Gagler's Quote of the Day

March 2001 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

 

"The only time the average child is as good as gold is on April 15."

- Ivern Boyett

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

- Erica Jong

"To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will."

- Sugar Ray Robinson

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

- Peter F. Drucker

"My interest is in the future...because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there."

- Charles Kettering

"There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide."

- Mortimer Caplin

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

- G.K. Chesterton

"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."

- Muhammad Ali

"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man/ We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."

- George Matthew Adams

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all-time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them all the time. Winning is a habit."

- Vince Lombardi

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

- Mark Twain

"He who demands little gets it."

- Ellen Glasgow

"I restore myself when I'm alone.  A career is born in public - talent in private."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Throughout my life I have tried to remain true to myself.  This I will continue to do as long as I live."

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."

- Maria Callas

"Democracy is the process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."

- Lawrence J. Peter

"This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can."

- George Bernard Shaw

"...I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and to share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigating pain.  It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk through the rain."

- Audre Lorde


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