think tank - a collection of great quotes

8/6/2019 Think Tank - A Collection of Great Quotes

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- Mary Kay Ash, Mary kay on People management.

17. Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.- Andrew Mason, MD.

18. Happiness is a thing to be practised, like the violin.- John Luffock

19. From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.- Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace (Knopf)

20. In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.- W. B. Prescott

21. Believe one who has tried it.- Virgil

22. Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.- African Proverb

23. He, who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.- Seneca

24. Liberty is the only things you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.- William Allen White

25. How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.- Benjamin Bisraeli

26. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.- Dong Larson, United Feature Syndicate

27. Life is about timing.- Carl Lewis

28. A man's true wealth is the good he has done to his fellowmen.- Mahatma Gandhi

29. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue ofsupporting it- Thomas Paine

30. To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.- G. K. Chesterton

31. A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.- Alistair Cooke

32. I must not serve distant neighbor at the expense of the nearest.- Mahatma Gandhi

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33. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in thesame direction.- Antoine de Saint - Exupery

34. Being right half the times beats being half-right all the times.- Malcolm Forbes in Forbes

35. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.- St Angurtine

36. The word no carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knowshow to say yes.- Joyce Mayhard in Parenting

37. There are two ways of spreading light: to be candle or the mirror that reflects it.- Edith Wharton

38. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.- Winston Churchill

39. The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.- Deepak Chopra, M.D., Agelen Body, Timeless mind (Harmony)

40. The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best. When you can see crisis asan opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.- Joe Kogel

41. There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone or forbidyour children to do it.- Mota Crane

42. Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.- Orson Rega Card

43. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who hasnot had a king among his.- Helen Keller

44. Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.- Marion Bradly, Black Trillium (Doubleday)

45. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children. But that children produce

adults.- Peter De Vries, The Tunnel of Love (Little, Brown)

46. The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.- Jam Blanstone, The Joy of Parenthood (meadowbrook)

47. It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.- Warren Buffett, quoted by Linda Grant in US News & World Report

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48. The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.- George Will in Newsweek

49. One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of otherpeoples ideals - and you have to work through it all.- V. S. Naipaul, quoted by Mel Gussow in New York Times Book Review

50. In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - notthrough strength but by perseverance- H Jackson Brown, Afecturi's Book of Wisdom (Rutled genill)

51. One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are whenyou don't come home at night- Margaret Mead

52. The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time eachday.- O. A. Battista

53. He that would be a leader must be a bridge- Welsh Proverb

54. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire- William Butter Yeats

55. Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and soughtadvantage over no one.- Robert Brault

56. One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.- Jack Penn

57. The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.- Sydney Harris, King Feature Syndicate

58. Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices- Edgar Argo in Funny Times

59. Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to theworld.- Voltaire

60. Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish- Anne Morrow Lindergh

61. Hot words make a real cool friendship.- Ho Ashwarth in Dawsonville Advertiser & News

62. It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.- Judith Martin

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63. Heridity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for ourshortcomings.-Dong Larson, United Feature Syndicate

64. When the mouth stumbles, if is worse than the foot.- West African Proverb

65. The enemies of wit are those who have none.- Guy de manpassant

66. We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someonetoday.- Stacia Tauscher

67. I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than otherthings.- Willa Gather

68. Often good and bad come in the same package. No one can be deemed totallyhonest, nor totally despicable. Human beings are not like the keys of a piano: black orwhite.- Javier tomeo, el castillo de La Carta Cifrada (Educational Anagrama, Barcelona)

69. The trouble with being on time is that no one is around to verify it.- Mel Tobias in Taipan Mawila

70. Without integrity all of God's gifts are bitter- Istvan Szechenyi

71. For suspense it's pretty hard to beat the period after the mosquito in the bedroomstops buzzing

- Dong Larson, United Feature Syndicate

72. A wise man changes his mind; a fool never will- Spanish Proverb

73. When you argue with temptation, you're well on the way to being overcome by it.- Miguel de Unamuno

74. Life is the biggest bargain. We get it for nothing- Yiddish Proverb

75. People generally quarrel because they cannot argue- GK. Chesterton, more Quotable Cherterton

76. Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.- Arnold Glasow in Forbes

77. You are never a looser until you quit trying- Mike Ditka

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78. Pride is tasteless, colourless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow- August Black

79. The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him- Henry stimson in Harper's Magazine

80. Luck never gives, it only lends- Swedish Proverb

81. Trust in God and do something- Mary Lyon

82. Pride makes some men ridiculous but prevents other from becoming so- Charles Caleb Cotton

83. One filled with joy preaches without preaching- Mother Teresa

84. You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountablefor what they do- John Leo in Us News & World Report

85. The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands- Quoted by Aleyandra Penney in Self

86. Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insistupon floating up stream- Josh Billings

87. Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it willcome naturally

- David Frost

88. What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise- Kitty O'Neill Collins

89. Work keeps us from three evils: boredom, vice and need- Voltaire

90. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.- Henry Ford

91. There is more to life than increasing its speed.- Mahatma Gandhi

92. Faith is believing in things when common sense tell you not to.- George Seaton, Miracle on 34 th Street

93. There are good men everywhere I only wish they had louder voices.- Louis L' Amour, Last of the Bleed

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94. Success has a simple formula do your best and people may like it- Sam E wing

95. Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination- William Longgood, Voices from the earth

96. Quite often we change jobs, friends and spouses instead of ourselves- C- Akbarali Jetna Reflections (Combined Edition)

97. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful- Molly lvins, quoted by Michelle Green and Acne Maier in People Weekly

98. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference- Liffie Fudim

99. You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long- Boris Yeltsin

100. What we do not understand we do not possess- Goethe

101. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green- Francis Bacon

102. Speak the truth but leave immediately after- Slovenian Proverb

103. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking thatmakes what we read ours- John Locke

104. The worst prison would be a closed heart- Pope John Paul II

105. There never was child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep- Ralph Waldo Emerson

106. Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big.- Audrey snead

107. No one ever excused his way to success.- Dave DelDotto, How to make Nothing But Money

108. You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits and don't mind beingcontradicted.- Marie von Ebner- Eschenback

109. I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forgeahead. If you think its going to rain, it will- Clint Eastwood

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110. Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better- Albert Camus Resistance, Rebellion and Death

111. Fortune gives too much to many, enough to nobody.- Martial

112. When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge- Tuli Kupferberg

113. Do not underestimate a child or overestimate a grown-upC- Akbarali Jetha, Reflections (Combined Edition)

114. Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognise a mistake every time yourepeat it- AP

115. The most exhaustive thing in life is being insincere.- Anne Morrow Lindberg Gift From the Sea.

116. If you would thoroughly knew anything, teach it to others.- Tryon Edwards

117. The Philosopher who said that work well done never needs doing over never weededa garden- Ray Querson

118. Out of ten people who talk about us, nine say something bad, and often the oneperson who says something good says it badly.- Rivarol

119. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is aggravating, but it

isn't so; its the sickening grammar they use- Mark Twain

120. Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it.- Joseph Conrad

121. Ideals are like the stars. We never reach them but, like the marines on the sea, wechart our course by them.- C Schurz

122. Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows

behind, slowly shaking its head.- J. Shapiro, Meditations from the Breakdown Lane

123. It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then- Richard Armous

124. The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong- Harry Weinberga in New York Post

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125. If you should bend the staff of justice do not bend it under the weight of money butunder that of mercy- Cervantes

126. Some people sotreasure the truth that they use it with great economy- H. Ray Golenor

127. There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering and evenmore difficult- Harry and Joan Mier, Happiness Begins Before Breakfast

128.The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways- Gene Hackman, quotted by Jelf Shannon in Seattle Past-intelligenca

129. There are times when silence has the loudest voice- Leroy Browhlow, Today

130. Change like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or adusk.- William Arthur Ward

131. Preconceived notions are the locks on the door of wisdom- Merry Browne in Matimal Enphirer

132. To be upset over what you don't have in to waste what you do have- Ken Keyes, Je, Handbook of Higher consciousness.

133. We don't know who we are until we see what we can do- Maitha Grimes into items Handbook

134. In prosperity our friends know us in adversity, we know our friends.

- John Churton Collins

135. You are never as good as everyone tells you when you win and you're never as badas they say when you loose.- Lon Holtz with John Heisler, The Fighting Spirit

136. Dig the well before you are thirsty- Chinese Proverb

137. To understand a man, you must know his memmories. The same is true of a nation.- Anthony Onagle on "The Heart of the Dragon."

- South Carolina ETV.

138. No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be anartist- Oscar Wilde

139. Morale is self-esteem in action- Avery Weisman, MD

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140. There is always danger for those who are afraid of it- Bernard Shaw

141. The Surest way to be late is to have plenty of time- Leo Kennedy

142. Money changes people just as often as it changes hands- Al Batt

143. If we have our own "why" of life, we can bear almost any "how".- Friedrich Mietzche

144. Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another- Walter Elliot, The Spiritual Life

145. The best things you can give children next to good habits, are good memories- Sydney Haris, News America Syndicate

146. When all think alike, no one thinks very much.- Walter Lippmann, used with permission of Haward University

147. Some writers try to be known to the public, others try to be known to their Colleaguesand yet other try to be known to themselves.- Enrico Emanuelli Teatro Personale, Milan

148. If you don't aim at something, you will never hit anything.- El Hogar Cristiano, Texas.

149. We are so self centred when we read that we admire only the thoughts that coincidewith ours.- Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

150. Man is inept at two things: doing something that he fears and doing something he isnot interested in- Pedro Luis, Hores de Otono

151. If a person does not enjoy good fortune when he has it, then he shouldn't complainwhen it is gone.- Cervantes

152. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that somethimes he has to eatthem.

- Adlai Stevenson

153. Brute force bends; fair argument convinces.- Vergilio Zoppi

154. Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, likea hug from a child.- Phyllis McGinley in The Saturday Evening Post

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155. When a woman surrenders, its because she's won- Aldo Cammarota

156. He was a writer of great imagination. He imagined that all his books would be best-sellers- Jose Caldon

157. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, youhave earned how to live- Lin Yutang

158. Impatience can be a virtue, if you practise it on yourself.- Rod Mc Khen, 1985 Book of Days.

159. When all think alike, no one thinks very much.- Walter Lippmann. {Haw and why}

160. There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen toany fear- General George Patton

161. Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness- Jean de La Bruye're

162. If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, We'd all be millionaries- Abigail Van Buren, Universal Press Syndicate

163. Ideas are nobody's property; they belong to whoever expresses them best- Emilio Cecchi, Taccuini, Milan

164. It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes

of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply to think freely, to be needed- Storm Jameson

165. High expectation are the key to everthing- Sam Walton

166. Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many- not on yourpast misfortunes, of which all men have some- Charles Dickens

167. In politics it is not important to know who's who, but rather who's whose

- H.Y. Sharada Prasad, Sunday obserer

168. Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because itcomes late- Felix Frankfurta

169. If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.- Mery Browhe in National Enquirer

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170. People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know- James Hind in The Wall Street Journal

171. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come- Victor Hugo

172. Write injuries in sand, kindness in marble- French Proverb

173. Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others arestiffened- Billy Graham

174. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction weare moving- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

175. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do- Bengamin Spoak, MD, Baby & Child care

176. Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it.- Robertine Mayhard, quoted by Bob Mayhard, Universal Press Syndicate

177. A dog wags its tail with its heart- Martin Buybaun in Table Talk

178. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.- Robert Ingesol

179. A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helf - HinrikIbsen

180. There is nothing stronger in the world than gentlemen- Han Swjin A Many-Splendoured Thing

181. A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools andscoundrels without the entire group paying for it.-C. T. Rowan, field Newspaper syndicate

182. Providence - when it is not devine, it is foresight- Luciano Anselmi in Resto del carlino, Bologna

183.If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.- Cicero

184. There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it.- Charles Kettering with T. A. Boyd, Prophet of Progress

185. When you can't solve the problem, manage it.- The Reverend Robert Schuller

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186. The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when tworights confront each other.- Henry Kissinger

187. Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the worldcan't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry- Alvin Price

188. No one worth possessing can be quite possessed- Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale

189. Though it rains gold and silver in a foreign land and daggers and spears at home yetit is better to be at home.- Malay Proverbs, edited by Richard Winstedt

190. In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is tofind, and continue to find, grounds for marriage- Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire

191. Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.- Gric Hoffer, Working and Thinking on the waterfront

192. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being ram- General George Pation

193. Much of good manners is about knowing when to pretend that what's happening isn'thappening- Falk Feeley, A swarm of warps

194. Co-operation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyhow- Quote Magazine

195. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down.- 20,000 Quips and Quotes edied on Evan Esar

196. Curiosity is an instinct of infinite scope on the one hand it leads to listening behindclosed doors; on the other, it leads to the discovery of America- Jose Maria Ela de Queiros

197. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent oneVoltaire

198. A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog.- Haitian farmer

199. Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinion. But no man has a right to be wrongin his facts- B. Baruch, The Public Years

200. Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams die,

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Life is a broken - winged birdThat cannot fly.- L. Hughes. The Dream keeper and other poem

201. When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man,examine your own heart- Confucius

202. A cage is a cage, even if its bars are gold- Vailathol Marayan Menon, Kilikonchal

203. There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like apiece of music, it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast- Paul Scott Mowrer The House of Europe

204. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be themost oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moralbusy bodies. The robber barons' cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at somepoint be satiated; but those who torment us foar our own good will torment us without end,for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.- C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (Eerdmans)

205. Take the time. Add some extra care. And see the difference.

206. Good enough is not really good enough

207. One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks- Jack Penn

208. A major cause of unhappiness is over-estimating the happiness of others.- Margaret Thomas in You South Africa

209. Why is it that opportunity always knocks, but temptation feels free to walk right in ?- Current Comedy

210. Success is like a duck in water. Appear calm and unruffled on the surface. Butpaddle like crazy underneath- Cartoon Column "Agatha Crumm" in Indian Express 10.5.94

211. Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself- Garl Wilson

212. The men who have had the most to give to their fellowmen are those who haveenriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is poor education that does not fit a man to bealone with himself- Joel Hil debrand California Monthly

213. How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race forsuccess, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker out lasts the sprinter- B. C. Farbes

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214. There is perhaps no one of our passion so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it downstifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive even if I could conceive that I hadcompletely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility- Benjamin Franklin from his autobiography

215. An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything- Lynn Johnston Universal Press Syndicates

216. What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering- Bernard Shaw

217. Great successes are built on taking your negatives and turning them around.- Sumner Redstone in Farbes

218. The best way to cope with change is to help create it- US Senator Robert Doll

219. Mahatma Gandhi's list of seven deadly sins :Wealth without work,Pleasure without conscience,knowledge without character,business without morality,science without humanity,worship without sacrifice, andpolitics without principle

220. If you standup and are counted, you may get yourself knocked down. But rememberthis : a man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by confirmity staysdown for good- Thomas Watson

221. If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, dont drag your feet- Arnot Sheppard in Wonran's World

222. When someone says that he's laying all the cards on the table, count them.- Gene Brown in Danbury News-Times

223. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half-shut afterwards.- Benjamin Franklin

224. The smartest advice on raising children is to enjoy them while.-Dorothy Law Motte, from her poem "Children Learn What They Live":

225. Live your life so that you don't have to hide your diary.- Orben's Current Comedy

226. Statistics are no subtitute for judgement.- Henry Clay

227. The quickest way to get back on your feet is get down on your knees- Vern McLellan Shredded wit

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228. Don't meet trouble halfway. Let it travel the full distance. Something usually happensto it before it arrives- Builders Association Report

229. Joy is the simplest form of gratitude- Karl Barth

230. A work is half finished when it is begun well- Seneca

231. You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may takeyears for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.- Charles Kettering

232. Exerpts from The Autobiography of LEE IACOCCA

1. You will never know what happiness is unless you have something to compare it to.

2. Whatever you are so worried about is not really all that bad. Forget it and move on totomorrow.

3. All that talent in the world does not excuse deliberate rudeness.

4. Why walk when you can run ?

5. If he is bigger than you are, don't fight back. Use your head instead of your fists.

233. I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

234. Nothing is more empty than those who are full of themselves.

235. A Genesis can talk only to a Genesis, to others, he is a fool.

236. Honour those who have lived and died for principles rather than prosperity for theyhave truly lived.

237. Those who want to live happily must shun power and wealth.

238. The greater the obstacle more the glory in overcoming it.

239. Law is necessary for a few, is made by a few, but unfortunately it applies to all.

240. When law fails to solve your problem, wisdom can.

241. The exact testimony of a man is his action.

242. Confidence imparts wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

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243. If it is His pleasure to create this universe, let it be our pleasure to enjoy it, why notreciprocate ?

244. Enthusiasm and optimism are life's legs.- Lavoz de Michoacaum Morelia

245. As rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.- La Rochefonwauld

246. The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by theaggregate of the tiny pusher of each honest worker- Helen Keller

247. The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never feel unhappy again- Manuel Pnig El beso la mijer arana

248. The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and thewings of independence- Denis Waitley

249. We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-orm- Winston Churchill

250. A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.- John Le carre

251. Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel theheat.- Caroline Schoeder, quoted in Milwankee Journal

252. When in doubt, duck

-Malcolm Forbes, The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm

253. Why is it that opportunity always knocks, but temptation feels free to walk right in ?- Current Comedy

254. People who say they "slept like a baby" generally don't have any.- Moira II, Scotland

255. The things we fear most in organisations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -are the primary sources of creativity- Margaret Wheatley Leadership and the New Science

256. Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You mightenjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.- Maureen Dowd in New York Times Magazine

257. The love of liberty is the love of others. The love of power is the love of ourselves.- William Hazlitt

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258. I endeavour to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy, when I cannot be glad, contentwith what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.- Elizabeth Montagu

259. From poverty to wealth is a troublesome journey, but the way back is easy.- Chinese Proverb

260. A good time to keep your month shut when you're in deep water- Sidney Goff in National anquira

261. Luck is not chance, it's toil. Fortune's expensive simile is earned.- Emily Dickinson

262. Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression- Mark Helprin in The Wallstreet Journal

263. I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.- Rndyard Kipling

264. Anyone without a sense of humour is at the mercy of everyone else- William Rotsler

265. The most important thing a father can do far his children is to love their mother- Theodore Hesburg

266. Education is the valline for violence- Edward James Olmos

267. A consumer is a statistical abstraction. A Customer is a human being- Stanley Marcus quoted by Alise Witchel in New York Times

268. Nothing improves a joke more than telling it to employees.- Terry Marchal in Charleston Gazette

269. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom- General George Pattan

270. Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.- Marilyn vas Savant

271. It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and

be right too late.- Marilyn moats kennedy in Across the Board

272. There is always time to say something, but not to remain silent- Espin, Conguiste conestategia (Editorial Diana, Merico city)

273. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.-William Arthur ward.

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274. In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great angerdo not answer anyone's letter.- Chinese Proverb

275. It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.- Al Batt

276. Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect- Leonardo da Vinci

277. You don't get harmoney when everybody sings the same note.- Dong Floyd in Washington Spokesman Review

278. The best things in life aren't things- Art Buchwald

279. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt theimpossible and achieve it, generation after generation.- Pearl Buck

280. The difference between reality and fiction ? fiction has to make sense- Tom Clancy "Larri Kinglive" CMM.

281. Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing justacts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.- Aristotle.

282. A man without intellect is only a beast, but the man with selfish intellect is adangerous beast.

283. If children live with criticism,they learn to condemn.If children live with hostility,they learn to fight.If children live with fear,they learn to be apprehensive.If children live with encouragement,they learn to be confident.If children live with fairness,they learn justice.If children live with tolerance,

they learn to be patient.If children live with security,they learn to have faith in themselves and in those around them.

284. KARMA

God is not unjustNor is He unkindIt's the "Karma"

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That followsSoft footed behindAdd whether it is right or wrongHe does not waitFor the timeNo prayers will helpNo love will holdAnd no one can denyThat ...The part deedsDo overtake a manNo matter whereAnd what timeHenceDo all goodSay all goodAnd be kindIts our deedsThat make our destinyNo, Oh no, God is never unkind.

285. THE JOURNEY OF LIFE

When too much of sunWitness the flowersThen the nature takes its course

The rain comes bouncingHither and ThitherAnd every-thing is in chaos

The sun takes shelterBehind the cloudsWhile the clouds hangFrightingly thick and blackBut fear not my frail soul

For this is the journey of life.

The joy the sorrowThe cry the laughterEach follows like

Day follows the nightDont lose your heartStay firm and takeEverything is good stride

The sky will clearThe sun will shineThe trees will look bathedThe birds will chirp happily

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And so will your heartAnd the rainbow will appear bright.

286. New brush cleans well; but old brush knows the corners.

287. It's Up To youOne song can spark a moment,One flower can wake the dream,One tree can start a forest,One bird can hearald spring,One smile bigins a friendship,One handclap lifts a soul,One star can guide a ship at sea,One word can frame the goal,One vote can change a nation,One sun beam lighta a room,One candle wipes out darkness,One laugh will concur gloom,One step must start each journey,One word must start each prayer,One hope will raise our spirits,One touch can show your care,One voice can speak with wisdom,One hart can know what's true,One life can make the different,You see it's up to you!Quitter never winsWinner never quits.

288. Behind an able man there are always other able men.- A Chinese Proverb

289. No one knows what he can do till he tries.- Publilius Syrus

290. A man's ability cannot be of one sort and his soul of another.- Seneca

291. Great abilities go with great soul.- Taylor

292. Sudden acquintance brings repentance.

- Thomas Fuller

293. For a fool there's nothing under the moon to admire.- Unknown

294. Fools advice others; wise men, themselves.- Unknown

295. No gift is more precious than good advice.

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- Erasmus

296. The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.- A Greek Proverb

297. The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.- C. H. Spurgeon

298. When you are an anvil, hold still. When you are a hammer, strike your fill.- John Florio

299. No sensible man was ever afraid of making an apology.- Seneca

300. Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.- Benjamin Franklin

301. Even vitue is fairer in a fair body.- Vergil

302. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, it may be because he hears adifferent drummer.- Thoro

303. Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it. Never be satisfied.- George Washington Carver

304. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from thesuccessful one is a lot of hard work.- Stephen King.

305. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be the one who can not read and write butthe one who can not learn, unlearn and relearn

306. As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mendI brought my broken dreams to God because He was my friendBut instead of leaving them with Him in peace to work aloneI hung and tried to help with ways that were my ownAt last I snatched them back and cried How can you be so slow?My child, He said, What could I do? You never did let go.

- Lauretta P. Burns

307. However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave usno peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure tosprout in their search for the sunlight.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

While in the West the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China theinsane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese

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literature will testify.

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitteddesire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you havelearned how to live.

All from Lin Yutang, 1895 1976

308. Hatred is self punishment.- Housaballon

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