Archive for the ‘QOTD’ Category

QOTD March 23 2015

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

Michel de Montaigne: “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”

QOTD March 22 2015

Sunday, March 22nd, 2015

Confucius: “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”

 

QOTD March 21 2015

Saturday, March 21st, 2015

Ann Richards: “The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.”

 

QOTD March 20 2015

Friday, March 20th, 2015

Harry Emerson Fosdick: “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

 

QOTD March 19 2015

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Nicole Kidman: “When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”

 

QOTD March 18 2015

Wednesday, March 18th, 2015

Mary Field Belenky: “Really listening and suspending one’s own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms… This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.”

 

QOTD March 17 2015

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

Ken Keyes Jr.: “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”

 

QOTD March 16 2015

Monday, March 16th, 2015

Charles W. Eliot: “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”

 

QOTD March 15 2015

Sunday, March 15th, 2015

Marcel Proust: “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

 

QOTD March 14 2015

Saturday, March 14th, 2015

Mother Teresa: “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”

 

QOTD March 13 2015

Friday, March 13th, 2015

Anonymous: “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

 

QOTD March 12 2015

Thursday, March 12th, 2015

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: “Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.”

QOTD March 11 2015

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

Sydney J. Harris: “An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”

 

QOTD March 10 2015

Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

Aristotle: “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

 

QOTD March 9 2015

Monday, March 9th, 2015

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

 

QOTD March 8 2015

Sunday, March 8th, 2015

Leo Burnett: “When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”

QOTD March 7 2015

Saturday, March 7th, 2015

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison: “The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.”

 

QOTD March 6 2015

Friday, March 6th, 2015

John Ruskin: “In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.”

 

QOTD March 5 2015

Thursday, March 5th, 2015

Herbert Spencer: “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

 

QOTD March 4 2015

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

Robert J. Sawyer: “General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.”