One Liners - Page 4

• Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. - Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  
• The love of liberty is the love of others, the love of power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlit
  
  
• You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Ziggy
  
  
• Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. - The Midra
  
  
• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. - Collin Powell
  
  
• Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. - Bumper sticker
  
  
• Our Heavenly Father is too good to be unkind, and too wise to make mistakes. - Dr. Robert Ketcham
  
  
• You cannot plough the field by turning it over in your mind.
  
  
• If the vessel is not clean, God will not be seen! - Richard Fitzgerald
  
  
• Did it ever occur to you that nothing ever just occurs to God?
  
  
• It's time we move beyond stained glass to stained lives. - Dave Harwood
  
  
• The day we tame nature, turning the earth into a gigantic Disney theme park, will be the saddest day in human history. We have a deep need to be exceeded by forces we barely understand and can't hope to control. - Bob Lewis, in his InfoWorld column "IS Survival." (Two one-liners, so take your pick ;-)
  
  
• Above all, try something. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  
  
• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Alfred North Whitehead
  
  
• It's one of the hardest things in the world to accept criticism, especially when it's not presented in a constructive way, and turn it to your advantage. Capitalize upon criticism! - J.C. Penney
  
  
• Sin will take you where you won't want to go, cost you more than you want to pay, and keep you longer than you want to stay. - Phil Ligon (PITN)
  
  
• The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would hire them away. - Ronald Reagan
  
  
• A basic doctrine of management: identifying a sustainable competitive advantage for creating wealth is the No. 1 hallmark of success. - Michael Jordan, venture capital adviser at I-Hatch Ventures, former CEO of PepsiCo and CBS, and the figure credited with turning around a beleaguered Westinghouse Electric, now involved in nine Internet ventures and is chairman of electronic document company eOriginal ( http://www.eoriginal.com/ ) and professional services firm Luminant Worldwide ( http://www.luminant.com/ ) said most of the business plans he's looked at violate the basic doctrines of management. Not identifying a sustainable competitive advantage for creating wealth is the No. 1 hallmark of those failures.
  
  
• What you get makes a living, what you give makes a life.
  
  
• The customer is totally in charge, totally in command, and ultimately determines the future for all of us. - Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company
  
  
• To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable - Edgar Bronfman
  
  
• Better to bend than to break. - Scottish Proverb
  
  
• Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength. - Ralph W. Sockman
  
  
• The bottom line in this world today is that too much experience can be just as big a problem as too little experience. - Michael Vizard, InfoWorld Editor in Chief
  
  
• The path of least resistance leads to failure!
  
  
• Mark Twain once said a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
  
  
• Angles can fly because they take themselves lightly. - G.K. Chesterton
  
  
• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; They seem more afraid of life than death. - politician James F. Byrnes
  
  
• You can have anything you want if you just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar
  
  
• In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy. - Albert Einstein
  
  
• [Unfortunately,] the opposite of progress is Congress! - Mike Ryan
  
  
• We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glowworm. - Winston Churchill
  
  
• All social engineering is preceeded by verbal engineering of changing the apauling to the appealing.
  
  
• All sunshine makes for a desert.
  
  
• Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein