Action, Win, Quotable

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
~ Friedrich Engels

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't
play, you can't win.
~ Robert Heinlein

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people
might remember.
~ Eugene McCarthy

Duty, Coincidence, Tomorrow

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must
come back and settle the account at last.
~ Joseph F. Newton

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether
free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me
speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time,
we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
~ Chuck Sigars

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at
midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself
in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
~ John Wayne

Sharks, Betters, Education

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
~ L. M. Boyd

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
~ William Faulkner

The highest result of education is tolerance.
~ Helen Keller

Virtues, Herd Mentality, Seriously

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they
go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one
by one.
~ Charles Mackay

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
~ Rudyard Kipling

Trees, Longevity, Estate

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard
fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them
as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in
that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
~ Willa Cather

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would
have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you
didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
~ George Burns

My friends are my estate.
~ Emily Dickinson

Freedom, Failure, History

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is
that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
~ Robert Jackson

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
~ Thomas A. Edison

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~ H. G. Wells

Charitable, Deeds, Work

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
~ Sir Thomas Browne

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
~ Marian Evans

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things
are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it.
And they must have a sense of success in it.
~ John Ruskin

Silence, Inspiration, Victories

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation
perfectly delightful.
~ Sydney Smith

You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full
advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient
time, nor do they last long.
~ Hugh Macleod

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
~ Ralph W. Sockman

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Parenting, Control, Influence

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will
choose your rest home.
~ Phyllis Diller

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You
are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you
have made.
~ Barbara Hall

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and
wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a
power.
~ Henry George

Play, Team, Offense

Play builds the kind of free-and-easy, try-it-out, do-it-yourself
character that our future needs. We must become more self-conscious
and more explicit in our praise and reinforcement as children use
unstructured play materials: ''That's good. You use your own ideas
.... " ''That's good. You did it your way .... " ''That's good. You
thought it all out yourself. "
~ James L. Hymes, Jr., child development specialist, author

Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though,
if you jumble it up.
~ David Shore

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
~ Robertson Davies

Reputation, Beauty

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
~ Casey Stengel

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down
everything except a good reputation.
~ Oscar Wilde

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Extraordinary, Friends, Sorrow

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the
world what makes you extraordinary.
~ Margaret Cho

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Character, Truth, Lost love

The best index to a person's character is/ (a) how he treats people
who can't do him any good, and/ (b) how he treats people who can't
fight back.
~ Abigail van Buren

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it
wants, is the liberty of appearing.
~ Thomas Paine

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the
memory of hours when we loved not enough.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Fed, Religion, Light

No one ever filed for divorce on a full stomach.
~ Mamma Leone.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
~ Carl Sandburg

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
~ Marianne Williamson

Markets, work, humanity

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable
to dispense it.
~ Dick Cavett

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and need.
~ François Marie Arouet Voltaire

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that
matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a
human.
~ Ben Stein

Castles in the Air, Faith, Supporter

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That
is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared
to take offense, no matter what happens.
~ Robert Benchley

Understanding, Choices, Swings

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not
understanding some things.
~ Real Live Preacher

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost

The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.
~ Natty Nats

Three R's, video games, squeaky wheel

Follow the three Rs: Respect for yourself, Respect for others and,
Responsibility for all your actions.
~ Advice

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as
kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and
listening to repetitive music.
~ Marcus Brigstocke

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
~ Vic Gold

Fear, Arrogance, Genius

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
~ Peter McWilliams

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be
curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work,
instead of living on public assistance.
~ Cicero - 55 BC

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Advancement, Play, Caring

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been
sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful,
rebellious, and immature.
~ Tom Robbins ,author

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of
whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain, author

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~ Leo Buscaglia

Smile, Pain, Saving graces

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of your joy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our
pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is
his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
~ C.S. Lewis

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are
saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense
in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore,
we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the
standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are
saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Conscience, Defeat, Trust

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
~ Josh Billings

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be
sometimes cheated than not to trust.
~ Samuel Johnson

Trifles, Excuses, Principles

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you
with emphatic trifles.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the
habit of making excuses.
~ Dr. George Washington Carver

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely
overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common
enemy.
~ Samuel Adams

Adventure, Democracy, Life

To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure.
~ Peter Pan

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who
are willing to work and give to those who would not.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and
to play and to look up at stars.
~ Henry Vandyke, poet, clergyman, educator

Play, Adventures, Change

Play is the purest, the most spiritual, product of man at this stage,
and it is at once the prefiguration and imitation of the total human
life, - of the inner, secret, natural life in man and in all things.
It produces, therefore, joy, freedom, satisfaction, repose within and
without, peace with the world. The springs of all good rest within it
and go out from it.
~ Freidrich Froebel (Father of modern kindergarten)

The last step of any journey may be the first step of an even greater
adventure.
~ Mrs.Whatsit, in A Wrinkle in Time

The person the world cannot change is the person who will change the world
~ Unknown

Planning, Civilization, Strength

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to
make elusive dreams come true.
~ Lester R. Bittel The Nine Master Keys of Management

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which
is provided for them.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

An easy way to gather a wimpy army is to summon all the soldiers who
are boldly determined not to sound like fundamentalists.
~ John Piper

Leadership, Relationships, Devotion

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The
leader works in the open, and the boss is covert. The leader leads,
and the boss drives.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through
relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to
form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and
positions.
~ Margaret Wheatly

The world has yet to see what one man or woman fully devoted to God
can accomplish.
~ Henry Varley, as spoken to Dwight L. Moody

Sound body and mind, History

The sound body is the product of a sound mind.
~ George Bernard Shaw

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my
body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
~ Emo Phillips

History is the science of things which are not repeated.
~ Paul Valery

Topless, Light the darkness, Play

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
~ Jascha Heifetz

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
~ John Keith Falconer

It's not so much what children learn through play, but what they won't learn if we don't give them the chance to play. Many functional skills like literacy and arithmetic can be learned either through play or through instruction-the issue is the amount of stress on the child. However, many coping skills like compassion, self-regulation, self-confidence, the habit of active engagement, and the motivation to learn and be literate cannot be instructed. They can only be learned through self-directed experience (i.e. play).
~ Susan J. Oliver, Playing for Keeps

Beginners, Care, Condensed words

In a beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in an expert's mind there are few.
~ Shunryu Suzuki

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
~ Billie Jean King

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
~ Robert Southey

Hard, Crossing Bridges, Impossible

Life is hard. It’s even harder if you’re stupid.
~ Anonymous

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.
~ Rick Pitino, American basketball coach

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
~ Doug Larson
(English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)

Retirement, Truth, Courage

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
~ Thomas Arnold, educator

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
~ W. Clement Stone

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne

Failure, Leadership, Anxiety

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
~ Chinese Proverb

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of
leadership.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care.
Either case is a failure of leadership.
~Colin Powell

Life, Leadership, Identity

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
~ Samuel Butler, the younger

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.
~ Warren Bennis

You are not what you own.
~ Fugazi, American rock band

Daring, Play, Stand

All serious daring starts from within.
~ Eudora Welty

For the main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not its content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.
~ Jerome Bruner, psychologist, professor

A man who can bow before God can stand before giants.
~ Unknown

Play, Probability, Free Market

Play is work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
~ Evan Esar, humorist

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
~ James Thurber

If you destroy a free market, you create a black market.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Fresh start, Security, Anger

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford

There is no safety in hiding.
~ Ted Kennedy

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Dictators, Determination, Toughness

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
~ Winston Churchill

If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse.
~ Anonymous

Tough times never last, but tough people do.
~ Robert H. Schuller

Education, Someone else, Leader

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
~ Kurt Cobain

Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them!
~ Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

Well said, Risk, Ideas

Well done is better than well said.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
~ e e cummings

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
~ Goethe

Struggles, Minds, Creativity

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

Great mind discuss ideas; Average minds, events; Small minds, people.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
~ Ray Bradbury

Quitting, Disorder, Play

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
~ Lance Armstrong

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
~ Herman Melville

It is a happy talent to know how to play.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher, poet, essayist

Value, Progress, Success

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein

Progress is like miners’ work: it doesn’t advance as quickly as one should like, [or] as others expect.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

Failure is success if you learn from it.
~ Malcolm Forbes

Invention, Planning, Life

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
~ Willy Wonka

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
~ Dwight Eisenhower

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
~ William James

Endure, Dare, Friend

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
~ Soren Kierkegaard

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
~ Aristotle

On the edge, Great things, Wisdom

If you aren't living on the edge, then you are taking up too much space.
~ Flo Kennedy

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
~ Vincent Van Gogh

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
~ William James

Results, Strangers, Adventure

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
~ Thomas A. Edison

If you came and you found a strange man ... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.
~ Professor Jerome Singer, Yale University

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
~ G.K. Chesterton

Tainted, Couples, Freedom

That's right. 'Tain't yours, and 'tain't mine.
~ Mark Twain (when friend said that a certain rich man's money was "tainted")

The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you."
~ Klare Provine

False freedom leaves a man free to do what he likes; true freedom, to do what he ought.
~ Anonymous

Reflection, Inspiration, Soccer

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
~ Peter Drucker

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.
~ Elvis Presley

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.
~ Mike Ditka

Wisdom, Practice, Deeds

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~ Anonymous

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning .... They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.
~ Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

For Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
~ William Shakespeare

Enthusiasm, Compassion, Truth

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
~ Charles Kingsley (British Anglican Clergyman, Teacher and Writer whose novels influenced social developments in Britain. 1819-1875)

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
~ Dalai Lama

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~ Oscar Wilde

Work, Drills, Excuses

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and need.
~ François Marie Arouet Voltaire

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
~ Karl G. Maeser

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
~ Dr. George Washington Carver

Success, Exploration, Choice

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
~ Thomas Edison

Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenomena and test new ideas. Young children may not be able to verbalize new ideas forming in their heads, but they may still apply similar processes to scientists.  During this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.
~ Judith Roden, Lecturer, Canterbury Christ Church University College

You have freedom of choice, but not freedom from choice.
~ Wendell Jones

Undervalued, Resistance, Found

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~ Malcolm Forbes

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The easiest thing to find is fault.
~ Anonymous

Envy, Problems, Success

Envy is an insult to oneself.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
~ Maya Angelou

Rebellious patriots, Tradition, Invention

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
~ Winston S. Churchill

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
~ Roger von Oech, President, Creative Think

Enemies, Others, Fun

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
~ African Proverb

Those who spend their time worrying about what people think of them wouldn't worry if they knew how rarely other people think of them.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The activities that are the easiest, cheapest, and most fun to do--such as singing, playing games, reading, storytelling, and just talking and listening-are also the best for child development.
~ Professor Jerome Singer, Yale University
(...no matter how old you are ~k)

Living, Pigs, Be Kind

Everything that lives, Lives not alone, nor for itself.
~ William Blake

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
~ Winston Churchill

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~ Plato

Discovery, Ambition, Progress

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
~ Albert Szent–Gyorgyi de Nagyraolt

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
~ C. Archie Danielson

Progress depends on people knowing they'll be able to profit from their ideas.
~ Deborah Neville

Think Twice, Change the World, Happiness

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
~ Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
~ Anonymous

Build the future, Creativity, Silence

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
~ Carl Jung, Psychologist

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
~ Phillips Brooks

One's country, Vision, Happiness

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not its institutions or its officeholders.
~ Mark Twain

A clear vision is usually assumed and rarely communicated.
~ Unknown

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
~ John Locke

Planning, Winning, Walking

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
~ Lester R. Bittel The Nine Master Keys of Management

If it doesn't matter who wins, then how come they keep score?
~ Vincent Lombardi

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
~ Steven Wright (1955 - )

Fear, Money, Virtue

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
~ Peter McWilliams

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.
~ Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 18th-century French author, wit and philosopher

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~ David Starr Jordan

"Civil" wars, Loyalty, rob Peter

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
~ Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
~ Elbert Green Hubbard

So long as you rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll have Paul's support.
~ Anonymous

Change, Logic, Respect

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
~ Barack Obama

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
~ Rita Mae Brown

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
~ Rodney Dangerfield