Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

- Anonymous -

posted by assetwise @ 2:15 PM   

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

posted by assetwise @ 9:59 AM   

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

- Gloria Pitzer -

posted by assetwise @ 10:02 AM   

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

- Sir Winston Churchill -

posted by assetwise @ 10:00 AM   

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

- Anna Jameson -

posted by assetwise @ 10:05 AM   

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

- James Joyce -

posted by assetwise @ 10:24 AM   

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

- Zora Neale Hurston -

posted by assetwise @ 11:12 AM   

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

- Jerry Flint -

posted by assetwise @ 10:14 AM   

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

- Wilfred A. Peterson -

posted by assetwise @ 9:24 AM   

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

- David Reisman -

posted by assetwise @ 9:27 AM   

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

- Oprah Winfrey -

posted by assetwise @ 9:53 AM   

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

-Saint Francis de Sales-

posted by assetwise @ 9:22 AM   

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

-Mahatma Gandhi -

posted by assetwise @ 10:24 AM   

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin -

posted by assetwise @ 10:24 AM   

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

- Lawana Blackwell -

posted by assetwise @ 9:59 AM   

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

- Charles W. Eliot -

posted by assetwise @ 10:57 AM   

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

- Margaret Cho -

posted by assetwise @ 9:59 AM   

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers -

posted by assetwise @ 9:56 AM   

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

- Doris Lessing -

posted by assetwise @ 10:07 AM   

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

- Lord Chesterfield -

posted by assetwise @ 10:00 AM