My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
-George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
..enemy of the rest
It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
-Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)
rising every time....
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
~ Nelson Mandela
Brothers are...
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other -- they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
-Leonardo DiCaprio, actor and director (b. 11 Nov 1974)
Mark of greatness
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
-Johan Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet and dramatist (1759-1805)
seeds of kindness
Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day,
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As you pass along the way.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)
Then remember day by day,
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As you pass along the way.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)
...if people start
A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking.
-Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)
...all hang
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
~ Benjamin Franklin
Foreign affairs
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
- James Reston, journalist (1909-1995)
..about taking care
Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge. |
| -Simon Sinek |
Most of the questions...
Think about it—aren't you asking and answering questions pretty much all day long?
- Do I like my job?
- When is this due?
- Who should I vote for?
- What should I do today?
- Should I ask for a raise?
- Does this make me look fat?
- What should I have for lunch?
- Should I start my presentation this way, or that way?
...who does not fancy
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
-Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet and critic (1636-1711)
Lazy man's way...
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
-Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (1876-1972)
lash of wit
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
-James Boswell, biographer and lawyer (1740-1795)
Meaning and Purpose
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
~ Pablo Picasso
...exists only in imagination
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (1800-1859)
Are you proud of...?
Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?
-Laurence J. Peter, educator and author (1919-1990)
power of forgiveness
What power has love but forgiveness?
-William Carlos Williams, poet (1883-1963)
...polite and listen to
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
-Brenda Ueland, writer (1891-1985)
..God's Gift
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."
~ Desmond Tutu
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