Favourite quotes

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

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"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." [John D. Rockefeller, Jr]

"Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them." -Washington Irving

"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." -Satchel Paige

"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." -Joe Paterno

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience." -George Washington

"Earth is crammed with Heaven." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." -Dalai Lama

He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

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"All things come round to him who will but wait." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action." -Anthony Robbins

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter." -Walt Disney

Every new opinion, at its starting, is in a minority.

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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. - Gail Sheehy

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else. - Ayn Rand