FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~ Dale Carnegie
2/2
We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. ~ Anais Nin
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Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with
others. ~ Stephen R. Covey
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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or
three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~ Voltaire
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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu
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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ~ Al
Bernstein
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Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous
decision. ~ Peter F. Drucker
2/9
Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
2/10
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for
change. ~ Ramsay Clark
2/11
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your
help. ~ Judith Martin
2/12
Positive self-discipline puts you in the driver’s seat. When you rehearse the
correct moves and internalize them, you will become a high-performance human
being. ~ Denis Waitley
2/13
Most people quit because of one reason and one reason only.... they decided not
to win. ~ Doug Firebaugh
2/14
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order
to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable pre-requisite for
success. ~ Brian Tracy
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Pressure usually comes when we have no plan. ~ Jim Smoke
2/16
If your friend has failed you, that's okay – start now to cultivate a circle of even
better friends. ~ Author Unknown
2/17
There are 100 men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his
fortune. ~ J. Paul Getty
2/18
The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and
the REALIST adjusts his sails. ~ Author Unknown
2/19
Your persistence is your measure of faith
in yourself. ~ Author Unknown
2/20
There are many things that catch your eye,
but only a few that will catch your heart.
Pursue them. ~ Anonymous
2/21
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed
to a star does not change his mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
2/22
Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction
may threaten us by reversing our usual logic. ~ Gerald Jampolsky
2/23
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you
don't want. ~ Oscar Wilde
If you don't get
everything you want,
think of the things
you don't get that
you don't want.
~ Oscar Wilde
2/24
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard
part is doing it. ~ General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
2/25
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than
any other one thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~ Duke Ellington
2/27
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To
trust yourself, to test you limits, that is the courage to succeed. ~ Bernard
Edmonds
2/28
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for
others and the world remains and is immortal. ~ Albert Pike

JANUARY

JANUARY

1/1The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that weshould have a new soul. ~ G.K. Chesterton1/2A goal without a plan is just a wish. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery1/3Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you lovewhat you are doing, you will be successful. ~ Albert Schweitzer1/4What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~ John Lubbock1/5Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which youmust see the world. ~ George Bernard Shaw1/6We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain ofregret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. ~ JimRohn1/7The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ~ Walt Disney1/8Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else ismore important than fear. ~ Ambrose Redmoon1/9Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even thoughcheckered by failure ...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoymuch nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victorynor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
1/10You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi1/11Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate,advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decidewhether to succeed or fail. Attitude determines choice, and choice determinesresults. Attitude is everything. ~ Jim Rohn1/12Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentiveto keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw thebest out of life ~ Harvey Mackay1/13Almost all family problems arise from a lackof communication. ~ Shakti Gawain1/14We make a living by what we get. We make a lifeby what we give. ~ Winston Churchill1/15It is necessary to the happiness of man that hebe mentally faithful to himself. ~ Thomas Paine1/16The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift, whichyou give yourself, is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and youcannot take it for granted. Appreciate how far you have come, and give yourselfthe gift of discovering how far you can yet go. ~ Dr. Sonya Friedman1/17If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Lovewhat you're doing. And believe in what you're doing. ~ Will RogersWe make a livingby what we get.We make a lifeby what we give.~ WinstonChurchill1/18I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another stepforward. ~ Thomas A. Edison1/19My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing thebest at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ~ OprahWinfrey1/20In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. ~Robert Frost1/21Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it fromthemselves. ~ Sir James Barrie1/22Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change theouter aspects of their lives. William James1/23To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. ~ Anatole France1/24Look at your past. Your past has determined where you are at this moment. Whatyou do today will determine where you are tomorrow. Are you moving forward orstanding still? ~ Tom Hopkins1/25A person's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks aboutthings. ~ Wallace D. Wattles1/26Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~ ChineseProverbwww.KingsonSurya.com - 365 Famous Inspirational Quotes – Page 71/27You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will betoo late. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson1/28The only competition you will ever have is the competition between yourdisciplined and undisciplined mind. ~ James A. Ray1/29The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what youwant. ~ Ben Stein1/30Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than thedifficulty in every opportunity. ~ Reed Markham1/31Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get outof. ~ Denis Waitley

ON PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

ON PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison


The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster's Law


We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly


We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
- John W. Gardner


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison


Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which
is only difficult.
- Samuel Johnson


Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard


The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost


You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London


If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow


Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
- Ken Hakuta


The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Arthur Koestler


Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Bertrand Russell


All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being selfevident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer


The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- Albert Einstein


I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett


To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
- George Orwell


If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton


Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner


No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
- Sir Frederick G. Banting


It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S. Truman


Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes


If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes


If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in
certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon


There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski


In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.
- Chuck Reid


Invention is the mother of necessity.
- Thorstein Veblen


The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay


You know you’ve achieved perfection in design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
- Noelie Altito


Get the facts, or the facts will get you.
- Thomas Fuller


The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright


Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
- Alfred North Whitehead


Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide


There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken


It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
- Malcolm Forbes


If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
- Henry J. Tillman

ON FAITH AND RELIGION

ON FAITH AND RELIGION

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with
bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell


Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
- Doris Egan


If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker


You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
- Doris Egan


I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
- Georges Duhamel


I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
- Jules Renard


God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valery


Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
- Woody Allen


If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
- Voltaire


If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
- G. K. Chesterton


I'm a born-again atheist.
- Gore Vidal


Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of
them.
- H. L. Mencken


A cult is a religion with no political power.
- Tom Wolfe


When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde


Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal


We’re not playing.
- Craig Venter [On accusations that he was playing God when trying to create the first artificial bacterium. - KKL]


The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad


It is bad luck to be superstitious.
- Andrew W. Mathis


When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

ON SANITY AND MADNESS

ON SANITY AND MADNESS

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
- Janet Long


In a mad world only the mad are sane.
- Akira Kurosawa


The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
- Joe Ancis


The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- G. K. Chesterton


Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

ON THE WISE AND OTHERWISE

ON THE WISE AND OTHERWISE

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.- Bertrand Russell

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.- Mark Twain

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.- Plato

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.- Baltasar Gracian

The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.- Charles Caleb Colton

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.- Cullen Hightower

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.- Arthur Schopenhauer

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage-- to move in the opposite direction.- E. F. Schumacher

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.- Don Herold

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.- Friedrich von Schiller

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.- Jane Wagner

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.- Sir Winston Churchill

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.- Anatole France

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.- G. K. Chesterton

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks tothe Internet, we know that is not true.- Robert Wilensky

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.- Albert Einstein

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.- C. S. Lewis

We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.- Samuel McChord Crothers

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.- Aesop

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.- Frank Leahy

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.Robert Half

ON QUOTATIONS

ON QUOTATIONS

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
- Sir Winston Churchill


A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers


She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham


He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling


Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
- Edward Young


I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- Seneca


The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- Amanda Cross


Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
- Hesketh Pearson


Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Ambrose Bierce


The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Robert Benchley


There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
- Charles M. Schulz [Yeah, the bumper sticker is readable. – KKL]
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire