Timeless Quotable Quotes

Here are some of the quotable quotes found in our 2010 calendar. I just thought that these timeless jewels are worth sharing so here they are before the calendar goes to the waste basket. Wink!

“The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet, 1803 – 1882

“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.” – Vince Lombardi, Green Bay Packers Football Coach, 1913 – 1970

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President, 1861 – 1865

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.” – Samuel Johnson, English author, critic and lexicographer, 1709 – 1784

“Simplicity is the peak of civilization.” – Jessie Sampter, Zionist educator and poet, 1883 – 1938

“If ‘A’ is success in life, then ‘A’ equals ‘X’ plus ‘Y’ plus ‘Z.’ Work is ‘X.’ ‘Y’ is play; and ‘Z’ is keeping your mouth shut.” – Albert Einstein, American physicist, 1879 – 1955

“Small opportunities are often the beginning og great enterprises.” – Demosthenes, Greek orator and politician Athens 384 BC – 322 BC

“We must not believe that many who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.” – Epictetus, Roman (Greek-born) slave and Stoic philosopher, 55 AD – 135 AD

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist and zoologist, 384 BC – 322 BC

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” – Frank Herbert, American novelist, 1920 – 1986

“You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can’t sit back and wait.” – Ellen Metcalf, Author