Inspirational ? Quotes
| There are no rewards or
punishments -- only consequences. ---Dean William Inge |
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Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion, it is a business
of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually
being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him. ---Ben Ames Williams |
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the
responsibility for our future. ---George Bernard Shaw |
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When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own
future. ---Zig Ziglar |
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems
are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the
president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ---Albert Ellis |
 When one finds himself in a
hole of his own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of workmanship.---Jon Remmerde |
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop
making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top. ---O.J. Simpson |
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be
clean. ---Goethe |
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing
the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ---Oprah Winfrey |
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We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are
responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse,
is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from
fear. ---Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
 The real price of everything, what everything really
costs to the man who
wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. ---Adam Smith |
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Everybody must learn this lesson somewhere -- that it costs something to be
what you are. ---Shirley Abbott |
| Do just once what others
say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. ---James R. Cook |
| All you need in this life
is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. ---Mark Twain |
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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as
opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness. ---Les Brown |
 Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work.---Thomas Edison |
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist
is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ---Reginald B. Mansell |
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Every great man was once a nobody prepared for opportunity. ---Dorothy Tode |
 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.---Unknown |
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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a
whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all.
You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You
prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as
you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which
you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing. ---Maxwell Maltz |
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability. ---Thomas Edison |
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Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and
opportunity meet. ---Roy D. Chapin Jr. |
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There is no security in life, only opportunity. ---Mark Twain |
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity
is where you are. ---John Burroughs |
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Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are
unprepared. ---George S. Clason |
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Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. ---Frank Tyger |
 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in
America. If I'm not there, I go to work. ---Robert Orben |
| Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and
burning desire which pave the road to wealth. ---Napoleon Hill |
| I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. ---Groucho Marx |
| The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and
enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to
lend money. ---Mark Twain |
| I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people
are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. ---Charlie Chaplin |
| Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes
misery easier to live with. ---Unknown |
| Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to be
miserable in comfort. ---Helen Gurley Brown |
 It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
---Vaughan Monroe |
| My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.
That's almost $7.00 in dog money. ---Joe Weinstein |
 My grandfather told me, "Never let your mind write a check that your body
isn't prepared to cash".---Red Green |
| If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him,
for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ---Joseph E. O'Donnell |
| Money is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five. ---Somerset Maugham |
| It's a wise man who lives with money in the bank; it's a fool who dies that
way. ---French Proverb |
| A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for
it back when it begins to rain. ---Robert Frost |
| A fine is a tax for breaking the law; a tax is a fine for obeying the law. ---J. H. Goldfuss |
| Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half
to avoid paying it. ---George Prentice |
| Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy
to enjoy. ---Frank Clark |
| Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ---George Washington |
| If you can count your money, you don`t have a billion dollars. ---J. Paul Getty |
| Corporations have been enthroned. An era of corruption in high places will
follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the
prejudices of the people...until wealth is aggregated in a few hands...and the
Republic is destroyed. ---Abraham Lincoln |
| The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes
for double value and compromises on par. ---Mark Twain |
| It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have
principles when you're poor. ---Ray Kroc (McDonald's founder) |
| Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. ---Herbert Hoover |
| Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can
do that. ---Norman Vincent Peale |
| Think it more satisfaction to live richly than die rich. ---Sir Thomas Browne |
| Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are
to assist in bearing it. ---Jean Paul Richter |
| The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in
your pocket. ---Frank McKinney Hubbard |
| It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good
too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money
can't buy. ---George Lorimer |
| Behind every great fortune there is a crime. ---Balzac |
| It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you
lose yours. ---Harry Truman |
| A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who
is unhappy, because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. ---Jean Kerr |
| Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ---Benjamin Franklin |
| If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real
security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience
and ability. ---Henry Ford |
| We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us. ---R. W. Boreham |
| Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but
your reasons are sure to be wrong. ---Lord Mansfield |
| Though one decision alone probably won't change your life radically, a series
of them can have an amazing effect. Every decision we make -- no matter how
small -- leads us in some way, either closer to our goals and wishes or farther
away from them. ---Unknown |
| Who we are today is the result of yesterdays choices. Who we will be tomorrow
is the result of today's decisions. ---Pat Messiti |
| I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose
the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were
inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
---Beryl Markham |
| It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What
matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions. ---Jim Rohn |
| You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood
-- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life. ---Jessamyn West |
| The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is
this; decide what you want. ---Ben Stein |
| Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you
think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question: Does this
path have a heart? If the path does, it is good. If not, it is of no use. ---Carlos Castenada |
| If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find
you've done it. ---Pam Shaw |
| Every great leap forward in your life comes after you have made a clear
decision of some kind. ---Brian Tracy |
| Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight. Indecision is a dull
one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind. ---Jan McKeithen |
| All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in
riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions
that led to that moment. ---Richard Bach |
| Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and
unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in
charge of yourself. ---Robert F. Bennett |
| Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the
problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. ---Robert Schuller |
| We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ---Kahlil Gibran |
| Life offers two great gifts -- time, and the ability to choose how we spend
it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not
choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us. ---Richard I. Winword |
| He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is
the means that determines the end. ---Henry Emerson Fosdick |
| My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy;
you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're
popular; you make them because they're right. ---Theodore Hesburgh |
| Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking
the results and actions which you will make into your destiny. ---Peter Senge |
| Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the
disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws
you choose to obey. ---Charles Millhuff |
| Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them. |
| Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist. |
| The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable. |
| Once one has got the money habit, it is extremely difficult to kick it. |
| Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention. |
| In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries. |
| If all of us had every dime that we've wasted in our lives, we'd be a nation of millionaires |
| God is on everyone's side … and in the last
analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. Jean Anouilh <http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000611.html> |
| I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I
die by four o clock. Henny Youngman |
| The price of anything is the amount of life
you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau |
| "Money can't buy friends, but you can get a
better class of enemy." -- Spike Milligan |
| "The person who doesn't know where his next
dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went." -- Anonymous |
| Money is better than poverty, if only for
financial reasons. Woody Allen |
| Having more money does not insure happiness.
People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million
dollars. Hobart Brown |
| It is true that money cannot buy happiness
but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to
offer. George S. Clason |
| Anyone who says money can't buy happiness
just doesn't know where to shop. Bumper Sticker |
| Money isn't everything, but it ranks right
up there with oxygen. Rita Davenport (adapted) |
| I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is
better. Sophie Tucker |
| When I was young I used to think that money
was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is. Oscar Wilde |
| Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw |
| It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that
makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus |
| Many speak the truth when they say that they
despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. Charles Caleb Colton |
| When a fellow says it ain't the money but
the principle of the thing, it's the money. Artemus Ward |
| Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person
give you a job? Laurence J. Peter |
| Money does not change men, it only unmasks
them. Mme. Riccoboni |
| Money is good for bribing yourself through
the inconveniences of life. Gottfried Reinhardt |
| Wealth is well known to be a great
comforter. Plato |
| The only point in making money is, you can
tell some big shot where to go. Humphrey Bogart |
| Riches are not an end of life, but an
instrument of life. Henry Ward Beecher |
| If a man is after money, he's money mad; if
he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he
doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks
ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he
accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who
never got anything out of life. Vic Oliver |
| Money is usually attracted, not pursued. Jim Rohn |
| If you know how to spend less than you get,
you have the philosopher's stone. Benjamin Franklin |
| The No. 1 rule is to know the difference
between an asset and a liability. The rich focus on their asset columns
while everyone else focuses on their income statements. The more money that
goes into my asset column, the more my asset column grows. The more my
assets grow, the more my cash flow grows. And as long as I keep my expenses
less than the cash flow from these assets, I will grow richer, with more and
more income from sources other than my physical labor. Robert T. Kiyosaki (adapted) |
| Rich people buy luxuries last, while the
poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first. The poor and middle class
often buy luxury items such as big houses, diamonds, furs, jewelry or boats
because they want to look rich. They look rich, but in reality they just get
deeper in debt on credit. The old money people, the long-term rich, built
their asset column first. Then, the income generated from the asset column
bought their luxuries. The poor and middle class buy luxuries with their own
sweat, blood, and children's inheritance. Robert T. Kiyosaki |
| When I want a bigger house, I first buy
assets that will generate the cash flow to pay for the house. Robert T. Kiyosaki |
| Happiness is a positive cash flow. Fred Adler |
| Wealth is the measure of the cash flow from
the asset column compared with the expense column. Robert T. Kiyosaki |
| Money is the seed of money, and the first
guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| If you don't want to work, you have to work
to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. Ogden Nash |
| Wealth unused might as well not exist. Aesop |
| It is sheer madness to live in want in order
to be wealthy when you die. Decimus Junius Juvenalis |
| A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them
not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. Sir Richard Burton |
| The worst fault of the working classes is
telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is
life, but it's not for you.'' John Mortimer |
| Science is everything we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art
is everything else. ---David Knuth |
| In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take
many men many months to equal it. ---Merle Meacham |
| Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like
very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. ---MG Siriam |
| Computers make it easy to do alot of things, but most of the things that make
it easier to do don't need to be done. ---Andy Rooney |
| It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and
sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully. ---Doug Vargas |
| Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build
bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce
bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning." ---Rich Cook |
| A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human
history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. ---Mitch Ratcliffe |
| If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a
Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and
explode once a year, killing everyone inside. ---Robert X Cringely |
| Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For
Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On
National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence,
Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos. ---Keven Kwaku |
| There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We
don't believe this to be a coincidence. ---Jeremy S. Anderson |
| I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. ---Isaac Asimov |
| Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a
complete substitute for life. ---Andrew Brown |
| We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters
will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the
Internet, we know this is not true. ---R. Wilensky |
| The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up,
there's no law against whacking them around a little. ---Porterfield |
| URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. ---Chris Clark |
| The wonder of the Internet is that it brings someone like you closer to me.
That's why I don't like the Internet. ---Dogbert, "Dogbert's Oracle" |
| Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest
of your life. ---Michael Sinz |
| I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too
young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15
years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they
took freedom of the press away from the Internet?' ---Mike Godwin |
| Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
---Michael Meissner |
| The gossip of the future may not be a backbiting, nosy, tongue-wagging
two-face but a super-megabyte, random-access, digital interface. ---Ronald B. Zeh |
| Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including
the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. ---Doug Larson |
| The glory of the Internet is it is wide open and freewheeling, but the
problem with the Internet is it is open and freewheeling. ---Art Caplan |
| You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you
want to turn your brain on. ---Steve Jobs |
| Computers in the future may weigh no less than 1.5 tons. ---Popular Mechanics Magazine, 1949 |
| The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced
by unskilled labor. ---Wernher von Braun |
| Computers can now keep a man's every transgression recorded in a permanent
memory bank, duplicating with complex programming and intricate wiring a feat
his wife handles quite well without fuss or fanfare. ---Lane Olinghouse |
| Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ---Joseph Campbell |