Friday Quote Collection | List of short quotes | 9/18/09

Friday Quote Collection | List of short quotes | 9/18/09

FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" 2009-09-18 Assembled by R. VARGA

FRIDAY’S QUOTATIONS // 2009-09-18

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth."

- Jewish Proverb

"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

- Peter F. Drucker

"Nothing makes us as alone as our secrets."

- Paul Tournier

"Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn't ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."

- Lin Yutang

"The way we see the problem is the problem."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

"A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle."

- James Keller

"I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed."

- Proverbs 11:25

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was 'thank you,' that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart von Hochheim

"You don't need to interpret tea leaves stuck in a cup, to understand that people who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

- Ogden Nash

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

- George S. Patton

"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class."

- Coach Bear Bryant

"Hardening of the attitudes starts long before hardening of the arteries."

- William A. Marsteller

"A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything."

- Unknown

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim."

- George Santayana

"Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure."

- Portuguese Proverb

"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,

Therefore, we are saved by hope.

Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;

Therefore, we are saved by faith.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.

Therefore, we are saved by love.

No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;

Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness."

- Reinhold Niebuhr