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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.


PLANNING VS REACTING: How organized are you? Could your life be called a ballet or is it a hockey game (or a pin-ball machine)? However, even in a hockey game, good hockey player learn to skate to where the puck WILL BE.

Sports Quotes

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal


The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.


Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.


To find out what others are feeling, don't prod or poke. If you want play with a turtle, you can't get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle not harsh, hard or forceful.


Look well to this day, for it, and it alone is life.


Today is the first day of the rest of your life.


Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.


We can live forever, a minute at a time.


Make sure somebody need you.


Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.


Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

Friendship Quotes

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.


The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.