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Gagler'sQuote of the DayJuly 1999 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." "At no time is freedom of speech more precious than
when a man hits his thumb with a hammer." "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of
character." "We have no more right to consume happiness without
producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." "Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from
something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have
last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the
will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes if for happiness." "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's
experience." "Never spend your money before you have it." "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend
loses more; but he that loses courage loses all." "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can
be no courage unless you're scared." "You have a remarkable ability which you never
acknowledged before. It is to look at a situation and know whether you can do it. And I
mean really know the answer." "Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are
right." "In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that
answers to the vibrations of beauty." "When a man learns to understand and control his own
behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants
and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized." "All human discoveries seem to be made only for the
purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are
contained in sacred writings." "The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye:
the more light you pour uopn it, the more it will contract." "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a
bad novel tells us the truth about its author." "You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives
to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there
is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us
successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we
have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality
of life. We want to make the world work." "You come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." "The first requisite for success is the ability to
apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing
weary." "I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people
get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to
worry." "Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one
does not need, is dear at a penny." "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who
has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their
use." "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow,
we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a
giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer
believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, 'Taking a
new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.' The real fear should be of the
opposite course." "Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods,
choose both." "No religion can long continue to maintain its purity
when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state." "Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to
bear arms, though arms we need - not as a call to battle, though embattled we are - but a
call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, 'rejoicing in
hope, patient in tribulation' - a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny,
poverty, disease, and war itself." "Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no
longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family, and
country; such as the individual, honor, and religion." "There is no 'I' in 'Team.'" |
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