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