Showing posts with label Maddy's quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maddy's quotes. Show all posts

11.1.09

Some quotes for you

Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel,stride down there…and light the bloody thing yourself. Dara Henderson Stop digging When you're in a pit, the first thing to do is to stop digging. quote by James Ellman, Seacliffe Capital Nixon on Crisis The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself.The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away.And the most dangerous period is the aftermath.It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment. Richard Nixon Crisis When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two charactersone represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. Effort, not ability Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement. quote by Bill Clinton Bicycle - Einstein Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. Albert Einstein Plans Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. Peter Drucker Scheduling priorities - Stephen Covey The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Stephen Covey

23.9.08

Failure

Ashley Montagu:

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Edward de Bono:

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Elaine Maxwell:

My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

Elbert Hubbard:

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.

George Bernard Shaw:

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw:

My reputation grows with every failure.

George Bernard Shaw:

My reputation grows with every failure.

Havelock Ellis:

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Herbert B. Swope:

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

It's a Wonderful Life:

Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

James Russell Lowell:

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Jessamyn West:

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

John Dewey:

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Kin Hubbard:

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Laurence J. Peter:

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Lloyd Jones:

Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.

Madame de Stael:

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

May Sarton:

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

Mohandas K. Gandhi:

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Mother Teresa:

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

Oscar Wilde:

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Paulo Coelho:

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Pearl S. Buck:

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Peter Drucker:

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Rabindranath Tagore:

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Ralph Ellison:

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Robert F. Kennedy:

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Frost:

The best way out is always through.

Samuel Goldwyn:

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Samuel Smiles:

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles :

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Theodore Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Thomas Alva Edison:

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Fuller:

No garden is without its weeds.

Wallace Stegner:

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

William M. Winans:

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

William Saroyan:

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Winston Churchill:

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

24.8.08

PEACE

Definition of Peace
1, In its most myopic
and limited definition,
peace is the mere absence of war.
O’Kane (1992) 2, The state prevailing
during the absence of war 3, The absence of war
or other hostilities.
An agreement or a treaty
to end hostilities.
Freedom from quarrels
and disagreement.
Peace Quotes.
Indira Gandhi: You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. Croesus:
In peace the sons bury their fathers,
but in war the fathers bury their sons. Agatha Christie: One is left with the horrible
feeling now that war settles nothing;
that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. William E. Gladstone : We look forward to the
time when the Power of Love
will replace the Love of Power.
Then will our world
know the blessings of peace. Thomas Jefferson: The care of human
life and happiness,
and not their destruction,
is the first and only
object of good government. Ramona L. Anderson: People spend a lifetime
searching for happiness;
looking for peace.
They chase idle dreams,
addictions, religions,
even other people,
hoping to fill the emptiness
that plagues them.
The irony is the only place
they ever needed to
search was within. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The real and lasting
victories are those of peace,
and not of war. Oscar Romero: Peace is not the product
of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence
of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent
result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil
contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism.
Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty. Moshe Dayan: If you want to make peace,
you don't talk to your friends.
You talk to your enemies. Martin Luther King, Jr.: True peace is not merely
the absence of tension:
it is the presence of justice. John F. Kennedy: It is an unfortunate
fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war. Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love
overcomes the love of power the
world will know peace.

23.8.08

Quotes

Common Sense
(Praying to God for some)
Common sense is the best sense I know of. Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) Nothing astonishes men so much as
common sense and plain dealing. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) The philosophy of one century
is the common sense of the next. Henry Ward Beecher It is a thousand times better to have
common sense without education
than to have education without common sense. Robert Green Ingersoll Common sense ain't common. Will Rogers Common sense is the
collection of prejudices acquired
by age eighteen. Albert Einstein Nothing is more fairly distributed
than common sense:
no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Descartes
Common sense is the knack of seeing things
as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings Common sense and nature
will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life
not too difficult.
W. Somerset Maugham Common sense is in spite of,
not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo

15.8.08

Quotes

Courage Quotes “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” “A ship in the harbor is safe. But that’s not what ships are built for.” “Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.” “Fortune favors the bold.” “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” “Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.” “Do not be afraid to ask dumb questions. They are easier to handle than dumb mistakes.” “I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.” “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself.” “Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.” “Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster “No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.” “All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly and its spines crumble.” “Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win. By fearing to attempt”.

14.8.08

Maddy's is forced to think

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

Taylor Caldwell

Trust can take years to build, but only a second to break. Unknown

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. Tennessee Williams

Love is what ever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. John LeCarre

The day you betrayed my trust was the day that I lost all my trust for you. I believed that you would take care of my heart and that's why I left it with you. Well, I am taking it back because at this very moment I can't trust you with my heart in fear that you will hurt me once more. Unknown

Anything may be betrayed; anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness. Ayn Rand

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Edward M Foster

It breaks my heart; it makes me sad to think of all the times we had. You made me laugh and you made me cry. And all that I can do is sigh and wonder why. Unknown

17.5.08

maddy read somewhere

Long back, a person who sacrificed his sleep, forgot his family, forgot his food, fogot laughter were called "Saints" But now they are called.. "IT professionals." An interesting line written at the back of a Biker's T Shirt: " If you are able to see this, Please tell me that my galfriend has fallen off." Most Relationships fail not because of the absence of love.. Love is always present.. Its just that, One loves too much, and The other loves too many. Employee: Boss, Now i have got married..! Please increase my salary..! BOSS: Factory is not responsible for accidents occurring outside the company..! Philosophy of life At the beginning of married life, every gal treats her husband as GOD, Later on somehow the alphabets got reversed..! What is a Fear? Fear is the Deep, Wrenching feeling in your stomach When pages of your book still smell new and Just few hours left for your exams..! Jus4Fun Someone has rightly said, "A fool can ask More questions that a wise man cannot answer" No Wonder why so many of us speechless when lecturers ask question..! Boy: Do you have Cards with sentimental Love quotes? Shopkeeper: Oh sure..! How about this card, it says "To the only Girl I ever loved.!" Boy: Thats good, Give me 12 of them..! After reading the form filled by an applicant.. The employer said: " We do have an opening for you..! Applicant: What is it? Interviewer: Its called the "door..!" A Banner cum Sign Board In front of an IT company.. Drive Slowly, Don’t kill our Employee... ..... Leave them to us .

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