"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

"We must always have the courage to point to the furthest horizon we can see, so that those near us can learn to be far-sighted too, and follow the same path not because they tread in our footprints, but because they are trying to reach the same landmark."
- Joan Grant
Scarlet Feather, 1945
"If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that change."
- Michael Jackson
"Man In The Mirror" - Bad Album
"If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn."
- Andrew V. Mason, M.D.


"A leader is not appointed because he knows everything and can make every decision. He is appointed to bring together the knowledge that is available and then create the prerequisites for the work to be done."
- Jan Carlzon
President of Scandinavian Airlines
Moments of Truth, 1987
"One filled with joy preaches without preaching."
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)




"We gladly go through hell for the leader who asks the impossible of us - provided that, when we give it, he shares with us the right to think better of ourselves in the measure of our efforts!"
- Whiting Williams
"What Every Worker Wants", Connecticut Industry, May, 1951
"The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects. . . When his task is accomplished and his work done the people all say, 'It happened to us naturally'."
- Tao Te Ching
D. C. Lau translation, 1963
"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds."
- R.D. Laing (1927-1989)
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self . . . Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions."
- Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, 1989
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
- Chinese proverb


"You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind."
- Herbert V. Prochnow & Herbert V. Prochnow, Jr.
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
- Doug Larson
"Write injuries in sand, kindness in marble."
- French proverb
"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live and Learn and Pass It On
"It does not really matter what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us. We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who are being questioned by life."
- Victor E. Frankl (1905-1997)
Man's Search For Meaning, 1946

"No matter how good your vision, you wont find what you are looking for unless you are looking in the right direction."
- Brett Bischel (Me!, 1995)

"The experience and expression in materiality is short, and know that to be absent from the body is to be present with that ye have worshiped. Ask thine inner self, then, "What do I worship?" ... seek thou the things that are eternal."
- Edgar Cayce (1877-1945)
reading 2564-3, 7/10/41

"You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-loss record of the referee."
- John H. Holcomb
".. you should avoid the temptation of thinking that your dreams can be realized only in some far-off place. If you think that way, you'll neglect the possibilities in your immediate surroundings."
- Eiji Yoshidawa
Musashi, 1981
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
- Doug Larson
United Feature Syndicate
"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
- Kin Hubbard (1868-1930)
"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Atlas Shrugged, 1957

".. the dark barrier called fear may be high and imposing, but it is often exceedingly thin."
- Ralph Kinney Bennett
"One Hot Afternoon in July"
"It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."
- Marilyn Moats Kennedy
"Across the Board"

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Elanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."
- Doug Floyd
Spokesman Review in Spokane, WA
"Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life."
- Jim Fox
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986)
"We view others not by how wise and talented they are, but rather by how wise and talented they make us feel."
- Brett Bischel (Me!, 1996)
"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
- Segal's Law
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward."
- Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
The Act of Creation, 1964

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.)
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"When facing adversity, remember that it's the stormy seas that create the most beautiful coast lines."
- Brett Bischel (Me!, 1996)
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life's Little Instruction Book, Rutledge Hill
"You don't get a silver medal running for second. You get a silver medal running for first."
- Michael Johnson
1996 Olympic gold medalist, mens 200M & 400M
"The faster you chase a rainbow, the quicker it moves away. Sometimes it is best to just enjoy the beauty from exactly where you stand."
- Brett Bischel (Me!, 1996)
"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their actions. "
- Harold Nicolson
"The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands during challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

"Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing."
- Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, HarperCollins
"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you."
- Dennis A. Peer
National Enquirer
"It is not in the failing that a man is judged, but by the lack of his efforts."
- Taylor Caldwell (1900-1995)
Dear And Glorious Physician, 1959
"We see what we have some reason for seeing, above all what we believe we are going to see. If the reason or the belief is upset, we see something else."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Esquire, Aug 1942

"The more I practice, the luckier I get."
- Gary Player, golfer
"...do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot ..."
- The Holy Bible, Matthew 7.6
"If I had eight hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend seven sharpening my axe."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Life doesn't giveaway artwork. However, it does provide each of us with the canvas to create our own unique work of art."
- Brett Bischel (Me!, 1997)
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

". . . you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back."
- Unknown
"Some people feel that taking the freeway is the fastest way to arrive at their destination. Always living life for tomorrow, and looking back at the 'good old days.' However, by admiring the uniqueness and beauty of the back-roads, your route becomes your destination. Live for today, and tomorrow will come."
- Brett Bischel (Me!, 1998)
"One cannot step twice into the same river."
- Herakleitos
Herakleitos & Diogenes, translated by Guy Davenport, 1979
"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
- Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance, 1974

"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."
- Tao Te Ching
"You should always seek a good vantage point to learn from your competition. Being the leader is only important at the finish line."
- Brett Bischel (Me!, 1998)
"Learn the rules well, and then forget them."
- Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
"Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves."
- Nagarjuna, second-century Buddhist philosopher
"People do not care how much I know until they know how much I care."
- Walter Putnam
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
- Woody Allen



"Speak about yourself, not about [others]. If you make a statement about them that they believe is untrue, they will ignore you or get angry; they will not focus on your concern. But a statement about how you feel is difficult to challenge. You convey the same information without provoking a defensive reaction that will prevent them from taking it in."
- Roger Fisher and William Ury
Getting To Yes
"The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to."
- Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The Way of Chuang Tzu, 1965

"The Key is not to prioritize what's on you schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
- Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, 1989
"If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times in a day you are disturbed."
- Sri Swami Rama (1925-1996)

"Dream big dreams and quit worrying about waking up."
- Walter Putnam
"It is much harder to ask the right question than it is to find the right answer to the wrong question."
- E. E. Morison


"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything."
- Unknown
"Some may say that a great white shark is a stronger and a more vicious animal than a field mouse. But if you placed a mouse and a great white shark together in a barn, the mouse will be the victor. We all have our individual strengths and weaknesses."
- Brett Bischel (Me!, 1999)
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
- Hellen Keller (1880-1968)
The Book Of Positive Quotations, by John Cook
"Heaven is not a place that we go to, it is a place that we grow to, on the arm of someone we have helped."
- Edgar Cayce (1877-1945)
The Place We Call Home, by Robert J. Grant
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin (1809 -1882)

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
- Sun Tzu
"People do what works. Identify the payoffs that drive your behavior and that of others."
- Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
Life Strategies, 1999

"Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit."
- Ronald Regan

"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to defeat the armies of your enemies without ever having to fight them."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath."
- The Holy Bible, James 1.19


"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
"We teach people how to treat us. Own, rather than complain about, how people treat you"
- Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
Life Strategies, 1999

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."
- Elizabeth Bibesco (1897-1945)
"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
- Mary Kay Ash

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
- Greek proverb
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- William James (1842-1910)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)

"The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers."
- Walter Percy Chrysler (1875-1940)
"If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another."
- Epicurus (c. 341-271 BCE)
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich - simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
- Henry Miller (1891-1980)
"Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
“We are here in this world to learn, to teach, and to enjoy. When all three parts are in balance, they blend into one.”
- Brett Bischel (Me! 2003)

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."
- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)



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Home Page. Brett's Collection Of Favorite Quotes.
Family Pictures Page. Alexander's Pictures Page.
Marisa's Pictures Page. The Golf Page.
Brett's Blackjack Page.
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