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Procrastination Quotes
2008-02-19 05:47:28
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. -Jerry West (LA Lakers). Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. -Kim Lyons. Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small. -Irene Kassorla. Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. -Robert Schuller. Anyone can do any amount of work providing it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. -Robert Benchley. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today. -Wayne Dyer. Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow ! -Don Herold. I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. . -Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat, 1889). I'm going to stop put ...
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Laziness
2008-02-17 14:44:14
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -Charlie McCarthy. Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. -Walter Chrysler. People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. -Bob Hope. Anybody can exercise... But this kind of lethargy takes real discipline. -Garfield. Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired. -Jules Renard. Laziness is the mother of efficiency. -Marian Propp. It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? -Ronald Reagan. Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. -Will Rogers. I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. -Agatha Christie. A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion. -Unknown. My only ...
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Heaven
2008-02-10 15:46:55
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. -Rabindranath Tagore. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. -William Shakespeare. Heaven never helps the man who will not act. -Sophocles. Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death. -Seneca. In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell. -Lord Byron. Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. -Henry Ward Beecher. Heaven means to be one with God. -Confucius. Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there. -Chinese Proverb. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. -Fra Giovanni. Heaven .... the treasury of everlasting life. -William Shakespeare. Thinking about Heaven can inspire and encourage us to be more heavenly-minded and realize that Heaven is a real place where we're really going to live. -David Brandt Berg. Heaven is a beautiful place to be ...
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Success.
2008-02-07 02:27:37
Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value. -Albert Einstein. Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. -Henry Drummond. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. -Euripides. Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. -Theodore T. Hunger. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. -Robert Collier. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. -Arthur Golden. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt. It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. -Vince Lombardi. Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. -George Eliot. The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your go ...
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Inspiration
2008-01-27 10:28:28
Three things in human life are important The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. -William James. If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. -Maria Edgeworth. A calm and peaceful mind is a very important factor in good health. We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. -C. Malesherbes. We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. -Stephen Covey . The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. -Booker T. Washington. Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs. -Michael Levine. Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -Thomas Dewar. Those who practice loving, gentle, harmonious spee ...
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Daughter Quotes.
2008-01-25 17:18:27
If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. -Thomas Fuller. A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer. -Author Unknown. A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. -Irish Saying. A daughter is a miracle that never ceases to be miraculous...full of beauty and forever beautiful...loving and caring and truly amazing. -Deanna Beisser. No mother-in-law ever remembers that she was once a daughter-in-law. -Unknown. Chance made you my daughter; love made you my friend. -Unknown. Whether your daughter is still a little girl or a grown-up woman, she'll always remain as your girl and will hold a special place in your heart. Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence — that they may be true and faithful. -Elmina S. Taylor. A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the ...
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Father Quotes
2008-01-19 14:39:58
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. -William Wordsworth.The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. -Confucius.One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. -English Proverb.A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. -Author Unknown.A wise son maketh a glad father. -Proverbs 10:1.It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. -Johann Schiller.It is a wise child that knows his own father. -Homer.Father: a role model who gives the gifts of guidance and wisdom while learning how to stretch his ability to love beyond what he knew was possible. Let us teach them not only to do virtuously, but to excel. To excel they must be taught to be steady, active, and industrious. -John Adams.A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential. -David Jeremiah (Quoted in Fathers Who Dare to Win by Ian Grant, 1999).I talk and talk and ...
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Flower Quotes
2008-01-17 19:17:24
A garden is a friend you can visit anytime.A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -H. L. Mencken (1880 — 1956) Earth laughs in flowers.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 — 1887).Flowers are our greatest silent friends. -Jim Brown.Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. -Chinese Proverb.Flowers have a time to re-blossom, but human beings are never young again. -Chinese Proverb.Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. -Gerard de Nerval.In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. -Kozuko Okakura.Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -Arthur C. Coxe.He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. -Mary Howitt.Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -Victor Hugo.I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house. -George ...
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Technology Quotes
2007-12-16 15:21:58
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. -Mark Kennedy. We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. -Carl Sagan. The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -Antoine de Saint. The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. -E. F. Schumacher. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -Elbert Hubbard. Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. -Carrie P. Snow. I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about ...
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Action Quotes.
2007-11-21 18:15:35
"Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny." Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. -Mother Teresa. Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin. Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -Benjamin Disraeli. Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory. -Mahatma Gandhi. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers. If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all. -Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud. We call it infectious impatience. ...
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Japanese Quotes & Proverbs.
2007-11-20 17:30:42
Laughter cannot bring back what anger has driven away. Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands. Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth. One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. You don't have to die heaven and hell are in this world too. Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there. One kind word can warm three winter months. The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. Fix the problem, not the blame. When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead. Fall seven times, stand up eight. One kindness is the price of another. Only lawyers and painters can turn white to black. The day you decide to do it ...
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Greed Quotes.
2007-11-18 18:41:24
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. -Frank Buchman. Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. -Ivan F. Boesky. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. -Malcolm X. A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same. -Swiss Proverb. There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. -Buddha. Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. -Janwillem van de Wetering. What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more h ...
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Fools !!! (22)
2007-11-15 14:18:02
Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. -Plato. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Abraham Lincoln. "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." -The Bible. The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.-Buddha (563 - 483 BC). " When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. " -Nelson Mandela. A fool and his money are easily parted. -Proverb. Idleness is a fool's desire. -Proverb. " Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. " -Andre Maurois. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -Alexandre Dumas. Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool. -Irish Proverb. He who asks is a fool for five ...
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Vegetarian Quotes
2007-11-14 18:36:01
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -Paul McCartney.There is a great deal of truth to the idea that you will eventually become what you eat. -Mohandas K. Gandhi To my mind the life of the lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless the creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man. -Mohandas K. GandhiTruly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. -Leonardo da Vinci"...by increasing plant-based food and lessening animal products such as dairy, eggs, meat, cheese and butter, you will benefit in the long run." -Natalie Ledesma, MS, RD It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to d ...
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Love Quotes.
2007-11-14 14:43:46
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu. Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. Love means never having to say you are sorry. A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium. It is terrible to be alone, and it is terrible to be in love, but one is cheaper than the other. Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit. Where there is great love, there are always wishes. It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Love waits for one thing, the right moment. You don' ...
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Excellence Quotes.
2007-11-09 18:48:39
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations. -George Bernard Shaw . Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.-Lucius Annaeus Seneca. No crime is so great as daring to excel. -Winston Churchill. Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best. -Anon . Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. -Henry Ward Beecher. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit. -Aristotle. Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. -Fernando Flores. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. -Mark H. McCormack. I have th ...
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May the festival of lights brighten up you and your near and dear ones lives !
2007-11-09 18:25:01
Happy Diwali!The word "Diwali"is derived from the Sanskrit word "Deepavali", which is composed of two words - Deepa meaning Light and Avali meaning a Row. It means a row of lights and indeed illumination forms its main attraction. Diwali leads us into Truth and Light and is celebrated on Amavasya.Happy Diwali!Diwali is one of the most popular festivals of India and of Hindus. Diwali celebrations one of the most eagerly awaited festivals in the Indian subcontinent. It is colloquially known as the "festival of lights", for the common practice is to light small diyas (oil lamps) and place them around the home, in courtyards, verandahs, and gardens, as well as on roof-tops and outer walls. In urban areas, especially, candles are substituted for diyas; and among the nouveau riche, neon lights are made to substitute for candles.The celebration of the festival is invariably accompanied by the exchange of sweets and the explosion of fireworks. As with other Indian festivals, Diwali signifies ...
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Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi (25)
2007-11-08 15:35:25
Mohandas Karamchand GandhiBorn: October 2, 1869, Porbandar, Gujarat, India.Died: January 30, 1948, New Delhi, India.Click Here to Know More about "Mahatma Gandhi"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.Good government is no substitute for self-government.If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.A coward is incapable of exhibiting love.. it is the prerogative of the brave.A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of the truth.First t ...
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