Monday, January 31, 2011

37. Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain


36. You see things; and you say, "Why?"
But I dream things that never were;
and I say, "Why not?
-George Bernard Shaw


35. Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights
that can't be scaled by a man
who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.
-Walt Disney


34. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-Henry David Thoreau


33. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt


32. Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
-William Faulkner


31. Trust in dreams,
for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
-Kahlil Gibran


30. There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
-Victor Hugo
 


29. Nothing happens unless first we dream.
-Carl Sandburg


28. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
-Henry David Thoreau


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



26. The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness;
and knows that yesterday is but today's memory
and tomorrow is today's dream.
-Kahlil Gibran


25. The dream was always running ahead of me.
To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it,
that was the miracle.
-Anais Nin


24. To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
-Anatole France


23. They who dream by day
are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe


22. Dreams are answers to questions
we haven't yet figured out how to ask.
-X-Files


21. Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
-Anais Nin


20. Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
-Edgar Cayce



19. The starting point of great success and achievement
has always been the same.
It is for you to dream big dreams.
There is nothing more important,
and nothing that works faster
than to cast off your own limitations
and to begin dreaming and fantasizing about
the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.
-Brian Tracy



18. The end of wisdom is to dream high enough
to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
-William Faulkner


17. The things that one most wants to do
are the things that are probably most worth doing.
-Winifred Holtby


16. All men dream but not equally.
Those who dream by night
in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake in the day to find that it was vanity;
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence
15. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others,
but to get ahead of ourselves,
to break our own records,
to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
-Stewart B. Johnson



14. Good business leaders create a vision,
articulate the vision,
passionately own the vision,
and relentlessly drive it to completion.
-Jack Welch



13. It is difficult, but not impossible,
to conduct strictly honest business.
-Mahatma Gandhi



12. Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game,
because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win.
Setting your own standards, and living up to them,
is a better way to profit.
Not to mention a better way
to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.
-Seth Godin



11. You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods
and be in business tomorrow.
-unknown



10. The success combination in business is:
Do what you do better and do more of what you do.
-David Joseph Schwartz



9. Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
-Benjamin Franklin



8. Always treat your employees
exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
-Stephen R. Covey



7. Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
well-timed, sincere words of praise.
They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
-Sam Walton



6. Whenever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous decision.
-Peter Drucker



5. In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words:
people, product and profits.
Unless you've got a good team,
you can't do much with the other two.
-Lee Iacocca



4. It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
-Harvey S. Firestone



3. A word of encouragement during a failure
is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
-unknown



2. If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results.
You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
-Stephen R. Covey



1. A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed
from a kick in the pants,
but is miles ahead in results.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox