Friday, October 20, 2006
Golden Quotes For Life I
Smile a little,
Help a little,
Push a little,
The world needs you.
Work a little,
Wait a little,
Hope a little,
And don't get blue.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them.
Remember that great achievements involve great risks.
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
Plant your words where profit lies: Whiter cloth takes faster dyes.
Poverty is not a shame, but being ashamed of it is.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure.
When you start crowing you stop growing.
Preserve me from unreasonable and immoderate sleep.
Select a goal in life and thereafter put into it all your might.
Say Yes to life and let it come,
Bounding into heart and home,
Giving all it has to give,
Say your Yes to life and live.
Say No to life and day by day,
The fire of lit will die away,
leaving the ash for you to sieve,
leaving you nothing to please.
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
The fact that you don't know is enough of curse;
Not to want to know is a fate that's much worse.
The feeble tremble before an opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, skilful direct it.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The past, the present and the future are really one -- they are today.
The percentage of error will multiply the longer you deliberate.
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illuminate.
Between optimist and pessimist the difference is droll: The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist sees the hole.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Who shuts his hand, hath lost his gold. Who opens it, hath it twice told.
I am currently revamping all my blogs, doing the upkeeping job. I am trying to be a good mother, a good daughter, and a good citizen of Singapore. I hope I can fulfill all my responsibilities well and to lead a meaningful and purposeful life with no regrets.
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