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DMSBD Quotes Of The Week
Note: The quote of the week feature will be discontinued as of January 1st, 2008. Please enjoy these previous quotations from subsequent years...

2007 Quotes Of The Week
12-30-07 "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese Proverb

12-23-07 "Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path. " - Scandinavian Proverb

12-16-07 "One kind word can warm three winter months." - Japanese proverb

12-09-07 "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

12-02-07 - "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." - Warren Beatty, Actor, Director (1937 - )

11-25-07 "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." - Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)

11-18-07 "Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders." - Bob Moawad

11-11-07 "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. " - Burt Bacharach, Song Writer (1928 - )

11-04-07 "Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready." - Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05

10-28-07 "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)

10-21-07 - "Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind." - Chinese Proverb

10-14-07 "Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye, entertainer (1913 - 1987)

10-07-07 "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

09-30-07 "Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you." - Aaron Douglas Trimble (wow... what a great quote for derby!)

09-23-07 "Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action." - Napoleon Hill

09-16-07 "It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules." - Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 06-15-05

09-09-07 "I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." - Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)

09-02-07 "I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human." - Ben Stein, E! Online, 12-20-03

08-26-07 "We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes." - Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05

08-19-07 "Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves." - Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over

08-12-07 "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )

08-05-07 "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

07-29-07 "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better." - John Updike (1932 - )

07-22-07 "We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try." - Tom Clancy (1947 - )

07-15-07 "If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going". - Professor Irwin Corey (1914 - )

07-08-07 "Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement." - Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), (Snoopy)

07-01-07 "If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. - Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)

06-24-07 "When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." - Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)

06-17-07 "Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please." - Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)

06-10-07 "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), 16th U.S. President

06-03-07 "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. " - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

05-27-07 "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." - Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning

05-20-07 "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 (1915 - )

05-13-07 "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. " - Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)

05-06-07 "A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ." - Unknown

04-29-07 "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. " - Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

04-22-07 "Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." - Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)

04-15-07 "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas Edison

04-08-07 "When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), 34th U.S. president

04-01-07 "Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best."
- Joseph B. Wirthlin

03-25-07 "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), 32nd president of US

03-18-07 "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." - Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), 33rd president of US

03-10-07 "Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation." - Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

03-03-07 "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), (attributed)

02-24-07 "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." - Martha Grimes

02-18-07 "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

02-11-07 "Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves." - Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over

02-04-05 "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)

01-28-07 "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities." - Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963),

01-21-07 "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655

01-14-07 "Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

01-07-07 "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it." - Alan Saporta

2006 Quotes Of The Week
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