It is better to light a candle
than to curse the darkness
“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”
(Yoda, in The Empire Strikes Back)
“I not only use all the brains I
have, but all that I can borrow”
(Woodrow Wilson)
A spotless house is the sign of a
misspent life!
“Whether you believe you can do a
thing or not, you are right”
(Henry Ford)
If you aim high at least you won’t
shoot yourself in the foot
“I have so much to do today, I will
have to meditate for twice as long”
(Mahatma Gandhi)
“Accept that some days you’re the
pigeon,
and some days you’re the statue”
“You can’t teach a man
anything, you can only help him
to find it within himself”
(Galileo)
The only person who likes change is a
wet baby
“When I was 20 I thought my
father to be a complete and
utter fool...
now I am 25, I am amazed how
much he has learned in the last
5 years”
(Mark Twain)
“What counts is not the number
of hours you put in, but what
you put into those hours”
“Live now, procrastinate later”
(Robert Holden
founder of the Happiness Project)
“In order to succeed, double
your failure rate”
(Thomas Watson, founder of
IBM)
“If you have to eat a frog, don’t
spend too long looking at it!”
(Mark Twain)
Progress not perfection!
The nice thing about not planning is that
failure comes as a complete surprise…
rather than being preceded by a period of
worry and depression”
(Sir John Harvey Jones)
Unless you clear about your aim, you may be
lucky to achieve it!
“A truly happy person is one who
can enjoy the scenery on a detour”
If it were a logical world
– men would ride side-saddle
not women!
Some day is not a day of the
week!
“It wasn’t raining when Noah built
the ark”
(Howard Ruff)
Visions without actions are a dream...
But actions without vision are a nightmare!
My two-year-old son Cole has a working
vocabulary of seven words…
two of them are ‘hurry’ and ‘go’
(Tracie Reveal,Electronic Data
Systems)
Don’t put off for tomorrow what
you can do today,
because if you enjoy it today
you can do it again tomorrow
“Eighty percent of life is just showing up”
(Woody Allen)
“When you want what you’ve never had,
you must do what you’ve never done”
“A deadline is a negative inspiration…
Still, it’s better than no inspiration”
(Rita Mae Brown)
“Planning is an unnatural process…
it is much more fun to do something!”
(Sir John Harvey Jones)
“Vision without action is just dreaming...
action without vision just passes the time…
“Vision without action is just dreaming...
action without vision just passes the time…
Vision – plus action – can change the world”
(Joel Barker)
“We learn to do something by
doing it. There is no other way”
(John Holt)
A vision is important
because if you don’t stand
for something
you can fall over anything
Blessed are the flexible for they
shall not be bent out of shape.
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs
now, bump bump, bump,
on the back of his head
behind Christopher Robin…
it is, as far as he knows, the only way
of coming downstairs,
but sometimes he feels that there
really is another way…
…if only he could stop bumping
for a minute and think of it”
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs
now, bump bump, bump,
on the back of his head
behind Christopher Robin…
it is, as far as he knows, the only way
of coming downstairs,
but sometimes he feels that there
really is another way…
…if only he could stop bumping
for a minute and think of it”
“The mind is like a parachute: it
only works when it is open”
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter
by yourself”
(Chinese proverb)
If there were no difficulties, there
would be no triumphs.
“Be curious always! For knowledge
will not acquire you, you must
acquire it’”
(Sudie Back)
“Learning is not
compulsory…neither is survival”
(W Edward Fleming)
“I never let my schooling interfere
with my education”
(Mark Twain)
“A mind stretched by learning never
regains its original dimensions”
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Some students drink deeply at the
fountain of knowledge – others only
gargle.
“Men learn while they teach”
(Seneca)
“I am always ready to learn, but I do
not always like being taught”
(Churchill)
Man learns little from success, but much
from failure
(Arabic proverb)
“If you think education is
expensive – try ignorance”
(Derek Bok, Harvard)
You are what you learn
Some people learn from experience.
Some people never recover from it!
“The illiterate of the next decade
will not be the person who cannot
read…
it will be the person who does not
know how to learn”
(Alvin Toffler)
“The illiterate of the next decade
will not be the person who cannot
read…
it will be the person who does not
know how to learn”
(Alvin Toffler)
“If at first you don’t succeed, remove
all evidence that you ever tried!”
(David Brent)
Coaching is helping someone to
achieve their goals by themselves,
though not on their own.
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea
when it is the only one you have”
(Emile Chartier, French Philosopher)
You don’t stop playing because you grow
old, you grow old because you stop playing!
“Many people stumble over the truth…
then pick themselves up and continue as if
nothing had happened”
(Winston Churchill)
He who is afraid of asking is afraid of
learning.
(Danish proverb)
“Those who are in love with learning
are in love with life”
(Charles Handy)
“People who are only good with hammers
see every problem as a nail”
(Abraham Maslow)
“As you get older, three things go.
The first is your memory…
and I can’t remember the other two.”
(Norman Wisdom in his 80s)
“As you get older, three things go.
The first is your memory…
and I can’t remember the other two.”
(Norman Wisdom in his 80s)
“He who laughs, lasts”
(Mary Pettibone Pools)
“Nothing would be done at all if a
man waited until he could do it so
well that no one could find fault
with it”
On average, a 5 year old laughs 150 times a
day...
and a 45 year old laughs 5 times a day!
Poor is a state of mind
broke is a state of pocket
“Learning is suddenly understanding
something you’ve understood all your life –
but in a new way”
(Doris Lessing)
“Whatever the mind of man can
conceive and believe – it can
achieve!”
(Napoleon Hill)
It takes 42 separate muscles to frown but
only 28 to smile.
“I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have”
(Thomas Jefferson)
“Winners never quit
Quitters never win”
“You become what you think about”
(Earl Nightingale)
The Senility Prayer
“God, grant me the senility to forget
the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do,
and the eyesight to tell the difference!”
The Senility Prayer
“God, grant me the senility to forget
the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do,
and the eyesight to tell the difference!”
“It’s difficult to say what’s impossible, for
the dream of yesterday is the hope of
today…
and the reality of tomorrow”
(RH Goddard)
“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original
school of education”
(Smiley Blanton)
“While one person hesitates
because he feels inferior, the
other is busy making mistakes
and becoming superior”
(Henry C Link)
“No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent”
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
“Treat people as if they were what they
ought to be…
and you help them become what they are
capable of being”
(Goethe)
“Discontent is the first step in progress”
“I not only use all the brains I have,
but all that I can borrow”
“Within every moment there is an
opportunity. The gift is to see it”
(Galileo)
“Without continuous personal development
you are now all that you will ever become…
…and hell starts when the person you are
meets the person you could have been”
(Eli Cohen)
“Choose a job you love, and you will
never have to work a day in your
life”
(Confucius)
You can’t predict the future
- but you can make it happen
(Mike Wills)
“When making your choice in life,
do not forget to live”
(Samuel Johnson)
“This too will pass”
Time is like a snowflake
- it disappears while you’re trying to decide
what to do with it.
“No one should ever expect a plan,
no matter how detailed, to work out in
practice.
You should only plan in order to have
something to modify.”
(Peter Honey)
“Make the day count…
and spend the evening preparing for
tomorrow”
(Michael Caine)
If you chase two rabbits,
both will escape.
Setting a good example for your
children takes all the fun out of
middle age
You learn the least when you are
speaking
“Don’t ask what the world needs – ask what
makes you come alive and go and do that
Because what the world needs is
people who have come alive”
(Martin Luther King)
Those who say it can’t be done
should get out of the way of those who
are doing it
“To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must
observe”
(Marilyn vos Savant)
“You must learn from the mistakes of others.
You can’t possibly live long enough to make
them all yourself”
(Sam Levenson)
“Nothing is more confusing than people who
give good advice and set bad examples”
(Norman Vincent Peale)
“Out beyond our concepts of right and wrong
there is a field
- I’ll meet you there”
(Rumi)
“The best thing about the future is that
it only comes one day at a time”
(Abraham Lincoln)
“Only those who risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one
can go”
(T S Eliot)
“Everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no
coincidences”
(Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
“When one door closes another one opens
but we often look so long and regretfully
upon the closed door
that we do not see the ones which open for
us”
(Alexander Graham Bell)
“When one door closes another one opens
but we often look so long and regretfully
upon the closed door
that we do not see the ones which open for
us”
(Alexander Graham Bell)
“Destiny is not a matter of chance
it is a matter of choice”
(Jeremy Kitson)
“When I stand before God at the end of my
life
I would hope that I would not have a single
talent left
And could say that ‘I used everything you
gave me’”
(Erma Bombeck)
“When I stand before God at the end of my
life
I would hope that I would not have a single
talent left
And could say that ‘I used everything you
gave me’”
(Erma Bombeck)
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been
done to you”
(Jean-Paul Satre)
“The biggest human temptation is to settle
for too little”
(Thomas Merton)
“In each of us there are places we
have never gone.
Only by pressing the limits do you ever
find them”
(Joyce Brothers)
The world will belong to the
‘learners’…
- whilst the ‘learned’ will find
themselves perfectly prepared for a
world that no longer exists!
“Life is what happens while we
are busy making other plans”
(John Lennon)
There are only two things you shouldn’t
delegate:
learning and thanking people
A Man will stand with his mouth open
for a long time before a roast duck
flies in
“If you wait,
all that happens is you get older”
(Larry McMurty)
“The surest way to be late is to have
plenty of time”
(Leo Kennedy)
“If you don’t know where
you are going,
any road will take you there”
(The Koran)
“A thousand mile journey begins with one step”
(Lao-Tse)
“If time flies, be the pilot”
(Nigel Risner,
Director of Esteem HD)
What gets reviewed gets done
“God give me the serenity
to accept things which cannot be changed…
give me courage to change things which
must be changed
and the wisdom to distinguish one from the
other.”
(Dr Reinhold Niebuhr)
“God give me the serenity
to accept things which cannot be changed…
give me courage to change things which
must be changed
and the wisdom to distinguish one from the
other.”
(Dr Reinhold Niebuhr)
Don’t say “If only”, say “Next time”
“The only time you can coast in life
is when you’re going downhill”
Take time to smell the roses
If you always do what you always did,
then you’ll always get
what you always got
“It is better to spend time asking a stupid
question
than to waste time correcting a stupid
mistake!”
“I really cannot give you the
formula for success. But I can
give you the formula for
failure. It’s this…
try to please everyone”
(Bernard Meltzer)
No-one on their death-bed has
ever been heard to say,
“I wish I’d spent more time in
the office”!
If you’re too busy to have fun with
your children, you’re too busy!
(parents’ little instruction book)
“We know what happens to people who stay in
the middle of the road.
They get run over”
(Aneurin Bevan)
The thing about not planning is that failure
comes as a complete surprise,
rather than being preceded by a period of
worry and depression
(Sir John Harvey-Jones)
“People without goals
get used by those who have”
“Don’t sweat the small stuff…
and remember …
it’s all small stuff”
“Anyone can eat an elephant, provided that
they take it one bite at a time”
“If you can find enough reasons to do
something,
you can get yourself to do anything”
(Tony Robbins)
“Remember that to go with the flow, you
need to have some banks for your river”
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool
about it.”
(W C Fields)
“Angels fly because they take
themselves lightly”
“Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you
will be successful”
(Albert Schweitzer)
“You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you
want time, you must make it”
(Charles Burton)
Success is simply a matter
of luck
- ask any failure
“It is impossible for a man to learn
what he thinks he already knows”
(Epictetus)
It’s what you learn today that gives
value to what you learned
yesterday
“The greatest waste in the world is the
difference between what we are...
and what we could become”
(Ben Herbster)
“Ideas are great arrows, but there
has to be a bow”
(Bill Moyers)
“Never look down on anybody unless
you’re helping them up”
(Jesse Jackson)
“Always keep your words soft and
sweet, just in case you have to eat
them!”
Change will not come if we wait for some other person
or some other time.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek”
(Barack Obama)
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved
until I set him free”
(Michelangelo)
“The significant problems we face
cannot be solved at the same level of
thinking we were at when we
created them.”
(Albert Einstein)
“The factory of the future will have only two
employees, a man and a dog.
The man will be there to feed the dog.
The dog will be there to keep the man from
touching the equipment.”
(Warren Bennis)
“The trouble with the future is
that it usually arrives before
we’re ready
for it.”
(Arnold H Glasgow)
“Strangely enough, this is the past that
somebody in the future is longing to
go back to.”
(Ashleigh Brilliant)
“The day the child realizes that all
adults are imperfect, he becomes an
adolescent;
the day he forgives them, he becomes
an adult;
the day he forgives himself, he
becomes wise.”
(Alden Nowlan)
“The more I learn,
the more I realise I don’t know”
(Albert Einstein)
“People can work very hard
climbing the ladder of success
only to discover it’s leaning by the
wrong wall”
(Stephen R Covey)
“You don’t have to be great to start,
but you have to start to be great”
(Zig Zigler)
“People are just about as happy as they make
up their minds to be”
(Abraham Lincoln)
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a
fruit
Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a
fruit salad!
“Learn as if you were going to live
forever.
Live as if you were going to die
tomorrow.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
“The only place where success comes
before work is in a dictionary”
(Vidal Sassoon)
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled”
(Plutarch)
“Ethics is what you do
when no-one is looking”
“No-one is useless in this world
who lightens the burdens of
another.”
(Charles Dickensi)
“Better getting a stiff neck from
aiming too high
than a hunch back from
aiming too low”
(Jacques Chancel)
“I love deadlines.
I like the whooshing sound they make
as they fly by”
(Douglas Adams)
“Advice is like castor oil
– easy to give but hard to swallow”
“I can give you anything you want….
except TIME”
(Napoleon to Marshal Ney the night before
Waterloo)
“Blessed are the cracked for
they let in the light”
“I can only please one person per day
.
Today is not your day and tomorrow
isn’t looking good either.”
(Dilbertism)
“If it weren’t for the last minute,
nothing would get done.”
(Dilbertism)
“You don’t have to be sick to
get better.”
“If we keep doing what we’re doing,
we’re going to keep getting
what we’re getting.
One definition of insanity is to keep doing
the same thing
and expect different results”
(Stephen Covey)
“If you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain”
(Dolly Parton)
“I don’t measure a mans success by how
high he climbs,
but how high he bounces when he hits
bottom”
(George S Patton)
“If I’d asked my customers
what they wanted, they’d
have said a faster horse.”
(Henry Ford)
“If you live each day like it was your
last, some day you’ll certainly be right”