Some of my favourite quotations

• A diamond is just another piece of coal that did well under pressure.
• "A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard Nixon
• "When the pupil is ready, the master will appear"
• God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers!!!............Anonymous!!
• "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then youwin."- Mahatma Gandhi
• "Experience is what you get when you do not get what you wanted"-- Mark Twain
• In the race for perfection there is no finish line.
• If a bad time comes, what of that? The pendulum has to swing back to the other end. But that is no better. The thing to do is to stop it.-Swami Vivekananda
• The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbingknowledge.- Albert Einstein
• It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it - Mark Twain
• He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
  George Bernard Shaw
• First win, then go to War.
  - Sun Tzu, Chinese warrior and philosopher, 500 BC
• Failure is forgivable. Not having a dream is a crime.
• "A ship is safe in a harbour but that's not what ships are built for,"
• "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe," was how Abraham Lincoln once famously described the purpose of education.
• "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards." -- Vernon Sanders Law.
• "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
  - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
• Question to God:"What surprises you most about mankind?"God answered : "That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future. That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never lived..."
• Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response – Michael Bartel
• Communication is to a relationship what breathing is to living – Virginia Satir
• There is nothing more practical than a good theory.
• "Live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish"
  Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. - A. Sachs
• You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations writers. " - Daniel J. Boorstin (really mast :)
• "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get"
• Life is too short for those people who never waged a great battle for a worthy cause and too long to be bogged down by a single failure…..