MY QUOTES AND STORIES ARE INSPIRED BY LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT AUTHORS AND RESEARCHERS.

1. Live truth instead of
professing it. -
Elbert Hubbard

2. The man who makes no
mistakes does not usually
make anything. - William
Conner Magee

3. One cannot conceive anything so
strange and so implausible that it has
not already been said by one
philosopher or another. [fr. Le
Discours de la Méthode] - Descartes,
René

4. To control your cow, give it a bigger
pasture. -Suzuki Roshi.

5. All know that the drop merges into
the ocean but few know that the
ocean merges into the drop. -Kabir

6. Plenty of people miss their share of
happiness, not because they never
found it, but because they didn't stop
to enjoy it. - W. Feather

7. The Constitution of America only
guarantees pursuit of happiness;
you have to catch up with it
yourself. - Gill Robb Wilson

8. We can do no great things; only
small things with great love. -
Mother Teresa.

9. Shallow men believe in luck....
Strong men believe in cause and
effect. -Emerson

10. The first step towards madness is
to think oneself wise. [fr. La
Celestina (La Tragicomedia de
Calisto y Melibea)] - Rojas,
Fernando de

11. All evils are equal when they are
extreme. [fr. Le Cid] - Corneille,
Pierre

12. Nobility is the one and only
virtue. [fr. Satires] - Juvenal
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13. May you live all the
days of your life. -
Jonathan Swift

14. Every day should be passed as if it
were to be our last. [Maxim
633] - Publius (Syrus Pubilius

15. No one becomes depraved in a
moment. [fr. Satires] - Juvenal
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16. Take the first step in faith. You don't
have to see the whole staircase, just
take the first step. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. -

17. What the soul knows is often
unknown to the man who has a
soul. We are infinitely more than
we think. -Kahlil Gibran

18. A man is not old until regrets
take the place of dreams. - John
Barrymore

19. There is nothing so powerful as
truth,--and often nothing so
strange. - Daniel Webster

20. A bone to the dog is not charity.
Charity is bone to the dog, when you
are just as hungry as the dog. - Jack
London

21. Relax, you have plenty of time.
-Anonymous

22. Every answer asks a more
beautiful question.
-e e cummings

23. A dog starved at his master's gate
predicts the ruin of the state. [fr.
Auguries of Innocence] - Blake,
William

24. The ultimate measure of a man is not
where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where
he stands at times of challenge and
controversy. - Martin Luther King

25. Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it. -
Santayana, George

26. This world is a comedy to those that
think, a tragedy to those that feel. -
Walpole, Horace

27. He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the
hand for a bird in the bush. [fr. Of
Garrulity, transl. John Dryden -
Plutarch

28. Atheism shows strength of mind,
but only to a certain degree. [fr.
Pensées 225, transl. W. F. Trotter] -
Pascal, Blaise

29. It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link of the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time. - Winston
Churchill

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

31. My obligation is to do the right
thing. The rest is in God's hands. -
Martin Luther King

32. 'One of these days' is none of these
days. - English Proverb

33. Everyone is kneaded out of the
same dough but not baked in the
same oven. -Yiddish Proverb

34. My whole purpose in life is to be of
service to mankind. This I can do only
by offering inspiration on the strength
of my oneness. -Sri Chinmoy -

35. Not all readers are leaders, but all
leaders are readers. - Unknown

36. No one is so old that he cannot live
yet another year, nor so young that
he cannot die today. [fr. La Celestina
(La Tragicomedia de Calisto y
Melibea)] - Rojas, Fernando de

37. Men are born with two eyes but
with one tongue, in order that they
should see twice as much as they
say. - Charles Caleb Colton

38. The life that is
unexamined is not
worth living. [fr. The
Apology] - Plato

39. There is more
hunger for love and
appreciation in this
world than for
bread. -Mother
Teresa -

40. We may with
advantage at times
forget what we
know. [Maxim
234] - Publius (Syrus
Pubilius)

41. A good death does
honor to a whole
life. [fr. To Laura in
Death] - Petrarch
(Francesco Petrarca)

42. When one door of
happiness closes,
another opens; but
often we look so
long at the closed
door that we do not
see the one that has
been opened for
us. - Helen Keller

43. Education is the best
provision for old
age.
[fr. Diogenes
Laertius, Lives of
Eminent Philosphers
V] - Aristotle

44. Time bears away all
things, even our
minds. [fr.
Eclogues] - Virgil
(Publius Vergilius
Maro)

45. A shoemaker should
give no opinion
beyond the shoes.
[fr. Natural
History] -Pliny the
Elder (Gaius Plinius
Secundus)

46. Men cannot see
their reflection in
running water, but
only in still water. -
Chuang Tzu

47. The indispensable
first step to getting
the things you want
out of life is this;
decide what you
want. - Ben Stein

48. When the stomach is full, it is easy
to talk of fasting. - Saint Jerome

49. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say
nothing, be nothing. - Elbert
Hubbard

50. Character consists of what you do
on the third and fourth tries. -
James Michener

51. Birds of a feather will gather
together. - Burton, Robert

52. To offer no resistance to life is to
be in a state of grace, ease, and
lightness. -Eckhart Tolle -

53. The day is for honest men, the
night for thieves. - Euripides

54. Life is a pure flame, and we live by
an invisible sun within us. -Sir
Thomas Browne -

55. The happiest women, like the
happiest nations, have no history.
[fr. The Mill On The Floss] - Eliot
(Marian Evans Cross), George

56. Many receive advice, few profit
by it. [Maxim 149] - Publius
(Syrus Pubilius)

57. Wherever they burn books they will
also, in the end, burn human beings.
[fr. Almansor: A Tragedy] - Heine,
Heinrich

58. Let me die in a tavern so that wine
may be near my dying mouth. [fr.
Confessio] -Archpoet, The

59. People who fight fire with fire
usually end up with ashes. -
Abigail Van Buren

60. You don't get to choose how you're
going to die. Or when. You can only
decide how you're going to live.
Now. -Joan Baez. -

61. There is no try. Do or do not. - Yoda

62. Walk with those seeking Truth. Run
from those who think they've
found it. -Deepak Chopra. -

63. Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit
there. - Will Rogers

64. War is much too serious a matter
to be entrusted to the military. -
Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles

65. Millions saw the apple fall, but
Newton was the one who asked
why. - Bernard Baruch

66. What the soul knows is often
unknown to the man who has a
soul. We are infinitely more than
we think. -Kahlil Gibran -

67. The person who WILL NOT read is no
better off than the person who CAN
NOT read. - Unknown

68. It is a truth universally
acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a fortune, must be in
want of a wife. [fr. Pride and
Prejudice] - Austen, Jane

69. Laughter is a tranquilizer with no
side effects. - Arnold Glasgow

70. You should hammer your iron
when it is glowing hot. [Maxim
262] - Publius (Syrus Pubilius)

71. I am very fond of the company of
ladies. I like their beauty, I like their
delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I
like their silence. - Johnson,
Samuel

72. You may give out, but never
give up. - Mary Crowley

73. All men by nature desire
knowledge. [fr. Metaphysics] -
Aristotle

74. Any jackass can kick a barn down,
but it takes a carpenter to build it. -
Sam Rayburn

75. I have often regretted my speech,
never my silence. [Maxim
1070] - Publius (Syrus Pubilius)

76. We must all hang together, or
assuredly we shall all hang
separately. [At the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, July
4, 1776] - Franklin, Benjamin

77. Love is not to be purchased, and
affection has no price. - Saint
Jerome

78. Happy families are all alike; every
unhappy familiy is unhappy in its
own way. [fr. Anna Karenina] -
Tolstoi, Leo Nikolaevich

79. An object in possession seldom
retains the same charm that it had
in pursuit. [fr. Letters] - Pliny the
Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Sec.)

80. A desk is a dangerous place
from which to view the
world. - John le Carre

81. Small deeds done are better
than great deeds planned. -
Peter Marshall

82. They who plough the
sea do not carry the
winds in their hands.
[Maxim 759] - Publius
(Syrus Pubilius)

83. Nobody has ever
expected me to be
President. - Abraham
Lincoln

84. The indispensable first
step to getting the things
you want out of life is
this; decide what you
want. - Ben Stein

85. Failure is the opportunity
to begin again more
intelligently. - Henry Ford

86. Strange how we make
money to spend time. -
Billboard Ad

87. Liberty is the right of
doing whatever the law
permits. [fr. Lettres
Persanes] - Montesquieu,
Charles Loius de Secondat

88. It is a wise father that
knows his own child.
[Lancelot to his father in
The Merchant of Venice
II:2] -Shakespeare,
William

89. Happiness is a direction,
not a place. - Sydney J.
Harris

90. Patience is a remedy for
every sorrow. [Maxim
170] - Publius (Syrus
Pubilius)

91. The elixir is hidden in the poison. -Rumi

92. Who overrefines his arguments brings
himself to grief. [fr. To Laura in Life] -
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)

93. Philosophy is for the few.
[fr. De Magnete] -
Gilbert, William

94. Common sense is not so common. [fr.
Dictionnaire Philosophique] -
Voltaire (François-Marie de Arouet)

95. I have always preferred having wings
than having things. -Patricia Schroeder

96. If you can't annoy somebody,
there's little point in writing. -
Kingsley Amis

97. Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an
evil, but a necessary evil. - Menander

98. Men cannot see their reflection in running
water, but only in still water. -Chuang Tzu

99. The journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step. -
Unknown

100. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I
will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.
[fr. Letter to James M. Calhoun] - Sherman,
William Tecumseh

101. It is a consolation to the wretched to
have companions in misery.
[Maxim 995] - Publius (Syrus Pubilius)

102. The safe way to double your money is to
fold it over and put it in your pocket. -
Frank Hubbard

103. In the fields of observation, chance
favors only the mind that is prepared.
[fr. The Life of Pasteur] -Pasteur, Louis

104. A liar is always lavish with oaths. [fr.
Le Menteur] - Corneille, Pierre

105. Plenty of people miss their share of
happiness, not because they never found it,
but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. -
W. Feather

106. Time bears away all things, even our
minds.
[fr. Eclogues] - Virgil (Publius Vergilius
Maro)

107. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all
murderers are punished unless they kill in
large numbers and to the sound of
trumpets. - Voltaire (François-Marie de
Arouet)

108. The spirit , the will to win, and the will
to excel are the things that endure.
These qualities are so much more
important than the events that
occur. - Vince Lombardi

109. What lies behind us and what lies before
us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

110. The Constitution of America only
guarantees pursuit of happiness; you
have to catch up with it yourself. -Gill
Robb Wilson

111. Cowards die many times before their
deaths; The valiant never taste of death
but once. Of all the wonders that I yet
have heard, It seems to me most strange
that men should fear, Seeing that death, a
necessary end, Will come when it will
come. [Caesar to - Shakespeare, William

112. As long as you're green, you're
growing; as soon as you're ripe you
start to rot. - Ray Kroc

113. I shall never believe that God plays
dice with the world.
[fr. Einstein, His Life and Times by
Philip Frank] -Einstein, Albert

114. For where the lion's skin will not
reach, you must patch it out with the
fox's.
[fr. Lysander in Parallel Lives, transl.
John Dryden] - Plutarch

115. When written in Chinese, the word
'crisis' is composed of two characters -
one represents danger and the other
represents opportunity. - Unknown

116. He who praises everybody, praises
nobody.
[fr. Life of Johnson] - Boswell, James

117. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say
nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard