General Quotes

[El Borak]

Abraham Lincoln

1. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
2. Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord
makes so many of them.
3. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg
doesn't make it a leg.
4. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
5. My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few
virtues.

[El Borak]

Abraham Lincoln

6. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work
diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall
be safe from violence when built.
7. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
8. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content
with your failure.
9. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never
suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
10. I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

[El Borak]

Abraham Lincoln

11. I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
12. I want it said of me by those who knew me best; that I always plucked a thistle
and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
13. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
14. If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
15. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

[El Borak]

Abraham Lincoln

16. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give
him power.
17. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
18. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new
nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created equal.
19. People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
20. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than
any other one thing.

[El Borak]

Abraham Lincoln

21. With malice toward none, with charity for all.
22. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just
encouragement to industry and enterprise.
23. Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than
any other thing.
24. Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
25. I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds
to be.

[El Borak]

Abraham Lincoln

26. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
27. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
28. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
29. You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
30. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
31. I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
32. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and under a just
God, can not long retain it.
33. What ever you are be a good one.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

1. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It
takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
2. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
3. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
4. I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
5. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

6. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
7. The only real valuable thing is intuition.
8. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
9. I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.
10. God is subtle but he is not malicious.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

11. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
12. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
13. The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
14. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
15. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

16. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
17. Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
18. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
19. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
20. Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

21. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
22. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
23. God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
24. The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
25. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

26. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
27. The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
28. We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
created them.
29. Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
30. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

31. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are
still greater.
32. Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an
equation is something for eternity.
33. If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z
is keeping your mouth shut.
34. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about
the the universe.
35. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as
they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

36. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
37. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones.
38. In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all,
be a sheep.
39. The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident
for someone who's dead.
40. Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even
if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

41. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
42. No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of
chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
43. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who
reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and
feeble mind.
44. Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our
equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a
matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
45. The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of
thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had
known, I should have become a watchmaker.

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

46. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary
prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
47. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of
all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed.
48. 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.
49. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems
to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and
the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
50. Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means
nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between
past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion

[El Borak]

Albert Einstein

51. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And
radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them
there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
52. One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one
liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had
passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems
distasteful to me for an entire year.
53. ...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from
everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of
one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the
personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
54. He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would
surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.
Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble
war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my
conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
55. A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time
and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from
this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.

[El Borak]

Brian Tracey

1. The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you
help others, the more they will want to help you.
2. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?
3. Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing
difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is
simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
4. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better
forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the
movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
5. No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from
scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have
already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our
goals.

[El Borak]

Brian Tracey

6. It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.
7. If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they
decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your
children the greatest of all blessings.
8. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger
and better than your current situation.
9. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their
future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their
distant vision, that goal or purpose.
10. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward
what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than
allowing it to master you

[El Borak]

Brian Tracey

11. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
12. In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a
heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to
all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help
alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
13. The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
14. The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between
the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
15. Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person

[El Borak]

Brian Tracey

16. Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to
handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
17. Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
18. The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with
our self-image.
19. Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the
heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming
very good at it.
20. We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
21. The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent
unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward
some great good.
22. You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful
tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from
poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to
joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
23. You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the
world can throw at you.
24. Success is predictable

[El Borak]

Dale Carnegie

1. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and
worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
2. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with
all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had
thought could never be yours.
3. If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember
my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an
impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of
importance.
4. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
5. Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you
conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big
ones tend to take care of themselves

[El Borak]

Dale Carnegie

6. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.
Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming
impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
7. It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing
that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
8. The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them
from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't
like their rules whose would you use?
9. 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 horizoninstead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."
10. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.

[El Borak]

Dale Carnegie

11. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who
have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
12. 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.
13. Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends
solely upon what you think.
14. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The
sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
15. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

[El Borak]

Dale Carnegie

16. Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
17. I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the
obvious is what people need to be told.
18. The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures
most.
19. There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the
world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how
we look, what we say, and how we say it.
20. Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard,
feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the
best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

[El Borak]

Dale Carnegie

21. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that
most frequently makes for success.
22. If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
23. There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the
other person want to do it.
24. When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
25. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

[El Borak]

Dennis Waitley

1. Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is
what is called experience.
2. If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most
assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
3. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in
direction to set you straight for your next success.
4. As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will
continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It
happens in its own time.
5. Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your
energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

[El Borak]

Dennis Waitley

6. Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
7. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
8. Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations
for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
9. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them,
learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable.
Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way,
and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
10. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget
about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

[El Borak]

Dennis Waitley

11. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is
a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by
saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
12. It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
13. Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where
there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action
plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that
achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment.
The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that
enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
14. When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as
learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of
one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
15. Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

[El Borak]

Dennis Waitley

16. You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
17. Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always
keep.
18. A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a
shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
19. No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can
achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in
life, something greater than yourself.
20. Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid
of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success
is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live
on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.