Gagler's Quote of the Day

October 1999 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

"The only alliance I would make with the Women's Liberation Movement is in bed."

        - Abbey Hoffman

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

        - Robert Louis Stevenson

"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 owrd of encouragement to us, has entered into the makeup of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."

        - George Matthew Adams

"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."

        - Plutarch

"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community."

        - Ed Howe

"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."

        - Lester Bowles Pearson

"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero. Sieze the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow."

        - Horace

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

        - David Lloyd George

"If I say it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead."

        - Anita Baker

"You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature."

        - Les Brown

"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at someting high."

        - Henry David Thoreau

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."

        - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

        - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."

        - Jack Dixon

"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

        - Edward Gibbon

"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

        - Peter Drucker

"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."

        - Samuel Smiles

"When a man succeeds, he does it in spite of everybody and not with the assistance of everybody."

        - Edgar Watson Howe

"It is obvious that people like to play winners, they like to be with winners. Winners get favorable treatment."

        - Richard M. Nixon

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."

        - Wayne Gretzky

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

        - Robert F. Kennedy

"We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose."

        - Knute Rockne

"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."

        - Josh Billings

"There has never been a great athlete who dies without knowing what pain is."

        - Bill Bradley

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

        - Samuel Johnson

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

        - General George S. Patton

"Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control."

        - Wess Roberts

"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."

        - Andrew Carnegie

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; great minds rise above them."

        - Washington Irving

"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible."

        - Cherie Carter-Scott

"If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?"

- Oscar Hammerstein