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QUOTABLE QUOTES
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Below are some quotes taken from "Reader's Digest" magazine. The ones in red are favorites of mine.
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"Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence."
Condoleezza Rice in "The Oprah Magazine"
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A Great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
Rosalynn Carter
"Persistence trumps talent and looks every time"
Aaron Brown in "The Oprah Magazine"
"I have failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan
"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."
Joe Paterno in "The New York Times"
"Friends are the family we choose."
Jennifer Aniston in "Esquire"
"My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how little they did'."
Dr. Phil McGraw on "Dr. Phil"
"I never learned anything while I was talking."
Larry King on "Larry King Live"
"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people"
Jamie Lee Curtis in "More"
"The power of work, and the power of creativity, can be your salvation"
Nicole Kidman in "The Washington Post"
"Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus"
Susan Longacre
"Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes"
Tom Hanks on"Charlie Rose"
"Without geography, you're nowhere"
Jimmy Buffett in A Pirate looks at Fifty (Random House)
"Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions"
Henry Kissinger in Years of Renewal (Simon & Schuster)
"Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got any."
David Griffen on "20/20" (ABC)
"Not all those who wander are lost."
J.R.R. Tolkien in The Fellowship of the Ring (Houghton Miffin)
"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
Mignon McLaughlin in The Neurotic's Notebook
"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back."
Vince Lombardi
"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."
Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Harper Perennial)
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Ann Landers
"You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you do."
Anna Quindlen in A Short Guide to a Happy Life (Random House)
"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself."
Garth Brooks in "Country Music"
"It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad."
Jimmy Bufett in Tales From Margaritaville" (Harcourt)
"Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders"
Tom Peters in "Fast Company"
"If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down."
Dave Weinbaum
"When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical."
Richard Carlson in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff (Hyperion)
"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."
Margaret Atwood in Cat's Eye (Doubleday)
"Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins 'Once upon a time...'."
William Bennett in The Children's Book of Virtues (Simon & Schuster)
"Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away"
Tom Brokaw
"It's never too late for a happy childhood."
Gloria Steinem in Revolution From Within (Little, Brown)
"A vision without the ability to execute is probably a hallucination."
Stephen M. Case
"Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded"
Charles R. Schwab in You're Fifty - Now What? (Crown)
"Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end."
Jon Bon Jovi
"Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself."
Mary Roach in "Health"
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision something, you can do it."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency."
Natalie Goldberg in Wild Mind (Bantam)
"I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at the distance traveled."
Dan Rather in The American Dream (Morrow)
"Nobody cares if you can dance well. Just get up and dance."
Dave Barry in Dave Barry Turns 50 (Crown)
"Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end."
President George W. Bush
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
Jane Howard in Families (Simon & Schuster)
"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."
Al Batt in "National Enquirer"
"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood."
Mary Hirsch
"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."
Paul Brown
"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
Henry Winkler
"Life is too short to drink the house wine."
Helen Thomas
"Your imperfections are what make you beautiful."
Sandra Bullock in "Parade"
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
Salvador Dali in Diary of a Genius
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."
Muhammad Ali
"There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'"
Carrie Fisher in "People Weekly"
"Map out your future, but do it in pencil"
Jon Bon Jovi
"There are all these ideals about what is perfect and what is beautiful and what is smart, but the most appealing thing is, that which is me is nobody else."
Jennifer Lopez in "CosmoGirl"
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
Maya Angelou
"Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past."
Rick Pitino in Lead to Success (Broadway)
"There are two ways to study butterflies: chase them with nets then inspect their dead bodies, or sit quietly in a garden and watch them dance among the flowers."
Nongnuch Bassham
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
Stephen R. Covey
"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut."
Warren Buffett
"The problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues."
Elizabeth Taylor
"Fight the tendency to quit while you're behind."
Dave Weinbaum
"A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement."
Anna Quindlen in "Newsweek"
"The only way we can teach a child to say 'I'm sorry' is for him to hear it from our lips first."
Kevin Leman in Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours (Revell)
"A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse."
Stephen Dolley Jr.
"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
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