Came across some nice quotes and pieces of poetry in the past few days collected from various sites.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
Proverb, Hebrew - Sayings of Hebrew Origin
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
American motivational expert
A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.
Anonymous
Let others cheer the winning man,
There's one I hold worth while;
'Tis he who does the best he can,
Then loses with a smile.
Beaten he is, but not to stay
Down with the rank and file;
That man will win some other day,
The one who loses with a smile.
Anonymous
...just remember
...if things look helpless
...maybe you're facing the wrong direction.
Ziggy , Cartoon strip
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
Franklin Roosevelt [1882 - 1945] , 32nd US President
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things... you have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Harry Truman [1884 - 1972] , 33rd US President
If you'd have a servant that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin [1706 - 1790] , American scientist and statesman
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard Baruch [1870 - 1965] , American financier, political adviser
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier.
Kathleen Norris
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra [1897 - 1991] , American film maker
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting
myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered
before me.
Isaac Newton [1642 - 1727] , British scientist
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because
I've done it a thousand times.
Mark Twain [1835 - 1910] , American writer
And now some work by Kahlil Gibran [1883 - 1931] , Lebanese philosopher and poet.
I've read the work of this poet pretty recently and am surprised by practicality and depth in his descriptions.
The excerpt is from his famous work "The Prophet".
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thougts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His
arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
Proverb, Hebrew - Sayings of Hebrew Origin
When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
American motivational expert
A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.
Anonymous
Let others cheer the winning man,
There's one I hold worth while;
'Tis he who does the best he can,
Then loses with a smile.
Beaten he is, but not to stay
Down with the rank and file;
That man will win some other day,
The one who loses with a smile.
Anonymous
...just remember
...if things look helpless
...maybe you're facing the wrong direction.
Ziggy , Cartoon strip
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
Franklin Roosevelt [1882 - 1945] , 32nd US President
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things... you have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Harry Truman [1884 - 1972] , 33rd US President
If you'd have a servant that you like, serve yourself.
Benjamin Franklin [1706 - 1790] , American scientist and statesman
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard Baruch [1870 - 1965] , American financier, political adviser
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier.
Kathleen Norris
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra [1897 - 1991] , American film maker
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting
myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered
before me.
Isaac Newton [1642 - 1727] , British scientist
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because
I've done it a thousand times.
Mark Twain [1835 - 1910] , American writer
And now some work by Kahlil Gibran [1883 - 1931] , Lebanese philosopher and poet.
I've read the work of this poet pretty recently and am surprised by practicality and depth in his descriptions.
The excerpt is from his famous work "The Prophet".
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thougts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His
arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
