DOING GOOD
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. - Confucius
DOUBT
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell
DREAMS
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. - Anatole France
Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
Till you find your dream. - From "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," (The Sound of Music)
All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
"Dream is not what you see in sleep, dream is the thing which does not let you sleep." - President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Timeless Quotes Part-10
DIPLOMACY
You’ve got to find some way of saying it without saying it. - Duke Ellington
Don't ever slam the door; you might want to go back. - Don Herold
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin
If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. - Cashie Stinnett
DISCERNMENT
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. - Ben Jonson
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie
DISCIPLINE
Do not consider painful what is good for you. - Euripides
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain
Self-discipline is the willingness to perform the acts that are beneficial to us that—for whatever reason—we don’t want to perform. - John McCormack
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly. - Thomas Huxley
It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead. - Brutus Hamilton
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments - Jim Rohn
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence . . . the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. - Charles Dickens
DOING
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Confucius
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford
Doing something is different from thinking about doing something; it is more difficult because it requires more discipline and courage. - Nicholas Pratt
Doing something the first time is very hard.
Doing it the second time is easier.
Doing it the third time is easier still.
With persistence, eventually doing it becomes second nature. - Nicholas Pratt
You’ve got to find some way of saying it without saying it. - Duke Ellington
Don't ever slam the door; you might want to go back. - Don Herold
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin
If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. - Cashie Stinnett
DISCERNMENT
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. - Ben Jonson
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie
DISCIPLINE
Do not consider painful what is good for you. - Euripides
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain
Self-discipline is the willingness to perform the acts that are beneficial to us that—for whatever reason—we don’t want to perform. - John McCormack
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly. - Thomas Huxley
It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead. - Brutus Hamilton
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments - Jim Rohn
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence . . . the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. - Charles Dickens
DOING
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Confucius
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford
Doing something is different from thinking about doing something; it is more difficult because it requires more discipline and courage. - Nicholas Pratt
Doing something the first time is very hard.
Doing it the second time is easier.
Doing it the third time is easier still.
With persistence, eventually doing it becomes second nature. - Nicholas Pratt
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Timeless Quotes Part-9
DECISION
Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind,
And you’re hampered by not having any,
The simplest way to solve the dilemma you’ll find,
Is simply by flipping a penny.
No, not so that chance shall decide the affair,
As you’re passively standing there moping.
But as soon as the penny is up in the air,
You’ll suddenly know what you’re hoping. - Piet Hein, Grooks
“Sir, what is the secret of your success?” a reporter asked a bank president.
“Two words.”
“And, sir, what are they?”
“Right decisions.”
“And how do you make the right decisions?”
“One word.”
“And, sir, what is it?”
“Experience.”
“And how do you get experience?”
“Two words.”
“And, sir, what are they.”
“Wrong decisions.”
Make big decisions in the calm. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
DELEGATION
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraining enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George S. Patton, Jr.
DESIRE
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay the price. - Mary Kay Ash
Games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire. - Paul Bear Bryant
DESTINY
Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to chose between alternatives. - Martin Luther King
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan
Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind,
And you’re hampered by not having any,
The simplest way to solve the dilemma you’ll find,
Is simply by flipping a penny.
No, not so that chance shall decide the affair,
As you’re passively standing there moping.
But as soon as the penny is up in the air,
You’ll suddenly know what you’re hoping. - Piet Hein, Grooks
“Sir, what is the secret of your success?” a reporter asked a bank president.
“Two words.”
“And, sir, what are they?”
“Right decisions.”
“And how do you make the right decisions?”
“One word.”
“And, sir, what is it?”
“Experience.”
“And how do you get experience?”
“Two words.”
“And, sir, what are they.”
“Wrong decisions.”
Make big decisions in the calm. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
DELEGATION
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraining enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George S. Patton, Jr.
DESIRE
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay the price. - Mary Kay Ash
Games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire. - Paul Bear Bryant
DESTINY
Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to chose between alternatives. - Martin Luther King
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Timeless Quotes Part-8
CONVERSATION
Take as many half minutes as you can get, but never talk more than half a minute without pausing and giving others an opportunity to strike in. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. - Jonathan Swift
COUNCIL
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. - Siney J. Harris
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. - Aesop
Never give advice unless asked. - German proverb
COUNTRY
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. - George Santayana
COURAGE
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? - Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage is resistance to fear. - Mark Twain
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. - Winston Churchill
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
COURTESY/PROPRIETY
When you are in Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. - Saint Ambrose
CREATIVITY
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois
CRITICISM
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. - Pythgoras
DANGER
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. - Sophocles
DARING
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Sir Cecil Beaton
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily; Not to dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard
DECISIONS
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing that you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
Take as many half minutes as you can get, but never talk more than half a minute without pausing and giving others an opportunity to strike in. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. - Jonathan Swift
COUNCIL
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. - Siney J. Harris
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. - Aesop
Never give advice unless asked. - German proverb
COUNTRY
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. - George Santayana
COURAGE
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? - Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage is resistance to fear. - Mark Twain
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. - Winston Churchill
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
COURTESY/PROPRIETY
When you are in Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. - Saint Ambrose
CREATIVITY
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois
CRITICISM
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. - Pythgoras
DANGER
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. - Sophocles
DARING
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Sir Cecil Beaton
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily; Not to dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard
DECISIONS
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing that you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt
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