Archive for December, 2006

098. Quotes of the Week


Everything you can imagine is real.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson

It you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

097. Quotes of the Week


Dare to be yourself.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
- Bulgarian Proverb

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have same.
- Charles Dickens (1812 -1870)

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Oprah Winfrey

I think we caught always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

096. Quotes of the Week


There are too many people and too few human beings.
- Robert Zend

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich.

Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it.
- Spanish Proverb

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
- Millicent Fenwick

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
- Lucille Bell (1911 - 1989)

095. Quotes of the Week


Feel the fear and do it anyway.
- Susan Jeffers

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

The things that one most wants to do are the things the are probably most worth doing.
- Winifred Holtby, O Magazine

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Evan Esar (1899 -1995)

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
- Cecil B. Demille (1881 - 1959)