Quotes | Source | |
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks. | Milan Kundera | |
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. | Abigail V Buren | |
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. | Don Williams | |
I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation. | Samuel Johnson | |
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done. | James Dean | |
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. | John Cheever | |
All we ask is to be let alone. | Jefferson Davis | |
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people. | Joan Collins | |
I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months. | Unknown | |
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Loneliness Quotes - Part3
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Action Quotes - Part4
Quotes | Source | |
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. | Diane Arbus | |
Take action in order to move toward your goals. | Les Brown | |
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. | Jackson Brown | |
Let us do or die. | Warren Buffett | |
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. | Nolan Bushnell | |
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be. | Ninon Lenclos | |
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. | Eileen Caddy | |
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need. | Edwin Markham | |
Leap, and the net will appear. | John Burroughs | |
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. | Jack Canfield |
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Achievement Quotes - Part3
Quotes | By | |
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day. | Jean Fontaine | |
What would a smarter person than me do? Then do it! | Danny Devito | |
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve. | Aristotle | |
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. | Rene Descartes | |
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. | Walt Disney | |
Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. | Ralph Emerson | |
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. | Wolfgang Goethe | |
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. | Helen Hayes | |
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. | M. Trevelyan |
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Ability Quotes - Part4
Quote | Source | |
The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. | Henry Ford | |
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right! | Henry Ford | |
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. | Oliver Goldsmith | |
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. | M. Trevelyan | |
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. | Oliver W Holmes | |
In the Land of The Blind a One-Eyed man is King | Source Unknown | |
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. | T.S. Elliot | |
The trust is in the stars my dear Brutus | William Shakespear | |
Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow | Alberto Nikas | |
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. | Warren Burger | |
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