Sunday, January 11, 2009

24 Great Quotes

"C'mon Slim... fuck yo' man, I ain't worried about him..."--Darius Lovehall in lovejones

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."-- Henry Ford

"You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures."--Charles C. Noble

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."--Judy Garland

"The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm."--Fred Dehner

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."--David Brinkley

"Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs."--Dan Zadra

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."--Thomas Edison

"A man inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: “Wife wanted”.Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing:“You can have mine.”--Anonymous

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."-- Seneca

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”--Booker T. Washington

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."--Winston Churchill

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”--Michael Jordan

"Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world."--Gandhi

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."--Dr. Denis Waitley

"I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones."--John Cage

"Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare."--Japanese Proverb

"In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing."--Theodore Roosevelt

"You don’t love a women because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."--Anonymous

"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not self-seeking,envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."--1 Corinthians 13

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."--Napoleon Hill

"Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake."--Anonymous

"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."--Anonymous

"When building a team, I first look for people who love to win, if I can’t find any of those, then I look for people who hate to lose."--H. Ross Perot

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