Quotes that have influenced your life

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." Unknown

Wow... That's prolific.... Wow.

It isn't a literary quote, but it is one I live by at work nearly everyday.

"Failure to prepare on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." - Unknown

"Life is not about being dealt a good hand , it is about playing a bad hand well"

Danish proverb

"second thoughts make liars of us all"
"as long as there is hate, there will be people to hate"

I also like this one......

"I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left"

Unknown

Unknown....

The only people who never do anything wrong are the people who never do anything.

Quotes and sayings that I have come to reflect on, be inspired by, love to hear and fall short of, from time to time.

"I'm Sorry"

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" Abraham Lincoln

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing" Abraham Lincoln

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in" Andrew Jackson

"You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want" Zig Ziglar

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" Mark Twain

"I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short" Blaise Pascal

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them" Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast" Marlene Dietrich

"Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation" Roberto Assagioli

"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears" Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

"Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world" Lesson from Colin Powell

"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy. Leadership does not emerge from blind obedience to anyone. Xerox's Barry Rand was right on target when he warned his people that if you have a yes-man working for you, one of you is redundant. Good leadership encourages everyone's evolution." Lesson from Colin Powell

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it. Too often, change is stifled by people who cling to familiar turfs and job descriptions. One reason that even large organizations wither is that managers won't challenge old, comfortable ways of doing things. But real leaders understand that, nowadays, every one of our jobs is becoming obsolete. The proper response is to obsolete our activities before someone else does. Effective leaders create a climate where people's worth is determined by their willingness to learn new skills and grab new responsibilities, thus perpetually reinventing their jobs. The most important question in performance evaluation becomes not, "How well did you perform your job since the last time we met?" but, "How much did you change it?" Lesson from Colin Powell


Just to share a few.....

What about the en's classic from A Christmas Carol?

"...there is nothing in the world so irresitstably contagious as laughter and good humor."

Or, Shakespeare...

"When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o'th' sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that;"