Archive for the “Quotations” Category
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- An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. ~ William Ellery Channing
- Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ~ Andrew Marvell
- Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who does not know what to do in his spare time is not a businessman. ~ Chinese Proverb
- I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
- I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve. ~ Dashiell Hammett
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. ~ C. S. Lewis
- If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you. ~ Rabbi Ben Azai
- Lazy people have no spare time. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ~ Edward L. Bernays
- Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~ Samuel Pepys
- Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope. ~ John Armstrong
- Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. ~ Marian Wright Edelman
- Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter. ~ Author Unknown
- Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
- Spare the rod and spoil the child. ~ Samuel Butler
- Spare us what we can learn to endure. ~ Yiddish Proverb
- The poor have no time to spare. ~ Japanese Proverb
- There’s time enough, but none to spare. ~ Charles W. Chesnutt
- Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ~ Josh Billings
- To bear other people’s afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ~ Marcel Proust
- Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. ~ Lucian
- Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase “It is the busiest man who has time to spare.” ~ C. Northcote Parkinson
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- A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.~ Elton Trueblood
- A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit. ~ Afghan Proverb
- A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~ Greek Proverb
- A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small. ~ Senegalese Proverb
- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. ~ Leo Buscaglia
- False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.~ John Christian Bovee
- He who leans against a big tree will always find shade. ~ Albanian Proverb
- He who sits in the shade won’t take an axe to the tree. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave. ~ Virgil
- If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade. ~ Thomas J. Peters
- If you make love in the shade you get cold. ~ Japanese Proverb
- If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree. ~ Osage Proverb
- Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. ~ Stonewall Jackson
- Never have a companion that casts you in the shade. ~ Baltasar Gracian
- One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ~ Warren Buffett
- The most beautiful flowers flourish in the shade. ~ Japanese Proverb
- The one who plants the tree is not the one who will enjoy its shade. ~ Chinese Proverb
- The tree that is not taller than you cannot shade you. ~ African Proverb
- The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~ Nelson Henderson
- To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ~ Jane Austen
- When the heat has passed, you forget about the shade of trees. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Where the sun shines, there is also shade. ~ Indian Proverb
- Where there is sunshine, there is also shade. ~ Kashmiri Proverb
- You are like a tree, giving your shade to the outside. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- You must chop down the tree that gives too much or too little shade. ~ Russian Proverb
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- A single idea — the sudden flash of a thought — may be worth a million dollars. ~ Robert Collier
- Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.~ Michael Ende
- Friendship that flames goes out in a flash. ~ Thomas Fuller
- Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. ~ Lydia M. Child
- Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. ~ Franz Grillparzer
- Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. ~ David Grayson
- He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. ~ Thomas Fuller
- How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. ~ William E. Rothschild
- I don’t think that… one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death. ~ Isak Dinesen
- Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow. ~ Voltaire
- Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ~ Joseph Addison
- Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person .~ Arthur Gordon
- Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche
- This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. ~ Buddha
- Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton
- To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.~ Gaston Bachelard
- True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.~ Erich Segal
- Two lightning flashes cannot come from one cloud. ~ Burundi Proverb
- What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~ Author Unknown
- A single idea — the sudden flash of a thought — may be worth a million dollars. ~ Robert CollierCalendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.~ Michael Ende Friendship that flames goes out in a flash. ~ Thomas FullerGenius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. ~ Lydia M. ChildGenius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. ~ Franz Grillparzer Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. ~ David GraysonGoodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. ~ David Grayson He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. ~ Thomas FullerHow rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. ~ William E. RothschildI don’t think that… one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death. ~ Isak DinesenIdeas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. ~ Francois De La RochefoucauldIt is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow. ~ Voltaire Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ~ Joseph AddisonNothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person — not only changed, but for the better.~ Arthur GordonOne day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. ~ Author UnknownPrecisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich NietzscheThis life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. ~ BuddhaTime is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb ColtonTo feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.~ Gaston BachelardTwo lightning flashes cannot come from one cloud. ~ Burundi ProverbWhat is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~ Author Unknown
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- A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project. ~ Confucius
- After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not. ~ Bill Budge
- Always have some project underway… an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.~ Lillian Troll
- Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. ~ Edwin Land
- Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project. ~ David McCullough
- Every time you do a project, you learn something new. ~ Justin Timberlake
- For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. ~ Andrea Dworkin
- Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. ~ Charles Lazarus
- I don’t work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people. ~ Dean Kamen
- I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. ~ Barbara Kruger
- I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up. ~ Wanda Sykes
- If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important. ~ Arthur Bloch
- It is a fact that you project what you are. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. ~ Napoleon Hill
- One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project. ~ Denis Waitley
- People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to “look forward to” — to work for and hope for. ~ Maxwell Maltz
- Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. ~ W. Edwards Deming
- Successful Project Management: PLAN, EXECUTE, EVALUATE Sounds simple, but most projects aren’t well planned nor are they evaluated well. ~ Author Unknown
- The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom. ~ Murray Bookchin
- Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view. ~ Grace Speare
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