Friday Quote Collection | Food For Weekend Thought | 6/15/12

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Friday Quote Collection June 15th, 2012
FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" Assembled by R. VARGA

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"No wind favors him who has no destined port."
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
- Confucius

"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
- C. S. Lewis

"Everybody’s got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there."
- Tony Robbins

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
- Jim Eliot

"You can manage people without moral authority; but you cannot influence them."
- Andy Stanley

"Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs."
- Carrie Fisher

"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."
- Michael Crichton

"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals."
- Henry James

"Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade."
- John Ruskin

"Nothing recedes like success."
- Walter Winchell

"But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint."
- Isaiah 40:31

"Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery."
- James Fenimore Cooper

"When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness."
- Dale Archer

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?"
- Jean Cocteau

"It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow