Mark

Mark's Favorite Quotes
^{"Weekly quotes"}

December 21, 2011
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time"
~Abraham Lincoln

December 14, 2011
"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist"
~Harold Wilkins

December 7, 2011
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure"
~Colin Powell

November 30, 2011
"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs"
~Unknown

November 23, 2011
"Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance"
~ Epicurus

October 14, 2011
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all"
~Peter Drucker

October 7, 2011
"Paint a masterpiece daily. Always autograph your work with excellence"
~Greg Hickman

October 1, 2011
"Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich"
~Henry Ford

September 15, 2011
"People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well"
~Joe Gibbs

April 11, 2011

"It takes a year to harvest a crop, 10 years to see the beauty of a tree and 50 years to make a man."
~Korean Proverb

April 5, 2011

"Do what you do very well and see what happens."
~ C. Rice

February 14, 2011

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
~ James Oppenheim

February 7, 2011

"Not the quarry but the chase, not the trophy but the race"

January 17, 2011

"A smile is contagious; Be a carrier

January 10, 2011

"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve"
~Norman Vincent Peal

January 3, 2011

"Success quite often seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go"

December 27, 2010

"I were better to be eaten to death by rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
~Shakespeare

November 8, 2010

"Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions."
~ Ben Franklin on Industry

November 1, 2010

" Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable."
~ Ben Franklin on tranquility

October 25, 2010

"Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e. waster nothing:
~ Ben Franklin on Frugality

October 18, 2010

"Always have time for the important over the urgent"

October 11, 2010

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care"

October 4, 2010

"Don't be discouraged, its often the last key in the bunch that opens the door"
~Anonymous

September 27, 2010

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal"
~ Henry Ford

September 20, 2010

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
~Edmund Burke

September 13, 2010

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

September 6, 2010

"Well arranged time is the surest work of a well-arranged mind"
~Sir Isaac Pitman

August 30,2010

"Courage is saddling up, even if you don't feel like it"

August 23, 2010

"Don't let success go to your head, nor failure to your heart"

August 16, 2010

"Brevity is the shortest distance between effort and results"

August 9, 2010

Patience is the companion of wisdom
~St. Augustine

August 2, 2010

"Come to me, all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you. Take my yoke upon your shoulders and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart. Your souls will find rest, for my yoke is easy and my burden light."
~Matthew 11:28-30

July 26, 2010

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
~ John Wooden

July 19,2010

"Be not disturbed by trifles or at accidents, common or unavoidable"
~ Ben Franklin

July 5, 2010

"Always choose enlightenment over entertainment"
M. Walker

June 28, 2010

"To lengthen life, lessen your meals"
~Ben Franklin

June 21, 2010

"Tough times don't last, tough people do"

June 14, 2010

"What is the use of living if it not be to strive for noble causes and to make this world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone"
~ Winston Churchill

June 7, 2010

"Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep"

May 31, 2010

"Put a grain of boldness in all you do"

May 24, 2010

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened"
~Mark Twain

May 17, 2010

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

May 10, 2010

"Necessity is the mother of invention"

May 3, 2010

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."
~Jonathan Winters

April 26, 2010

"There is a right way, a wrong way, a long way and a hard way."
~Ben Cain

April 19, 2010

"When angry, count to 10 before you speak. If very angry, count to 100."
~Thomas Jefferson

April 12, 2010

"Never spend money before you have it"
~Thomas Jefferson

April 5, 2010

"If you are in a hole, stop digging"

^{March 29, 2010}

^{"Under promise, over deliver"}

March 22, 2010

"Don't back down"
~ Don Holt

March 15, 2010

"The fragrance of the rose lingers on the hand that cast it"
~Shakespeare

March 8, 2010

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
~Ronald E. Osborn

March 1, 2010

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
~ Dr. Robert Schuller

February 22, 2010

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass!"
~ Paul J. Meyer

February 15, 2010

"What you can do or dream, you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Only engage and then the mind grows heated. Begin it and the work will be completed."
~Goethe

February 8, 2010

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
~Chinese proverb

February 1, 2010

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt"
~Shakespeare

January 25, 2010

"Prior Planning precludes pitiful poor performance!"

January 18, 2010

"With every adversity, within it is the seed of opportunity."

January 11, 2010

Farmer: "Every time I look back, the row gets crooked."

January 4, 2010

"If you see 10 Troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you"

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