over which he must pass himself.
For every man has a need to be forgiven."
--- Saint John Gaulberto
"Luck, fate, and destiny are but only one thing. The one moment that preparation meets opportunity. One must plan for tomorrow, but live for today! Not planning for tomorrow is bad preparation, and not living for today will present no opportunity."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by J.C. --- Texas
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
--- Earl Nightingale
"If you give of yourself with an expectation that you should receive something in return, you will find yourself disappointed most of the time."
--- Copyright © 2003 Martha Triplett
"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success
or are they holding you back?"
--- Clement Stone
"Begin and end each day with an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving."
--- Wayne W. Dyer
"There is only one time in life when I will appreciate being alive as much as I do now, and that is today." (Please repeat tomorrow morning.)
--- Copyright © 2003 Todd McConnell
"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out."
--- Ray Bradbury
"The depth of your compassion lies in your ability to forgive yourself."
--- Mark Graham
"If you are offended, do not write it on a stone, but write it on sand; for if the wind of forgiveness comes, it will vanish."
--- Copyright © 2003 Noemi Binag
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older, they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them."
--- Oscar Wilde
"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."
--- Sheldon Kopp