Friday, 17 October 2008

Quotes Part 1

If one does not love work, one is always unhappy in life. In order to be truly happy in life, one must love work.


As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey Thomas Edison


Blessed is he who has found his work, let his ask no other blessedness. Carlyle


Only the young die good. Oliver Herford


The pen is the tongue of the mind. Cervantes


If you wish to be a writer, write. Epictetus


No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. Robert Frost


Half the world doesnot know how the other half lives. Rabelais


The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. Goldoni


Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. French Proverb


A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Kipling


Man has his will but woman has her way. Holmes


Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. James Stephens


The only way to understand a woman is to love her and then it isnt necessary to understand her. Sydney Harris


Actions speak louder than words. Proverb


Sharp wits, like sharp knives, do often cut their owners fingers. Arrowsmith


He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. Thomas Fuller


Wife & Children are bill of charges. Proverb


A man's best fortune or his worst is a wife. Proverb


It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can. G B Shaw


If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as getting. Franklin


Truth is no road to fortune Rousseau


He who seeks truth should belong to no country Voltaire


Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. Chesterfeld


I learned to work in the mornings, when I could skim the cream off the day and then use the rest for cheese-making. JW Goethe


Ordinary people think how they will spend time; a man of intellect tries to use it. Schopenhauer


Men talk of killing time, while time slowly kills them. Dion Boucicault


The busy have no time for tears. Byron


Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. Albert Einstein


Success is a journey not a destination. Ben Sweetland


I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good nights sleep. Harold Wilson


Up, sluggard, and waste not life, in the grave wil be sleeping enough. Benjamin Franklin


A still tongue makes a wise head. Proverb


The whole of science is nothing than a refinement of everyday thinking. Einstein


The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Thoreau


Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people queit. Napoleon


Science without religion is lame, religion with science is blind. Einstein


Strong reasons make strong actions Shakespeare


The place of reason is higher than the place of the heart. Rig Veda


Facts, Judgements, Interpretations. Abhishek


Comprehend, Think, Understand, Deduce, Logicize, Organize, Conclude Abhishek


Reason rules all things Proverb


In science, read by preference the newest works, in literature the olderst- the classic literature is always modern Bulwer-Lytton


To make headway, improve your head. B C Forbes


You Have got to be fool to stop the march of time. PA Renoir


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. GB Shaw


If you have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Newton


Our greatest prayer is patience. Lord Buddha


Power is like alcohol, the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain. Lisa Hobbs


The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter Bagehot


Philosophy asks the simple question- what is it all about? A N Whitehead


Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know. Bertrand Russel


Everything comes to him who waits.


Rome was not bulit in a day.


We must learn to walk before we can run.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil. Andres Segovia


Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit. German Proverb


Adopt the pace of Nature, her secret is Patience. R W Emerson


Beware, the fury of a patient man Dryden


Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. Oliver Holmes


A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street. Laurence Peter


The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, the optimist, the opportunity in everything LP Jack


A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. GB Shaw


Every cloud has a silver lining. Proverb


When one door shuts, another opens. Proverb


While there is life, there is hope. Proverb


A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both the sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all- he is walking on them. D O Elynn


It is not best that we should all think alike, it is difference of opinion which makes horse races Mark Twain


The optimist expects his dreams to come true, a pessimist expects his nightmares to. Proverb


To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion Albert Camus


Music Helps not the toothache Proverb


The musician who plays on the same string is laughed at. Horace


In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain. George Szell


The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Napoleon


A mother is MOTHER still, the HOLIEST thing alive Coleridge


If you would know the value of Money, go and borrow some Benjamin Franklin


To have enough is good luck, to have more than enough is harmful. This is true of all things, but especially of money. Chuang-Tse


An empty mind is the devil's workshop. Proverb


Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discus people.


When the mind becomes purified like a mirror, knowledge is revealed in it. Care should be therefore taken to purify the mind. Sankaracharya


If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather see your own faults.


The memory strenghtens as you lay burdens upon it. D Quincey


Married in haste, we repent at leisure. William Congreve


Marriage is a romance which the hero dies in the first chapter.


Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to lie well. Samuel Butler


We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. Eric Hoffer


Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well. Josh Billings


Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning is young.

The greatest gift in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford


DO WHATEVER YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU HAVE WHERE YOU ARE Theodre Roosevelt


Actions are ours, their consequences belong to heaven. P Francis


I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement; it takes place everyday. Albert Camus


Never give advice unless asked. German Proverb


Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. Ingersoll


Argument is the worst sort of conversation. Jonathan Swift


Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Victor Hugo


A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. Havlock Ellis


Business is other people's money.


Change yourself if you wish to change the world. The Mother


The child is the father of man Wordsworth


Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Jean de La Bruyere


Fortune favours the Brave Terrence


The test of courage is not to die but to live. Alfieri


A critic is a man who knows the way but cant drive the car. Kenneth Tynan


Never answer a critic, unless he is right. Bernard Baruch


Critics are the man who have failed in literature and art Disraeli


Throughout my life, I have gained more from my critic friends than from my admirers. M.K. Gandhi


Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. Daniele Vare


Diplomacy is to do and say the nicest things in the nicest way. Isaac Goldberg


Men are by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as equal. James Anthony


It is best to own the error. It is sure to add to our strength. Gandhi


To err is human, to blame it on others is politics. Bill Vaughan


The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Phelps Edward


There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.


We walk by faith, not by Sight.


Fame is a Magnifying Glass.


Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Maurice Freehill


Fear always springs from ignorance Emerson


The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. Leon Blum


One fool can ask more questions in a minute than twelve wise men can answer in an hour. Lenin


Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. Proverb


He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! Is a great fool. Voltaire


Fortunate is he who, born poor or nobody, works gradually upto wealth and consideration and having got them dies before he finds that they were worth not so much trouble. Reade


We make our own fortune and call them FATE. Alroy


Never find your delight in another's misfortune. Publilius Syrus


A friend is one who warns you.


A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Aristotle


Be slow to fall into friendship but when in, continue firm and constant. Soctrates


The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.


Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Edison


God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things. Harry Emerson


The price of greatness is responsibility Winston Churchill


Happiness lies first of all in Health. G W Curts


Let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interests you be as far as possible friendly than hostile. Bertrand Russel


Hatred is self punishment. Housaballon


Home after all is the best place when life begins to wobble, Elizabeth


Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.


Blessed is he who has found his work, let his ask no other blessedness. Carlyle


I can not give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody' Herbert


To get started you must have a destination


Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well. Josh Billings


To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. Shakespeare


Succes is a journey not a destination Ben Sweetland


If you don’t believe in yourself, chances are nobody else will either


I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my best each and every day Abraham Lincoln


All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them Walt Disney


Friends are those people who know the song to your heart and sing them back when you have forgotten the words


Keep your head and heart in the right direction and you will have to never worry about your feet


Every flower must grow through dirt


Knowledge shows you the way


You must do that you think you cannot do E Roosevelt


The secret of success is to get up early. Work later and strike oil J D Rockfeller


The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies. Roman Abramovich


For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses. Shelden Adelson


Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise. Ted Turner


Life is a game. Money is how we keep score. Ted Turner


Experience comes in two different flavors: your own and the experience of others. Most people can learn from their own experiences quite well, but many people simply ignore the experiences and lessons of others. Donald Trump


If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. Paul Newman


Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve. Laxmi Mittal


Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them. Laxmi Mittal


I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. Abraham Lincoln


Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough. David Packard


Ultimately, we wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour. Phil Knight


Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. Ingvar Kamprad


I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building. Steve Jobs


It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy. Steve Jobs


For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? Steve Jobs


When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his success Howard Newton


Success goes to your head, failure to your heart


Fear always springs from ignorance Emerson


A man of genius has been seldom ruined, but by himself Samuel Johnson


If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it William Orton


Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people


Take care of of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves William Lowndes


Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up Oliver Holmes


The key to everything is patience, you get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it Arnold Glasow


You have got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time P A Renoir


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. G B Shaw


Each time we read a seed is sown for the future Jules Renard


Some read to think- these are rare, some to write- these are common, some to talk- and these form the great majority C C Colton


The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest Thoreau


Time is money Bulwer- Lytton


Ordinary people think merely how they will spend their time, a man of intellect tries to use it Schopenhauer


Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainty Tacitus


Winning is not everything but wanting to win is Vince Lombardi


Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting Henry Beecher


The production of wealth is not the workof anyone man, and the acquisition of great fortunes is not possible without the co-operation of multitudes of men Peter Cooper


If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting Franklin


The secret of happiness is this- Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile Bertrand Russel


Happines is a Swedish sunset- it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it. Mark Twain


Happines is like coke- something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. Aldous Huxley

Happiness depends on what you can give, not what you can get Gandhi


Everyone has the will to succeed, only those with the will to prepare do.- Mark Cuban


Be curious. And ... the more you give, the more you get. It’s as simple as that.- Danny Gilbert

Identify and affiliate with creative talent. Brainstorm concepts and analyze constantly, but at the conceptual level, not the spreadsheet level- George Kaiser


Ask lots of questions! And, when and if you get the chance to travel, always look for new ideas to bring home!


Set your goals and never give up!- Michael Ilitch


Have great focus, set high but achievable goals and work EXTREMELY hard at achieving them. Be flexible and ready to adapt to change.- Jorge Perez


Identify where you have or can create an edge over the rest of the world and doing something you enjoy. Then push that advantage to extremes.- Franklin Otis Booth Jr


the worst enemy is the person from your own trade Spanish Proveb

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