Thoughts

Some Saturday morning ponders…

You win and lose by the way you choose.

— David Avezzie —

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.

— Michael Jordan —

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

— Thomas Edison —

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

— George Washington —

Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

— Albert Einstein —

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

— Albert Einstein —

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

— Albert Einstein —

Good luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Bad luck is what happens when lack of preparation meets a challenge.

— Paul Krugman —

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. —

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. —

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

— John F. Kennedy —

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

— John F. Kennedy —

One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar.

— Helen Keller —

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

— Thomas Edison —

This above all, to thine own self be true.

— William Shakespeare —

Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.

— Jesse Jackson —

We learn more from our failures than from our successes.

— Henry Ford —

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

— Sir Cecil Beaton —

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

— Alan Ashley-Pitt —

What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days your the statue.

— Roger C. Anderson —

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

— Albert Einstein —

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

— Michelangelo —

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

— Aristotle —

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

— Wayne Gretzky —

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

— Thomas Edison —

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

— Voltaire —

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

— Will & Ariel Durant —

He who feels it, knows it more.

— Bob Marley —

A dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. You can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.

— Vince Lombardi —

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

— Dennis Wholey —

“We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”

— Aristotle —

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing”

— Aristotle —

“Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.”

— Aristotle —

Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.

— Dr. Laurence J. Peter —

It is wise to direct anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.

— William Arthur Ward —

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

— Buddha —

Three things can not be long hidden, the Sun, the Moon, and the Truth.

— Buddha —

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.

— Malcom X —

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

— Malcom X —

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

— Malcom X —

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

— Louis Brandeis —

Yes, that’s the Paul Krugman quoted up there. He’s a moron 99% of the time, but then there’s that 1%…