Daily Interesting Quotes

mack77 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-15-2008, 05:56 AM

In this thread, I'll be adding my favourite interesting and inspiring quotes

you can add yours too

ok ill start it off

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius-Mozart

mack77 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-16-2008, 01:08 AM

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.-Anne Frank

James · #3 (**permalink**) 12-16-2008, 02:59 PM

"Whenever things go wrong in this world there is always a tendency to overrate the malice and underrate the incompetence." Louis Rukeyser

Keep this in mind and you spend a lot less time being angry. As Dale Carnegie observed, most people are doing their best. It is just that sometimes that isn't what we expect or would like it to be.

socksfan · #4 (**permalink**) 12-16-2008, 03:28 PM

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it yourself.
- Fermin, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

This is one of my favorite books, and an amazing quote from it

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redb27 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-16-2008, 10:04 PM

"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all." ~Mignon McLaughlin

webman · #6 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008, 12:05 AM

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain-Mark Twain

mack77 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008, 02:14 AM

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.-Thomas Edison

redb27 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-17-2008, 06:10 AM

"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." ~C. Northcote Parkinson

June · #9 (**permalink**) 12-18-2008, 02:01 AM

Better late, than Dead on time

redb27 · #10 (**permalink**) 12-18-2008, 05:40 AM

Morning,

"Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin." ~Victor Kiam

redb27 · #11 (**permalink**) 12-19-2008, 06:01 AM

Happy Friday,

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it." ~Olin Miller

Xfactor · #12 (**permalink**) 12-19-2008, 08:32 AM

"Many friends have walked, in and out, of my life, but only a precious few have left foot-prints". n/a

Sometimes you can play the best game possible, and still lose.
"Patrick-Stewart"

redb27 · #13 (**permalink**) 12-19-2008, 06:45 PM

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." ~William James

mack77 · #14 (**permalink**) 12-19-2008, 09:14 PM

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."-Dale Carnegie

redb27 · #15 (**permalink**) 12-20-2008, 08:15 AM

"Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back." ~Charles Kingsley

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