Quotes of the Week (v5)

People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
- John Maxwell

“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”
- Don Wilder

“The hardest thing in the world to open is a closed mind.”
- Unknown

“Good timber does not grow with ease;
The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.”
- J. Willard Marriot

“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”
- Josh Billings

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.”
- Og Mandino

“Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.”
- John Updike

“You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.”
- Boris Yeltsin

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
- Psalm 46:1

“The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is awesome you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.”
- Tom Peters

“One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.”
- Barbara Bush

“Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
- Roger Staubach

“There is no better exercise for your heart than to bend down, extend a helping hand and lift up a friend in need.”
- Bernard Meltzer

“What is morality?" she asked. ‘Judgment to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price’.”
- Ayn Rand

“If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now.”
- Larry Wright