Browsing Quotes With Tag: perspective (64)
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It’s amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.
Speaker: Peter DruckerPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet.
Speaker: Herman HesseSource: E-SquaredPosted: 08 Feb 2014 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Speaker: James RogersPosted: 19 Mar 2012 at 10:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a meaningless way to spend time, but I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
Speaker: Haruki MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who dies with the most toys still dies.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute’s worth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to tough the crown,
Would with the scepter straight be stricken down?Speaker: William ShakespeareSource: Rape of the LockPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from the outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls.
...A priest must never speak to protect himself against other men. Men do as God allows them to do. We may only pray to Him when we feel ourselves to be in danger, and we must pray, not for ourselves but for our brother, lest through us he fall into sin.Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When people talk about the big picture, I am often reminded of a tapestry. Someone once told me that if you look at the back of a beautiful and priceless tapestry, all you will see is a bunch of knots. Well, sometimes that’s all people will see because they haven’t seen the finished design on the other side yet. Destiny sometimes works that way, so don’t give up control by leaving your own tapestry – the design of your life – unfinished.
Speaker: Donald TrumpSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, — but the best is lost.The answers quick & keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.Speaker: Edna St. Vincent MillaySource: BabyPosted: 29 Aug 2008 at 8:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
Speaker: John RuskinSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Speaker: AesopPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What would be the use of eternity to a person who cannot use well one half hour?
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it – or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure, in order that I shall not regret the price that I have paid for it.
Speaker: Hartsell WilsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Take what you do seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously.
Speaker: Steven JohnstonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[The mind] is the agent of the Almighty, clothed with mortal tabernacles and we must learn to discipline it, bring it to bear on one point and not allow the devil to interfere or confuse it nor divert it from the great object that we have in view.
Speaker: Orson PrattPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Consider your origin; you were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Speaker: DantePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is very important that we do not assume the perspective of morality in making decisions that bear on eternity.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How do we expect the world to be happy if they don’t know who they are, why they’re here, or what’s going on? …No wonder half of the world has to numb themselves before breakfast.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!