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General Quotations
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation".— Benjamin Disraeli
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."- Joseph Chilton Pierce
"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own." - Arnold Bennett
Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything they have into their gifts and achieve a life of success."- Greg Werner
"I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" - Patrick White
"Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble". - Sidney J. Harris
"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world". - Publilius Syrus
"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks". - Steve Pavlina
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary". - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." - Brian Adams
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Van Horne
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire."- Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.- Oscar Wilde
"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us." - Henri Matisse (French Impressionist & Fauvist painter (1869 - 1954)
"Yesterday is cancelled cheque, Tomorrow is a promissory note, Today is the only cash - so spend it wisely"
- Kay Leons
"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. - P.G. Wodehouse
"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately." - Stephen R. Covey
"It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all." - Samuel Butler
"I seem to have loved you in numverless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever." - Rabindranath Tagore
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." - David Grayson
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."- Carl W Buechner
"You're nothing short of my everything" - Ralph Block
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lost, the next best." - William M Thackeray
"The important thing was to love rather than to be loved." - W Samerset Maugham
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habbit.- Aristotle
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." - Gothe
"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit to life. - Edwin Markham
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. - Pascal
"I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity. - Inaugural address of president George Bush
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things...
I am tempted to think... there are no little things - Bruce Barton
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literaly astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggers needs restructuring - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it" - Gothe
"Tomorrow is always the busiest day of the week" - Jonathon Lazear
"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life" - Alex Noble
Whatever the right hand finds to do, the left hand carries a watch to show how long it takes to do it" - Ralph Sockmon
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim" - Graham Greene
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook - William James
You see things; and say " why?" But I dream things that never were; and say "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw
A man is known by the company he organises - Ambrose Bierce
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it - G K Chesterton
Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full - Henry Kissinger
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A hundered times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received. - Albert Einstein
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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, Jr.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds Awake to find that all was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous men, That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible. - T. E. Lawrence
Whatever you can do, or dream you can... begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Gothe
Wealth is the means and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people. - John F. Kennedy
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. - James Russell Lowell
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller
The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation. - E F Schumacher
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks - Mark Rothko
"Truths are eternal" - Ploto
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind". - William James
"Negative people will always criticize" - Shiv Khera
"He slept beneath the moon, He basked beneath the sun, He lived a life of going to do, and died with nothing done." - James Albery
"It might have been.", "I should have.", "I could have.", "I wish I had.", "If only I had given a little exra.", never leave till tomorrow, which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities. - Winston Churchill
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn to do things the right way - Benjamin Franklin
One reason that I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having good time. - Lady Astor
Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions - Lady Astor
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - St.Francis of Assisi
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don't try. - Beverley Sills
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. - B C Forbes
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. - H Ross Perot
Destiny is not a matter of chance, It is a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan
Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life - but what we do about what happens to us. - George Allen
Try not to become a success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. When I could see him still working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. - Dan Gable
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi
A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight - George Gritter
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. - Lucille Ball
I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours. - Kammons Wilson
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mstery, it wouldn't sem wonderful at all. - Michaelangelo
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. - Andrew Carnegie
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at something worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
The critic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humanity and commitment. - H Ross Perot
If you work for a man, for heaven's sake work for him. - Kim Husband
Nothing will take the place of persistence. Talent will not:
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not: Unrewarded genius is a proverb.
Education will not: The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
If a man is called to be streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. - Mortimer J. Adler
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. - Paxton Hood
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. - Martin Tupper
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely. - H. G. Wells
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Richard Steele
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
] In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. - S. I. Hayakawa
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind. - Sydney Smith
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day,
it will make itself felt at the end of the year. - Horace Mann
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. - Thomas Carlyle
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. - W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations on Management
"Management must Manage" - Harold S. Geneen
“The smaller the function, the greater the management.” - C. Northcote Parkinson
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” - Peter F. Drucker
"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation." - Milan Kundera
“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.” - Agha Hasan Abedi
“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” - Paul Hawken
“All time management begins with planning.” - Tom Greening
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work” - Peter F. Drucker
“Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.” - Peter F. Drucker
“The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.” - Casey Stengel
“Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.” - W. Edwards Deming
“Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . .”
- Peter F. Drucker
"No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.” - Bill Terry
"Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented. - Michael Porter
"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it --- immediately." - Stephen R. Covey
The builders of visionary companies... concentrate primarily on building an organization building a ticking clock - rather than on hitting a market just right with a visionary product idea. - James C Collins and Jerry I Porras
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good (men and women) to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business. - Thomas J Watson, Jr
There are only two guidelines. One, what's in the long-term best interests of the enterprise and its stakeholders, supplemented by the dominant concern of doing what's right. - Robert D Haas
No organizational regeneration, no national industrial renaissance can take place without individual acts of courage. - Harvey A. Hornstein
To stay ahead, always have your next idea waiting in the wings. - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Universities are turning out highly skilled barbarians because we don't provide a framework of values to young people, who more and more are searching for it. - Steven Muller
The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good. - Norman Lear
Quotations on HR
"The difference between great and average or lousy in any job is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily. - Tom Peters
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” - Stephen R. Covey
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” - Stephen R. Covey
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter F. Drucker (Leadership)
“A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.” - H. S. M. Burns
Leadership is discovering the company's destiny and having the courage to follow it.... Companies that endure have a noble purpose. - Joe Jaworski
“Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.” - Colin Powell
“Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.” - Donald Rumsfeld
"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table". - Hubert H. Humphrey
"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way". - Henry Miller
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives". - Theodore Roosevelt
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, they will say: we did it ourselves." – Lao Tzu
"There are no problems - only opportunities to be creative." - Dorye Roettger
"There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living" - David Starr Jordan
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau
"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. - Samuel Johnson
"All of management is about self-confidence" - Jack Welch
Quotations on Knowledge and Learning
"The Worth of a book is to be measured by what you can Carry away from it".- James Bryce
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot
"Books serve to show a man that those Original Thoughts of his aren't very new after all."- Abraham Lincoln
"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything." - Lord Henry P. Brougham
"In the case good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you" - Mortimer Adler
"The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them." - Giles Menage
"The more that you read, the more things you will know; The more that you learn, the more places you'll go" - Dr. Seuss
"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
- Daniel J Boorstin
"There are worse crimes than burning books one of them is not reading them" - Joseph Brodsky
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."- Joseph Addison
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." - Barbara Tuchman
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautufully furnishes a house" - Henry Ward Beecher
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. - Charles Kingsley
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. - Henry Ward Beecher
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. - Stephen Jay Gould
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books. - Longfellow
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out. - Alvin Toffler
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin
A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky. - The Koran
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot
Quotations on Creativity and Innovation
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." - Mary Lou Cook
"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish." - Warren G. Bennis
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life." - Miles Davis
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson
Quotations on Success
The secret of success is consistency of purpose - Benjamin Disraeli
Whenever you see a successful business, Someone once made a courageous decision. - Peter Drucker
"Success doesn't mean the absence of failuers; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle." - Edwin C Bliss
"If you really want to succeed, form the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do." – Annonumus
"Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence sucess is a matter of choice and not chance." - Shiv Khera
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal." - Earl Nightingale
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
"Success and happiness go hand in hand. Success is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get." - Shiv Khera
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit". - Conrad Hilton
