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"Anger is never without reason! More often than not, it's just without a good one."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Never put anything off until tomorrow when you can avoid it completely, today."
- The Regmeister

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?" - Robert Kennedy/G.B.Shaw

"Due Dates Are Closer Than They Appear"

"If the dream is big enought, the facts don't count"

Charley Marsh
X - Cop

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his/ her homework"- Thomas Edison


"The ability, the will to win, the will to excel are all that matter. These are so much more important than the events that occur." Vince Lombardi

"If you don't ask, you don't get"
"It's not what you know, it's who you know"

"If you cannot impress them by brilliance, dazzle them with bullshit!"

“Set the bar low and you’ll overachieve. Set the bar high and you’ll make a difference.”

"To laugh often and much; to win respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a better place. . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A quote for all seasons: "You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results." -Mahatma Gandhi

"Heroes are rebels with a cause. Rebels because they challenge the traditional ways of thinking and refuse to follow the herd. They have a cause, a vision, that's larger than life." - Sharif Khan, author of "Psychology of the Hero Soul"

"If an egg is broken by an outside force....... a life ends. If an egg breaks from within....... life begins. Great things always begin from within"
-since the above is a fact, it does not need my explanation as to why it is my favourite quote.

"One who wants to do something will find a way, one who doesn't will find an excuse"

Many of the things you can count don't count. Many of the things you can't count really count.

"Branding: what people say about you when you leave the room."

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
- Anonymous

"Some folks are wise. But some are otherwise."
- Tobias Smollett

“With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too” - Old Yiddish Proverb but especially true in the modern context where money is the one common denominator that cuts across everything and is many times considered the only measure of success, tatent, culture, strength etc.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." - Carl W. Buechner

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

"Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal" - Earl Nightingale.


Don't lower your goals to the level of your abilities,
Instead raise your abilities to the heights of your goals..

The most important things in life aren't things.


“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing”.


"If it is difficult it will be done, if it is impossible it will take time"

If it smells like poop, it's poop. --Grandma Lind

"The most powerful drive in The Ascent of Man is his pleasure in his own skills. He loves to do things well. And having done them well he loves to do them better." Jacob Bronowski

There are two ways of spreading light: to be a candle, or to be a mirror that reflects it by Edith Wharton

"If it doesn't launch nukes - don't sweat it"

If the path is beautiful, first confirm where it leads... But if the destination is beautiful, don't bother how the path is. Keep walking...

"Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a Pig, he just looks you straight in the eye and treats you as an Equal"- Winston Churchill

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love”.
---MLK

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”.

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It is something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming"

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

Delay is preferable to error.
-Thomas Jefferson

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.

Henry Ford, 1863 1947. American Car Manufacture

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" Confucious

"We can't do great things but only small things with great love"(Mother Theresa).

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

Eric Hoffer - 1973

It is nice to be important, but more important to be nice...

"worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere"

Some people let things happen. Other people make things happen. Too many ask 'what happened'?

"If you're early you're on time. If you're on time you're late. If you're late don't bother showing up."

Eleanor Roosevelt:
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

"If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu."

Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain

"learn to work harder on yourself than your job."

"Fish discovers water last." -- Stephen Covey

"Plan the work, but work the plan!"

"If you dont tell lies you dont need to remember what you said" A Lincoln

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open."

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"

"When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice"

"If only closed minds came with closed mouths"

If you can't bite, don't show your teeth

“If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.”

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Success does not bring happiness. But, it allows you to cry in Rome, Paris, Milan, Monaco ...

"Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?"

"You get what you get, and you don't get upset"...my 6 year old daughter learned this at school.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious.

Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

By Robert Frost.


"To be successful, you gotta be selfish. Then once you're there, be unselfish...stay reachable...stay in touch...don't isolate."
- Michael Jordan

END is not end.In fact E.N.D. is Effort Never Dies.
NO is not denial. N.O. is Next Opportunity.
So, always be positive and think positive.

Richa Puri

"I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
Atlas Shrugged - Ayan Rand

“The race is not yet over coz I have not won”

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Talent will take you to the top, however it is character that will keep you there"!

"Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone!"

"You can easily judge the character of a person by how they treat those who can do nothing for them"

“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.” Brian Tracy


“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” —George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing happens until something moves." Albert Einstein

Operation Petticoat (1959)

When the air raid started they took off. All he said was "in confusion there is profit."

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
General George S. Patton, Jr.

"A leader is like the good shepherd who follows his flock and through gentle persuasion draws them to the fold"

Nelson Mandela.

If I look at the elements of the quote, some key things stand out.

- good - a leader is altruistic and not selfish - a rare talent that inspires.
- a leader is like the shepherd - someone who enables and inspires as opposed to someone who is autocratic, or authoritarian.
- in following he shows trust and allows his flock to lead.
- in following he can see into the distance (the future), and at the same time keep a close eye on the day to day realities facing his flock.
- the art of gentle persuasion is like his staff, which he gently uses to nudge those of his flock who might be straying. As opposed to using a mechanism to punish.
- in drawing them to the fold he focusses them on a common direction.

If it is a quote that has inspired Nelson Mandela it has served him very well.

"If you don't start, you will not finish"


''IF U DON'T LIKE ANY RULE,JUST FOLLW IT AND REACH ON THE TOP AND CHANGE THE RULE''

Like tobacco and liquor, credit is something that is best if not taken in abundance.
South African Credit Act Review.