Quotes for October

"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity." Gabriel Heatter

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.Elbert Hubbard
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown." Carl Jung

"Step by step. I can't think of any other way of accomplishing anything." Michael Jordan

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance." Henry S. Haskins

"After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor." Don Alan Pennebaker

"A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is." Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

"Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest." Gail Hamilton

"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also." Marcus Aurelius

"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine." Hosea Ballou

"A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety." Bertrand Russell

"When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there." Gary Sinise

"Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with.Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most." Robert Albert Bloch

"Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." Henrik Ibsen

"Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement." Paul J. Fleyer

"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind." Lucretius

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event." Brian Tracy

"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes." Chinese Proverb

"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world." Mohammed

"Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable." Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other." Orison Swett Marden

"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King Jr.

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy." Robert Half

"There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with." George Santayana

"Even if the sky falls on you, there is a hole that you can escape from." Korean Proverb

"A song is not a song until you sing it. Love in your heart is not put there to stay. Love is not love until you give it away." Oscar Hammerstein

"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love." Albert Camus

"A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love." Marysarah Quinn

"Few of us ever live in the present, we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone." Louis L'Amour

"There are three ways to get something done; do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it. " Mona Crane

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. " Albert Einstein