This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford -

posted by assetwise @ 10:29 AM   

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

- Richard M. Nixon -

posted by assetwise @ 10:00 AM   

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

- Ralph Charell -

posted by assetwise @ 10:06 AM   

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge -

posted by assetwise @ 9:59 AM   

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

- Stella Terrill Mann -

posted by assetwise @ 9:49 AM   

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

- Victor Hugo -

posted by assetwise @ 10:14 AM   

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

- Kahlil Gibran -

posted by assetwise @ 7:03 AM   

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

- Arthur Rubinstein -

posted by assetwise @ 10:02 AM   

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

- Benjamin Franklin -

posted by assetwise @ 9:57 AM   

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

- Jawaharlal Nehru -

posted by assetwise @ 11:15 AM   

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

- Martin Luther King Jr. -

posted by assetwise @ 10:18 AM   

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

- Ralph W. Sockman -

posted by assetwise @ 3:53 PM   

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

- Robert Bresson -

posted by assetwise @ 9:51 AM   

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or
hear them sing.

- Eric Berne -

posted by assetwise @ 11:41 AM   

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

- Wilbur Wright -

posted by assetwise @ 9:54 AM   

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

- Wally 'Famous' Amos -

posted by assetwise @ 10:01 AM   

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

- Dr. Laura Schlessinger -

posted by assetwise @ 10:03 AM   

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt -

posted by assetwise @ 3:07 PM   

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

- Frances Willard -

posted by assetwise @ 9:45 AM   

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

- George Eliot -

posted by assetwise @ 9:58 AM   

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

- Bertrand Russell -

posted by assetwise @ 10:01 AM