Mohammed Ali quote on imagination…

8 08 2007

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Mohammed Ali — US Boxer and former World Heavy

Weight Champion…





Washington Irving quote on dignity.

17 08 2006

“There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.”

Washington Irving
US essayist historian & novelist
 





Abraham Heschel Quote

30 07 2006

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”

Rabbi Abraham Heschel





Eleanor Roosevelt

30 07 2006

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt US Diplomat and Reformer





Douglas Adams Quote

29 07 2006

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Douglas Adams  English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)