QOTD September 12
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Leo Tolstoy: "Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
Leo Tolstoy: "Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
Charles F. Kettering: "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
Edgar Watson Howe: "When
a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is any thing
you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
Woodrow Wilson: "Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."
Marcel Proust: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Kahlil Gibran: "It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding."
George S. Patton: "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
Doris Mortman: "Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have."
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Marilyn Manson: "Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
Steve Jobs: "So
we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even
built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us?
Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll
come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to
Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t
got through college yet.’"
Steven Weinberg: "With
or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and
evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things,
that takes religion."
As promised:
Amber Deckers: "Never
let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us
that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it
isn’t. Failure is part of what makes us human."
Martha Burgess: "Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's."
Miguel de Cervantes: "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
Lois McMaster Bujold: "What you are is a question only you can answer."
Helen Keller: "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content"
Oscar Wilde: "The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."