Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats

  • To laugh often and love much… to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one’s self… this is to have succeeded.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.- Aristotle
  • You must be the change you want to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
  • Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.- Unknown
  • Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
  • A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.- Hugh Downs
  • If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. – Marie Osmond
  • What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Sir Winston Churchill
  • Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire