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Sunday, January 20, 2008

SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM.....




Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

-- Daniel Webster

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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."

-- English author A.A. Milne
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Never mistake activity for achievement.

-- John Wooden
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Chance favors only the prepared mind.

-- Louis Pasteur

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“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”

-- Jim McMahon - Chicago Bears

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Gratuitous Beatles Reference:

Let It Be - Beatles (1970)

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