Quote of the Day

Saturday 8th November, 2008 – Inspiration.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A.Edison. 

Sunday 2nd November, 2008 – Books.

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. Elliot.

Friday 31st October, 2008 – Belief.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Sunday 5th October, 2008 – Discovery

One of the advatntages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries

A.A. Milne

Saturday 4th October, 2008 – Banks

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it starts to rain.

Mark Twain

Thursday 25th September, 2008 – Learning

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

George Santayana

Sunday 21st September, 2008 – Knowledge

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller.

Saturday 20th September, 2008 – Education

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.

Anatole France.

Saturday 13 September, 2008 – Learning

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming.

Sarurday 6th September 2008 – Love

Let those love now who never loved before; Let thoe who have always loved, now love the more.  

 

Thomas Parnell.

Saturday 23rd August 2008 – Friendship

Where there are friends, there is wealth.

Titus Muccius Plautus.

Sunday 29th June 2008 – Confidence

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Joe Paterno.

Wednesday 25th June 2008 – Ability

The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Viktor E. Frankl.

Sunday 22nd June 2008 – Teamwork

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Andrew Carnegie.

Wednesday 18th June 2008 – Motivation

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

Stephen R. Covey.

Tuesday 17th June 2008 – Confidence.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you’ll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Joe Paterno.

Monday 16th June 2008 – Inspiration

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.

Nora Roberts.

Sunday 15th June 2008 – Life

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Stephen Covey.

Saturday 14th June 2008 – Friendship

Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.

Sicilian Proverb.

Sunday 1st June 2008 – Advice

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Erica Jong

Saturday 31st May 2008 – Happiness

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Arnold Schweitzer

Friday 30th May 2008 – Luck 

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson.

Thursaday 29th May 2008 – Kindness

 When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

HH The Dalai Lama.

Wednesday 28th May 2008 – Children

Always be nice to your children as they are the ones that will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller.

Wednesday 30th May 2007 – Commitment

Only do what your heart tells you.

Princess Diana 

Monday 28th May 2007 – Hope

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill 

Sunday 27th May 2007 – Responsibility 

Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A.Edison.