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Business Leaders - Presentation Transcript
1. Business Leaders "Quote, Unquote" Presented by Shabbar Suterwala
2. N.R.Narayana Murthy, Chairman, Infosys Technologies Ltd "I'm a capitalist in mind, a socialist at heart."
3. K V Kamath, CEO of ICICI “To build a successful business, you have to be able to pick entrepreneurs very early and get them embedded into the business. They need to go out into the ecosystem, demonstrate their abilities, nurture the business and build it up.”
4. Azim Premji, Chairman and Managing Director, Wipro Corporation "We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job."
5. Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman & CEO of Mittal Steel Company “Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.”
6. J. J. Irani, Director of Tata Sons, “To be a leader you need two attributes: the environment and training. Equally important is recognition of the fact that this is an opportunity and one has to grab it.”
7. Bhaskar Bhat, Managing Director of Titan, "Unless you show extraordinary performance in your journey to being a good leader and prove your managerial capability, organisations don't throw you up into leadership positions."
8. Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft Corporation “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
9. George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC “Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.”
10. Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company “If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.” “A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.” “Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”
11. Larry Page, Co-founder and President of products at Google “You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
12. Thomas Edison, Inventor “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.”
13. Richard Branson, Founder of the Virgin group “I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”
14. Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's Corporation “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” “It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.”
15. Peter Drucker, writer, management consultant and university professor “Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five- year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.” “Executives owe it to the organisation and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.”
16. Li Ka Shing, Chairman of Cheung Kong Holdings “The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.”
Friendship is a quiet walk in the park with the one you trust.
Love is when you feel like you are the only two around.
Friendship is when they gaze into your eyes and you know they care.
Love is when they gaze into your eyes and it warms your heart.
Friendship is being close even when you are far apart.
Love is when you can still feel their hand on your heart
when they are not near.
Friendship is hoping that they experience the very best.
Love is when you bring them the very best.
Friendship occupies your mind.
Love occupies your soul.
Friendship is knowing that you will always try to be there
when in need.
Love is when you will give up everything to be at their side.
Friendship is a warm smile in the winter.
Love is a warming touch that sends a pulse through your heart.
Love is a beautiful smile to which nothing compares:
A tender laugh, which opens your heart,
A single touch that melts away your fears,
A smell that reminds you of the tenderness of heaven,
A voice that reminds you of the innocence of youth.
Friendship can survive without love.
Love cannot live without friendship.
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. Douglas Pagels
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. Author Unknown
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. Sicilian Proverb
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. Aristotle
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. Arnold H. Glasgow
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927
A good friend is cheaper than therapy. Author Unknown
If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. Edgar Watson Howe
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Henry David Thoreau
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold Glasow
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
William Shakespeare
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. Elisabeth Foley
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. Pam Brown
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. George Santayana
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Donna Roberts
If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. Adabella Radici
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. Samuel Johnson
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. Dave Tyson Gentry
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. Laurence J. Peter
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. Author Unknown
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. Grace Pulpit
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. D.H. Lawrence
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. C.S. Lewis
Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. Dorothy Parker
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. Author Unknown
The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. Author Unknown
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. Author Unknown
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. Author Unknown
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. Marlene Dietrich
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison, Beloved
Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald
A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train, or in front of one. Author Unknown
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing
Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Brontë
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature. Abraham Lincoln
Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend (Thank you, Carolyn.)
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. American Proverb
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate
A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. Author Unknown
Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley Maclaine
Friendship is Love, without his wings. Lord Byron, L'Amitié est l'Amour sans Ailes
But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. William Penn
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. Thomas Jefferson
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. Lois Wyse
The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ethel Barrymore
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. Frances Ward Weller
There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound. Diana Cortes
If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. Author Unknown
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. Author Unknown
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. Barbara Kingsolver
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. E.W. Howe
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. Edith Wharton
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. Robert Brault
'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. Benjamin Franklin
The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head. Author Unknown
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Alice Duer Miller
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. Anäis Nin
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. Eustache Deschamps
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. Emil Ludwig
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Journals, 1843
Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. Samuel Pepys
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hold a true friend with both your hands. Nigerian Proverb
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Sarah Orne Jewett
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. Francesco Guicciardini
The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends. Gwyneth Paltrow
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Menclus
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. David Storey
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. William Hazlitt
In my friend, I find a second self. Isabel Norton
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright.
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? Dennis and Wendy Mannering
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. Oscar Wilde
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Voltaire
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. Ancient Persian Saying
If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. Cavett Robert
It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. Annie Gottlier
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. Hubert Humphrey
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. Author Unknown
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. George Santayana
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. Francesca Reigler
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Mary Engelbreit
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. The Eagles, "Already Gone"
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. Foster's Law
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. Bill Meyer
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. Joe Clark
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. Vince Lombardi
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. J. Brotherton
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Publius Terentius Afer
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln
Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. Annette Goodheart
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. Buddha
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln
Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. Author Unknown
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946
To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. Ancient Proverb
Make your optimism come true. Author Unknown
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. Charles Caleb Colton
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. Confucius
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
William Shakespeare
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. English Proverb
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. Robert Frost
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. William James
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. Author Unknown
What is possible? What you will. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. Glorie Abelhas
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Katherine Mansfield
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
Which fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight.
Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, 1909
Whenever you fall, pick something up. Oswald Avery
Success is due less to ability than to zeal. Charles Buxton
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. Margot Asquith
Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. Author Unknown
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. Elbert Hubbard
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... William Cowper
I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? Henry Moore
This weary ol' workhorse is a unicorn, my friend. Jareb Teague
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt... Dorothy Day
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Winston Churchill
[W]hat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. Dwight Eisenhower, address to Republican National Committee,
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Betty Smith
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. Walt Whitman
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. Wernher von Braun
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. F. Scott Fitzgerald
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." Robert Flaherty
I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. Author Unknown
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. C.C. Scott
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. Voltaire
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. Kathleen Turner
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. Maurice Setter
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. Author Unknown
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle
Misery is a communicable disease. Martha Graham
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. Will Foley
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. David Ambrose
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. Francis Rabelais
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. Adlai Stevenson
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. Arthur Christopher Benson
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. John Burroughs
The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen. Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. Italian Proverb
Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. Susan Longacre
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. Pearl Bailey
Men who never get carried away should be. Malcolm Forbes
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. Norman Vincent Peale
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't. Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear. Author Unknown
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. Konrad Adenauer
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. Kenneth Clark
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. Author Unknown
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Edgar A. Guest, It Couldn't Be Done
Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them. Author Unknown
Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Positive anything is better than negative thinking. Elbert Hubbard
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. Leo Tolstoy
Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz. Ronald Spark
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908
It is no use to grumble and complain;
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and sends rain -
Why, rain's my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. Art Linkletter
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes, Jr.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. Dag Hammarskjold
The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. Henri Frédéric Amiel
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. Alex Karras
It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. Author Unknown
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori Proverb
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Emory Austin
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. Paavo Nurmi
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. Edward de Bono, Observer, 12 June 1977
Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. Epictetus
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. Nicholas Chamfort
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. William Arthur Ward
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein
There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are." Frederick L. Collins
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Marcus Antonius
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. James Whistler
"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." A.A. Milne
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker
Those who wish to sing, always find a song. Swedish Proverb
You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one. Carrie Latet
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. Chinese Proverb
Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. Helen MacInness
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. Ralph Marston
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