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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

iWise bookmarks from iphone

  • "A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity." Thomas Jefferson
  • "When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred." Thomas Jefferson
  • "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." Thomas Jefferson
  • "I confess I have the same fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering." Thomas Jefferson
  • ""Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." Thomas Jefferson
  • "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind." Thomas Jefferson
  • "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." Thomas Jefferson
  • "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." Thomas Jefferson
  • "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." Thomas Jefferson
  • "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." Thomas Jefferson
  • "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it." Abraham Lincoln
  • "Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things." Confucius
  • "The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration." Confucius
  • "To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." Confucius
  • "Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself." Oprah Winfrey
  • "That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them." Oprah Winfrey
  • "Well done is better than well said." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt." Benjamin Franklin
  • "A penny saved is a penny earned." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Necessity never made a good bargain." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please." Benjamin Franklin
  • "I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success." Thomas A Edison
  • "Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong." Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." Samuel Johnson
  • "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." Mahatma Gandhi
  • "It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity." Mahatma Gandhi
  • ""Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite." Abraham Lincoln
  • "We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." Abraham Lincoln
  • "Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation." Abraham Lincoln
  • "Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Abraham Lincoln
  • "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." Abraham Lincoln