The best advice is this: Don’t take advice and don’t give advice.
—Unknown
Topics: Advice
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.
—Unknown
Topics: Perfection, Rationality
Pain is only weakness leaving your body, so don’t give up because it hurts keep going cause it makes you stonger.
—Unknown
What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experiences.
—Unknown
You never know how many apples there are in a seed.
—Unknown
Topics: Results
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
—Unknown
I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
—Unknown
Topics: Smile, Smiles, Beauty
Life is too short to waste time blaming someone
else for your failures. No one can make you fail.
Life is never too short to take time to thank someone
else for helping you succeed. Anyone can help you succeed.
—Unknown
Living each moment to its absolute fullest is perhaps the only justification you have for receiving this incredible gift called life.
—Unknown
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.
—Unknown
Topics: Work
As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
—Unknown
Topics: Life
Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.
—Unknown
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence, Virtues
You’re on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
—Unknown
Topics: Now, Success, Fail, Failure
Boredom is a sickness of the soul.
—Unknown
Topics: Boredom
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
—Unknown
Topics: Miscellaneous, Adversity
Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?
—Unknown
Topics: Perspective
Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.
—Unknown
Topics: Teamwork
As long as you have your ‘prickles’ out,
like a porcupine, no-one can get near you to hurt you.
You can’t hurt a porcupine – but you can’t hold
a porcupine either. So it’s not a win-win situation.
—Unknown
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
—Unknown
Topics: Perseverance
In the battle of the sexes, woman gains her greatest victory by surrendering.
—Unknown
Topics: Victory, Feminism, Women
It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
—Unknown
Topics: Trust
To a wise man every day is a new life.
—Unknown
Topics: Nature, Life
Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.
—Unknown
Topics: Speech, Conversation
As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.
—Unknown
Topics: Love
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
—Unknown
Topics: Adversity
Make service your first priority, not success, and success will follow.
—Unknown
Topics: Follow, Success & Failure
Failure is the path of least persistence.
—Unknown
Topics: Failure
I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
—Unknown
Topics: Facts, Compromise
When we become aware of our humility, we’ve lost it.
—Unknown
Topics: Humility
There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can’t.
—Unknown
Topics: People
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
—Unknown
Topics: Father, Fathers, Family
In both poker and life, you can’t read people any better than they can read themselves. You can, if you’re good, very accurately determine if they think their hand is good, or if they think they know the answer to your legal question. But you can’t be sure if reality differs from their perception.
—Unknown
Topics: Rationality
Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.
—Unknown
Topics: Defects, Jealousy
Man succeeds because he believes he can, or he fails because he thinks he will.
—Unknown
Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having.
—Unknown
Topics: Health
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
—Unknown
Topics: People, Part of The Whole
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it
—Unknown
Topics: Guilt
Buying on trust is the way to pay double.
—Unknown
When safety is a factor, call in a contractor.
—Unknown
Topics: Safety
The great thing about experience is that you can’t borrow it, buy it or steal it, you must earn it.
—Unknown
Topics: Experience