Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is Never found again!

The doors of wisdom are never shut

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest

Well done is better than well said

Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste;

Gandhi quote

"Strength does not come from physical capacity
It comes from an indomitable will."

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)Indian activist


"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Victoria Holt (1906 - 1993)best-selling British novelist

good quotes

"Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs."




B.C. Forbes (1880 - 1954)
Scottish journalist & founder of Forbes Magazine

Right Thing

“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing,

and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Self respect

"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Irish playwright and critic

win win

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )first woman in European history elected prime minister


"Do or do not, there is no try."
YodaJedi master, from the "Star Wars" series


"Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion, and humility."
John McCain (1936 - )U.S. Senator, Vietnam veteran


"I am not afraid of the word tension."
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)civil rights leader

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)from his book "Still Me"American actor, director and advocate

Quote

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
35th president of the United States


"The secret of joy in work is
contained in one word - excellence.
To know how to do something
well is to enjoy it."

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
American writer and missionary
first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature


"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
U.N. diplomat, humanitarian,
U.S. First Lady and mother of six



"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
John Ruskin (1819-1900)English art critic and social theorist



"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Clarke's Third Law
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-)
Author / Inventor

Quote

"We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of,

not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past."



Vivek Paul (1959 - )
Indian businessman,
ranks among Barron's Most Respected CEOs

Quotes

"Things don't have to change the world to be important."

Steve Jobs (1955 - )
CEO, Apple, Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios



"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look once in a while, you could miss it."

Matthew Broderick (1962 - )
as Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)


“Don’t complain about growing old – many, many people do not have that privilege.”



Earl Warren, Chief Justice
US jurist & politician (1891-1974


"A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done.
He has to keep on delivering."

Carl Hubbell (1903-1988)
American baseball player,
Hall of Fame pitcher



You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to
play better than anyone else."

Dianne Feinstein (1933 - )
U.S. Senator, first woman elected
mayor of San Francisco

Winner- Loser

The Winner is always part of the answer;
The Loser is always part of the problem.

The Winner always has a program;
The Loser always has an excuse.

The Winner says, "Let me do it for you";
The Loser says, "That is not my job".

The Winner sees an answer for every problem;
The Loser sees a problem for every answer.

The Winner says, "It may be difficult, but it is possible";
The Loser says, "It may be possible, but it is too difficult".

When a Winner makes a mistake, he says, "I was wrong";
When a Loser makes a mistake, he says, "It was not my fault".

A Winner makes commitments;
A Loser makes promises.

Winners have dreams;
Losers have schemes.

Winners say, "I must do something";
Losers say, "Something must be done".

Winners are a part of the team;
Losers are apart of the team.

Winners see the gain;
Losers see the pain.

Winners see the possibilities;
Losers see the problems.

Winners believe in win-win;
Losers believe for them to win some one has to lose.

Winners see the potential;
Losers see the past.

Winners are like thermostat;
Losers are like thermometers.

Winners choose what they say;
Losers say what they choose.

Winners use hard arguments but soft words;
Losers use soft arguments but hard words.

Winners stand firm on values but compromise on pretty things;
Losers stand firm on pretty things but compromise on values.

Winners make it happen;
Losers let it happen.

Dream

"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream;

you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."

Diana Ross (1944 - )
American singer

Time to :-)

12 explanations that employees might say when they’re caught sleeping at their desks

"They told me at the blood bank this might happen."

"This is just a 15-minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to."

"Whew! Guess I left the top off the liquid paper. You probably got here just in time."

"This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work."

"It’s okay ... I’m still billing the client."

"I wasn’t sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement."

"I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."

"I was doing a yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress."

"Rats! Why did you interrupt me? I almost had figured out a solution to our biggest company problem."

"The coffee machine’s broken."

"Someone must have put decaf in the wrong pot."

Good one

Begin each day by saying, 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today!' And it will." - Brian Tracy

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure." - Patch Adams

"Much effort, much prosperity." - Euripides

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed." - Bernard Edmonds

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - Jeremy Kitson

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self." - Montaigne

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." - Shakti Gawain

"He who can, does." - George Bernard Shaw

Hardwork

There's no substitute for hard work.
If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat,
but you'll never lose."

Nancy Lieberman-Cline (1958 - )
American basketball player,
Olympic silver medalist

collection of inspirational words

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." – Zig Ziglar

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth." - Peter F. Drucker

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

"The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done." - Karen Kakascik

"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality." - Norman Douglas

"I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how ‘You’ made them Feel" - Maya Angelou

"The people who influence you are the people who believe in you." - Henry Drummond

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got." - Lee Iacocca

"Prioritize your daily list of things to do by what's most important and rewarding -- well before you start." - Prakash

"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies." - Kahlil Gibran

"Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others--a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill." - Thomas Kinkade

"Who is the greatest motivational speaker in the world? There is only one - your inner voice!" - Paul Frazer

"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." - Pearl S. Buck

ingenuity

"Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

George S. Patton (1885-1945)
U.S. Army general during WWII

Fear

"Let us never negotiate out of fear.
But let us never fear to negotiate."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
35th president of the United States

insanity

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”



Albert Einstein (attributed)

US (German born) physicist (1879-1955)

Good one

"You try you fail, you try you fail the only true failure is in not trying."

Tiger Woods

sales

The top line of the income statement and the driving force of all organizations, ideas and progress... also used to describe the greatest profession in history and greatest skill one can ever have

good things

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?

We must have perseverance and...confidence in ourselves."

Marie Curie (1867-1934)
Polish-born French physicist
two-time Nobel Prize winner





"Good things happen when you do good."

Wesley Autrey
New York construction worker and hero

Our heads

"Our heads are round in order that our thinking may change direction."

French painter Francis M. de Picabia (1879–1953)

fishermen

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible,

but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Dutch painter
first career: art salesman

Confucius

“Learning without thinking causes haze;

Thinking without learning causes bewilderment.”



-Confucius

dec18

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
16th President of the United States





"People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them."

John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
American novelist





"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us,

and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
26th president of the United States






"Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're

doing better than you've ever done before."

Bonnie Blair (1964 - )
Olympic speed skater
U.S. history’s most decorated winter athlete





"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

Annie Dillard (1945 - )
American author and Nobel Prize recipient

dec17

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)American poet

dec16

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
first woman in European history to
be elected prime minister

dec15

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
American baseball player
currently holds the No. 3 spot for
the most home runs of all time with 714



"Hope for the best and prepare for the worst."

English Proverb

dec-14

"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing - the result."

Vince Lombardi
(1913-1970)
Hall of Fame football coach

20Nov

“ Face the brutes! That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly.

Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.


Those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step;

those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those

who are always afraid of loss, always lose.


Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life;

all the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.”



---Swami Vivekanand