random quotes

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson

Belief creates the actual fact.
~ William James

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
~ Proverb

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done.
~ Benjamin Morrell


"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."
~Earl Nightingale~

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
      - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-2008)

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through."
~F. W. Nichol~
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."

- Robert Pirsig (1948-)

"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins (1941-)

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

"It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you."
~Zig Ziglar~

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"Life is too short to be small."
~Beniamin

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
~ Lance Armstrong

The fact is, that to do anything in the 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.
Robert Cushing


Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
Menander

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
~ Buddha