December 2009
20 posts
“Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.”
– John Baptiste Moliére (1622–1673) French playwright
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient...”
– Isaac Newton (1643–1727) English mathematician and physicist
“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his...”
– Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) German medical missionary Nobel Peace Prize winner
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...”
– Ray Bradbury (1920 – ) American writer
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
– Mother Teresa (1910–1997) Macedonian missionary Nobel Peace Prize winner
“Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.”
– Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930) Norwegian explorer Nobel Peace Prize winner
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be...”
– Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance.”
– Marie Curie (1867–1934) French physicist and chemist two-time Nobel Prize winner
“The trouble with miracles is not, after all, that they happen rarely; it is that...”
– Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-American writer and management theorist
“Work is love made visible.”
– Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese poet and philosopher
“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather...”
– Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian painter, sculptor, and inventor
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but...”
– William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
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“We can’t think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.”
– Alice Waters (1944 – ) American chef and writer
“Patience is necessary… one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
– Soren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and writer
“They say things happen for a reason… You don’t do them, they...”
– Donavon Frankenreiter (1972 – ) American music artist
“I’m a great believer in life in saying yes and not saying no… and...”
– Richard Branson (1950 – ) English entrepreneur, chairman of Virgin Group
“Achievement is talent plus preparation.”
– Malcolm Gladwell (1963 – ) Canadian journalist
“To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) Russian ballerina
“The first rule is, to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in...”
– Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Roman emperor and philosopher