quotes on hard work and success

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. ~John F. Kennedy


Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open. ~Agnes de Mille


Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. ~Joseph Conrad


Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ~Joseph Wood Krutch


Short A: Yes, but I might not use it.


Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. ~Charles R. Brown


We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding


Short A: By email, please read the long answer.


SKIPPING! The hippity hoppity gait that came naturally to us as children, but that the majority of adults haven't done since they were ten... SKIPPING! Like Dorothy and gang did arm in arm down the yellow brick road... SKIPPING! As in expressing joy by leaping happily down the street without a care in the world. ~Kim Corbin, founder of iskip.com


I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more. ~Franklin Knight Lane


Grief is a species of idleness. ~Samuel Johnson


After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays


Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material. ~Henry Ford


I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot


Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~William Stafford


My heart filled with love, flowing over with joy, my own little drum that I like to march by! ~Gunda Fijnje-Nolan


Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation. ~Author Unknown


I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson