Quote Of The Day Archive

     Yasser Arafat

Saturday July 24, 2004

 

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Friday July 23, 2004

 

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Thursday July 22, 2004

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller (1915 - )

Wednesday July 21, 2004

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie

        Tuesday July 20, 2004

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

 

Monday July 19, 2004

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.
      Jacques Maritain

Sunday July 18, 2004

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and organize.
      Albert Gore, Jr.

Saturday July, 2004

Laughter is wine for the soul—laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness…. the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
      Sean O’Casey

Friday July, 2004

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize, or accept another’s dogmatism.
      Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Thursday July 15, 2004

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
      Lyndon B. Johnson

Wednesday July 14, 2004

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
      Robert Frost

Tuesday July 13, 2004

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

July 12, 2004

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
 R. Buckminster Fuller

July11, 2004

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
      Martin Luther King, Jr.

    July 10, 2004

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
     Lord Acton

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July 8, 2004

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
      Kahlil Gibran

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July 6 2004

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Ben Johnson

        July 2, 2004

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain

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