Quotes to make you think

As part of my never ending quest to grow as a person I've signed up to receive quotes from several motivational speaker types. Over the past few months, I've been compiling some of them and I'd like to share them with my loyal readers.


"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
– Albert Einstein, Scientist

"Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully."
– Frances Moore Lappe

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."
– Charles Kettering – Inventor

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
– Richard Nixon, president

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
– Robert Frost, poet

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
– Aristotle, philosopher

"I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been."
– Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
– Rene Descartes, mathematician

"If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it."
– Earl Wilson, columnist

"Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment."
– H. Ross Perot, EDS and Perot Systems founder

"It is my job to be proactive to what I have to react to."
-Gio