May 2012
15 posts
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English pioneer of modern nursing
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: ‘tis dearness only that...”
– Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American political theorist & writer
“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
– Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and biologist
“The people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than...”
– Malcolm Gladwell (1963 – ) Canadian journalist
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient...”
– Isaac Newton (1643–1727) English mathematician and physicist
“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual...”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) American activist, writer and editor
“The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a...”
– C.S. Lewis (1898–1963) Irish writer and scholar
“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather...”
– Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian painter, sculptor, and inventor
“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
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American writer and activist
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
– Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) American businessperson and philanthropist
“I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.”
– Bill Gates (1955 – ) American businessperson and philanthropist cofounder and chairman of Microsoft 