Favorite Quotes

Expect nothing from everyone & everything from myself.

Inspred by last weekend's caucuses:

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof. – John Kenneth Gailbraith

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac. – Eric Hoffer

The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. – Eric Hoffer

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. – Dr. Samuel Johnson

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. – William O. Douglas

No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.

Timing is everything.

1. Do it right, or don't do it...

2. The impossible is often untried...

3. Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Especially for entrepreneurs:

Guilt and self-flagellation are indulgences.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. -- Nikola Tesla, 1934

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. -- Ayn Rand

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. -- Andrew Carnegie

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all. -- Carl Icahn

Digital electronics exist for men who lack the intelligence to understand Analog electronics. -- My Grandfather

Is it better to be fooled by a kiss, or kissed by a fool?

anon.

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." ~ Wayne Dyer

Works for me every time!

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." Theodore White

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love

"I lived a lifetime of worries, it was only later I realized most were imagined."

"I want to do to you what springtime does to a cherry tree." --Pablo Neruda

"I never was respectable." Benjamin Disraeli, former English Prime Minister under Queen Victoria.

"No, no." No-No-Boys (and Girls), native born or naturalized American citizens of Japanese ancestry when asked in the U.S. internment camps to renounce their alleged allegiance to the Japanese Emperor.

"History will absolve me." Fidel Castro at his 1952 trial for trying to overthrow the Batista government.

"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
Lauren Thatcher Ulrich

Oh, I LOVE quotes!!

Here are a few of my favorites:

"Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for" ~anon: To me this is about having the courage to step out of my comfort zone and allow myself to live my full potential.

"We have no friends; we have no enemies. We only have teachers" (Chinese Proverb) : I remind myself of this one daily, especially when I find myself judging people and being impatient with them.

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people" ~ Victor Borge: This is the philosophy I live by!

"Anybody who has survived their childhood has enough information about life to last them for the rest of their days" ~Flannery O'Conner : Ain't this true??

"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!" ~Eckhart Tolle: This is along the lines of the quote Rachel shared by Marianne Williamson

" When I walk down the street I know everybody loves me. Some of them just don't know it yet." ~Byron Katie: This one just warms my heart. :)

Dan, I love this:

"I want to do to you what springtime does to a cherry tree." --Pablo Neruda

Is this a promise or a threat I wonder...... :)

The man with a new idea is a crank until the new idea succeeds. —Mark Twain

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. —John C. Maxwell

A year from now you may wish you had started today. —Karen Lamb

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. —Stuart Henderson Britt

My goal is to be as good a person as my dog thinks I am. —Unknown

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits in the newspaper.

—Jerry Seinfeld

(I know. The Seinfeld one is kind of different. But it made me chuckle.)

If you don't have dreams, you have nightmares.

If you fly with the eagles at night, you pick sh*t with the chickens in the morning.

If it isn't worth doing, it isn't worth doing well.

When all is said and done, there's more that's said than done.

Great thread here, thanks for all the quotes!

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

-- Ashleigh Brilliant

One of my favorite: "In Just Spring When The World Is Mudlucious..." First line of one of my favorite ee cummings poems. Not very professional, I know, but love it just the same! best, Karen

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
-- Henry Miller

"Nobody sees a flower really - it's too small - we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
-- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Everything in moderation. Including moderation."
-- Socrates

When you buy quality, you only wince once.

Here is one I found in my snail mail today. It's on the back of the quarterly magazine published by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. I think it is particularly appropriate to share with indie business people. It is attributed to Antonio Machado, a Spanish poet.

"There is no road; the road is made as we walk".

What goes around comes around....

I have personally experienced and seen Karma at work.... both good and bad.... I believe if you do good Karma will pay you back in a good way... and if not...then watch out!