Positive Thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"The law is a great thing - because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as a guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, of duty, of nobility; and tell me what they require of you."


- Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) via The Duke of Omnium
English novelist

Positive thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"Now I just get a good night's sleep. I wash my face with soap. I like to work out a little bit. I try to eat right. I've stayed clean. I don't really smoke or drink. I try to keep my perspective wholesome."


- Jeff Goldblum (B - 1952)
American actor

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[Fishmanpa]

"You're not rich until you have something money can't buy."


- Garth Brooks (B - 1962)
American singer-songwriter

Positive thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"It's so much easier to yell and pull down and criticize, then to restrain, and build, and think right- isn't it."


- Elizabeth II (B - 1926)
Queen of England, December 1949

Positive thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"If failure is not an option, then neither is success."


- Seth Godin (B - 1960)
American author

Positive thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect."


- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895)
English biologist

Positive thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"By setting your own standards you develop these expectations of yourself, and you start to say, "I do things because that's me." They can be as basic as "I don't lie, cheat, or steal", but it can also be "How good is the work that I do?""


- Stanley A. McChrystal (B - 1954)
Retired United States Army four-star general

Positive thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."


- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Italian polymath of the Renaissance

Positive thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends, and fads, and popular opinion."


- Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
American novelist

Positive thoughts

[Fishmanpa]

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."


- Harold S. Geneen (1910 - 1997)
American businessman

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