| 1-Jan |
New
years resolutions - The glass house of good
intentions is helpless before the rockslide of self interest
-"
Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
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|
| 2-Jan |
Castles
of the mind - teaching us the undeniable truth that nothing is more
fragile, destructs more completely, nor requires more effort to
rebuild than broken dreams and shattered expectations
-
William Everyman |
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| 3-Jan |
Castles
of the mind - Sanctuaries into which men retreat from the advancing
and inexorable army of real life
- William Everyman |
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|
| 4-Jan |
Castles
of the mind - protected by the drawbridge of isolation wherein sit
Kings of little Kingdoms, paupers in robes wove of opine treachery
- William Everyman |
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| 5-Jan |
There
is no joy that a parent may know that can equal this - the eager
and willing mind of his own progeny
- William
Everyman |
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|
| 6-Jan |
The
myth of self reliance is as a vapor before God's oven door, before
which we stand, hat in hand, for our daily bread
- " Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
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|
| 7-Jan |
Any
man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind -
- John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent
Occasions |
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|
| 8-Jan |
You
and I may understand the universe but we have a great deal of difficulty
understanding ourselves and our personal motivations - after all
- the most distant star in the universe is more clear than the murky
light of self inquisition
- William Everyman |
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|
| 9-Jan |
On
the thought of taking care of parents - Filial
duty nowadays means to be able to support one's parents. But we
support even dogs and horses. If there is no feeling of reverence,
wherein lies the difference?
- Confucius,
Analects |
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|
| 10-Jan |
They
are not long, the days of wine and roses
- Ernest Dowson,
" Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam " |
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|
| 11-Jan |
If
you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you may prove
the doubting spirit which may be the only hindrance to the boon
you ask
- Dwight
L. Moody |
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| 12-Jan |
Actions
are the grains of sand in the great hourglass of time that mark
the important little destinies in the affairs of man -
- William Everyman |
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| 13-Jan |
The
owl at sea, the pelican in the desert, both are miserable -
-
" Whispers from God "
,
William Everyman |
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|
| 14-Jan |
The
more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence
increase -
- Lao-tzu, Tao-te ching |
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|
| 15-Jan |
Praise
shames me, for I secretly beg for it -
- Rabindranath
Tagore, Stary Birds |
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|
| 16-Jan |
As
soon as you matriculate in the University of life you discover that
one of the required courses is called trouble -
- John A. Redhead, Putting Your Faith
To Work |
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|
| 17-Jan |
It
is forbidden to kill ; therefore all murderers are punished unless
they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets -
- Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary |
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|
| 18-Jan |
Zeal
without knowledge is fire without light -
- Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia |
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|
| 19-Jan |
Everyman's
character is forged on the anvil of life by the Blacksmith of experience
-
- William Everyman |
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|
| 20-Jan |
Those
who we love we do good things for , those with whom we are "
in love " , we can never do enough -
- William Everyman |
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|
| 21-Jan |
Unborn,
eternal, everlasting, this ancient one is not slain when the body
is slain -
- Bhagavad Gita, 2:20 |
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|
| 22-Jan |
Oh
Lord , if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul -
- Ernest Renan, Priere d'un Sceptique |
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|
| 23-Jan |
You
have as much chance becoming successful in this world by following
the " self help " books on " How to become a millionaire
" as does the man selling a full set of such books for the
price of room and board -
- Unknown |
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|
| 24-Jan |
The
beginning of greatness is certainty of purpose -
-
" Whispers from God ",
William
Everyman |
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| 25-Jan |
Mix
a little mystery with everything, and the very mystery arouses veneration
-
- Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Wordly Wisdom |
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|
| 26-Jan |
If
one man says to thee, " Thou art a Donkey, " do not mind;
if two speak thus, purchase a saddle . . .,
-
- Talmud, Bereshit Rabbbah 74:2 |
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|
| 27-Jan |
How
can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught
in the roller of an electric typewriter -
- Woody Allen, " Selections from the Allen Notebooks " |
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|
| 28-Jan |
True
happiness is often sacrificed on the alter of expediency -
- William Everyman |
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|
| 29-Jan |
The
granduer of space cannot be found by peering into a hole -
- William Everyman |
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|
| 30-Jan |
All
hope abandon, ye who enter here -
- Dante, Divine
Comedy: Inferno |
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|
| 31-Jan |
The
windows of our future are merely reflections of the mirrors of our
past
- William Everyman |
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February |
| 1-Feb |
Time
corrupts all things except the truth - "
Whispers from God ",
- William Everyman |
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|
| 2-Feb |
We
can do no great things - only small things with great love -
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Life in the Spirit |
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|
| 3-Feb |
Riches
are the instruments of all vices , because they render us capable
of putting even our worst desires into execution -
- St. Ambrose |
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|
| 4-Feb |
Science
may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy
for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings
- Hellen Keller - My Religion |
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|
| 5-Feb |
Clear
my feet of indolence, keeper of the path of men
-
Navajo Prayer
to the Mountain Spirit |
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|
| 6-Feb |
Welfare
Christians living in Evangelical ghettos
- "
Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
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|
| 7-Feb |
Magic
Christians manufactured in the cookie cutter church of Christianity
-
- " Whispers from God ", William
Everyman |
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|
| 8-Feb |
Stir
not the fire with a sword, that is , do not provoke a man who is
already in a rage. It is better to give way, and soothe the fuming
spirit with gentle words
- Erasmus, Adages |
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|
| 9-Feb |
Success
is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest
from which the birds have flown
- Henry Ward Beecher, Life's Thoughts |
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|
| 10-Feb |
An
honest God is the noblest work of man
- Robert G. Ingersoll, " The Gods " |
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|
| 11-Feb |
Cursed
is every man who placeth his hope in man
- St. Augustine, On the Christian Conflict |
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|
| 12-Feb |
One
(man) was never married and that's his hell; another is and that
is his plague
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy |
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|
| 13-Feb |
On
Hinduism- Though destitute of virtues, or seeking
pleasure, or devoid of good qualities, yet a husband must be constantly
worshipped as a God by a faithful wife
- Laws
of Manu |
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|
| 14-Feb |
Think
not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you
worthy , directs your course
- Kahlil Gibran,
The Prophet |
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|
| 15-Feb |
A
man's true individuality is set free by the confines of the coffin
- William Everyman |
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|
| 16-Feb |
We
know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt enters
- Goethe Maxims |
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|
| 17-Feb |
The
master said, " You, shall I teach you what knowledge is ? When
you know a thing to recognize that you know it , and when you do
not know a thing to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge
- Confucius,
Analects |
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|
| 18-Feb |
A
dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. .
- Mu-mon, The Gateless Gate |
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|
| 19-Feb |
Even
a common man by obtaining becomes a Buddha
- Japanese Buddhist proverb |
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|
| 20-Feb |
The
newborn babe, the blushing bride, the proud grandmother, the ancient
ancestor, all share a common destiny
- William Everyman |
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|
| 21-Feb |
Today's
spark of genius is tomorrow's invention of convenience
-
"Whispers from God" ,
William Everyman |
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|
| 22-Feb |
A
man cannot grow wiser by simply wishing it so, nor can he grow wiser
without wishing it so
- William Everyman |
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|
| 23-Feb |
Loyalty
is a sentiment, not a law. It rests on love, not on restraint
- Sir Roger Casement, Speech at his trial for treason, 1916 |
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|
| 24-Feb |
Intellectual
claptrap, idiomatic jargon and a parallel Gospel inhabit the modern
day pulpit and the congregation is solely responsible
- "
Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
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|
| 25-Feb |
Love
is like a light left burning in the night - just waiting for someone
to move into its soft glow of generosity
- " Whispers from God " ,William
Everyman |
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|
| 26-Feb |
Everything
has been figured out except how to live
- Jean-Paul Sarte |
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|
| 27-Feb |
To
be human is to know and care and ask.
To keep rattling the bars of experience hollering, "
What's it for ?" at the stones and stars, and making prisons
and palaces out of the echoing answers
- Robert Fulghum, All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten |
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|
| 28-Feb |
We
have an inexhaustible gift for justification and a low tolerance
for sanctification
- "
Whispers from God " ,William Everyman |
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March |
| 1-Mar |
Justice
and mercy are uneasy bedfellows
- " Whispers from God" , William
Everyman |
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|
| 2-Mar |
No
man can firmly command save he who has learned gladly to obey
- Thomas a' Kempis, The imitation of Christ |
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|
| 3-Mar |
Christ
spent more than half His time with just twelve men, developing them
into leaders who would carry on his work. .
- Billy Graham, The Holy Spirit |
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|
| 4-Mar |
With
malice toward none, with charity for all. . . Let us achieve and
cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves , and with all
nations
- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural address , March 4, 1865 |
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|
| 5-Mar |
The
mouth of knowledge is ever subject to the bit of discretion
- "
Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
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|
| 6-Mar |
To
bring another man's behavior into conformance is one thing - to
alter his pattern of thought is quite another
- William Everyman |
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|
| 7-Mar |
What
is your life ? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time,
and then vanisheth away.
- Holy Bible, James 4:14 |
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|
| 8-Mar |
Out
of bondage - into a servitude of preference
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 9-Mar |
Life
is real ! Life is earnest!
- Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, " A psalm of Life " |
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|
| 10-Mar |
He
that will learn to pray , let him go to sea
- George Herbert,
Jacula Prudentum |
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|
| 11-Mar |
See
there a man who prays for others without chance for reward, he is
as a sequoia among the pines
- "
Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
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|
| 12-Mar |
More
things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King |
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|
| 13-Mar |
He
who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who
is able to conquer himself is more powerful
- Lao-tzu, Tao-te ching |
| |
|
| 14-Mar |
He
is the best of men who dislikes power
- Muhammad |
| |
|
| 15-Mar |
God
is God - man is man - Hallelujah
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 16-Mar |
Truth
is that thing which is left when you strip away what you think
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 17-Mar |
The
origin of all wars is the pursuit of wealth, and we are forced to
pursue wealth because we live in slavery to the cares of the body
- Plato, Phaedo |
| |
|
| 18-Mar |
Let
none admire that riches grow in hell . .
- John Milton, Paradise Lost |
| |
|
| 19-Mar |
The
reward for stewardship is more stewardship - stewardship without
joy is a life sentence without chance of parole
- " Whispers from God ", William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 20-Mar |
We
have put the Koran in Arabic so that you may understand it
- Koran, 43:3 |
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|
| 21-Mar |
Woe
unto you also, ye lawyers ! For ye laden men with burdens grievous
to be borne, and ye yourself touch not the burdens with one of your
fingers
- Holy Bible,
Luke 12:46 |
| |
|
| 22-Mar |
Intellectual
assent is a poor substitute for a gut wrenching conversion experience
- William Everyman |
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|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
| 23-Mar |
To
see God you must first look toward him - to look toward him you
must seek him where he is most likely to be found
-
" Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
| |
|
| 24-Mar |
Everything
bows to money . . .
- Erasmus, Adages |
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|
| 25-Mar |
There
is no divine authority for preaching that the soul flies out of
purgatory immediately as the money clinks in the till
- Martin Luther, Disputation on the power and efficacy of Indulgencences |
| |
|
| 26-Mar |
When
I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my
heart
- John Wesley |
| |
|
| 27-Mar |
This
is God's greatest gift , that he allows us a servitude of preference
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 28-Mar |
Knowledge
is good, wisdom better, understanding better still
- William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 29-Mar |
Prayer
is to faith as oxygen is to life - putrefaction is the natural process
in the absence of either
- Unknown |
| |
|
| 30-Mar |
…
If the cost and fruits of war were well considered, peace with all
its inconveniences is generally preferable
- William Penn, Preface to George Fox's Journal |
| |
|
| 31-Mar |
Life
is like a flame of a lamp exposed to the wind
- Japanese Buddhist proverb |
| |
April |
| 1-Apr |
Wisdom
is the next of kin to knowledge
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 2-Apr |
There
is no higher aspiration that a man may have than this - to love
God - nay - to be in love with God
-
" Whispers from God "
, William Everyman |
| |
|
| 3-Apr |
No
man can clasp the furnace of vengeance to his bosom without sacrifice,
first of all to himself
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 4-Apr |
The
height of arrogance is a rich man making a poor man beg him for
a bone
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 5-Apr |
A
man may not be proud and still fear God
- "
Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
| |
|
| 6-Apr |
When
a man treads upon the glowing coals of self aggrandizement, he had
better be very sure of his sandals
- William Everyman |
| |
|
|
7-Apr |
All
around I see Nothing pretending to be something, Emptiness pretending
to be Fullness.
- Confucius, Analects |
| |
|
|
8-Apr |
The
wise man knows at the commencement of a matter what the end will
be .
- Talmud, Y. Sotah 5, end |
| |
|
| 9-Apr |
Trust
in Allah - but tie your camel first.
- Muhammad |
| |
|
|
10-Apr |
Here
is a conundrum - shame follows closely upon the heels of pride
- therefore doubling the cost of haughtiness
-
" Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
| |
|
|
11-Apr |
Do
not turn thy cheek in scorn, nor walk insolently on the earth;
Allah does not love an arrogant boaster.
- Koran, 31:18 |
| |
|
|
12-Apr |
The
smallest of intellects usually have the most arrogant opinions
and will most times refuse exhortation - preferring the laziness
of their own self deceits over the effort required to deal with
an iconoclast.
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 13-Apr |
A
religion that requires persecution to sustain it is the devil's
propagation
- Hosea Ballou |
| |
|
| 14-Apr |
A
man alone is either a saint or a devil
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy |
| |
|
| 15-Apr |
Alone,
alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint
took pity on my soul in agony
- William Taylor Coleridge, "The rime of the ancient mariner" |
| |
|
| 16-Apr |
Solitude
vivifies, isolation kills
- Joseph Roux,
Meditations of a Parish Priest |
| |
|
| 17-Apr |
Why
should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way ?
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden |
| |
|
| 18-Apr |
Before
the fountains, before the fields and valleys, before the compass
was put in the Heavens and the foundation of the Earth was laid,
before all this - I heard him call my name, and in the dim recess
of a'-priori existence
his voice glides through the labyrinth of time
- "
Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
|
|
| 19-Apr |
The
first and wisest of them all confessed to know this only, that he
nothing knew
- John Milton, Paradise Regained |
| |
|
| 20-Apr |
Great
wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious
- Chuang-tzu, Character of Tao |
| |
|
| 21-Apr |
It
is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden |
| |
|
| 22-Apr |
The
chief success of the enemy is this - that he bathes our feet in
darkness so that we cannot see what we stumble over, else having
seen it for what it is we would turn aside
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 23-Apr |
I
have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel - Julia
Ward Howe, "
- Battle Hymn Of The Republic " |
| |
|
| 24-Apr |
A
pricked conscience is like vinegar to the teeth or smoke in the
eyes, turn which way you will , you must ultimately remove the source
of the irritation
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 25-Apr |
Free
men freely work; whoever fears God fears to sit at ease
- Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Aurora Leigh |
| |
|
| 26-Apr |
People
are always more important than things, men are always more important
than money, workers are always more important than machines
- William
Barclay, Ethics of a permissive society |
| |
|
| 27-Apr |
If
my bark sink it is to another sea- Mortality's ground floor is immortality
- Emily Dickinson,
" If my bark sink " |
| |
|
| 28-Apr |
Satan
is at his very best when disguised as an angel of light
- "
Whispers from God" ,
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 29-Apr |
That
I should love God seems natural - that God should love me is a mystery
as deep as the warp and woof of the fabric of life itself
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 30-Apr |
Being
saved is one thing - being converted is quite another
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 1-May |
Thou
hast no faith left now , unless thou hast two, and that's far worse
than none, Better have none than plural faith , which is too much
by one
- William Shakespeare,
The two gentleman of Verona, Act 5, Sc.4 |
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|
| 2-May |
For
one who has been esteemed, disgrace is worse than death
- Bhagavad Gita, 2:34 |
| |
|
| 3-May |
Go
thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole
- Holy Bible |
| |
|
| 4-May |
A
man cannot say to the Angel of Death; I wish to arrange my affairs
- Talmud, Debarim
Rabbah 9,3 |
| |
|
| 5-May |
I
have gazed into Heaven, I have peered into Hell, I have searched
the limits of conscience and self, there is no place safe from the
Hound of Heaven
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 6-May |
The
instinct of the people is right
- Ralph Waldo
Emerson, The Conduct of Life |
| |
|
| 7-May |
It
is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails , admit it frankly and try another.
But, above all try something
- Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| |
|
| 8-May |
The
young think they know everything and are confident in their assertions
- Aristotle, Rhetoric |
| |
|
| 9-May |
They
have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge
- Holy Bible , Romans 10:2 |
| |
|
| 10-May |
I
believe it is imperative that we recapture that passion for human
equality and justice which inspired the early Christians to create
a world of ethical behavior to replace babrarism
- Walter F. white, Secretary of NAACP |
| |
|
| 11-May |
Question:
Why are there no longer miracles ? Answer: Did not the sun rise
this morning ?
- Andrew M. Greeley, The Catholic WHY ? Book |
| |
|
| 12-May |
America
I loved thee, not for thy hills
America I loved thee, not for thy rivers
America I loved thee , not for thy forest
America I did love thee for thy people
- "
Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
| |
|
| 13-May |
I
am convinced of what I know . Everything else is hypothesis, and
beyond that I can leave a lot of things to the Unknown.
They do not bother me
- Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion |
| |
|
| 14-May |
God
is not - I assure you - some white haired old Gentleman sitting
on the edge of a cloud weeping his eyes out because he does not
have the intestinal fortitude to involve himself in the affairs
of man
- Unknown |
| |
|
| 15-May |
Wisdom,
justice, judgement and equity are easy task masters if a man will
learn without rebellion
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 16-May |
It
wasn't raining when Noah built the ark
- Howard Ruff |
| |
|
| 17-May |
Whoever
has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him , is his own enemy
- Sa'di ( Musharrif-uddin ) |
| |
|
| 18-May |
and
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be
no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be
any more pain; for the former things have passed away and behold,
all things have become new
- Holy Bible |
| |
|
| 19-May |
The
art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook
- William James |
| |
|
| 20-May |
There
shall be a time, a silent time , just before dawn when everywhere
in mute anticipation of what is to come - the whole world waits
quietly in great expectation
- frozen in time and space - in suspended animation - then
shall come Christ clothed in Glory with ten thousand of his saints
riding in chariots of fire to sweep me away
- " Whispers
from God ", William Everyman |
| |
|
| 21-May |
All
progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of
every organism to live beyond its income
- Samuel Butler |
| |
|
| 22-May |
The
formula "two and two make five " is not without its attractions
-
- Fedor Dostoevsky |
| |
|
| 23-May |
Genius
is an infinite capacity for taking pains
- Jane Ellis Hopkins |
| |
|
| 24-May |
so
when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal
shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the
saying that is written, "
Death
is swallowed up in victory
- Holy Bible |
| |
|
| 25-May |
Though
the mills of God grind slowly; yet,
they grind exceedingly small
- Friedrich
Von Logau |
| |
|
| 26-May |
To
someone with faith , no explanation is necessary. To someone without faith, no explanation is possible
- St. Thomas Aquinas |
| |
|
| 27-May |
Those
who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound
for disaster
- Christopher J. Herold |
| |
|
| 28-May |
Unlike
grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| |
|
| 29-May |
Sin
is an enticement that swallows a man up whole, piece by piece -
bit by bit - in an agony of indecision
- "
Whispers from God ", William Everyman |
| |
|
| 30-May |
There
are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and
posthumously
- Thomas Sowell |
| |
|
| 31-May |
He
who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who
has one enemy ,will meet him everywhere
- Ali iben-Abi-Talib |
| |
|
| 1-Jun |
God
too has his work station - we feel his hammer now and then - for
it is at the straightening block of time that boys are changed to
men
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 2-Jun |
It
is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end
- Leonardo da
Vinci |
| |
|
| 3-Jun |
Whoso
would be a man must first be a nonconformist
- Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
| |
|
| 4-Jun |
There
is a sameness about mankind - a kind of crying, craving, needing
thing that canot be satisfied until God doth appear
- " Whispers
from God " , William Everyman |
| |
|
| 5-Jun |
It
is well to remember that the entire population of the uiverse, with
one trifling exception , is composed of others
- Andrew J. Holmes |
| |
|
| 6-Jun |
Rudeness
is the weak man's imitation of strength
- Eric Hoffer |
| |
|
| 7-Jun |
Children
of the obsessed , they were the orphans of time
-
" Whispers from God " , William Everyman |
| |
|
| 8-Jun |
Those
whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack
their neighbors
- Jean Baptiste
Poqurlin Molie're |
| |
|
| 9-Jun |
At
my age, my favorite pastime is to totter, arm in arm with death,
down the boardwalk, people watching , trying to guess which
ones will defy the odds and actually do something worth remembering
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 10-Jun |
All
who told it added something new, and all who heard it made enlargements
too
- Alexander Pope |
| |
|
| 11-Jun |
What
is today supported by precedents will hereafter become precedents
- Annals, XI,24 |
| |
|
| 12-Jun |
Censure
pardons the Raven but is visited upon the Dove
- Satires, II,l83 |
| |
|
| 13-Jun |
Man
unlike the bird, is often caught in the very net which is spread
before him
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 14-Jun |
The
desire for Glory clings even to the best men longer than any other
passion
- Histories, IV,6 |
| |
|
| 15-Jun |
Across
life's uncertain seas you speed , full sails strain the ropes -
while I stand by anxiously, forging anchors out of hope
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 16-Jun |
So
live, that when thy summons comes to join that innumerable caravan
which moves to that mysterious realm, where each shall take his
chamber in the silent halls of death, Tho go not as a quarry-slave
at night , scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed by
an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, like one who wraps the
drapery of his couch about him , and lies down to pleasant dreams
-Thanatopsis , William Cullen Bryant |
| |
|
| 17-Jun |
Once
more, in the great systole and diastole of history, an age of freedom
ended and an age of discipline began
- Will Durant |
| |
|
| 18-Jun |
We
will lie down for such a long time after death that it is worthwhile
to keep standing while we are alive.
Let us work now, one day we shall rest
- St.Agostina
Pietrantoni |
| |
|
| 19-Jun |
Each
act a flash of living plasma - it etches out of time , a portrait
of its author by edict that's devine
- "Whispers
from God " , William Everyman |
| |
|
| 20-Jun |
When
asked how he became a hero , he replied " It was involuntary.
They sank my boat
- John Fitzgerald
Kennedy |
| |
|
| 21-Jun |
It
is so soon I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for
- Cheltenham
Churchyard |
| |
|
| 22-Jun |
But
there is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream
- Thomas
Moore |
| |
|
| 23-Jun |
The
heart knows right and wrong, the mind recognizes understanding,
the soul responds to whomsoever we have yielded our heart and mind
- "
Whispers from God ",William Everyman |
| |
|
| 24-Jun |
Men
of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it,
but they labor in it because they excel
- William
Hazlitt |
| |
|
| 25-Jun |
"Pon
my honor, Wilkes, I don't know whether you will die on the gallows
or of the Pox "- Earl of Sandwich ;
That must depend, my Lord, upon whether I first embrace your Lordship's
principles, or your Lorship's mistresses
-
John Wilkes |
| |
|
| 26-Jun |
An
evil man does not sleep well until he has done some mischief, nor
a righteous man until he has shown mercy
- "
Whispers from God ",William Everyman |
| |
|
| 27-Jun |
Vice
is a monster of so frightful mien as to be hated , needs but to
be seen; Yet seen too often , familiar with her face, we first endure,
then pity, then embrace
- An
essay on man,
Alexander
Pope |
| |
|
| 28-Jun |
My
time is short - nearly gone - twilight rests
on tomorrows dawn. In the Kaliedascope of life I see - I
wonder if I have I been what I wanted to be
- "Whispers
from God" - William Everyman |
| |
|
| 29-Jun |
Let
them hate - so long as they fear
- Lucius
Accius |
| |
|
| 30-Jun |
It
is better to be envied than pitied
- Herodotus |
| |
|
| 1-Jul |
There
is no time like the old time, when you and I were young
- Oliver
Wendell Holmes |
| |
|
| 2-Jul |
You
can only know what you know . Think you know everything ? What about
those ten thousand things you have not yet dreamed of
- William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 3-Jul |
Total
freedom is inevitably yoked together with total responsibility
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 4-Jul |
Democracy,
which is a charming form of Government , full of variety and disorder,
and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike
-Plato |
| |
|
| 5-Jul |
And
if I laugh at any mortal thing ,Tis that I may not weep
- Don
Juan |
| |
|
| 6-Jul |
There
are in every man, at every hour,two simulataneous postulations,
one toward God, the other toward Satan
- Charles
Baudelaire |
| |
|
| 7-Jul |
When
I enjoined success the days were not so tough - but the nights ?
The nights were long enough - and then some
- William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 8-Jul |
Work
consists of whatever a body is obliged to do
… Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do
- Mark
Twain |
| |
|
| 9-Jul |
The
lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high
enough to turn deceit aside
- Henry
Van Dyke |
| |
|
| 10-Jul |
The
humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous
cause, is stronger than all of the host of error
- William
Jennings Bryan |
| |
|
| 11-Jul |
The
best fruit in Beulah land is found far
from the border, in the very bosom , as it were, of the Land
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 12-Jul |
Without
a shepard sheep are not a flock
- Russian
proverb |
| |
|
| 13-Jul |
Some
circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout
in the milk
- Henry
David Thoreau |
| |
|
| 15-Jul |
You
may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent
of the roses will hang around it still
- Thomas
Moore |
| |
|
| 16-Jul |
What
is a communist ? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal
earnings
- Ebenezer
Elliott |
| |
|
| 17-Jul |
If
peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace
- Lord
John Russell |
| |
|
| 18-Jul |
O
God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap
-Thomas
Hood |
| |
|
| 19-Jul |
I
repeat … that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for
its exercise;that from the people and for the people, all springs
, and all must exist
- Benjamin
Disraeli |
| |
|
| 20-Jul |
Philosophy
is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward.
But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived
forward
- Soren
Kierkegaard |
| |
|
| 21-Jul |
Better
(to build ) schoolrooms for "the boy", than cells
and gibbets for "the
man "
- Eliza
Cook |
| |
|
| 22-Jul |
The
human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is
composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who
lend
- Charles
Lamb |
| |
|
| 23-Jul |
"God
save thee ancient mariner ! From the fiends , that plague thee thus
! -Why look'st thou so ?" - " With my cross bow I shot
the Abatross. " - The rime of the ancient
mariner
- Samuel
Taylor Coleridge |
| |
|
| 24-Jul |
There
is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience
that dwells in the heart of everyman
- Polybius |
| |
|
| 25-Jul |
Who
sees Me in all, and sees all in Me, for him I am not lost, and he
is not lost for me
- Bhagavad
Gita |
| |
|
| 26-Jul |
Now
is my soul sorrowful, for I have seen my heart through the hole
in the wall - that it is full of vain imaginations and is desperately
wicked above all things. And I am ashamed, my soul sorrowful and
my heart failing me for fear
of his ( Christ's ) righteousness and the judgement to come
- "Whispers
from God" -
William Everyman |
| |
|
| 27-Jul |
Necessity
is the plea for every infringment of human freedom. It is the argument
of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves
- William
Pitt |
| |
|
| 28-Jul |
If
the wrinkles and scars of living must be carved upon me , let
it be a kind of reverse Dorian Gray, carve them upon my visage
and not my heart
– William Everyman |
| |
|
| 29-Jul |
I
always wanted to change the world. To make a difference. To mold
things to my own opinion. Now many years later I am shocked to see
that the greater of change has been within myself.
– William Everyman |
| |
|
| 30-Jul |
A
true leader is never afraid of what his employees will think of
him, never concerned that they might think him less than capable.
After all if they were really that good he would be working for
them instead of the other way round.
– “ A guide to business “,
William Everyman |
| |
|
| 31-Jul |
What
does not kill me makes me stronger.
– Johann Wolfgagng von Goethe |
| |
|
| 1-Aug |
Security
in business is an allusion. It does not exist in the natural order
of things and history bears out that those who thought they were
secure when disillusioned of the fact have a tendency to fall on
their own sword . In business we do not have that luxury , the sword
of competition is always at our throat and will strike before we
have time to pull our own from its scabbard. Therefore avoid seeking
security for its own sake for if you fail you will die anyway.
– “ A guide to business “,
William Everyman |
| |
|
| 2-Aug |
One
of the greatest discoveries a man makes ,one of his great surprises,
is to find he can do what was afraid he couldn’t do .
– Henry Ford |
| |
|
| 3-Aug |
Fortune
favors the brave.
– Terence |
| |
|
| 4-Aug |
Opportunities
multiply as they are seized
– Sun Tzu |
| |
|
| 5-Aug |
I
have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp
of experience.
– Patrick Henry |
| |
|
| 6-Aug |
Learn
the fundamentals of the game and stick with them. Band –Aid
remedies never last
– Jack Nicklaus |
| |
|
| 7-Aug |
With
a lift of his chin , and a bit of a grin, without any doubting or
“ Quit it ,“ he started to song as he tackled the thing
that couldn’t be done, and he did it.
– Edgar A. Guest |
| |
|
| 8-Aug |
When
we make a business decision that is suddenly a necessity , we wonder
why we wrestled with it for so long. Usually the transition period
that turned the option into a necessity was studded along the way
with sign posts that lead to the inevitable.
– “ A guide to business ‘,
William Everyman |
| |
|
| 9-Aug |
If
you do not make a decision because you are paralyzed by fear that
it will be the wrong one, or that you will lay yourself open to
criticism you will always be looking for someone you can manipulate
into making it for you. If that person shall suddenly refuse to
act as you want them to you will be left with the results of no
decision having been made at all. Worse yet in your desire to be
the power behind the throne you may find yourself without a candidate.
- “ A guide to business “, William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 10-Aug |
How
did I know that God loved me ? Chiefly this , that he preferred
to chasten me rather than that I should be lost
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 11-Aug |
I
prefer to do right and receive no thanks than to do wrong and receive
no punishment.
– Marcus Cato |
| |
|
| 12-Aug |
When
we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought
in our life, or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller |
| |
|
| 13-Aug |
Better
one's own duty, ( though ) imperfect, than another's duty well performed
- Bhagavad
Gita |
| |
|
| 14-Aug |
To
decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility
for your life and to be in control of your life.
– Abbie M. Dale |
| |
|
| 15-Aug |
If
you wish to live in the murky world of a life without conflict
turn to subtlety . If you wish to see clearly it will come with
conflict and its author is integrity.
– William Everyman |
| |
|
| 16-Aug |
When
I was a child I was tender in the eyes of my Mother and a thing
of impatience in the eyes of my Father - Now that I am grown my
Mother is a wee bit uncertain of me and my Father is still impatient
for me to get on with it
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 17-Aug |
In
soloing as in other activities – it is easier to start something
than it is to finish it.
– Amelia Earhart |
| |
|
| 18-Aug |
Not
one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion (that there
was no God) ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction
- Plato |
| |
|
| 19-Aug |
In
business it is easy to be a popular boss. It is easy to pass over
the foibles of the performer and favored few. To be just and to
have the light of inquisition shine on the performer and the non
performer with the same intensity is a hard thing , but a necessary
one.
- “ A guide to business “, William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 20-Aug |
Experience
in business is something we have to endure . We cannot hypothesize
it nor can we envision it. We must live it . We cannot discuss it
in focus groups or submit it to polls. In a world of instant gratification
I find that just dreadful.
– “ A guide to business , William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 21-Aug |
Sometimes
I lie awake at night and ask, “ Why me ? “ Then a voice
answers, “ Nothing personal , your name just happened to come
up “.
– Charles Schultz |
| |
|
| 22-Aug |
I
have judged others and I have prejudged others I have not seen,
but ,I call an unprobed judgement against me a travesty of justice
and beg no man dispute my ways until he has walked a mile in my
moccasins
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 23-Aug |
I
am looking for an honest man
- Diogenes the Cynic |
| |
|
| 24-Aug |
When
asked what was the proper time for supper, if you are a rich man
whenever you please; if you are a poor man whenever you can
- Diogenes
the cynic |
| |
|
| 25-Aug |
In
character, in manner , in style, in all things. The supreme excellence
is simplicity .
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| |
|
| 26-Aug |
My
family history begins with me, but yours ends with you
- Iphicrates |
| |
|
| 27-Aug |
The
greatest egos are usually deflated by the smallest of pins
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 28-Aug |
The
toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on
being a success.
- Irving Berlin |
| |
|
| 29-Aug |
What
soon grows old ?
- Gratitude -
Aristotle |
| |
|
| 30-Aug |
Less
judgement than wit is more sail than ballast.
– William Penn |
| |
|
| 31-Aug |
The
highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing
it.
– Lord Macaulay |
| |
|
| 1-Sep |
One
act of obedience brings more honor than a thousand acts of penance
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 2-Sep |
Liars
when they speak the truth are not believed
- Aristotle |
| |
|
| 3-Sep |
The
idle mind knows not what it wants
- Quintus
Ennius |
| |
|
| 4-Sep |
A
man may fail many times but he is not a failure until he starts
to blame somebody else.
– J. Paul Getty |
| |
|
| 5-Sep |
Life
is one brief spark between two great eternities
- William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 6-Sep |
I’ll
say this for adversity; people seem to be able to stand it , and
that’s more than I can say for prosperity.
– Kim Hubbard |
| |
|
| 7-Sep |
In
this life we will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement
. Judgements are therefore a bit of a leap faith. Come to think
of it if we had all the facts we would not be making a judgement
– we would be making an observation and no board of directors
will pay executive wages for someone to make an observation.
– “ A guide to business “
, William Everyman |
| |
|
| 8-Sep |
Innocence
cannot raise up its head when once defiled
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 9-Sep |
You
always pass failure on the way to success.
– Mickey Rooney |
| |
|
| 10-Sep |
Rumor
travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth
– Will Rogers |
| |
|
| 11-Sep |
I
never met a man whose opinion I valued more than Christ's
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 12-Sep |
To
love and be loved is to fell the sun from both sides.
– David Viscott |
| |
|
| 13-Sep |
Every
man is entitled to be viewed by history in the light of his greatest
and brightest moment of achievement. Unfortunately the worst and
darkest moments are what sells newspapers and viewer ratings on
electronic media. Only after all the possible profit has been squeezed
out of a man’s life can we get a balanced view of what he
may have accomplished.
– William Everyman |
| |
|
| 14-Sep |
What
counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it’s
the size of the fight in the dog.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 15-Sep |
Eternity
is long and Hades is hot , a simple unpopular truth
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 16-Sep |
Today
our country won a great victory and planted our flag in the blood
soaked soil whereon the battle was fought. At the same time we planted
the seeds of our next defeat.
-William Everyman |
| |
|
| 17-Sep |
You
can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other
people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested
in you.
– Dale Carnegie |
| |
|
| 18-Sep |
As
I sat staring into space someone asked me what I was doing. “
Dreaming “ , I replied. “ About what ? “ they
said. “ If I knew it wouldn’t be dreaming “ was
my answer.
– William Everyman |
| |
|
| 19-Sep |
Force
, threats and coercion only last until the nerve endings have become
dulled. To achieve lasting behavior modification one must change
the inner man.
– William Everyman |
| |
|
| 20-Sep |
Let
us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out.
– Theodore Roosevelt |
| |
|
| 21-Sep |
Be
ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humankind.
– Horace Mann |
| |
|
| 22-Sep |
Where
there is no vision the people perish.
– Holy Bible |
| |
|
| 23-Sep |
History
( knowledge gone to seed ) marches implacably beside
the commander in chief - time
- William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 24-Sep |
Always
forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
– Oscar Wilde |
| |
|
| 25-Sep |
Rash
behavior or calculated risk. Only hindsight can distinguish which.
– William Everyman |
| |
|
| 26-Sep |
Between
the saying and the doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.
– Italian Proverb |
| |
|
| 27-Sep |
An
invasion of armies can be resisted , but not an idea whose time
has come.
– Victor Hugo |
| |
|
| 28-Sep |
Even
though work stops, expenses run on - Cato the
Elder
- Marcus
Porcius Cato |
| |
|
| 29-Sep |
If
the achievements of an organization are the results of the combined
efforts of each individual in a synchronous rhythm , then the failure
of one individual to achieve their assigned task will, in fact,
irrevocably alter the outcome from its intended purpose. This is
the difference between a team and teamwork.
– “ A guide to business “
, - William Everyman |
| |
|
| 30-Sep |
I
may not be ready to agree completely with some women when they declare
that God is a woman. However , I will agree with alacrity that the
Devil is a woman
– “ The defense rests “
, William Everyman |
| |
|
| 1-Oct |
The
real problem with helping poor countries develop is the gluttony
of those in power . Not content to skim the cream and moving on,
they adhere to the ancient Roman tradition of visiting the vomitorium
and then coming back for more. Like feeding the sparrows through
the horse, you get a whole lot of dung for very little reward.
– “ The defense rests “,
William Everyman |
| |
|
| 2-Oct |
I
happened upon a man that had fallen into a hole, without considering
why he was in this predicament , I reached out a hand to help
him. Whereupon the side of the hole caved in and I was soon ensconced
with him . Moral – Some situations have nuances that beg
consideration before immediate action.
– “ The defense rests “,
-
William Everyman |
| |
|
| 3-Oct |
Simplicity
for the simple, scorn for the scorner, ignorance for the fool, sloth
for the lazy - we are what we feast upon
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 4-Oct |
Most
companies that achieve mediocrity did not do so by missing their
mark
– “ A guide to business “ -
William Everyman |
| |
|
| 5-Oct |
No
bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings
– William Blake |
| |
|
| 6-Oct |
Dost
thou envy the oppressor - then the oppressor thou hast become
- William Everyman |
| |
|
| 7-Oct |
The
truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it
– General H. Norman Schwartzkopf |
| |
|
| 8-Oct |
People
with goals succeed because they know where they are going
– Earl Nightingale
|
| |
|
| 9-Oct |
Success
in business is a combination of hard work and serendipity –
I have yet to see anyone fall up a ladder nor climb one without
a handy arrangement of rungs
– “ A guide to business “
, William Everyman |
| |
|
| 10-Oct |
Outside
of original thought it is not enough to say that “ I think
that if I keep working at this and I want I badly enough I can have
it “ , the prize must actually exist somewhere other than
in ones’ imagination
- “ A guide to business “ , William
Everyman |
| |
|
| 11-Oct |
Only
those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can
go
– T.S. Eliot |
| |
|
| 12-Oct |
Here
is the course of the matter – Inspiration begat imagination.
Imagination begat desire. Desire begat effort. Effort begat confidence.
Confidence begat capacity. Or else it was the other way around
– “ A guide to business “
, William Everyman |
| |
|
| 13-Oct |
The
ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort
and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| |
|
| 14-Oct |
Curiosity
is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous
intellect
– Samuel Johns |
| |
|
| 15-Oct |
Work
like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never
been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
– Satchel Paige |
| |
|
| 16-Oct |
Restlessness
and discontent are the first necessities of progress
– Thomas Alva Edison |
| |
|
| 17-Oct |
If
the winds of fortune blow in your face instead of behind you –
change the tack of your sails and move forward
– “ A guide to business “
, William Everyman |
| |
|
| 18-Oct |
Some
look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never
were and ask why not ? “
– George Bernard Shaw |
| |
|
| 19-Oct |
Many
of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up
– Thomas Alva Edison |
| |
|
| 20-Oct |
No
sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth
- Annals
, Quintus Ennius |
| |
|
| 21-Oct |
Those
who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those
who only dream by night
– Edgar Allen Poe |
| |
|
| 22-Oct |
Go
confidently in the direction of our dreams. Live the life you have
imagined
– Henry David Thoreau |
| |
|
| 23-Oct |
The
future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
– Eleanor Roosevelt |
| |
|
| 24-Oct |
To
accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not
only dream, but also believe
– Anatole France |
| |
|
| 25-Oct |
Nothing
in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not
; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will
not ; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination
are omnipotent
– Calvin Coolidge |
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| 26-Oct |
All
genius is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone
– Greg Arnold |
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| 27-Oct |
The
void between dreams and accomplishments can be a chasm or a crack
depending on whether you have taken the first leap of faith
– “ A guide to business “
, William Everyman |
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| 28-Oct |
I
have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first
and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself
to get anything done in this world
– Lucille Ball |
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| 29-Oct |
The
only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today
– Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| 30-Oct |
What
is a friend - a single soul dwelling in two bodies
- From
Diogenes - Aristotle |
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| 31-Oct |
In
most cases success, health, happiness and wealth can be attributed
to the choice of your attitude
– Unknown |
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| 1-Nov |
History
has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because
they refused to become discouraged by their defeats
– B.C. Forbes |
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| 2-Nov |
Your
own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing
– Abraham Lincoln |
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| 3-Nov |
Patience
and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish
– John Quincy Adams |
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| 4-Nov |
There
is nothing like a dream to create the future
– Victor Hugo |
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| 5-Nov |
Destiny
is no matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing
to be waited for ; it is a thing to be achieved.
– William Jennings Bryan |
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| 6-Nov |
It
is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than
you can see
– Winston Churchill |
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| 7-Nov |
In
adversity , remember to keep an open mind
– Horace |
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| 8-Nov |
Whom
they fear they hate - From Cicero
- Quintus
Ennius |
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| 9-Nov |
It
is never too late to be what you might have been
– George Eliot |
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| 10-Nov |
Whenever
I hear , “ It can’t be done “, I know I am close
to success
– Michael Flatley |
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| 11-Nov |
Do
not think that something is true just because you believe it with
all of your heart – truth is the only noun that does not require
an adjective to define it more clearly – indeed when we try
to enhance truth we detract from its fullness
– “ Whispers from God “,
William Everyman |
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| 12-Nov |
There
are two kinds of success. One is the very rare kind that belongs
to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power
to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call
success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely
the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but who
has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree
– Theodore Roosevelt |
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| 13-Nov |
I
do not know the key to success but the key to failure is trying
to please everybody
– Bill Cosby |
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| 14-Nov |
Even
if you are on the right track , you will get run over if you just
sit there
– Will Rogers |
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| 15-Nov |
You
can be greater than anything that can happen to you
– Norman Vincent Peale |
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| 16-Nov |
You
may have to fight a battle more than once to win it
– Margaret Thatcher |
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| 17-Nov |
For
myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much
use being anything else
– Winston Churchill |
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| 18-Nov |
Life
is not easy for any of us . But what of that ?
- Madame Curie |
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| 19-Nov |
The
highest reward for one’s toil is not what one gets for
it, but what one becomes by it
– John Ruskin |
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| 20-Nov |
Like
the star that shines afar, without haste and without rest,
let each one wheel with steady sway round the task that rules
the day. And do their best
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| 21-Nov |
I
have studied the lives of great men and women, and I have
found that the men and women that go to the top were those
who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had
of energy and enthusiasm and hard work
– Harry S. Truman |
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| 22-Nov |
The
ancients thought the world was round. I am beginning to agree.
Every time I think I have reached a new horizon I find I have
been there before
– William Everyman |
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| 23-Nov |
The
greatest challenge of the Chief Executive of a corporation
is to insist on change in the midst or order too long maintained
and to contain chaos in the midst of change
– “ A guide to business “ , William Everyman
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| 24-Nov |
True
Christianity is this ; to be willing to be physically, emotionally
or financially impoverished that others may be spiritually
enriched
– William Everyman |
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| 25-Nov |
I
am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work
the more I have of it
– Thomas Jefferson |
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| 26-Nov |
A
company without employees is an oxymoron – but it is
the only kind of company a C.E.O. who is also a perfectionist
can live with
– “ A guide to business “ William Everyman |
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| 27-Nov |
Never
talk over the head of your audience . There are a thousand
sports metaphors used by motivational speakers to inspire
teamwork when addressing a struggling company – none
of which are relevant for those that never met the Lion in
the arena
– “ A guide to business “ , William Everyman
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| 28-Nov |
Far
away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may
not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe
in them, and follow where they lead.
– Louisa May Alcott |
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| 29-Nov |
Each
man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is
one direction in which all space is open to him.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 30-Nov |
The
important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we want to become.
– Charles du Bois |
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| 1-Dec |
Pick
battles big enough to matter, small enough to win
– Jonathan Kozol |
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| 2-Dec |
What
lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared
to what lies within us
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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| 3-Dec |
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 |
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| 4-Dec |
If
a man does not keep pace with his companions , perhaps it
is because he hears a different drummer . Let him step to
the music which he hears , however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau |
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| 5-Dec |
Most
of us cannot brave losing sight of the shore for very long
– this is why true explorers are so hard to find
– William Everyman |
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| 6-Dec |
Whatever
you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon
, there is always some to tell you that you are wrong . .
. . .
– Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 7-Dec |
We
do not hear the term “ compassionate “ applied
to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when
they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results
in the measurable form of jobs created , lives enriched, communities
built, living standards raised, and poverty healed , a handful
of capitalists have done infinitely more for mankind than
all of the self serving politicians , academics, social workers
and religionists who march under the banner of “compassion
“
– Nathaniel Branden |
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| 8-Dec |
The
days of a man showing up for work , doing what he is told
and expecting a paycheck for doing so are gone. If there is
no value added there is no money for a paycheck . This is
the great failing of unions – they foster the lowest
common denominator as the standard of performance believing
that simple attendance can be turned into value added by managerial
fairy dust . The only thing more devastating to success are
stupid , insipid managers with golden parachutes and without
the intestinal fortitude to demand excellence
– “ A guide to business “ , William Everyman
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| 9-Dec |
Some
people will wait for on the job training, believing it is
the employer’s responsibility to both pay them for learning
and also provide the instructions. Others learn on their own
time and increase their body of knowledge and skills. If you
were going to promote someone to the next level of responsibility
– which would you select?
– “ A guide to business “ , William Everyman
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| 10-Dec |
I
don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money;
I have a lot of money because I pay good wages
– Robert Bosch |
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| 11-Dec |
The
difference between pigments on a palette and the Mona Lisa
is the Human factor. All Homo sapiens have it but few there
be that let it out of the cage
– Unknown |
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| 12-Dec |
I
have gained this by Philosophy; that I do without being commanded
what others do only from fear of the law
- Diogenes - Aristotle |
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| 13-Dec |
People
are always blaming their circumstances for what they are .
I don’t believe in circumstances. The people that get
on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them,
make them.
– George Bernard Shaw |
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| 14-Dec |
Opportunities
come and go. Myopic managers often fail to see the opportunity
coming because their gaze is fixed on the one going away
– “ A guide to business “ , William Everyman |
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| 15-Dec |
You
must do what you think you cannot do
– Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| 16-Dec |
The
devil is not always cast out simply by facing him squarely
, head on. But he is never cast out by running away
– “ Whispers from God “ , William Everyman
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| 17-Dec |
God
does not enter just because you ask – first you must
believe he exist
– “ Whispers from God “ , William Everyman |
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| 18-Dec |
The
optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees
danger in every opportunity
– Winston Churchill |
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| 19-Dec |
Perception
is the thing – if I live in squalor but if all I know
and all I have ever known tells me that I live like a King
I actually believe it. It is not until I see something beyond
my controlling parameters that I realize that my whole life
has been a mockery. Once introduced to this “new world
“ I will more likely than not strike out at my liberator
rather than thank him. This is the same reaction an iconoclast
receives from Broadway to Brooklyn , Wall Street to the White
House , the Synagogue to the Sahara
- William Eveyman |
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| 20-Dec |
Success
is not just the right attitude, the right brain washing of
cliques and clever sayings, but without them you might not
recognize success when you get there
– William Everyman |
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| 21-Dec |
Obstacles
cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He
who is fixed to a star does not change his mind
– Leonardo da Vinci |
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| 22-Dec |
You
can forgive my hurt, but you cannot forget it and your future
opinion of me is forever changed. Only God can forgive and
also forget
– “ Whispers from God “ , William Everyman |
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| 23-Dec |
If
you spend all your time waiting for good fortune to be bestowed
on you , you are likely to receive nothing
– William Everyman |
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| 24-Dec |
Do
not eschew people with ambition , this is not a disease that
afflicts the lowest common denominator
– “ A guide to business “ , William Everyman
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| 25-Dec |
Today
we see him as he was born. The world would like to keep him
in the manger. But God has ordained that he be our judge.
You would do well to kneel before him both times.
– “ Whisper from God “,
William Evereyman |
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| 26-Dec |
The
long arduous climb out of poverty starts with one simple decision
– do I eat the seed corn or do I plant it
– “ Whispers from God “ , William Everyman |
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| 27-Dec |
The
mighty fortress that defends against Barbarians was built
one brick at a time in times of peace
– William Everyman |
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| 28-Dec |
Want
to find opportunity ? Look to chaos – nothing creates
opportunity like mass confusion
– “ A guide to business “ , William Everyman
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| 29-Dec |
Happy
are those whose life is today
– Ayi Kwel Armanti |
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| 30-Dec |
Every
goal however mundane is of great moment when pursued by prominent
people in the full view of the pathetic rag that was once
the free press
– William Everyman |
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| 31-Dec |
I
have searched for truth all my life and I can sum it up in
ten words. " Jesus Christ and him crucified " ."
Jesus Christ he is risen"
- "Whispers from God", William Everyman |
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