Quote of the day

"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."

-- Washington Allston, painter and poet

 

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

-- Roger Bannister, athlete and physician

 

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to meet it!

 

If you don't have the time to do it correctly the first time, where will you find the time to re-do it correctly the second time?

 

If you believe Politicians, you probably believe the Weather Man to.

 

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche,
philosopher

 

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.
Gandhi

 

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Sydney Smith,
writer and clergyman

 

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

John Wooden,
basketball player and coach

 

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

-- Eckhart Tolle, writer

 

"To eat to your potential, unbuckle your belt"

--Fortune Cookie

 

“Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.”
―Anonymous

P.S. Romeo, don't you have one of those elastic belts? saves me from loosining in public!

 

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann,
educator, abolitionist and politician

 

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Napoleon Hill, writer

 

"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency."

-- Maya Angelou

 

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition."

Henry Miller,
writer

 

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

-- William Blake,
poet and artist

 

A twofer . . .

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Robert F. Kennedy,
political leader

 

You can catch more flies with honey, than vinegar.

Great Aunt Sally
Hendersonville, NC

 

"Victories for humanity" can also include the small courtesies in everyday life given to total strangers - a smile, a little encouragement, a joke here and there to change somebody's mood, because "everybody is fighting a fight, you just don't always know what that is!"