August 31, 2004
“Success is the child of audacity.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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7:14 AM
August 30, 2004
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
Colin Powell
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7:25 AM
August 27, 2004
“Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.”
Wallace Stevens
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7:12 AM
August 26, 2004
“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE)
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7:05 AM
August 25, 2004
“Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm.”
Arnold Toynbee
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7:09 AM
August 24, 2004
“Nothing that has a soul is perfect.”
Rachel Remen
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7:08 AM
August 23, 2004
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. You may enjoy doing it so much that you want to do it again.”
Ross Perot
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7:14 AM
August 20, 2004
“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams.”
Yiddish proverb
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7:50 AM
August 19, 2004
“We find our freedom along the guiding lines of discipline.”
Yehudi Menuhin
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7:03 AM
August 18, 2004
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
C. Archie Danielson
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8:49 PM
August 17, 2004
“Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.”
Cecile M. Springer
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6:49 AM
August 16, 2004
“The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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7:08 AM
August 13, 2004
“When two elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled.”
African proverb
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7:30 AM
August 12, 2004
“A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose.”
Chinese proverb
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7:02 AM
August 11, 2004
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
Marie Curie
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7:07 AM
August 10, 2004
“It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.”
Walter Linn
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7:01 AM
August 9, 2004
“Light tomorrow with today!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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6:58 AM
August 6, 2004
“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.”
Stewart B. Johnson
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6:54 AM
August 5, 2004
“To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.”
Peter Abrahams
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6:59 AM
August 4, 2004
“If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the word impossible.”
Charles Platt (in Wired)
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7:20 AM
August 3, 2004
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
Albert Einstein
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6:58 AM
August 2, 2004
“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past)
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6:28 PM