Quotes For A Whale Balanced Life

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
~ Hugh Prather

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
~ Frank A. Clark

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.
~ Thomas J. Watson, Former President of IBM

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
~ Chinese Proverb

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
~ Jerry Rice

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.
~ Paula Nelson

A good manager is a man who isn’t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him.
~ H.S.M. Burnes

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities. ~ Armstrong Williams, Political Commentator

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~ Maria Robinson

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~ Howard Thurman

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
~ Ruth Benedict

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~ Ashley Smith

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I’ll know how it turned out.
~ Nora Ephron

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
~ Alistair Cooke

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
~ Vince Gill


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“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
~ Nicholas M. Butler, American Philosopher


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Wisdom

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
– Ralph Marston, Author

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
– Henry Ford, Industrialist

“My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.”
– William Rosenberg, Dunkin Donuts founder

“I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.”
– Herbie Hancock, musician

“Every time we’ve moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block and try something new.”
– Thomas J. Watson, executive

“He who hesitates is poor.”
– Mel Brooks, director

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.”
– Samuel Goldwyn, movie executive

“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.”
– Isaac Newton, scientist

Quotes To Learn From

“Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.”
~ Dag Hammarskjold, statesman

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”
– Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will and be judged by only one thing: the result.”
– Vince Lombardi, football coach

“We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.”
– Dwight Eisenhower, 34th U.S. president

“It’s no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you’re going to win or lose, and focus all your full attention on what’s happening right at this moment.”
– Phil Jackson, basketball coach

“Investment decisions or personal decisions don’t wait for the picture to be clarified.”
– Andrew Grove, executive

“We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.”
– Buddha

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”
– Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

“Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival.”
– W. Edwards Deming, quality expert

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Philosopher

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
– Henry Kissinger, secretary of state

“The one word that makes a good manager – decisiveness.”
– Lee Iacocca, Auto Executive

“The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.”
– Bo Bennett, Author

“Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.”
– Bo Bennett, Author

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
– John D. Rockefeller

“The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.”
– Oprah Winfrey, talk show host

“I don’t believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”
– Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president

“It’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
– Mario Andretti, Race Car Driver

“I have failed over and over again in my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan, basketball player

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Author

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who sought and found out how to serve.”
– Albert Schweitzer, Humanitarian

“Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.”
– Napolean Hill, Motivational Writer

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
– Arnold Bennett, Novelist

“A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.”
– H. Stanley Judd, Writer

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

“Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not. Meaning precedes motivation.”
– Lee J. Colan

“You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.”
– Scott Sorrell

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady

“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”
– Robert Heinlein

“If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
– Bruce Barton, Author and Politician

“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”
– Claude M. Bristol, Author

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Author

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”
– John F. Kennedy, 35 President of the United States

Opportunity To Succeed

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.”
– David Rockefeller

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A Happy Family

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
– George Bernard Shaw, Playwright

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Fathers – Select Quotes

Mothers – Select Quotes

Happiness – Select Quotes

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“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
~ Dale Carnegie





“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
~ St. Francis of Assisi








God’s Participation In Adultery

From Pesikto Rabbati, 25, 2:

The adulterer strives to conceal his crime. What does God do?

He fashions the child of sin in the likeness of the adulterer.

R. Isaac said: “In theft, one party gains, and the other loses. In adultery, both parties gain pleasure. Who loses? The Creator. He is compelled to become a party in their crime, and to create their child together with the.”

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