QOTD August 31 2017
Thursday, August 31st, 2017Brooks Atkinson: “The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”
Brooks Atkinson: “The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”
Farrah Gray: “In life we donβt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.”
Tom Peters: “Underpromise; overdeliver.”
Meredith Willson: “Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.”
Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.”
Noah Porter: “Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.”
Dave Kellett: “We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.”
Betty Friedan: “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
Dr. Robert Schuller: “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Thomas Paine: “Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”
Denis Diderot: “Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
Ali Vincent: “In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.”
Andre Maurois: “Above all things, never be afraid. The one who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.”
Mark Twain: “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
Japanese Proverb: "Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law."
Mahatma Gandhi: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Charlotte Bronte: “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”
Joel Spolsky: “An idea isn’t worth that much. It’s the execution of the idea that has value. If you can’t convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it’s not worth it.”
Og Mandino: "Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return."