Some of my Favourite Quotes... Submit Yours!
“To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and
day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which
any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
Unknown |
"You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you
really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
"Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination."
William Bridges |
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him,
and to let him know that you trust him." Booker T. Washington, activist
(1856-1915) |
“Freedom is not just a dream. It’s there, on the other side of those fences
we build all by ourselves.” Anthony Hopkins, Instinct |
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." Thomas
Carruthers |
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." Italian
Proverb |
"If you can, in this life, help others, if you can't don’t hurt them"
Hare Krishna |
“Those who learn from experience often profit from from their often-expensive
education and don’t make the same mistake more than twice. The list of what
we have learned the easy way is mighty short. Most of us do grow up, and
in the growing up, wisdom somehow comes.” Robert Fulghum |
"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain
of regret or disappointment." Jim Rohn |
"Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi |
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves." Carl Jung |
"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." John
Riefenbaker, author |
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."
B.B. King |
"Sometimes a person has to go back, really back—to have a sense, an
understanding of all that's gone to make them—before they can go forward."
Paule Marshall |
"You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important
decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have
you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who
are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously.
Make it carefully. Make it powerfully." Anthony Robbins |
We could learn a lot from crayons:
Some are sharp, Some are pretty, Some are dull, Some have weird names, And all are different colors.......... But they all have to learn to live in the same box. ~Author unknown |
"Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness." Jean
Vanier
|
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new
talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity
that was at hand." Bruce Marton |