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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Quotes on Change

 “The most damaging phrase in the language is: “It’s always been done that way.”  — Grace Hopper

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”  — Douglas Noel Adams

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”  — Aldous Huxley

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”  — Maria Robinson

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”  — Winston Churchill

“If form is temporary and class is permanent, change is constant.”  — Anonymous

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”  — Jimmy Dean

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”  — Mohandas Gandhi

“Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.”  — Anthony J. D’ Angelo

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”  — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friday, May 15, 2015

Victory & Winning

"Victory is sweetest when you have known defeat."   -- Malcolm Forbes
"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."  -- George S Patton
"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?."  -- Vince Lombardi
"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."  -- Josh Billings
"Victory is winning others; not defeating others."  -- Ravin Pant
"First, they ignore you. Second, they laugh at you. Third, they fight you. Finally, you win."  -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."  -- Anonymous
"Real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better"  -- Barbara Pletcher
"Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory."  -- Mahatma Gandhi
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance."  -- H. Jackson Brown
"Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing is to be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner."  -- Steve Irwin
"Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning."  -- Fred Perry
"The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results."  -- Edward De Bono
"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."  -- Elie Wiesel
"Victory is an art wanted by all, known by many but mastered by a few."  -- Anonymous
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."  -- Napoleon Bonaparte

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Quotes on Time

"For every sin but the killing of time, there is forgiveness”.  -- Sufi Saying
"Time is the cruelest teacher; first he gives the test, and then teaches the lesson”.  -- Anonymous
"He who has done his best in the available time has lived for all times”.  -- Friedrich Schiller
"Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator”.  -- Robert Orben
"The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast”.  -- Thomas Edison
"Lost wealth may be replaced for industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever”.  -- Samuel Smiles
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong”.  -- Anonymous
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once”.  -- Henri Bergson
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend”.  -- Theophrastus
"Time and tide wait for none."  -- Anonymous
"Saying that we don't have time to improve our thoughts and our life is like saying we don't have time to stop for gas because we are too busy driving. Eventually, it will catch up with us"  -- Robin Sharma in 'The Monk who sold his Ferrari'
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go on."  -- Napolean Bonaparte
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."  -- Leonardo Da Vinci
"There is never a wrong time to do a right thing."  -- Anonymous
"When work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only time that is behind the work."  -- Jean Cocteau
"Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again."  -- Anonymous
"Let me tell you, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it is given to us moment by moment."  -- Amelia Barr
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory"  -- Betty Smith

Friday, May 08, 2015

Health & Fitness

"It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength."  -- Frank Duff
"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health."  -- James Thomson
"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth"  -- Richard Baker
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease."  --Gautama Buddha
"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."  -- Spanish Proverb
“A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs."  -- Joan Welsh
"It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor."  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."  -- Mark Twain
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything”.  -- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Health is a large word.  It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man”.  -- James H. West
"Life is not merely to be alive but to be well”. -- Marcus Valerius Martial
"Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness”.  -- Zoroaster
"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity”.  -- Goethe
"To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life”.  -- William Londen
"He, who has health, has hope. And he, who has hope, has everything”.  -- Thomas Carlyle
"Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning”.  -- Fred Perry
"When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow."  Tomorrow is disease”.  -- V.L. Allineare
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver”.  -- Anonymous
"Health is the dynamic expression of life”.  -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Nature, time and patience are three great physicians”.  -- H. G. Bohn

Thursday, May 07, 2015

Quotations on Change

"The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."  -- Grace Hopper
 
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."  -- Douglas Noel Adams
 
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."  -- Aldous Huxley
 
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."  -- Maria Robinson
 
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."  -- Winston Churchill
 
"If form is temporary and class is permanent, change is constant."  -- Anonymous
 
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."  -- Jimmy Dean
 
"Be the change you want to see in the world."  -- Mohandas Gandhi
 
"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."  -- Anthony J. D’ Angelo
 
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe