"I am often asked how radio works. Well, you see, wire telegraphy is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he meows in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Now, radio is exactly the same, except that there is no cat."
― Albert Einstein
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
― Walt Disney
“By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.”
― Jack Canfield
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama
“Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.”
― Harvey Mackay
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
― Pele
“Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.”
― Chuck Knox
“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.”
― Gillian Anderson
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
― H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.”
― William Arthur Ward
“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”
― Jim Lovell
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
― Harry S. Truman
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
― Muhammad Ali
“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.”
― Will Rogers
“ Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. ”
― Jim Rohn
“ Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. ”
― Johnny Carson
“While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you're having fun, you'll find you are having fun.”
― Jean Chatzky
“What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.”
― Russell Simmons
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
― Robert H. Schuller
“People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the change to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.”
― Frank Sinatra
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
― Lao Tzu
“Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.”
― J. Donald Walters
“So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.”
― Stephen J. Cannell
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
― Winston Churchill
“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”
― Bob Feller
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.”
― Brendon Burchard
“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”
― Brian Tracy
“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”
― Saint Augustine
“Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
― William Arthur Ward
“Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.”
― Melody Beattie
“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”
― Ben Carson
“Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people... but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”
― Zig Ziglar
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”
― Zig Ziglar
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”
― Hans Selye
“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
― Katharine Hepburn
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
― Dale Carnegie
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
― Joyce Brothers
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.”
― Wayne Dyer
“A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.”
― Christopher Paolini
“Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. The easiest way to escape from the problem is to solve it.”
― Unknown
Quotes are from thoughtful-mind.com