Quote of the week Archive

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

W. Clement Stone

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What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Aristotle

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

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Where you start is not as important as where you finish.

Zig Ziglar

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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. 

Dan Rather (news anchor at CBS for 43 years)

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“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

Lewis Carroll

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from.  All that matters is where you are going to.

Brian Tracy

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo DaVinci

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

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Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Marrion Zimmer Bradley

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Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration

Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Amateurs talk about strategy; professionals talk about logistics."

General Omar Bradley

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"Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results." 

Winston Churchill

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"Use simple words everyone knows, then everyone will understand"

Winston Churchill

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Always desire to learn something useful. 

Sophocles

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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Mark Twain

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The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

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When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

Winston Churchill

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There is only one way ... to get anybody to do anything, and that is by making the other person want to do it.

Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963 36th President

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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchil

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"Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand."

Confucius

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. 

Henry Ford