Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Daily Quotes

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Attempt the impossible in order to improve you work.
- Bette Davis

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
- Doug Larson

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
- Alan Ashley-Pitt

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants. The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

- James Fenimore Cooper

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before. To test your limits. To break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anaïs Nin

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
- Anne Sullivan

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- M. Kathleen Casey

No comments: