Morning Coffee Quotes

"Primeval Whirl", Disney's Animal Kingdom - Summer 2008 (photo by Cindy Caraway)

“If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?”
- Neale Donald Walsch

“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”
- Ludwig Börne

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

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
- Henri Louis Bergson

“What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.”
- Jim Rohn

“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”
- Alfred De Musset

“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.”
- Will Durant

“We have the Bill of Rights.
What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.”
- Bill Maher

“You can't manage what you don't measure.”
- Old Adage (often erroneously attributed to W. Edwards Deming)

“Respect gained by fear is only an empty pretense that turns to contempt the moment the threat disappears.”
- Michael Josephson

“An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him.”
- Zig Ziglar