Daily Quote
Quote for December 31, 2005
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." - David Starr Jordan
American naturalist
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on May 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 30, 2005
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." - Sir Francis Bacon
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on June 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 29, 2005
"They say they climb mountains because they are there. I wonder if it would astound them to know that the very same reason is why the rest of us go around them." - S. Omar Barker
1894-1985, Poet and writer
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on September 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 28, 2005
"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it." - Barbra Streisand
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on November 28, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 27, 2005
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 17, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 26, 2005
"Patience is a must for success ... unless you simply cannot wait on it ... then your success garden dies from lack of care ..." - Doug Firebaugh
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on June 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 25, 2005
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable,
and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on April 17, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 24, 2005
"When you are through changing, you're through." - Bruce Barton
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on April 15, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 23, 2005
"When people lack hope, the leader has to have hope. When the people lack answers, the leader has to have answers. When people lack direction, the leader has to have direction." - John C. Maxwell
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on April 15, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 22, 2005
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on June 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 21, 2005
"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going." - Joe Namath
Hall of Fame American Football Player
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on August 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 20, 2005
"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!" - Andrew Carnegie
1835-1919, Scottish-born American industrialist, philanthropist
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 19, 2005
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action." - Anthony Robbins
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 17, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 18, 2005
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." - Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, English Author and Critic
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 17, 2005
"There are three kinds of memory - good, bad, and convenient." - Unknown
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 16, 2005
"Good character is more to be praised that outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece--by thought, choice, courage, and determination." - John Luther
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 25, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 15, 2005
"People deal too much with the negative, what is wrong ... Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom." - Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, Teacher
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on October 19, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 14, 2005
"Persistence is a painful path because either it is the pain of pushing forward to success, or the pain of being pushed aside in life by others." - Doug Firebaugh
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on June 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 13, 2005
"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm." - Elizabeth Bowen
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on December 5, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 12, 2005
"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." - John Locke
1632-1704, British Philosopher
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on May 8, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 11, 2005
"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough. I can single-handed move the world. Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth." - Archimedes
B.C. 287-212
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on May 27, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 10, 2005
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." - John Berry
Flight of White Crows
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on July 8, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 9, 2005
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." - Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on February 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 8, 2005
"Fifteen years ago companies competed on price. Now it's quality. Tomorrow it's design." - Bob Hayes
Harvard Business School
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on January 30, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 7, 2005
"Consider who you are: to begin with, you are a human being, that is, one who has no quality more sovereign than moral choice, and who holds everything else subordinate to it, and moral choice itself free from slavery and subjection.... In addition to this you are a citizen of the world and a part of it." - Epictetus
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on December 12, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 6, 2005
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is called for. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on April 10, 2004 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 5, 2005
"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs ... one step at a time." - Joe Girard
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on January 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 4, 2005
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on January 30, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 3, 2005
"Concentrate your powers. Identify what you are particularly good at doing and do more of it." - Brian Tracy
American Author, Speaker, Businessman
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on October 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 2, 2005
"Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars." - Frederick Langbridge
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on March 6, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]
Quote for December 1, 2005
"I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere -- so long as it's forward." - David Livingstone
1813-1873, Explorer
Submitted by Ronald Vereggen on July 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments[0]