Wolfgang Singer

 

Say what you think, do what you say.

 

Most of the people spend 75 years of their life to complain. This is embarrassing.  Dr. Patch Adams

 

It is amazing that this society is depressed and anxious and is not recognizing that we are standing on a pot of gold.  Dr. Patch Adams

 

Enjoy what you have and  do not worry about what you do not have.  Bob Drake

 

The happiest people don't have it necessary to have the best of everything. They just make the best out of everything that happens to them.

 

We often only know what we had after we lost it. We often don't know what we are missing until we are experiencing it.

 

It is nice to be important, it is more important to be nice.

 

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. T. S. Eliot

 

Always be a little kinder than necessary. James Barrie

 

Good things happen to good people. Stephen Post

 

Be nice to people on you way up...

because you may meet them on your way down.

 

Be universally friendly. The feedback you get is overwhelming.  Dr. Patch Adams

 

Never allow that you meet somebody who is then not happier after having met you.  Mother Teresa

 

A good way to recognize the character of a person is to watch him how he treats people who are not of any use to him or who are not able to fight back.

 

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.  Dr. Joyce Brothers

Educated is not who just acquired knowledge and practices, but who recognizes value, who has a sense of dignity of human beings, who has acquired tact, decency, respect, understanding, openness and taste.

 

Friendliness is sometimes seen as a sign of weakness, when in reality it is a sign of strength.   W. Singer

 

Nobody in this world is big enough to have the right to be arrogant.  W. Singer

 

Be that person you are, not more, not less. And be it. P. Altenberg

 

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others.

 

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.  Arthur  Calwell

 

Lying makes a problem part of the future, truth makes a problem part of the past. Rick Pittino

 

In evaluating people, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. If you don't have the first, the other two will kill you. Warren Buffet

 

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.  Chilton

 

It isn't the mistake that kills you - it's the cover-up.  Bill Clinton

 

Honesty does not demand that you say everything you think. Honesty just demands that you do not say anything that you do not believe in. Helmut Schmidt

 

A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.

 

The only constant thing in life is change. Buddha

 

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin

 

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.  Alexander Graham Bell

 

Most of the things you worry about never happen.

 

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.  Albert Einstein

 

Making simple things complicated is commonplace, making complicated things simple, that's creativity.  Charles Mingus

 

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.   Leonardo Da Vinci

 

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.  Albert Einstein

 

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death.  Betty Bender

 

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.    William Jennings Bryan

 

If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.  Arfa Karim Randhawa 

 

There can be no friendship without confidence and no confidence without integrity.   Samuel Johnson

 

Work as if you do not need the money, dance as if nobody is watching you, love as if you have never been hurt.

 

To those who think, life is a comedy; to those who feel, life is a tragedy. 14th century poet

 

Have an opinion, adhere to it, and don't be fearful of anyone.  STS

 

What if there was no fear?...

 

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.  Lord Byron

 

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

 

It is better to die standing than to live on your knees.

 

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.  Goethe

 

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.  Peter B. Medwar

 

Ships are safe in the harbor,  but that's not what ships are built for.

 

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

 

Talk does not cook rice.  Ancient proverb

 

A quitter never wins. A winner never quits.

 

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.  Mario Andretti

 

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.  Will Rogers

 

It is better to wear out than to rust out.  Richard Chamberland

 

To win this tournament I had a lot of luck. However, I found out that the more I practice, the more luck I have.  Golf champion

 

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

 

When I was a boy of 14,  my father was so ignorant. I could hardly stand to have the old man around.

When I got to be  21 I was astonished at how much he had learned in 7 years.  Mark Twain

 

Look for strength in people, not weakness;  good, not evil.   Most of us find what we search for.

 

Don't let yesterday use up today.

 

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

 

You have to choose happiness; it doesn't choose you.

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I am happy, because it is healthy. Lotte Tobisch

 

Some rules for happyness:  free your heart from hatred, free your mind from worries, give more, expect less.

You can have everything in life you want, if you help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

 

All the suffering in the world comes from wanting happiness for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from wanting happiness for others. Dalai Lama

 

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. Lawana Blackwell

 

The optimist believes that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears that this is true.

 

I'm an optimist - the alternative is so much less fun.

 

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. Mae West

 

Managers should be facilitators, not inhibitors.

 

Every supervisor must look upon himself as an assistant to the men below him, instead of looking at himself as the boss.

Thomas Watson, Sr., 1914

 

Managers do things right; leaders do the right things.

 

If a customer says 'jump', I don't ask why, but 'how high?'. Siegfried Wolf (Magna)

 

Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.  Yogi Berra

 

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.  Yogi Berra

 

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.  General Omar Bradley

 

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.   Jackson Brown

 

It wasn't until quite late that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know!".  William Somerset Maugham

 

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.  Chinese proverb

 

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.  Jackson Brown