Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.

T. Boone Pickens

 

 

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Elizabeth Bibesco (1897-1945) Writer

 

 

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Writer

 

  

 

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be, and fears it.

John Eldredge, Waking the Dead

 

 

 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

 

 

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

Spanish proverb

 

 

By the time we realize our parents were right, we have children who think we're wrong.

Guillermo Hernandez

 

 

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Giordano Bruno

 

 

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

 

 

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it wisely.

Charles H. Spurgeon

 

 

Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

George W. Bush

 

 

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

Man Ray (1890-1976), Photographer and painter

 

 

I don't like work... but I like what is in work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—which no other man can ever know.

Joseph Conrad

 

 

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles Schultz

 

 

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Miguel De Unamuno Y Jugo, Spanish Philosopher

 

 

Don't run too fast through life. You only have one.

Bo Jackson

 

 

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

 

 

 The hardships of life are sent not by an unkind destiny to crush, but to challenge.

Sam E. Roberts

 

 

 The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Jean Giraudoux

 

 

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

 William Arthur Ward (1921-1994), Educator

 

 

 

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

 

 

 

Once in a while it really strikes people that they don’t have to live in the way they have been told to.

Alan Keightly

 

 

The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility.

Leland Kaiser, Motivational speaker

 

 

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.

Henry Moore (1898-1986), Sculptor

 

 

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist

 

 

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.

Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

 

 

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

 

 

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Harper Lee (1926~), American Writer

 

 

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius (204-125BC), Greek Historian

 

 

 To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is gravy.

Bette Davis (1908-1989), Actor

 

 

 What is the greater miracle: the raising of the dead man in Lazarus, or the mere existence of the man who died and of the witnesses who swore to his revival?

William F. Buckley, Jr.

 

 

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant that I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

 

 

 Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

Ronald Reagan

 

 

If guns kill people, then I can blame misspelled words on my pencil.

Larry the Cable Guy

 

 

 God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

 

 

 There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

The advance of freedom is the calling of our time; it is the calling of our country.

 George W. Bush

 

 

 The policy of the American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

 

 

 The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.

  C. S. Lewis

 

 

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

 Benjamin Franklin

 

 

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