Sayings

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain

Every situation in life is temporary. So, when life is good, make sure you enjoy and receive it fully. And when life is not so good, remember that it will not last forever and better days are on the way.
Jenni Young

Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.

Ice cream, in its own sweet way, reminds us: Enjoy life before it melts away.
Unknown

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Albert Einstein

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Winston Churchill

It doesn't matter what other people think about you. The only thing that matters is that you are happy with who you are.
Unknown

If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Walt Whitman

In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.
Sayre's Law

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
Mark A. Clement

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African Proverb

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
Danish Proverb

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will be at peace.
Bob Marley

Someone with their feet planted firmly on the ground has no hope of reaching the stars.
Kelsey Dunn

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin Roosevelt

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Diana Spencer

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Andrew Carnegie

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.
Elvis Presley

Power is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti

Focusing is about saying "no".
Steve Jobs

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
Masaru Ibuka

If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not a science - it's an opinion.
Robert A Heinlein

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
Sun Tzu

Around here we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way!
George Patton

The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things. Mike Dooley

True merit is like a river. The deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Alexander Pope

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Jean de La Bruyere

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore Vail

Find the good and praise it.
Alex Haley

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.
George M. Adams

Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.
Uta Hagen

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.
Nelson Mandela

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody behaves according to their own nature.
Mother Meera

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
Dalai Lama

Consumers are statistics, customers are people.

Excellence results from dedication to daily progress.

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers.
John P. Loughrane

Dream big; Dare to fail.
Norman Vaughan

Change, after all, is only another word for growth.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
Heraclitus

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kabler-Ross

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn

The word 'Listen' contains the same letters as the word 'Silent'.
Alfred Brendel

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
Jom Rohn

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