2. “I will prepare myself and the opportunity will come.”
The impact this quote had upon me was incredible!
I immediately changed my business strategy and directed all my energies towards acquiring the knowledge needed to
become a successful investment counselor. I cut the quote out of the magazine and placed it in my rolodex where I could
look at it every day. Each time I read it, it seemed to reinforce the same message. It gave me faith and strength to
continue on. I have been collecting quotes ever since, and they have been a great source of inspiration for me for over
forty years.
There are no words that could possibly express what these great thoughts have done for my life. As Socrates once said,
“Employ your time in reading other men’s works so you can learn easily what it took them all their lives to learn.”
Reading and repeating words of inspiration and encouragement will help heal your pain, provide guidance, and develop
the faith that you can achieve your dreams and goals.
I hope these thoughts will mean as much to you as they have to me.
t was early 1975. I had just returned to my office after another
disappointing day. Nothing seemed to be going right in my business. I
sat down at my desk to think about what I could possibly do to improve
my situation.
After a few moments, my secretary walked in with her arms full of
mail. As she handed the mail to me, a magazine fell onto my desk with
its back cover facing up. In big, bold letters, there was a quote by
Abraham Lincoln:
With best wishes for a successful future, Arnold Van Den Berg
3. “No one ever attains very eminent success
by simply doing what is required of him;
it is the amount and excellence of what is
over and above the required that
determines the greatness of ultimate
distinction.”
Charles Adams
4. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like
wrapping a present and not giving it.”
William Arthur Ward
5. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task
which, more than anything else, will affect its
successful outcome.”
William James
6. “Man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he
can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet
surely, shape his circumstances.”
James Allen
13. “You can only protect your liberties in this world by
protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only
be free if I am free.”
Clarence Darrow
14. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage
to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
15. “A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.”
H.W. Dodds
16. “Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the
methods we resort to hide them.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
17. “Never do anything against conscience even if the state
demands it.”
Albert Einstein
18. “We have to do the best we can. That is our sacred
human responsibility.”
Albert Einstein
19. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately
curious.”
Albert Einstein
20. “To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its
own beauty, a picture which was never seen before
and which shall never be seen again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “Hating people is like burning down your own house
to get rid of a rat.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
22. “The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect
trees.”
Gye Fram
23. “The mob has many heads, but no brains.”
Thomas Fuller
53. “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and
circumference is nowhere.”
Voltaire
54. “You can’t hold a man down without staying down
with him.”
Booker T. Washington
55. “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred
confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens
life; love illuminates it.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
56. “The ultimate goal should be doing your best and
enjoying it.”
Peggy Fleming
57. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look
not at what he has already achieved, but at what he
aspires to do.”
Kahlil Gibran
58. “The language of truth is unadorned and always
simple.”
Marcellinus Ammianus
59. “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free.”
Jesus Christ (John 8:32)
60. “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity,
goodness, and truth.”
Count Leo Tolstoy
61. “Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.”
Abraham Lincoln
62. “The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after
time, have given me new courage to face life
cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth.”
Albert Einstein
63. “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be
outraged by silence.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
64. “Where there is no vision, people perish.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
136. “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word –
‘excellence.’ To know how to do something well is
to enjoy it.”
Pearl Buck
137. “Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and
you will see. Stop running away and you will be
found.”
Lao Tzu
138. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to
do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t
think you can go wrong.”
Ella Fitzgerald
139. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It
comes from an indomitable will.”
Mohandas Gandhi
140. “Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still
the truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi
141. “Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to
stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not
change his mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
142. “Do not allow anyone to tell you for what purpose you
live. To be happy and fulfilled, you do need a
purpose, but let it rise out of who you are.”
Nathaniel Branden
143. “Never yield to a neurosis in anyone. Dare to oppose
and ignore it.”
David Seabury
144. “You only live once, but if you work it right, once is
enough.”
Joe Louis
145. “Sometimes the sub-conscious mind manifests a
wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the
conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us
toward our destiny.”
Nathaniel Branden
146. “Don’t sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It
almost never comes.”
David Viscott
147. “He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he
whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
Thomas Jefferson
148. “Your work is to discover your work and then with all
your heart to give yourself to it.”
Buddha
149. “The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior
intellects.”
Leonardo da Vinci
151. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best
place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey
152. “He who does not live in some degree for others,
hardly lives for himself.”
Michel de Montaigne
153. “The purpose of life is to matter – to count, to stand for
something, to have it make some difference that we
lived at all.”
Leo Rosten
154. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine
yourself without it.”
Unknown
155. “It’s hard to make a comeback when you haven’t been
anywhere.”
Unknown
156. “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to
be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
Samuel Johnson
157. “We can discover this meaning in life in three different
ways: by doing a deed, by experiencing a value, and
by suffering.”
Victor Frankl
158. “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to
eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been
loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there,
firm as weeds among stones.”
Charlotte Bronte
159. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your
ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great.”
Mark Twain
160. “The important thing is this: To be able at any
moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could
become.”
Charles Dubois
161. “He who wishes to secure the good of others, has
already secured his own.”
Confucius
162. “That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to
displease the people by doing what you know is
right, than to temporarily please them by doing what
you know is wrong.”
William Boetcker
163. “A man who doesn’t trust himself can never really
trust anyone else.”
Cardinal De Retz
164. “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of
incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be
false and to incur my own abhorrence.”
Frederick Douglass
165. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience, but where
he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
171. “Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote
from the truth who believes nothing than he who
believes what is wrong.”
Thomas Jefferson
172. “My country is the world, and my religion is to do
good.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
173. “It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But
to befriend the one who regards himself as your
enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The
other is mere business.”
Mohandas Gandhi
174. “This is my simple religion. There is no need for
temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our
own brain, our own heart is our temple; the
philosophy is kindness.”
Dalai Lama
175. “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to
comprehend.”
Henri Bergson
176. “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational
mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society
that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Albert Einstein
177. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly,
our whole life would change.”
Buddha
178. “It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.
Poverty and wealth have both failed.”
Kin Hubbard
179. “Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state
of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence;
and justice.”
Spinoza
180. “You can have power over people as long as you don’t
take everything away from them. But when you’ve
robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your
power.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
181. “No question is so difficult to answer as that to which
the answer is obvious.”
George Bernard Shaw
182. “Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes
true happiness. It is not attained through self-
gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy
purpose.”
Helen Keller
183. “And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every
act of thy life as if it were the last.”
Marcus Aurelius
184. “I never see what has been done; I only see what
remains to be done.”
Marie Curie
185. “We are here on earth to do good for others. What the
others are here for, I don’t know.”
W. H. Auden
186. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal:
my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
Louis Pasteur
187. “You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a
weakness to get caught up in either one.”
John Wooden
188. “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a
woman’s birthday, but never remembers her age.”
Robert Frost
189. “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got, but they
need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love
everywhere you go.”
Mother Teresa
190. “The most pitiful among men is he who turns his
dreams into silver and gold.”
Kahlil Gibran
191. “You can never get enough of what you don’t need to
make you happy.”
Eric Hoffer
192. “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war
or before an election.”
Otto von Bismark
193. “Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man
wishes, that he also believes to be true.”
Demosthenes
194. “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no
wind is favorable.”
Seneca
199. “We either make ourselves miserable or we make
ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Carlos Casteneda
200. “Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an
occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once.
True greatness consists in being great in little
things.”
Charles Simmons
201. “As Love becomes more and more unconditional, it
begins to be experienced as inner Joy…
Joy arises from within each moment of existence.”
David R. Hawkins
202. “The crowd is most enthusiastic and optimistic when it
should be cautious and prudent; and it’s most fearful
when it should be bold.”
Humphrey Neill
203. “Gentlemen, if you want to be a success in business,
you must love your product.”
George F. Doriot
204. When someone asked J. P. Morgan what he thought
the market would do next year … he said, “it would
fluctuate.”
J. P. Morgan
205. “No one is more definite about the solution than the
one who doesn’t understand the problem.”
Robert Half
206. “You drive yourself too hard. You really must learn to
take time to stop and smell the profits.”
Unknown
207. “If you don’t have the time to do it right, when will
you have time to do it over.”
Jeffrey Mayer
208. “In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins:
cash and experience. Take the experience first…the
cash will come later.”
Harold Green
209. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy
of things which matter least.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
210. “Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking
is the one thing that assures the successful outcome
of any venture.”
William James
211. “When a man is pushed, tormented, and defeated, he
has a chance to learn something.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
212. “The voice of intelligence…is drowned out by the roar
of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is
contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by
hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is
silenced by ignorance.”
Dr. Karl Menninger
213. “Let the act of the moment be governed by deep
abiding purpose of the heart.”
James Allen
214. “The truth hurts. Not the searching after, the running
from.”
John Eyberg
215. “In a fleeting moment of self-forgetfulness, the
smallest soul becomes great.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
216. “In matter the law is mathematical. In the mind it is
moral.”
James Allen
217. “He who is victorious over another may in turn be
defeated; but he who overcomes himself will never
be subdued.”
James Allen
218. “It is not always enough that we do our best.
Sometimes we have to do what is necessary.”
Winston Churchill
219. “That day which you fear as being the end of all things
is the birthday of your eternity.”
Seneca
220. “Wind will not move rock, nor praise or blame a wise
man.”
Buddha
222. “There exists enough for everybody’s needs … but not
enough for everybody’s greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
223. “Understanding comes only when we, you, and I meet
on the same level at the same time. That happens
only when there is real affection between people.”
J. Krishnamurti
224. “What you are speaks so loudly, I can hardly hear what
you say.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
225. “If one is anxious to reform the world, let him begin by
reforming himself.”
James Allen
227. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in
thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving
creates love.”
Lao Tzu
228. “By believing passionately in something that still does
not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever
we have not sufficiently desired.”
Nikow Kazantzakis
229. “We want to be a nice, honest, wholesome company
that makes obscene profits!”
Anonymous
230. “Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great
idea hits you and before you realize what’s wrong
with it.”
Anonymous
231. “Experience is what you get when you were expecting
something else.”
Anonymous
232. “When we see men of contrary nature, we should turn
and examine ourselves.”
Confucius
233. “The universe is transformation. Our life is what our
thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
234. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is
not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
235. “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small
voice’ within me.”
Mahatma Gandhi
257. “No man is free who is not master of himself.”
Epictetus
258. “To err is human, to forgive is divine.”
Unknown
259. “Wherever there is a human being, there is an
opportunity for kindness.”
Seneca
260. “Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a
good one.”
Benjamin Franklin
261. “How much more grievous are the consequences of
anger than the cause of it.”
Marcus Aurelius
262. “One is never more on trial than in the moment of
excessive good fortune.”
Irving Wallace
263. “Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s
knees.”
Unknown
264. “I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me
hate him.”
Booker T. Washington
265. “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought
not to deter us from the support of a cause we
believe to be just.”
Abraham Lincoln
266. “Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be
sure there is one rascal less in the world.”
Thomas Carlyle
267. “The true indication of a person’s character is how
they treat those who can’t be of any use to them.”
Anonymous
268. “Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in
your secret reveries that you were born to control
affairs.”
Andrew Carnegie
269. “In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy;
but in passing it over, he is superior.”
Frances Bacon
270. “A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth
more than his services.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
271. “There are three marks of a superior man: being
virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is
free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from
fear.”
Confucius
272. “To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope,
and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem
defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though
not easy, is the work of divine man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
273. “Be the best you can be. Nobody can do better than
that.”
John Wooden
274. “Pleasure is and must remain a side effect or a by-
product and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to
which it is made a goal in itself.”
Victor Frankl
275. “There are many times when a man should be
contented with what he has, but never with what he
is.”
James Allen
276. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never
know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
277. “Who supplies another with a constructive thought has
enriched him forever.”
Alfred A. Montapert
278. “The music that can deepest reach, and cure all ill, is
cordial speech.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
279. “Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the
fruit behind it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
281. “In every man there is something wherein I may learn
of him, and in that I am his pupil.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
282. “It is a socialist idea that making a profit is a vice. I
consider the real vice is making losses.”
Winston Churchill
283. “It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of
caution to make a great fortune and when you have
it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.”
Meyer Rothschild
284. “The measure of mental health is the disposition to
find good everywhere.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
285. “Happy is the man who gives and doesn’t remember
and takes and never forgets.”
Harold Berlfein
286. “They are never alone that are accompanied with noble
thoughts.”
Sir Phillip Sidney
287. “I will prepare myself and the opportunity will come.”
Abraham Lincoln
288. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our
thoughts.”
Buddha
289. “The only people you should get even with are the
ones who have been good to you.”
Anonymous
290. “The first step in helping somebody is believing in
them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
291. “He is poor who is dissatisfied with what he has. He is
rich who is content with what he has. And he is
richer who is generous with what he has.”
James Allen
292. “The essential difference between a wise man and a
fool is that the wise man controls his thinking and
the fool is controlled by it.”
James Allen
293. “That best portion of a good man’s life is his little,
nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
William Wordsworth
294. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in
the face.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
295. “The superior man thinks always of virtue;
the common man thinks of comfort.”
Confucius
298. “A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating
that the heart is home.”
Anonymous
299. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
300. “Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them
greatly and they will show themselves great.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
301. “The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives
it, and not according to the work or place.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
302. “I am an old man and have known a great many
troubles, but most of them never happened.”
Mark Twain
303. “It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win
that makes the difference.”
Bear Bryant
304. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a
smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of
which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo Buscaglia
305. “If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to
give your best effort, eventually you will overcome
your immediate problems and find you are ready for
greater challenges.”
Pat Riley
306. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the
best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a
business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It
lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to
serenity and contentment.”
Grenville Kleiser
307. “Any man’s life will be filled with constant and
unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind
to do his level best each day.”
Booker T. Washington
308. “There are no hopeless situations; there are only people
who have grown hopeless about them.”
Clare Boothe
309. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
world.”
Albert Einstein
310. “Competition is the keen cutting edge of business,
always shaving away at costs.”
Henry Ford
311. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim
is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and
we reach it.”
Michelangelo Buonarroti
312. “The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that
is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun.
It’s the one that stands in the open where it is
compelled to struggle for its existence against the
winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
Napoleon Hill
313. “Many people die with music still in them. Why is this
so? Too often it is because they are always getting
ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
314. “I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about
the future, but only in the present can I act. The
ability to be in the present is a major component of
mental wellness.”
Abraham Maslow
315. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most
certain way to succeed is always to try just one more
time.”
Thomas Edison
316. “If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it.
Maintain the high ground when you’re under fire.
No victory is worth winning at the expense of
picking up the mud that has been slung at you and
throwing it back.”
Rubel Shelly
317. “It is better to fill your heart than your stomach. It’s
also healthier.”
Eileen Van Den Berg
318. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted, and behold, service was joy.”
Rabindranath Tagore
319. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the
candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton
320. “I have yet to find the man, however exalted his
station, who did not do better work and put forth
greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a
spirit of criticism.”
Charles Schwab
321. “The world can change in an instant. So can the way
you choose to see it. Why not choose to see the
good in yourself and others.”
Bob Perks
322. “Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the
beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The
important thing is not to retreat; you have to master
yourself.”
Olga Korbut
323. “Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to
sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
Will Rogers
324. “To know what people really think, pay regard to what
they do, rather than what they say.”
Rene Descartes
325. “When you speak of someone or about someone, you
should speak as though they were in the room with
you. The ears that you speak to today are attached
to the mouth that could relay the message
tomorrow.”
William ‘Biddy’ Allen
326. “The greatest gift you and your partner can give your
children is the example of an intimate, healthy,
loving relationship.”
Barbara DeAngelis
327. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take
you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
329. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, and
cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it
is surrendered.”
Michael J. Fox
330. “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the
children of your soul; the blue prints of your
ultimate achievements.”
Napoleon Hill
331. “I’ve had a few arguments with people, but I never
carry a grudge. You know why? While you’re
carrying a grudge, they’re out dancing.”
Buddy Hackett
332. “Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it.
Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it.
Bitterness sickens life; love heals it.
Bitterness blinds life; love anoints it.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
333. “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don’t know how great
you can be! How much you can love! What you
can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
Anne Frank
335. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables
us to count our blessings.”
Eric Hoffer
336. “Treat a man as he appears to be and you make him
worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he
potentially could be, and you make him what he
should be.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
337. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what
we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into
acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a
stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our
past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for
tomorrow.”
Melody Beattie
338. “The greatest revolution of our generation is the
discovery that human beings, by changing the inner
attitudes of their minds, can change the outer
aspects of their lives.”
William James
339. “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a
dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in
the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a
waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of
reality.”
James Allen
340. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant
teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human feelings. The curriculum is so much
necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital
element for the growing plant and for the soul of the
child.”
Carl Jung
341. “My mother taught me very early to believe I could
achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first
was to walk without braces.”
Wilma Rudolph
342. “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in
being able to remake the world…as in being able to
remake ourselves.”
Mahatma Gandhi
343. “Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic
epidemics.”
Carl G. Jung
344. “The debt we owe to the play of imagination is
incalculable.”
Carl Jung
345. “The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind
a sense of security and calm that is not easily
disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their
conflagration which are needed to produce valuable
and lasting results.”
Carl G. Jung
346. “I care not what others think of what I do, but I care
very much about what I think of what I do. That is
character!”
Theodore Roosevelt
347. “There has never yet been a man in our history who led
a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
Theodore Roosevelt
348. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well,
neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it
daily.”
Zig Ziglar
349. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter
and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little
things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
Kahlil Gibran
350. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better
and happier. Be the living expression of God’s
kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your
eyes, kindness in your smile.”
Mother Teresa
351. “In theory there is no difference between theory and
practice. In practice there is.”
Yogi Berra
352. “Every age needs men who will redeem the time by
living with a vision of things that are to be.”
Adlai Stevenson
353. “Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our
might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as
we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop
learning.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
354. “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But
deep down below the surface of the average
conscience a still, small voice says to us, something
is out of tune.”
Carl G. Jung
355. “Great men are those who see that thought rules the
world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
356. “The only true gift is a portion of yourself.”
` Ralph Waldo Emerson
357. “Judge of your natural character by what you do in
your dreams.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
358. “Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
359. “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes
true happiness. It is not attained through self-
gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy
purpose.”
Helen Keller
360. “He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of
the power to love.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
361. “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in
advancing toward what will be.”
Kahlil Gibran
362. “Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a
philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into
true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is
sound and healthy.”
Lin Yutang
363. “If people would move the world, they must first move
themselves.”
Plato
364. “Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of
others. If you have that awareness, you have good
manners no matter what fork you use.”
Emily Post
365. “If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to
almost anything.”
Fred Menger
366. “Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of
stupidity.”
Frank W. Leahy
367. “The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But
the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the
art resides.”
Arthur Schnabel
368. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than
him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest
victory is over self.”
Aristotle
369. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be
what we know we could be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
370. “God comes to the hungry in the form of food.”
Mahatma Gandhi
371. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of
two chemical substances: if there is any reaction,
both are transformed.”
Carl Jung
372. “Remember that there is nothing stable in human
affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity,
or undue depression in adversity.”
Socrates
373. “The best inheritance a parent can give to his children
is a few minutes of their time each day.”
M. Grundler
374. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor
the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to
change.”
Charles Darwin
376. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world; indeed,
it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
377. “To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of
human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of
all other virtues.”
John Locke
378. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in
nature nor do the children of man as a whole
experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the
long run than outright exposure. Life is either a
daring adventure, or nothing.”
Helen Keller
379. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them to become what they are capable
of being.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
380. “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you
think you’re not.”
Unknown
381. “As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so
love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”
Helen Keller
382. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can
the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and
success achieved.”
Helen Keller
383. “To be what we are, and to become what we are
capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
384. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All
that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
Helen Keller
385. “The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt
with the heart.”
Helen Keller
386. “The world is moved along, not only by the mighty
shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny
pushes of each honest worker.”
Helen Keller
387. “Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires
the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance
oneself on a bicycle.”
Helen Keller
388. “We can do anything we want if we stick to it long
enough.”
Helen Keller
389. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller
390. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the
talented individual from the successful one is a lot of
hard work.”
Stephen King
391. “Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it
is lived for others.”
Helen Keller
392. “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or
a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and
something else will take its place. If I quit, however,
it lasts forever.”
Lance Armstrong
393. “Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that
incessantly draw great events.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
394. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of
delight just the same.”
Helen Keller
396. “Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who
are more fortunate than we are, we should compare
it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow
men. It then appears that we are among the
privileged.”
Helen Keller
397. “It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with
a great desire forever beating at the door of our
hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”
Helen Keller
398. “It is hard to interest those who have everything in
those who have nothing.”
Helen Keller
399. “I am convinced all of humanity is born with more
gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just
get de-geniused rapidly.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
400. “Your consciousness influences others around you. It
influences material properties. It influences your
future. You are co-creating your future.”
William Tiller
402. “The human heart does not obey the rules of logic: it
is constitutionally contradictory. I can truly say that
I have a great grief and that I am a happy man.”
Paul Tournier
403. “The high minded man must care more for the truth
than for what people think.”
Aristotle
405. “It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be
loved rather than to love others.”
Aristotle
406. “Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be
angry with the right person, to the right degree, at
the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right
way – that is not easy,”
Aristotle
407. “In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall
to those who show their good qualities in action.”
Aristotle
408. “A dominant motive even affects what we don't say, or
do, quite as much as it shapes our conduct.”
Unknown
409. “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of
circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set
of attitudes.”
Hugh Downs
410. “A liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not
believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
George Bernard Shaw
425. “By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy;
but in passing over it, he is superior.”
Frances Bacon
426. “Children have never been very good at listening to
their elders, but they have never failed to imitate
them.”
James Baldwin
427. “Conscience is the root of all courage; if a man would
be brave, let him obey his conscience.”
James Freeman Clarke
428. “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish
a man's growth without destroying his roots.”
Frank A. Clark
429. “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of
choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing
to be achieved.”
Wm. Jennings Bryant
430. “Do not debate about the truth... live it.”
James Allen
431. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
New Testament
432. “Don't wait until the time or the market is just right to
start investing -- start now. The best time to plant an
oak tree was twenty years ago- the second best time
is now.”
James Stowers
433. “Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a
picture, which was never seen before and which
shall never be seen again.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
434. “Estate Planning: the orderly conversion of your estate
to fees and commissions.”
Unknown
435. “Everyone thinks of changing the world. But no one
thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy
436. “Example is not the main thing in influencing
others. It is the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer
438. “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing
for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections
than has been lost in corrections themselves.”
Peter Lynch
439. “Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine
less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more,
and all good things will be yours.”
Swedish Proverb
440. “Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase
it and you'll start believing in it.”
Jesse Owens
441. “Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is
often perseverance in disguise.”
Henry Willard Austin
442. “Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger
than any material force; that thoughts rule the
world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
443. “He that always gives way to others will end in having
no principles of his own.”
Aesop
444. “He who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.”
Unknown
446. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
447. “I don't want to do business with those who don't make
a profit because they can't give the best service.”
Lee Bristol
448. “I find more and more that it is well to be on the side
of the minority since it is always the more
intelligent.”
Goethe
449. “I have learned to use the word impossible with great
caution.”
Wernher Von Braun
450. “I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content in
it.”
St. Paul
451. “I never give them hell. I give them truth and they
think it is hell.”
Harry Truman
452. “If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know
that none of his money is tied up in it.”
Verda Ross
453. “If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem,
but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with
over time.”
Shimon Peres
454. “If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-
good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then
you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win
football games for you.”
Paul Bear Bryant
455. “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can
dream it you can become it.”
William Arthur Ward
456. “If you don't know where you are going it doesn't
matter what road you take.”
Unknown
457. “If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will
you have the time to do it over.”
Jeffrey Mayer
458. “If you really want to do something, you'll find a way;
if you don't, you'll find an excuse.”
Unknown
459. “If you want me, you can always find me in the lead
tank.”
General George Patton
460. “If you work for an organization that makes its
decisions by committee, make darn sure you're on
the committee.”
Unknown
461. “In any controversy, the instant we feel anger we have
already ceased striving for the truth and have begun
striving for ourselves.”
Thomas Carlyle
462. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters
of principle, stand like a rock.”
Thomas Jefferson
463. “In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising,
we sell hope.”
Charles Revlon
464. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
465. “Instead of deriving pleasure from what he has, the
envious person derives pain from what others have.”
Bertrand Russell
466. “It is belief that increases your chances for success. If
you don't believe, you won't try as hard.”
Arnold Van Den Berg
467. “It is better to displease people by doing what you
know is right, than to temporarily please them by
doing what is wrong.”
William Boetcker
468. “It is possible to own too much. A man with one
watch knows what time it is; a man with two
watches is never quite sure.”
Lee Segall
469. “It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not
only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”
Eric Hoffer
470. “Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.”
Horace
471. “Long is the night to him who is awake. Long is a mile
to him who is tired. Long is life to the foolish who
do not know the true law.”
Buddha
472. “Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.”
Moshe Ibn Ezra
479. “No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated
and disciplined.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
480. “No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his
own character.”
Robes Pierre
481. “No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
482. “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new
heaven to the human spirit.”
Helen Heller
483. “Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction
of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all
such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually
happening to the companies in which you've
invested.”
Peter Lynch
484. “Nothing can prevent you from learning the truth so
much as the belief that you already know it.”
Jon K. Hart
485. “Old age isn't so bad when you consider the
alternative.”
Maurice Chevalier
486. “Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and
rests on its early work, its progress stops.”
Thomas J. Watson
495. “Remember that a person who is foolish with money is
foolish in other ways too.”
Unknown
496. “Remember that not getting what you want is
sometimes a stroke of luck.”
The Dalai Lama
497. “Reputations are made by searching for things that
can't be done and doing them.”
Frank Tyger
498. “Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
William Shakespeare
499. “Seek out men and women of the highest character and
integrity over and beyond competence or superior
ability. Then trust these people with the full
authority and responsibility of the positions they
occupy so that they could achieve the pride and
self-satisfaction of a job well done.”
William S. Paley
500. “Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for
success in life, no matter what may be one's aims.”
John D. Rockefeller
501. “Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage
is the only thing.”
Winston Churchill
502. “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of
history is the most important of all of the lessons of
history.”
Aldous Huxley
503. “The arrow is always tipped with ill nature and
sarcasm is the deadliest to him to send it.”
Prentice Mulford
504. “The chief losses to investor come from the purchase
of low-quality securities at times of favorable
business conditions.”
Benjamin Graham
505. “The crowd is most enthusiastic and optimistic when it
should be cautious and prudent; and is most fearful
when it should be bold.”
Humphrey Neill
506. “The cynic sees the evil in his own heart and thinks he
sees the world.”
James Allen
507. “The danger of the past was that men became slaves.
The danger of the future is that men may become
robots.”
Eric Fromm
508. “The deepest principle of human nature is the craving
to be appreciated.”
William James
509. “The easy way to teach children the value of money is
to borrow from them.”
Unknown
510. “The future holds little hope for any government where
the present holds no hope for the people.”
Lyndon Johnson
511. “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it
is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he
discovers that someone else believes in him and is
willing to trust him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
512. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human
beings may alter their lives by altering their attitudes
of mind.”
William James
513. “The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should
expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be
concerned by sizable declines not become excited by
sizable advances.”
Benjamin Graham
514. “The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is
their power to harm us.”
Voltaire
515. “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we
counted our spoons.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
516. “The nature of man is always the same; it is their
habits that separate them.”
Confucius
517. “The nice thing about egoist is that they don't talk
about other people.”
Lucille S. Harper
518. “The only fool greater than the one that thinks he
knows it all is the one who argues with him.”
Unknown
519. “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small
voice within me.”
Mahatma Gandhi
520. “The road is never long when going to the home of a
friend.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
522. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the
grandest intention.”
Unknown
523. “The strong are those who show compassion for the
weak, for they are able to resist the vanity of their
strength.”
Unknown
524. “The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
William Blake
525. “The world is moving so fast these days that the man
who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by
someone doing it.”
Elbert Hubbard
526. “There is enough for everybody's needs, but not
enough for everybody's greed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
527. “There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.”
Unknown
528. “There is no more miserable human being than one in
whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
William James
529. “There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know
yourself, know your business, know your men.”
Randall Jacobs
530. “There is nothing so wasteful as doing with great
efficiency that which does not have to be done at
all.”
Unknown
531. “Those who never back down love themselves more
than they love the truth.”
Joseph Joubert
532. “To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to
remember it.”
Unknown
533. “To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope,
and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem
defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though
not easy, is the work of divine man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
534. “To the world you may be one person. To the person
you may be the world.”
Unknown
535. “Treat people as if he were what they ought to be and
you help them become what they are capable of
being.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
536. “Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
537. “Unless you can watch your stock holdings decline by
50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should
not be in the stock market.”
Warren Buffett
538. “Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be
silent if none of the birds sang, except for the best.”
Henry Van Dyke
539. “We are slow to believe that which if believed would
hurt our feelings.”
Ovid
540. “We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we
respect that of others, without fearing it.”
Thomas Jefferson
541. “We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred
human responsibility.”
Albert Einstein
542. “We learn more by welcoming criticism than by
remembering judgment.”
J. Jelnek
543. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life
by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
544. “What a man thinks, he does, what he does, he is.”
James Allen
545. “What we see depends mainly on what we are looking
for.”
John Lubbock
546. “Whatever you are trying to avoid won't go away until
you confront it.”
Unknown