100 Quotes from The Secret

For anyone who poo-poos The Secret movie and says it’s rubbish, all I can say to you is… “YOU’RE WRONG!” :-) Once you know something, you see it everywhere. Like when you buy a new car and suddenly start noticing all the other cars of the same type about…
One of the first ’spiritual’ books I ever read was Meditation by Eknath Easwaran and it had enormous influence on me. Well I just happened to be visiting his organization’s website the other day—by the way, I say “his organization” because Eknath is actually no longer ‘with us’, you know, in the body, he’s a ‘legend’ so to speak. Ok… I didn’t want to say it but you made me… he’s dead :-)
But anyway—wow! Get this—this is the very opening statement in the bit on meditation…

“The principle of meditation is simple: You are what you think.
By meditating on words that embody your highest ideals, you drive them deep into your consciousness. There they take root and begin to create wonderful changes in your life—changes you have wanted to make, but have not known how to bring about.”

You are what you think

Think about that! What about if we all went around saying really positive stuff to ourselves all day long—could be good eh? This is a guy who spent his whole life dedicated to studying and teaching spiritual wisdom and his main message is “You are what you think.” Interesting wouldn’t you say?
Anyway I’m not going to ramble on about how good The Secret is because I already did that (see my article about the common truth behind The Secret). But I came across this compilation of quotes from The Secret and I thought It’d be great to have this quick scannable list as a constant reminder about the truth that is the one law.
The more I think about it, the more I see this law everywhere—especially in the teachings of all the religions and wise guru type people. Get this…
Mark 11:24

“Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.”

Amazing.

Good vibrations

The Secret would explain this by saying that by putting ourselves in the ‘vibration’ or state of having a thing or circumstance, we actually bring that into reality—sooner or later. I see the concept of karma as unresolved states, thoughts and feelings, things that you’ve asked for, consciously or unconsciously that have not yet come about. Every thought is a creation, be very careful what you think!
The above quote by Jesus is set amongst the story of Jesus withering the fig tree because it had no fruit. There’s a lot of supposed meaning behind this story but to me it’s a pure demonstration of what can be achieved if you know how to do it. After all, there are no miracles—either something is possible or it isn’t!
Thinking about meditation—consistently putting yourself in a state of deep peace and joy would have profound effects on your life as your outer reality comes into line with the inner.
Thinking about anger, which all religions and spiritual traditions say we must guard against. You can see why they are saying it—such a passionate negative state is bound to bring mass turmoil in the life of the angry person.
So anyway, WISE up yourself, and memorize this list :-)

1. We all work with one infinite power
2. The Secret is the Law of Attraction (LOA)
3. Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting
4. We are like magnets — like attracts like. You become AND attract what you think
5. Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out a magnetic energy
6. People think about what they don’t want and attract more of the same
7. Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation
8. You attract your dominant thoughts
9. Those who speak most of illness have illness, those who speak most of prosperity have prosperity and so on
10. It’s not “wishful” thinking
11. You can’t have a universe without the mind entering into it
12. Choose your thoughts carefully. You are a masterpiece of your life
13. It’s OK that thoughts don’t manifest into reality immediately (if we saw a picture of an elephant and it instantly appeared, that would be too soon)
14. EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted. Accept that fact, it’s true
15. Your thoughts cause your feelings
16. We don’t need to complicate all the “reasons” behind our emotions. It’s much simpler than that. Two categories – good feelings, bad feelings
17. Thoughts that bring about good feelings mean you are on the right track. Thoughts that bring about bad feelings means you are not on the right track
18. Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming
19. You get exactly what you are FEELING
20. Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances
21. You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it’s not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song
22. What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience
23. What you think and what you feel and what actually manifests is ALWAYS a match — no exception
24. Shift your awareness
25. “You create your own universe as you go along” ~ Winston Churchill
26. It’s important to feel good ( ( ( (((good))) ) ) )
27. You can change your emotion immediately by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience
28. When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator
29. Life can and should be phenomenal. It will be when you consciously apply the Law of Attraction
30. The universe will re-arrange itself accordingly
31. Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: “I’m so happy and grateful now that…”
32. You don’t need to know HOW the universe is going to rearrange itself
33. LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW
34. You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster
35. The universe likes SPEED. Don’t delay, don’t second-guess, don’t doubt
36. When the opportunity or impulse is there – ACT
37. You will attract everything you require – money, people, connections. PAY ATTENTION to what’s being set in front of you
38. You can start with nothing and out of nothing or no way — a WAY will be provided
39. HOW LONG??? No rules on time. The more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen
40. Size is nothing to the universe — unlimited abundance if that’s what you wish. We make the rules on size and time
41. No rules according to the universe. You provide the feelings of having it now and the universe will respond
42. Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing — bills in the mail, being late, having bad luck and so on
43. You have to find a different approach to what is, through a different vantage point
44. “All that we are is a result of what we have thought” — Buddha
45. What can you do right now to turn your life around? Gratitude
46. Gratitude will bring more into our lives immediately
47. What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about
48. What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude. Focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for
49. Play the picture in your mind — focus on the end result
50. VISUALIZE! Rehearse your future
51. VISUALIZE! See it, feel it! This is where action begins
52. Feel the joy, feel the happiness :o)
53. An affirmative thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative one
54. “What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell
55. Our job is not to worry about the “How.” The “How” will show up out of the commitment and belief in the “what”
56. The “Hows” are the domain of the universe. It always knows the quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream
57. If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered. This is where magic and miracles happen
58. Turn it over to the universe daily, but it should never be a chore
59. Feel exhilarated by the whole process – high, happy, in tune
60. The only difference between people who are really living this way is they have habituated ways of being
61. They remember to do it all the time
62. Create a Vision Board — pictures of what you want to attract. Look at it every day and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants
63. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein
64. Decide what you want. Believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it’s possible for you
65. Close your eyes and visualize having what you already want — and the feeling of having it already
66. Focus on being grateful for what you have already. Enjoy it! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it
67. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve” ~ W. Clement Stone
68. Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind
69. When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it
70. How can you become more prosperous? INTEND IT!
71. “Checks are coming in the mail regularly”… or change your bank statement to whatever balance you want in there… and get behind the feeling of having it
72. Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas
73. Go for the sense of inner joy and peace then all outside things appear
74. We are the creators of our universe
75. Relationships: Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others. Love yourself and you will be loved
76. Healthy respect for yourself
77. For those you work with or interact with regularly – get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people
78. Write down the things you like most about them (don’t expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if you frequencies don’t match
79. When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good
80. You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children…
81. You are the only one that creates your reality
82. No one else can think or feel for you. Its YOU and ONLY YOU
83. Health: Thank the universe for your own healing. Laugh, stress free happiness will keep you healthy
84. Immune system will heal itself
85. Parts of our bodies are replaced every day, every week and so on — within a few years we have a brand new body
86. See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the body
87. Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself
88. Learn to become still. Take your attention away from what you don’t want, and place your attention on what you wish to experience
89. When the voice and vision on the inside become more profound and clear than the opinions on the outside, then you have mastered your life
90. You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose
91. Allow the world as others choose to see it, to exist as well
92. People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won’t be enough to go around. This is a lie that’s been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy
93. The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around
94. All of this abundance begins to shine through a mind that is aware of it’s own infinite nature. There’s enough for everyone. See it. Believe it. It will show up for you
95. So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want. Get behind the good feelings of all your wants
96. Write your script. When you see things you don’t want, don’t think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don’t wants. Remove your attention from don’t wants and place them on do wants
97. We are mass energy. Everything is energy. EVERYTHING
98. Don’t define yourself by your body. It’s the infinite being that’s connected to everything in the universe
99. One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force
100. Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not – NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right where you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

Many thanks to the original compiler of the 100 quotes.
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Has Twitter reached its peak?

Barracuda says that Twitter's user growth has almost stopped

Twitter's growth seems to have lost its momentum, according to a new study.
Growth in the micro-blogging service's number of users peaked at nearly 20% last April, but had dropped down to 0.15% in December 2009, says a study by Barracuda Networks.
Recent web analytics had already suggested that Twitter had reached its peak, as Twitter.com recorded a traffic high in July 2009 and has never reached that level since. According to Compete, Twitter reached 23.5 million users in August 2009 and stayed put. However, as Twitter client applications have grown and have become a bigger percentage of Twitter's user base, the numbers didn't necessarily reflect the actual situation of the micro-blogging service. By using the growth in Twitter users, instead of the site's traffic, the Barracuda study now puts things into perspective.
Strong growth in user numbers of 21.17% in April dropped to 10.95% in July and to 0.82% in September, and has ever been under 1% since – 0.58% in October, 0.34 in November and finally 0.15 in December. The accounts deleted by month also was growing, from 3.36% in April to 12.03% in October from which they peaked off to 8.48% and 8.14% percent in November and December.
To get these figures, Barracuda analysed more than 19 million Twitter accounts for frequency and content of tweets, user-to-user interactions, and each account's overall activity level. "We have been monitoring Twitter for more than one and a half years and keep track of the public timeline, and any new account of the public timeline," says lead researcher Nidhi Shah.
The concentrated growth of users reached its peak in April 2009, according to Barracuda Barracuda's chief research officer, Paul Judge, explains the stagnation of Twitter with the end of "The Red Carpet Era". Twitter shows "a very concentrated growth spurt during the early part of 2009 – a period that we define as the 'Twitter Red Carpet Era'. Twitter users came online to follow their favorite celebrities. The most famous people have already joined Twitter, so I don't think they'll see another growth spurt like that," says Judge. From November 2008 to April 2009, several big celebrities, including Ashton Kutcher, Oprah Winfrey and John Mayer, joined Twitter.
In comparison, the number of Facebook users has been rising continously. According to Facebook, today 50% of the 400 million active users log on to Facebook in any given day, with more than 35 million users updating their status and more than 60 million status updates posted each day.
Another Twitter study published by US web analytics company RJMetrics last month seems to confirm Barracuda's report. It says that Twitter has 75 million users, with a large percentage of accounts being inactive.
Another study by RJ Metrics says Twitter is still gaining new users, but has lost 20% of its growth since July According to RJMetrics' data, about 80% of all Twitter users have tweeted fewer than 10 times, about 40% of accounts have never sent a single tweet, and 25% of accounts have no followers.
Barracuda concludes that "the past six months have shown steady decline in the number of new account registrations", but the number of new users a month is currently at about 6.2 million. Their report doesn't say anything on the number of deleted accounts.
Twitter, which has not yet commented on the reports, recently announced that it had hit 50 million tweets a day. According to Barracuda's report, users are becoming more active on Twitter, with the most active users being those with about 1,000 followers.
According to internal documents leaked to TechCrunch, the company's forecast that it would go "from 25 million users at the end of 2009 to 1 billion in 2013".
Until now, Twitter itself has not released precise figures on its growth. Recently, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone posted an email newsletter saying that it had recorded 1,500% growth in the number of registered users but did not specify the timespan.
The reports certainly will prompt several questions. Has Twitter reached its peak? Is Twitter a micro-blogging service where only marketing people tweet to each other? Was it overhyped? How relevant is it anyway?
One thing is certain, the days of micro-blogging might not look as rosy as they did last spring, but they are far from over.
Google is giving tweets a visibility they never had before. After the launch of Google's real-time search in December, Twitter's traffic rose 9% from December 2009 to January 2010, according to ComScore.
Twitter's number of users may not have grown, but with the Google deal it became more important than ever.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/mar/12/twitter-growth

Quote: Walt Disney’s Four C’s

Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making his dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way. – Walt Disney

Chinese Proverbs II

Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.

Add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.

An ant may well destroy a whole dam.

It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep harms away from an arrow shot from behind.

One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.

A book holds a house of gold.

Distant water won’t help to put out a fire close at hand.

A good fortune may forebode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.

Once bitten by a snake, he/she is scared all his/her life at the mere sight of a rope.

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

Of all the stratagems, to know when to quit is the best.

Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.

You think you lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday.

One monk shoulders water by himself; two can still share the labor among them. When it comes to three, they have to go thirsty.

You can’t catch a cub without going into the den.

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Paper can’t wrap up a fire.

There are always ears on the other side of the wall.

Regular feet can’t be affected by irregular shoes.

Your fingers won’t be of the same length.

Shed no tears until seeing the coffin.

Flowing water never stale.

You won’t help shoots grow by pulling them up higher.

If you do not study hard when young you’ll end up bewailing your failures as you grow up.

An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

A Jade stone is useless before it is processed; a man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

You can’t expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet.

A tiger never returns to his prey he did not finish off.

The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be.

Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.

Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways.

Donkey lips do not fit onto a horse’s mouth.

Dream different dreams while on the same bed.

Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.

Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.

Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu.

How can you expect to find ivory in a dog’s mouth?

Chinese Proverbs I

Don't add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.

Do something that is totally unnecessary and spoil what you already have done.

An ant may well destroy a whole dam.

If a small problem is overlooked, it could develop into a big disaster. An ant can makemany holes in a dam to allow water to soak in and consequently bring it to a collapse.

A book holds a house of gold.

It is a motto adults use to encourage youngsters to study. If you study hard,you'll have a good job and a chance to make good money.

Dream different dreams while on the same bed.

It is a reality that even the closest people, husband and wife, will dream different dreams. That means that people are never alike in their minds.The connotation is that you got to bewary of even the people you trust the most.

Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.

A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.

Fight a wolf with a flexible reed.

You can fool the wolf into thinking that the reed is a hard stick.

A flea on the top of a bald head.

A crane standing in a flock of chickens.

A camel standing in a flock of sheep.

A crane is too obvious when it stands among a flock of chickens and looks very

awkward. It is also true with a camel amidst a flock of sheep and a flea when it stands on top of a hairless head. They all carry a pejorative tone: the thing that stands out among others is something awkward if not necessarily bad.

Flowing water never goes bad; our door hubs never gather termites.

It means that people have to renew their knowledge so as not to stay behind

A frog in a well shaft seeing the sky.

A bird that stopped at a well to drink had a discussion with a frog that lived in the well. The bird had a better view of the sky. The frog has a limited view of things.

Flies never visit an egg that has no crack.

Bad company finds bad people.

Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu.

Have one's ears pierced only before the wedding ceremony starts.

This means to put off what must be done until the last minute.

An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

Money spent or lost can be earned; time lost is lost for good.

It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep away from an arrow shot from behind.

Bad allies are more dangerous than enemies.

A Jade stone is useless before it is processed.

A man is good-for-nothing until he is educated.

Like ants eating a bone.

Slow steady work on a big job. La gota horada la piedra.

Lift a stone only to drop on your own feet.

The longer the night lasts, the more our dreams will be.

Mend the pen only after the sheep are all gone.

No wind, no waves.

Of all the strategies in war, to know when to quit is the best.

Prudence is the better part of valor.

Once bitten by a snake, he/she is scared all his/her life at the mere sight of a rope.

Once on a tiger's back, it is hard to alight.

Once you are in trouble or involved in a problem, it is hard to get out of it.

One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

In unity there is strength. (This proverb contradicts the following one.)

An overcrowded chicken farm produce fewer eggs.

Too many cooks spoil the soup. (This proverb contradicts the preceding one.)

Pick up a sesame seed but lose sight of a watermelon.

Play a harp before a cow. ºQué sabe el burro de chocolates?

Paper can't wrap up a fire.

Some tasks are impossible.

Shed no tears until seeing the coffin.

Keep hope alive.

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den.

Some prefer carrot while others like cabbage.

One man's meat is another's poison. People's preferences differ. Different strokes for different folks. De gustos y sabores callan los doctores.

Steal a bell with one's ears covered.

He wants to catch a rabbit by waiting for it to kill itself by running into a tree.

A lazy person waits for good luck instead of working.

We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt.

A weasel comes to say "Happy NewYear" to the chickens.

When you are poor, neighbors close by will not come; once you become rich, you'll be surprised by visits from distant relatives.

Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.

You can't catch a cub without going into the tiger's den.

You can’t do anything important with taking a risk.

You think you lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

You won't help the new plants grow by pulling them up higher.

Awatched pot never boils.

The New Science of Feeding the World by Bill Gates

By Bill Gates
www.thegatesnotes.com

Agricultural biotechnology is controversial but essential, Bill believes, to ease the plight of the 1 billion impoverished people who live with chronic hunger. He reviews a provocative book on the realities of farming today – and its future.

While traveling last week to Antarctica, I had a chance to read a book recommended by our foundation’s agricultural development group, Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak.

This is an important book for anyone who wants to learn about the science of seeds and the challenges faced by farmers. It’s only 167 pages, and includes personal stories that give you a sense of the authors as people and how strongly they feel about farming, food and the environment. I think anyone who reads this book will be convinced of the authors’ sincerity and intelligence – even if, like me, you never try any of the cool-sounding recipes.

Whenever I read about farming, I’m reminded how tough it is. Between the weather, weeds, viruses, insects and other pests, farming is a constant struggle, always posing new challenges. A city boy like me can think of it as putting a seed in the ground and waiting for nice stuff to grow. Wrong.

Tomorrow’s Table is a real education on the many choices farmers today must make regarding seeds. It’s very good in explaining genetically engineered seed, how it’s used today (mostly to help plants fight off insects and tolerate herbicide) and how it will be used in the future (to increase disease resistance, drought tolerance, vitamin content and crop yields, for example). The book separates out clearly the issues of how to make sure new seeds are safe, how to price them and how to treat them as intellectual property.

I gained an understanding of the history of organic farming and learned about some of the very clever ways organic farmers control pests. Compared with conventional agriculture, many organic techniques can be more cost effective for poor farmers. I agree with the authors that we will need the best ideas from "organic" thinkers and from scientists – including genetic engineers – to feed the world and help the poorest.

Of course, there are more approaches available to farmers than just organic or biotech. Most of the world’s food is grown with conventional agricultural techniques such as improved seeds, fertilizer and irrigation. The trick is finding the best combination of all of these approaches.

I certainly recommend this book to people who are curious about the future of agriculture and the controversies around it. Many other food books exalt localism and tradition (i.e., lack of new science) as almost religious values. I think some go overboard with their negative views of modern farming, giving very little thought to the productivity increases that poor farmers need - and that the world needs - in order to feed itself, while coping with climate change and evolving threats from plant disease and pests.

I wish Tomorrow’s Table discussed the problem of underinvestment in agricultural research. But the authors’ personal involvement in what they do write about gives the book a note of deep sincerity. That may help get people who are skeptical or confused about new science, including biotechnology, to see that it has an important role to play.

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Jack Welch Quotes

• An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
• Be candid with everyone.
• Change before you have to.
• Control your own destiny or someone else will.
• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
• I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
• I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
• If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
• If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
• My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
• Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
• The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
• The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
• The team with the best players wins.
• We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
• We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
  

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Abraham Lincoln

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham Lincoln

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Public opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham Lincoln

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln

Some day I shall be President.
Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.
Abraham Lincoln

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Abraham Lincoln

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln

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Stephen Covey Quotes

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen Covey

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen Covey

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey