Quotes (2006-2010)

Over the past 5 years, I collected quotes. I didn't go out actively seeking for quotes that might help. But when I ran across them -- usually, but not always, on bottles of Honest Tea -- I kept them if I thought they might help. In my office, I pinned them to a pushboard and have kept them alive over the past 5 years.

Three things prompted me to pull them off the pushboard yesterday. One was the announcement that we would be moving our DC offices from 2001 M Street to 1801 M Street. Although the move is a year away, I realized I'd pull them down one day soon. The second thing was the realization that these quotes would be even better memorialized in the scrapbook the SALT team gave me as a going away gift, so I'll be inserting the quotes I can insert into that book. And the third thing was the fact that I'd moved my more permanent office to NY now.

So, anyway, I wanted to preserve these quotes in another way, too -- here. So here they are:

• "He who throws mud only loses ground." - Fat Albert

• "Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss

• "To think is easy; to act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all." - Chinese Fortune Cookie

• "Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time." - Richard Carlson

• "The mightiest oak in the forest is just a little nut that held its ground." - Chinese Proverb

• "Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." - Unknown

• "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden

• "L'essential est invisible pour les jeux." (What is essential is invisible to the eyes.)

• "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein

• "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein

• "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redman

• "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton, Jr.

• "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

• "You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." - Michael Pritchard

• "In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles." - David Ben-Gurion

• "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Gandhi

• "The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed." - Gandhi

• "In a moment the ashes are made, but the forest is a long time growing." - Seneca

• "Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed up in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Alva Edison

• "If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

• "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

• "The greatest strength is gentleness." - Iroquois

• "If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going." - Chinese Proverb

• "Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it." - Chinese Proverb

• "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Van Gogh

• "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Gandhi

• "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

• "There's so much beauty around us for just two eyes to see, but everywhere I go, I'm looking." - Rich Mullins

• Guido: "How far do I bow? I suppose I can even go to 180 degrees." Eliseo: Think of a sunflower, they bow to the sun. But if you see some that are bowed too far down, it means they're dead. You're here serving; you're not a servant [slave]. Serving is the supreme art. God is the first of servants. God serves men, but he's not a servant [slave] to men." - Life Is Beautiful (translated from Italian)

• "Spero che ci vediamo." (I hope we'll see each other again.) "Presto." (Quickly or soon.)

• "Tu amistad significa mucho para mi." (Your friendship means a lot to me.)