Category: quotations
Fear and Fortitude
It is your attitude, more than your aptitude, that will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
While there’s life, there’s hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
…that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.
John Burroughs
If time and space,as sages say are things which cannot be, the sun which does not feel decay no greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray to live a century? The butterfly that lives a day has lived eternity.
T.S. Elliot
We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this profound feeling there is something higher than ourselves.
Rudolf Steiner
To me, the biggest attraction is a woman’s charisma, her soul, her inner strength.
Fabio Lanzoni
Learning from History
Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
Maya Angelou
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”…You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
It is your attitude, more than your aptitude, that will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
No sailor ever learned anything in calm seas.
Captain Lee
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
The only thing new in this world is the history you don’t know.
Harry S. Truman
You may delay, but Time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.
Unknown
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
Sudden events cannot be handled by the unprepared mind.
Mo Di
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machievelli
Listen Up
Lately, I’ve become acutely aware at what a problem our society seems to have as a whole with the ability to listen to one another. Perhaps these quotes will help.
The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent’.
Alfred Brendel
No one is as deaf as the man who does not listen.
Proverb
Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen R. Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
Dalai Lama
Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet.
Krista Tippet
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
Zeno of Citium as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Doug Larsen
One of the most sincerest forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant H. McGill
If speaking is silver, than listening is gold.
Turkish Proverb
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Big egos have little ears.
Robert Schuller
Whoever answers before listening is both foolish and shameful.
Proverbs 18:13
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
M. Scott Peck
Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix