Pessimists....Some people always look at the negative side

Robert Fulton invented the steamboat. On the banks of the Hudson River he was
displaying his new invention. The pessimists and the skeptics were gathered around to
observe. They commented that it would never start. Lo and behold, it did. As it made its
way down the river, the pessimists who said it would never go, started shouting that it
would never stop. What an attitude!

Another one....

There was a hunter who bought a bird dog, the only one of its kind in the world. That
could walk on water . He couldn't believe his eyes when he saw this miracle. At the
same time, he was very pleased that he could show off his new acquisition to his friends.
He invited a friend to go duck hunting. After some time, they shot a few ducks and the
man ordered his dog to run and fetch the birds. All day -long, the dog ran on water and
kept fetching the birds. The owner was expecting a comment or a compliment about his
amazing dog, but never got one. As they were returning home, he asked his friend if he had noticed anything unusual about his dog. The friend replied, "Yes, in fact, I did notice
something unusual. Your dog can't swim.

Timeless Quotes Part-2

ADVICE
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong

Seek advice from those only whom you deem competent to give it, and then you need not hesitate to follow it. Receive good advice gracefully, asked or unasked. - Charles Simmons

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. - English proverb

Don't give cherries to a pig; don't give advice to a fool. - Irish proverb

AFFECTION
Talk not of wasted affection! Affection never was wasted. . . . - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

AGE
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. - Jonathon Swift

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. - Douglas Mac Arthur

AIM
Thomas Carlyle was once talking to a young friend, and asked him what his aim in life was. The young man replied that he had none. "Get one, then, and get it quick," said Carlyle, sharply. "Make something your specialty. Life is a very uncertain affair. Knowing a little about five hundred things won't do us much good. We must be able to do something well, that our work will be needed and valuable." - Kate L. Gates

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood....Make big plans, aim high in hope and work. - Daniel H. Burnham

AMBITION
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great. - Mark Twain

First, you must be ambitious, but you must not be so nakedly aggressive that your fellow workers rise up and destroy you. "Tout soldat porte dans sa giberne le baton de marechal." [Every soldier has a marshal's baton in his knapsack.] Yes, but don't let it stick out. - David M. Ogilvy

Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. - Pearl Bailey

ANGER
Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy. - Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. - Henry Ward Beecher

When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. - Baltasar Gracian

Anger is what arouses you to challenge a situation. Aim to use it to improve things. Often, with it, you can change things. - Walter McQuade and Anna Aikman

Looking for Gold

As a young Scots boy, Andrew Carnegie came to America and started doing odd jobs.
He ended up as one of the largest steel manufacturers in the United States.At one time he had 43 millionaires working for him.

Several decades ago, a million dollars used to be a lot of money; even today it is a lot of money.
Someone asked Mr. Carnegie how he dealt with people?

Andrew Carnegie replied, "Dealing with people is like digging gold: When you go digging for an ounce of gold, you have to move tons of dirt to get an ounce of gold. But when you go digging, you don't go looking for the dirt, you go looking
for the gold."

Timeless Quotes Part-1

ABSENCE

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. - François de La Rouchefoucauld

ACCIDENT

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident. - Thomas Edison

ACHIEVEMENT

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so. - Margaret Thatcher

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

ACTION
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless. - Unknown

Action is the basis of competition, execution, and achievement. - Nicholas Pratt

ADAPTATION
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. - Indian proverb

You must shift your sail with the wind. - Italian proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. - Latin proverb

ADVERSITY
Every adversity contains within it the seed of an equivalent or greater good. - Princess of Serendip

When one door of happiness closes another door opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Hellen Keller

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. - William Hazlitt

Never give up. Never, never, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. - Herman Melville

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton

Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them. - Ethiopian proverb