February 2005 Issue
Quotes
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
- Arthur Ash
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"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."
- Muhammad Ali
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"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
- Warren Buffett
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
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"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Nelson Mandela
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"What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
- Henry B. Adams
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"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."
- The Dalai Lama
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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
- Napoleon Hill
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"If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time."
- Robert Collier
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"If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther."
- John Wooden
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"Nurture great thoughts for you cannot go higher than your thoughts."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."
- William Shakespeare
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"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."
- Richard M. Nixon
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"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Everyone who has achieved financial independence will tell you that – at least in the early days -- you have to work smarter and harder. The price of success must be paid in full, and it must be paid in advance. There are no shortcuts."
- John Cummuta
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"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity."
- William Menninger
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"Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life."
- Vincent Van Gogh
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"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror."
- Byrd Baggett
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
- Aristotle
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