QOTD April 17 2016
April 17th, 2016 on 23:16Gordon Atkinson: “When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.”
Gordon Atkinson: “When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.”
Og Mandino: “I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”
Jean De La Fontaine: “By the work one knows the workmen.”
Johann Georg von Zimmermann: “Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.”
Steve Jobs: “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
Jackie Joyner-Kersee: “It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
Arthur Hays Sulzberger: “I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”
Doris Mortman: “Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.”
John Muir: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
Gordon Parks: “The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.”
Jean Houston: “We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.”
William Feather: “Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
Louis Pasteur: “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner’s manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.”
Eleanor Hamilton: “A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.”
Elmer G. Letterman: “Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.”
Edith Sodergran: “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
Marva Collins: “Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
Malcolm X: “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”