"26 Great Thoughts"
"You can't manage a man into combat; you must lead him. You manage things; you lead people."
--- Grace Hopper
"When people are working for the motives of someone else, they profess not to understand or accept why things are done in the way they are. For anyone to feel responsible for their actions, they must sense the behavior has flowed from themselves."
--- Stanley Milgram
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."
--- Victor Frankl
"Self-awareness is an endless journey with infinite destinations."
--- Copyright © 2003 Michaela Goad --- United Kingdom
"A large body with minuscule mind and an empty heart is a painful thought, but a reality."
--- Copyright © 2003 Todd Vradenburgh --- New York
Just a guy walking around in a sunny field waiting for his love to come back.
"A cat can never become a lion in size, but by practice, it can always exceed the big cat in intelligence."
--- Copyright © 2003 Jagannathan Arockiam
"If you can't return a favor, pass it on."
--- Louise Brown
"Forgiveness does not have anything to do with other people. It has everything to do with you."
--- Gary Zukav
"Children need love especially when they don't deserve it."
--- Harold S. Hulbert
"I don't live in the past...I just like to visit it once in a while."
--- Copyright © 2003 Mary Nix
"Innovation is irrelevant, unless implemented."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Greg Byrne --- Ireland
"Good to forgive, better to forget!"
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sachin Bansal --- India
"A customer is a person who pays your salary."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Hasnain Latif --- Pakistan
"When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown."
--- Hugh Prather
"Keep company with those who make you better."
--- English Proverb
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."
--- Sir William Arthur
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."
--- Ayn Rand
"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions."
--- Earl Gray Stevens
"Age is a number, old is an attitude!"
--- Copyright © 2003 Mary Pretto
I said this in a class I was teaching on "Aging Issues". My class stopped me and said that it was a powerful statement. I thought it would be great to share this sentiment with more people.
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
--- Albert Einstein
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
--- Mark Twain
"At the precise moment you become satisfied with having done your best, you should realize that you did not."
--- Copyright © 2000 Susan Kleinschnitz
"Here is the secret of inspiration. Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly not more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you."
--- William Feather
"I may be called the salt of the earth, but it takes the salt to bring out the flavor in everyone I meet."
--- Copyright © 1984 Grace Carter
This was my answer when someone said it to me.
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
--- Orville Wright
"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and, keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to know what really matters most."
--- Stephen Covey