The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Personal Satisfaction and Better Business

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do. -Patricia Fripp

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -Martin Luther King, Jr. #quotes #inspiration

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin

It is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight--it's the size of the fight in the dog. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

"One man with courage makes a majority." -Andrew Jackson

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. -Benjamin Disraeli Pls RT. #quotes

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgement. -? #quotes

A minute’s success pays the failure of years. -Robert Browning

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. -Sir Humphrey Davy

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -Andy McIntyre & Derek Bok

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. -Robert Frost

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 269

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

~ Dalai Lama

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 269

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

~ Dalai Lama

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result. -Gisela Richter Pls RT

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 268

"Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it."

~ Rabindranath Tagore



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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 268

"Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it."

~ Rabindranath Tagore



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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 267

Believing everybody is dangerous;
believing nobody is very dangerous.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 267

Believing everybody is dangerous;
believing nobody is very dangerous.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. -Joseph Joubert Pls RT

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. -Sophia Loren

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Failure Before The Achievement

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

-Florence Scovel Shinn

Trouble, like the hill ahead, straightens out when you advance upon it. -Marcelene Cox

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 266

If we cannot love the
person whom we see,
How can we love God,
whom we cannot see?

~ Mother Teresa



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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 266

If we cannot love the
person whom we see,
How can we love God,
whom we cannot see?

~ Mother Teresa



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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 265

"Three sentences for getting success :

Know more than other,
Work more than other,
Expect less than other."

~ William Shakespeare

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 265

"Three sentences for getting success :

Know more than other,
Work more than other,
Expect less than other."

~ William Shakespeare

Knowledge if stored away and not put into use may corrode in time. -Eva Arrington

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. -Dickens #quotes

The Best Preparation for Greatness

It does not matter if the greatest thing for you to do be not in itself great. The best preparation for greatness comes in doing faithfully the little things that lie nearest. The nearest is the greatest in most human lives. -D.S. Jordan

It is better to err on the side of initiative than inactivity. -B.C. Forbes #quotes Pls RT

Victory belongs to the most persevering. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Aim for service and success will follow. -Albert Schweitzer

Anything Can Happen

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that...absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.

-Monica Baldwin

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -Jack London #quotes #inspiration Pls RT

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 264

Go not to the temple to put flower upon the feet of God,

First fill your own house with the fragrance of love ………

Go not to the temple to light candles before the alter of god,

First remove the darkness of sin from your heart……….

Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer,

First learn to bow in humility before your fellowmen ……

Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees,

First bend down to lift someone who is downtrodden ……

Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins,

First forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

~ Rabindranath Tagore (First Asian Nobel laureate in literature)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 264

Go not to the temple to put flower upon the feet of God,

First fill your own house with the fragrance of love ………

Go not to the temple to light candles before the alter of god,

First remove the darkness of sin from your heart……….

Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer,

First learn to bow in humility before your fellowmen ……

Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees,

First bend down to lift someone who is downtrodden ……

Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins,

First forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

~ Rabindranath Tagore (First Asian Nobel laureate in literature)

Men of genius do not excel in any profession b/c they labor in it, but they labor in it b/c they excel. -Hazlitt

Excellence is an Art

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. -Aristotle

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power. -Honore de Balzac

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Gandhi

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 263

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are traveling in a wrong path.

~ Swami Vivekananda, the great Hindu monk of India

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 263

In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are traveling in a wrong path.

~ Swami Vivekananda, the great Hindu monk of India

Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation. -Roger Staubach Pls RT #quotes

How To Be Perfectly Miserable

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."

-Henry Ford

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business & your business in your heart. -Thomas Watson

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? -Martin Luther King

"Success is 99% failure." -Soichiro Honda

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -James Stephens

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 262

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

~ Goutam Buddha

(Indian Prince Siddharth, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C)

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 262

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

~ Goutam Buddha

(Indian Prince Siddharth, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C)

A New Crop of Fools

Every generation a new crop of fools comes on. They think they can beat the orderly universe. They conceive thmselves to be more clever than the eternal laws. They snatch goods from Nature's store, and run.... And one by one they all come back to Nature's counter, and pay--pay in tears, in agony, in despair; pay as fools before them have paid. Nature keeps books pitilessly. Your credit with her is good, but she collects; there is no land you can flee to escape her bailiffs. She never forgets; she sees to it that you pay her every cent you owe, with interest. -Dr. Frank Crane

Success often comes 2 those who dare 2 act. It seldom goes 2 the timid who R ever afraid of the consequences. -Nehru

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive. -Schaef

Self-trust is the first secret to success. -Emerson

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. -Peale Pls RT

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is be satisfied with your opinions & content with your knowledge. -Elbert Hubbard

There Are Two Kinds Of Men

There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much: Those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

-Cyrus Curtis

Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be. -Calvin Coolidge Pls RT

The trouble with the rat race is that when you get to the top of the pack, you are still a rat. -Lily Tomlin

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. -Bruyere

Sweet Fulfillment

There's no thrill in easy sailing,
When the sky is clear and blue.

There's no joy in merely doing
Things which anyone can do.

But there is some fulfillment
That is mighty sweet to take.

When you reach a destination,
You thought you couldn't make.

-unknown

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. -Sir William Osler

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. -David Russell

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. -Walter Elliott

We Are Only Half Awake

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts, which he habitually fails to use. -William James

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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 261

The worst thing you can lose : Self-respect
The most satisfying work : Helping others
The ugliest personality trait : Selfishness
The most beautiful attire : A smile
The most prized possession : Integrity




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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 261

The worst thing you can lose : Self-respect
The most satisfying work : Helping others
The ugliest personality trait : Selfishness
The most beautiful attire : A smile
The most prized possession : Integrity




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Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 260

To the world, you may be just one person;
but to one person, you may be the world!

~Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 260

To the world, you may be just one person;
but to one person, you may be the world!

~Unknown

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 259

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

~Abraham Lincoln

Words of Wisdom Of the Day # 259

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

~Abraham Lincoln

The only way of finding the limit of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clark

The Possible’s slow fuse is lit by the imagination. -Emily Dickinson

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. -Niels Bohr

There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower. -Honoré de Balzac Pls RT

"It's better to have sloppy success than perfect mediocrity." -unknown Pls RT #quotes

"Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame." -Baltasar Gracian Pls RT

Dream Lofty Dreams

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil." -John Ruskin

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"We grow great by dreams." -Woodrow Wilson

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." -Bernard Berenson

Great Opportunites

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is simple fidelity to watch what each day brings. -Albert E. Dunning

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. -Inuit proverb

Procrastination Results in Regret

"Procrastination usually results in sorrowful regret. Today's duties put off until tomorrow give us a double burden to bear; the best way is to do them in their proper time."
-Ida Scott Taylor

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"I can live for two months on a good compliment." -Mark Twain

The Rigorous Law Of Our Being

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows---it must grow; nothing can prevent it. -Mark Twain

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“There is no security in this world. There is only opportunity.” -General Douglas MacArthur

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice." -George Jackson

Dream Lofty Dreams

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. -James Allen

"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody." -Helen Brown

"It may be that those who do most, dream most." -Stephen Leacock

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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man--his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. -Carl Jung

Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else. -Tennessee Williams

Times of Great Calamity

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest strom. -Charles Caleb Colton

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. -Oscar Wilde

In the arena of life the honors & rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. -Aristotle

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream. -Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -G.K. Chesterton