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Quotations about Relationships

raimialders — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:44:33 +0000

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ~Frederick Buechner

Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won’t be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin. ~Anonymous

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.” ~A.A. Milne

Quotations about Procrastination

raimialders — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:43:36 +0000

The time to begin most things is ten years ago. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~George Claude Lorimer

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. ~Edward Young

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ~Mark Twain

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. ~Jimmy Lyons

Quotations about Passion

raimialders — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:42:30 +0000

Were the passionate visible, all we would go blind. ~Jareb Teague

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~Harold Whitman

Renew your passions daily. ~Abbe Yeux-verdi

The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ~Yves Saint Laurent

My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. ~Destiny Vaestus

Quotations about Speaking

raimialders — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:41:31 +0000

If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it. ~Earl Wilson

Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ~Jeff Daly

Of those who say nothing, few are silent. ~Thomas Neiel

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much. ~Germain G. Glien

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ~Margaret Millar

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. ~John Ruskin

sayings about life by Stacy

raimialders — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:38:40 +0000

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.
~sayings about business by Stacy

Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting
~quotes about Grandparents Day by Author Unknown

If you’re proactive, you don’t have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
~business motivational quote by Stephen Covey

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty… is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
~saying on Vegetarianism by Rabindranath Tagore

saying on Attitude by Dale Carnegie

raimialders — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:37:52 +0000

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
~saying on Attitude by Dale Carnegie

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
~business motivational quote by John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.
~business by Michel de Montaigne

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all - he’s walking on them.
~sayings about business by Leonard Louis Levinson

sayings about business by Ralph Waldo Emerson

raimialders — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:36:20 +0000

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
~sayings about business by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doubt is healthy. It tests one’s convictions.
~quotes about Conformity by From the movie Haunted

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
~business motivational quote by Alan Paton

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
~saying on Helping by Catherine Hall

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
~business motivational quote by Charles Caleb Colton

business motivational quote by Brian Tracy

raimialders — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:35:00 +0000

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
~saying on Humility by Author Unknown

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.
~business motivational quote by Brian Tracy

There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read.
~business by G.K. Chesterton

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did
~sayings about business by Toni Cade Bambara

motivational quotes by Rose F. Kennedy

raimialders — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:33:41 +0000

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
~free motivational quotes by Rose F. Kennedy

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
~free by Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
~sayings about free by Mahatma Gandhi

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
~quotes about Sleep by Edward Lucas

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.
~free motivational quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942

sayings and quotes on adversity

raimialders — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:55:36 +0000

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
~good quotes about Adversity of Francis Bacon

There is no education like adversity
~famous sayings on Adversity by Disraeli

There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
~motivational quotations on Adversity by Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
~wise adversity sayings by Robert James Waller