collection of sayings

2. Anxiety
Anxiety is the
dizziness of freedom.
– Soren Kierkegaard

3. Attitude
“Attitude is a little thing that
makes a big difference.”
– Unknown

4. Books
“Books are the quietest and most
constant of friends: they are the
most accessible and wisest of
counsellors, and the most
patient of teachers.”
– Charles W. Eliot

5. Creativity
“Creativity is inventing,
experimenting, growing, taking
risks, breaking rules, making
mistakes, having fun.”
– Mary Lou Cook

6. Confidence
“Confidence comes not from
always being right but from
not fearing to be wrong.”
– Peter T. McIntyre

7. Democracy
“The test of democracy is
freedom of criticism.”
– David Ben-Gurion

8. Decision
“Nothing is more difficult, and
therefore more precious,
than to be able to decide.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

9. Events
“Events will take their course,
it is no good
of being angry at them.”
– Euripides

10. Excellence
“Excellence is to do a common
thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington

11. Future
“My interest is in the future,
because I am going to spend the
rest of my life there.”
– Charles F. Kettering

12. Give
“Give to every human being
every right that you claim
for yourself.”
– Robert Ingersoil

13. History
“History is gossip but, scandal
is gossip made tedious
by morality.”
– Oscar Wilde

14. Hold
“Hold a true friend with
both hands.”
– Nigerian Proverb

15. I
“I think, therefore I am.”
– Descartes

16. Imagination
“Imagination is the beginning of
creation. You imagine what you
desire, you will what you imagine
and at last you create what you will.”
– George Bernard Shaw

17. Intelligence
“Intelligence is what we use
when we don't know what to do,
when we have to grope rather
than using a standard response.”
– Jean Piaget

18. Journalism
“Journalism largely consists in
saying ‘Lord Jones is dead’ to
people who never knew
Lord Jones was alive.”
– G. K. Chesterton

19. Knowing
“Knowing others is wisdom.
Knowing oneself is
enlightenment.”
– Lao Tzu

20. Knowledge
“Knowledge is knowing... or
knowing where to find out.”
– Alvin Toffler

21. Learning
“Learning is weightless, a
treasure you can
always carry easily.”
– Chinese Proverb

22. Library
“A library is a hospital
for the mind.”
– Unknown

23. Luck
“Luck is what happens when
preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca

24. Man
“Man ruins things much more
with his words than
with his silence.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

25. Money
“Money is the great power today.
Men sell their souls for it.
Women sell their bodies for it.”
– Joseph Pulitzer

26. Nature
“Nature knows no indecencies;
man invents them.”
– Mark Twain

27. Newspaper
“I don't so much mind that
newspapers are dying - its
watching them commit suicide
that pisses me off.”
– Molly Ivins

28. Optimism
“Optimism is the cheerful frame
of mind that enables a
teakettle to sing, though in
hot water up to its nose.”
– Unknown

29. Originality
quot;Originality is nothing but
judicious imitation.”
– Voltaire

30. People
“People rise to the challenge
when it is their challenge.”
– Belasco & Stayer

31. Politics
“Politics: A strife of interests
masquerading as
a contest of principles.”
– Ambrose Bierce

32. Poverty
“None is poor save him that
lacks knowledge.”
– The Talmud

33. Quality
“Mere allocation of huge
sums of money for quality
will not bring quality.”
– W. Edwards Deming

34. Religion
“Religion is regarded by the
common people as true, by the
wise as false, and
by the rulers as useful.”
– Seneca

35. Silence
“Silence never won rights. They
are not handed down
from above; they are forced
by pressures from below.”
– Roger Baldwin

36. Success
“Success is the prize
for those who stand true
to their ideas.”
– Josh S. Hinds

37. Treason
“If you maintain a consistent
political position long enough,
you’ll eventually be accused
of treason.”
– Mort Sahl

38. Understanding
“Seek first to understand, then
to be understood.”
– Stephen R. Covey

39. Vision
“Seeing is auditing life.
Vision is interpreting life so
that others may see it.”
– Ross Perot

40. We
“We hang the petty thieves
and appoint the great ones to
public office.”
– Aesop

41. Words
“Words are the
voice of the heart.”
– Confucius

42. Worry
“Worry is the interest paid
on trouble, before it falls due.”
– W.R. Inge

43. You
“You are what you
think about all day long.”
– Dr. Robert Schuller

44. Youth
“Youth is not entirely a time of
life; it is a state of mind.”
– Douglas Mac Arthur

45. Zeal
“Never let your zeal outrun
your charity. The former is
but human, the latter is divine”
– Hosea Ballou

46. Compiled by
Hilary Richard Sam
kodwobrumpon@hotmail.com