Tuesday, November 25, 2008

sad quotes

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
-David Weatherford

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-Joseph Stalin

However long the night, the dawn will break. -African Proverb

The silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed. -Kahlil Gibran

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.-Carl Jung

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it.
Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
-Frederick Douglass

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.-Kahlil Gibran

There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
-Anonymous

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.-Louis E. Boone

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.-Washington Irving

Depression, when it’s clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it’s known to respond to medication and to counseling.
However truly you believe there’s a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you’re depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: I just don’t want to feel bad anymore.
The shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure… -Jonathan Franzen

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. -Winston Churchill

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.-Anais Nin

Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome -Jimi Hendrix

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. -Jean de La Fontaine

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
-Christina Georgina Rossetti

Love can sometimes be magic.
But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.-Javan

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'
-John Greenleaf Whittier

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. -Psalms

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.-William Blake

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy. -Jim Rohn

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their
closet. -Charles Caleb Colton

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl S. Buck

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. -Carl Jung

No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees. -Carole Borges

Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted.
"No, I don't," I said. -Franz Kafka

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. -Helen Keller

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -Albert Einstein

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their
behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity.Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.-Bruce Henderson

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. -Dante

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.-Eric Hoffer

Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat -Henry Fosdick

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. -Jim Rohn

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. -Oscar Wilde

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.-Leonardo da Vinci

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. -Eric Hoffer

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.-R.W. Dale

then laugh, leaning back in my arms, for life is not a paragraph, and death I think is no parenthesis.-e.e. cummings

Oh, sweet sorrow, the time you borrow, will you be here when I wake up tomorrow? -Katherine Wolf

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.-Helen Keller

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.-Dag Hammarskjold

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.-Olive Schreiner

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get.
No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.-Sidney Madwed

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. -Gloria Steinem

It's such a straightforward sort of colour.
I never squint at a black tee shirt, wondering if it goes with my black jeans.
I never have to get up in the morning, thinking "I wonder what colour I'll wear today."
And black goes with anything.
As long as the anything is black.
- Neil Gaiman

The absence of love is the most abject pain.-Herr Lipp

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.-Sylvia Plath

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath

He is the truly courageous man who never depends. -Confucius

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success quotes

do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep.-Greg Evans

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.-Michael Jordan

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.-Greg Evans

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.-John Ruskin

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.-David J. Schwartz

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.-Edward William Bok

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.-Earl Nightingale

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.-Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Success, remember is the reward of toil.-Sophocles

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.-Albert Einstein

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.-Kareem Abdul-Jabar

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.-Mack R. Douglas

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.-John R. Amos

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.-Anonymous

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.-Albert Einstein

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream.-John A. Appleman

She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all.-Paul Aubuchon

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.-Albert Einstein

Success action is cumulative in its results.-Wallace D. Wattles

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.-Sri da Avabhas

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.-Josiah Gilbert Holland

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.-John Ruskin

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.-Arthur Ashe

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.-Joe Girard

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.-Helen Keller

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.-Dr. Robert Anthony

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.-Bunker Hunt

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.-Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.-David J. Schwartz

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.-Og Mandino

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.-Earl Nightingale

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.-Wilson Mizner

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.-William A. Ward

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.-Og Mandino

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.-Edward William Bok

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.-Dr. Joyce Brothers

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.-T. S. Eliot

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish-John Maxwell

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Admiration quotes

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.-Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!-Carol Alt

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.-Rupert Brooke

You always admire what you really don't understand.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.-Blaise Pascal

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!-Denis Diderot

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.-Thomas Mann

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.-Nero Wolfe

Admiration is a curiosity.-Greg Evans

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Motivational quotes

It ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth-Rocky Balboa

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar

Patience and perseverance have a magical affect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish-John Quincy Adams

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within-Romana L. Anderson

There is no better time than now. The time to live is now. The time to dream is now. The time to imagine and forget the past is now. The time to shine is now. The time to bleed, sweat, and determine yourself for the things you want most is now-Anonymous

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going-Anonymous

I am the lizard king. I can do anything-Jim Morrison

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best-Akeem Olajuwon

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher strates. The great teacher inspires.-William Arthur Ward -William Arthur Ward

No one does anything from a single motive.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn-Harriet Beecher Stowe

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.-Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'-Carrie Fisher

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.-Donald Laird

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'-Carrie Fisher

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.-Dwight D. Eisenhower


The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.-Richard L. Evans

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.-Richard L. Evans

Who dares, wins.-Anonymous

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.-Richard L. Evans

Always do what you are afraid to do.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

May the sun always shine on your windowpane; May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; May the hand of a friend always be near you; May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.-Irish Blessing

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.-Harriet Braiker

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream>-Les Brown

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.-Lido Anthony Lee Lacocca

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.-Roy E. Moody

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me-Ashleigh Brilliant

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.-Peter Davies

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.-George-Louis De Buffon

I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.-John Robinson

A life without cause is a life without effect-Barbarella

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.-Gerry Sikorski

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.-Harriet Braiker

Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.-Adel Bestavros

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.-Carol Burnett
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back.-Anonymous

...if the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as well as competent.-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.-Joseph Joubert

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.-J.C.F. von Schiller

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.-Francie Larrieu Smith

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it?-George Eliot

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.-Russel Green

The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.-Ken Gilbert

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.-Stephen Covey

The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, The thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance.-Hugh Stevenson Tigner

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually-Stephen Covey

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.-Stephen Covey

The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.-Ken Gilbert

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.-Stephen Covey

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way!-Dr. Seuss

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.-Zadok Rabinwitz

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually-Stephen Covey

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.-Dr. Seuss

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'-Stephen Covey

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.-Frank A. Clark

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.-Stephen Covey

LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE TO LIVE-ANIL GUPTA

If you can calculate the risk you can obviously measure the result.-Narahari Rao

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.-Stephen Covey

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.-Stephen Covey

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People-Stephen Covey

Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.-Stephen Covey

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.-W. M. L. Jay

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!-Bob Richards
When the administrator feels himself to be the sole driving agency, and finds himself chiefly engaged in arousing those who apathetic and coercing those who are antagonistic, there is something vitally wrong with the administration. An executive should find himself engaged chiefly in directing the energies which create themselves naturally in all parts of the business, and in finding the proper outlet for the eager upward striving of the ranks below.-E.E. Jones

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.-Thomas Jefferson

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups-Peter Davies

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!-Max Schmelling

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.-Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.-Thomas Jefferson

No one does anything from a single motive.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.-Francie Larrieu Smith

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.-Henry David Thoreau

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