Brain Quotes and Proverbs
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) Russian novelist
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
Aristotle
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.
Robert Frost
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Dalai Lama
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Albert Einstein
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
W. Alton
Jones
The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates.
Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
Kall
The brain gives the heart its sight. The heart gives the brain its vision.
John Milton (1608-1674),
Paradise
Lost
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Yiddish Proverb
Borrowed brains have no value.
Gay Gaer Luce and Julius Segal (from Sleep, 1966)
Whatever any man does he first must do in his mind, whose machinery is the brain. The mind can do only what the brain is equipped to do, and so man must find out what kind of brain he has before he can understand his own behavior.
William James (1842-1910)
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
Kall
The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.
Cahil et al, 1994
Emotions give a more activated and chemically stimulated brain, which helps us recall things better.
Dr. Robert K. Cooper
If we lack emotional intelligence, whenever stress rises the human brain switches to autopilot and has an inherent tendency to do more of the same, only harder. Which, more often than not, is precisely the wrong approach in today’s world.
Aristotle (from De motu animalium, 4th century B.C.)
The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement-in fact, of nervous functions in general,-are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.
Dr. Seuss
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
Somerset Maugham
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.
Donald Hebb
The large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.
William Shakespeare
I have a heart of mettle apt as yours,
But yet a brain that leads my use of anger to better vantage.
Yiddish Proverb
When brains are needed, brawn won’t help.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
William F. Allman (from Apprentices of Wonder. Inside the Neural Network Revolution, 1989)
The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells-called neurons-lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.
Irish proverb
You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Niccolo Machiavelli
There are three different kinds of brains, the one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, and the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others. The first kind is most excellent, the second kind also excellent, but the third useless.
French Proverb
A brain is worth little without a tongue.
Isaac Asimov (from the forewood to The Three-Pound Universe by J. Hooper and D. Teresi, 1986)
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.
Erma Bombeck
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Ambrose Bierce
Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think.
Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
Susan Blakemore (from "Meme, Myself, I", New Scientist,
March 13, 1999
)
In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body’s energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body’s weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.
Dutch Proverb
A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains.
English Proverb
An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
Anonymous
When you don’t have an education, you’ve got to use your brains.
Kall
In fear, the brain starves the heart of its bravest blood.
Charles Darwin (from Autobiography, 1887)
If I had to live my life again I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied could thus have been kept active through use.
Watson, describing Sherlock Holmes in "A Study in Scarlet"
You see, I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
John R. Searle
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. (’What else could it be?’) I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.
Unknown
The mind is like a parachute - it works only when it is open.
Longfellow, The Building of the Ship
It is the heart and not the brain
That to the highest doth attain.
Montaigne
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Thomas Fuller
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
David H. Hubel - (1981 Nobel Prize Winner)
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain’s woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.
Spanish Proverb
He who at thirty has no brains, will never purchase an estate.
G. W. Parry (1601)
A certain Liquor which they call Coffee…which will soon intoxicate the brain.
Prof Petr Anokhin,
Moscow
University
We can show that each of the 10 billion neurons in the human brain has the possibility of connections to 1 with 28 noughts after it – that’s – 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 connections! It means that the total combinations in the brain, if written out, would be 1 followed by 10.5 kilometers of noughts!
Virgina Woolf
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery-always buzzing, humming, soaring, roaring, diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?
William Shakespeare
The brain may devise laws for the blood;
but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.
Van Morrison
If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?
England’s Happiness Improved (1699)
Moderately drunk, coffee removes vapours from the brain, occasioned by fumes of wine, or other strong liquors; eases pains in the head, prevents sour belchings, and provokes appetite.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach.
Aldous Huxley, Doors of Perception
To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he or she has been born — the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to he accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it be-devils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
Oscar Wilde
I said in Dorian Gray that the great sins of the world take place in the brain: but it is in the brain that everything takes place…. It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
Will
Rogers
You know you’ve got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
Colin Blakemore (from Mechanics of the Mind, 1977)
The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.
Lyall Watson
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.
Relationship Quotes and Proverbs
Unknown
The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Joseph F. Newton Men
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Fremont
Jones
They are all perverse, and one’s occasional desire for their company is the most perverse of all.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
Anais Nin
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Erwin T. Randall
True friends are those who, When you make a fool of yourself, Don’t believe that this condition is permanent.
Richard Bach
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Unknown
I’ve learned in my lifetime so far that you can’t help who you fall for and no matter how hard you try and how much it hurts you everyday that you just wanna be with them or just talk to them you never stop trying to make them happy by the little things you say or do because thats what makes your life worth going on for.
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Love Quotes and Proverbs
Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral… As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product.
Doc Childre, Teaching Children to Love
Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at life and realize there are no dead ends, there are always possibilities. The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.
Julie Marie
Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.
Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
You’ll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening.
Doc Childre
Our true identity is to love without fear and insecurity. Our higher potential finds us when we set our course in that direction. The power of love and compassion transforms insecurity.
Vipin Sharma
Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
Enthusiasm created from the heart is the spirit of the matter. It ignites your whole system so there’s no drag, no resistance, no thoughts like "Do I have to?" coming from the head to sabotage the power of your surrender.
Doc Childre
Love fulfilled sees where we could have gone the way of love before, if we’d known how, and how insecurities limited many of our choices. Love fulfilled perceives new meaning and higher reasons behind many of the mysteries of why things happened as they did. Living from the heart is business — the business of caring for self and others.
Understanding this will take us past the age of information into the age of intuitive living.
Doc Childre and Sara Paddison, HeartMath Discovery Program
Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
The Intelligent Heart, David McArthur and Bruce McArthur (Copyright ARE Press)
If we seek to manifest love by utilizing our inherent abilities to serve others in whatever we are doing, we find the greatest opportunity for development, for then we are giving expression to our love for our neighbors and ourselves.
Sarah Wonders
Love isn’t just for the smart of talented, but for all the amimals God created.
Jason Jordan
True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
American President George W. Bush, in Reader’s Digest, November 2001
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
Jason Jordan
Love is fire. But whether it’s gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell.
Mary Baker Eddy, From: "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
Mary Baker Eddy, From: "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.
Mother Teresa
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Leo Buscaglia
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Unknown
You can understand the facts of life. But facts of love are much different. To love you love someone or someone loves you.. But when you both love each other you’re in love with one another. First become friends and let it go. Then get serious and get together. Just make yourself known as a person not as someone you don’t want to be known as…
Igor Stravinsky
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Rainer Maria Rilke
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves.
Unknown
If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.
Franklin P. Jones
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Dinah
Shore
Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
K Knight
True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending.
Luciano de Crescenzo
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Buddha
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. .
Ursula K. LeGuin
from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. .
Sanaya Roman
What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.
Vincent Van Gogh
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much perfoms much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Karen Sunde
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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Christopher Morley
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The Wheel of Life (Scribner)
I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame of that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other.
Chris Cotton
In all that we do let us do it for love.
Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Teilhard de Chardin
The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
J. Franklin
Love fails, only when we fail to love.
Jeremy Irons
Love is friendship set on fire.
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David Viscott
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Sydney Smith
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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Phil Jackson, Sacred Hoops
Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
William Sloan Coffin
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Love is in the giver, not the gift.
He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally.
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Nellie Curtiss
If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.
Willa Cather
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Anna Louise Strong
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
G.W. Von Leibnitz
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Sir Hugh Walpoe
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
Dicky Fox (Jerry Maguire’s
Mentor
)
If you don’t love everybody, you can’t sell anybody.
If you don’t have it here (pointing to the heart), it doesn’t matter what you’ve got here (pointing at the head). Barbara Johnson
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Swedish Proverb
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours.
Mae West
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Barbara Johnson
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Sir Hugh Walpoe
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
Lisa Hoffman
Love is like pi — natural, irrational, and VERY important.
Nora Roberts
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Anna Strong
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
Baba Dioum
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
Maureen Duffy
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Unknown love quote
The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.
Allan K. Chalmers
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
W. H. Auden
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.
Janos Arnay
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Ovid
To be loved, be lovable.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Brandan Behan
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Soren Kierkegaard
Don’t forget to love yourself.
Daisaku Ikeda
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
English proverb
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Henry
Wadsworth
Longfellow
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
Unknown love quote
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Mother Teresa
It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Unknown love quote
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it’s what you are expected to give — which is everything
Rainer Maria Rilke
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
M. Scott Peck, M.D
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
.
W. H. Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Mother Teresa
The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
Confucius
Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Douglas Yates
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Mother Teresa
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
P. L. Berger
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
No matter what, no matter where, it’s always home, if love is there.
Unknown love quote
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Bessie
Stanley
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Unknown love quote
Love is not blind, it sees more not less;
But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s "Le Petit Prince"
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.
William M. Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Hari
Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
Herbie John
Don’t fall in love with somebody who dosn’t love you back (it’s not cool).
Caitlyn Woollard
Trust, Love & Keep Moving (Growing)
Emmanuel
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Baba Dioum
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Business Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre
It would startle most companies to have a computer readout weekly, showing the amount of work-time their people spent thinking and emoting over their problems. Then, if you had another computer readout showing the amount of negative hormones released into the body as a result of those thinking habits, and the health consequences, in the name of smart business you would want your people to make some mental and emotional adjustments. Computers can’t generate all that data yet, so we don’t have to face the facts. Yet, the facts of stress find us—anyhow.
Bruce Cryer, Re-Engineering the Human System (a conference presentation)
Everything about business comes down to PEOPLE. Where in business can we escape the impact of human care, human creativity, human commitment, human frustration, and human despair? There is no reason for anything in business to exist if it does not serve the needs of people.
Theodore Rubin
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
John Foster Dulles
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
Tariq Siddique
If you are failing to plan,
you are planning to fail.
Yanny Natashah
Sometimes, the hardest decision made is the right thing to do….
Vance Havne
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Philip Caldwell
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
George F. Burns
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
John Foster Dulles
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Kahlil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Robert Townsend
If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
Robert Greenleaf, ATT
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
Fredrick Hudson Ecker, Chairman Metropolitan Life
I don’t think anybody yet has invented a pasttime that’s as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.
Colin Powell
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Stephen Covey
You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
B. F. Harris
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
Thomas J. Watson
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Robert H. Schullder
When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help."
Abigail Van Buren
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
Anonymous
There is less to fear from outside competition than from inside inefficiency, discourtesy and bad service.
Peter F. Drucker
The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.
The recipe for personal success:
Find a need that beats your drum.
Create a plan, then make a dent.
Trust that your rewards will come.
And credit them as heaven sent.
Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
George S. Patton, American military leader
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
J.C. Penney
I am grateful for all my problems. I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come.
Winston Churchill
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
Bruce Jenner, Olympic Gold Medalist
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win—if you don’t, you won’t.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice is nine-tenths.
Denise Caruso
It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
Suzuki Roshi, Zen Master
To control your cow, give it a bigger pasture.
Arthur F. Sheldon
He profits most who serves best.
Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Dr. Richard Carlson
Don’t sweat the small stuff…and it’s all small stuff.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Stephen R. Covey
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Winston Churchill
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Oscar Wilde
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Robert Frost
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
Stephen R. Covey
If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Anger Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
Physiologically, it simply doesn’t matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn’t make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment—negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don’t let justified emotions rob your health and well-being.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
So if we can’t express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won’t work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allow-ing the heart’s intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
Often we think we won’t take needed action, whether in a confrontation or in getting something important done, without being propelled by our anger. While anger can give us a short burst of energy, until we manage the anger, we can’t see what action would be best to take. The information is simply not available. The emotions have short-circuited the pathway in the brain that helps us see the most appropriate action to take.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
We all know people who say: "It’s the principle of the matter" to justify sustaining toxic emotions for years. As they hold onto their anger or hurt, they bleed away their energy reserves, often ending up bitter and depressed.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
When we consciously choose a core heart feeling over a negative feeling, we effectively intercept the physiological stress response that drains and damages our systems and allow the body’s natural regenerative capacities to work for us. Instead of being taxed and depleted, our mental and emotional systems are renewed. As a consequence, they are better able to ward off future "energy eaters" like stress, anxiety and anger before they take hold.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, HeartMath Solution
Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn’t repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won’t have anything to repress.
Leo Buscaglia
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Helen Douglas
Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
HW Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.
Marcus Aurelius
How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
John Dryden
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Unknown
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there’s anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
Lord Halifax
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
Unknown
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.
Chuck Norris
Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Tryon Edwards
To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
Marcus Antonius
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Cato
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
W. R. Alger
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Golda Meir
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
St. Francis De Sales
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Shakespeare
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
Elizabeth Kenny
He who angers you conquers you.
Greek
Those who the Gods would destroy
First they would make angry
Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.
John Steinbeck
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Willard Gaylin
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Henry Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Lawrence J. Peter
Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
Tamil proverb
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.
Pythagoras
Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
Pasquier Quesnel
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
Charles De Gaulle
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
Alfred Montapert
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Daniel Webster
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Thomas Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.
Thomas Fuller
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Clarendon
Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.
Jefferson
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Elizabeth 1
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Thomas a Kempis
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Aristotle (384-322 BC) - Greek philosopher
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy.
Proverbs 14:17a
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly…
Daniel Webster
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Seneca
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself.
Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
Dr. Robert Anthony
The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
Tyron Edwards
To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
Thomas Fuller
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that lacks it has a maimed mind.
Horace
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Walter S. Landor
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
George Jean Nathan
No man can think clearly when his fist are clenched.
William Shenstone
Think when you are enraged at anyone, what would probably become of your sentiments should he die during the dispute.
Aristotle
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power, that is not easy.
Elizabeth Kenny
My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
Eric Hoffer
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.
Frederick Buechner
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back–in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Thomas a Kempis
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
William Blake
I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
A Poison Tree
Care Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre
Care is the actualization of love assumed.
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Care is the glue that keeps relationships together once the novelty has worn off. This is as true in organizational life as in the personal domain.
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
Care is the ingredient that keeps true friendships alive despite separation, distance, or time. Care gives latitude to another person and gets you past the dislikes and annoyances. Quite simply, caring sustains love.
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
Care flowing through your system gradually reconnects you with your spirit and vitality. Care enough about yourself to go to your heart to get peace, clarity, and direction before you act. True self-care has to come first.
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Underlying the application of care in your workplace is sincerity. Without sincerity caring acts ring hollow. Sincere care is required to achieve a true service attitude with people. When care is mechanical or insincere, it causes resistance and reaction in others, undermining adaptability. Coworkers, family, clients, and superiors can tell the difference between required courtesy and sincere care.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Care provides a conduit for our spirit’s expression in the midst of our social existence. The more we truly care, the more we’ll come to know ourselves and others. Care provides the key to unlocking our potential and making it real.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Sometimes we feel something slightly unpleasant, but because it’s so subtle, we just accept it; we don’t do anything about it. Overcare is a good example. We rarely notice when we cross that line from genuine concern into a draining, counterproductive state of overcare. Intellectually, it’s a tricky distinction that varies from person to person. But from the heart’s perspective, it’s not so hard to figure out: overcare doesn’t *feel* good.
Doc Childre, A Parenting Manual
When people are asked to remember a person who meant a lot to them in life — a teacher, a friend, a parent, a grandparent — they usually remember a person who really cared and understood them. Think back in your own life. Was there someone who stands out in your memory because they really cared about you?
Doc Childre, The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery
The more care you put into your life, the more life will care for you, bringing you fun adventures, great friends, and real inner security. Caring is just good streetsense — So, Judge less and unstress, Care more and high score.
Doc Childre, Self Empowerment
If CARE were a stock being offered on the market, it would be a wise commodity to invest in at this time on the planet. Care will soon be on the rise because everything else has been tried.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Care inspires and gently reassures us. Lending us a feeling of security and support,it reinforces our connection with others. Not only is it one of the best things we can do for our health, but it feels good — whether we’re giving or receiving it.
Leo Buscaglia
Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Coco
Chanel
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Servant Leadership, Robert K. Greenleaf, (c) 1977, Paulist Press
How much we care depends somewhat on our estimate of the need for our caring.
Wisdom Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
It is no longer enough to be smart — all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Intuition does not always appear as the ingenious breakthrough or something grandiose. Intuitive thoughts, feelings, and solutions often manifest themselves as good old common sense. Common sense is efficient.
Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
Clara
Kindness and wisdom is the pathway leading to GOD’S LOVE!
Mahatma Gandhi
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world — that is the myth of the atomic age — as in being able to remake ourselves.
Lin Yutang
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. .
Sandra Carey
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. .
Marjorie Holmes
A child’s hand in yours — what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom.
Merry Browne
Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Unknown
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.
David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
Unknown
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.
Walt Whitman
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul.
Thanks to Ken Lam
Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Anonymous (Greek Proverb)
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Helena Petrova Blavatsky
Be humble, if thou would’st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.
Unknown
Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it.
D.J. Kaufman
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening … when you’d have preferred to talk.
General Omar Bradley
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Joy Quotes and Proverbs
Hung Tzu-Cheng
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
David McArthur and Bruce McArthur, The Intelligent Heart
You deserve the fun, the joy, the freedom, and the pure goodness that flows through the experience of love that indwells you… The choice is yours.
Find Your Joy by Following Your Heart, by Deborah Rozman, from Teaching and Joy (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
Joy, love, are and appreciation are powerful motivators. They are all feelings that humans experience around the heart. Joy is a feeling of pleasure or delight that arises from the heart. Positive feelings are what make life worth living.
George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. .
Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Theodore Roethke
I trust all joy.
Courage Quotes and Proverbs
Don Quixote, de la Mancha 1605-1615
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
All serious daring starts from within.
Courage is just fear holding on a minute longer.
Thanks to Kathryn A. Piersall
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Confucius Analects
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.
Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Peter McWilliams
Come to the edge,’ he said.
They said, ‘We are afraid.’
‘Come to the edge,’ he said.
They came.
He pushed them…
And they flew.
Andrew Jackson
One man with courage makes a majority.
Douglas MacArthur
Last, but by no means least, courage—moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ; is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle–the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your; conscience on the other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Winston Churchill
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
R. G. Ingersoll
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Paul Richter
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
Earl Wilson
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death!
Mark Twain
It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Adam Michnik
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
La Rochefoucauld
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
Family Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Family is the first social unit for developing the qualities of the heart. A true family grows and moves through life together, inseparable in the heart. Whether a biological family or an extended family of people attracted to each other based on heart resonance and mutual support, the word "family" implies warmth, a place where the core feelings of the heart are nurtured. Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true family values. While we have differences, we remain "family" by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security in a stressful world.
Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. We are all connected to one another in the heart. Connecting with the ultimate source of love is possible through discovering the hidden power in your heart.
Elizabeth Stone
Making the decision to have a child - it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart walking around outside your body.
Gail Lumet Buckley
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
Carl Sandburg
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
Martin Mull
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assitance, and private concern — will never be enough.
Don Marquis
I would rather start a family than finish one.
George Santayana
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
Unknown
None but a mule denies his family.
Robert Frost
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
Chinese proverb
To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.
Ogden
Nash
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ring Lardner
The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Benjamin Franklin
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
John Bowring
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Ed Howe
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Women Quotes and Proverbs
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
To avoid repeating the same energy-draining fights of the past 30 years and accomplish something lasting, the coherent self-empowered woman will learn to bypass reactive, energy-draining stances. She will recognize it is more intelligent and effective to do so. Taking a heart stand facilitates a whole new level of power and renewal by being the vehicle for actualizing core values, free of mental and emotional reactiveness that add more noise to a noisy system. Conscious heart intention is the first step, derived from the intuitive link and balance between mind and heart, increasing the power of both.
Barbara Walters
If it’s a woman, its caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
Betty Friedan
Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.
Attributed to Linda Ellerbee, Ann Richards, and Faith Whittlesey
Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
Marge Piercy
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
Rebecca West
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
Farrah Fawcett
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.
Mary Frances Berry
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in
Montgomery
, she’d still be standing.
Mae West
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Susan B. Anthony
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations … can never effect a reform.
Clare Booth Luce
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Joan Baez
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
A woman’s head is always influenced by heart; but a man’s heart by his head.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women are the real architects of society.
Timothy Leary
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Edna O’Brien
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran
Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue’s girl-next-door is all the American male could wish for–unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.
Clare Boothe Luce
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn’t have what it takes." They will say, "Women don’t have what it takes.
Margaret Thatcher
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
HeartQuotes from August, 2002
Carl Jung
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Ludwig Wittenstein
The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.
St John
of the Cross
Where there is no love, put love and you will find love.
R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
What we think is less than what we know;
What we know is less than what we love;
What we love is so much less than what there is.
And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
Daniel Goleman
What counts in making a happy relationship is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Ken Keyes
Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It’s a matter of what’s happening in your heart.
Herbert Otto
We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.
Lao-Tzu
Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
You can never get to peace and inner security without first acknowledging all of the good things in your life. If you’re forever wanting and longing for more without first appreciating things the way they are, you’ll stay in discord.
Chinese proverb
Talk does not cook rice.
Mark Twain
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
Stress is inner biofeedback, signaling you that frequencies are fighting within your system. The purpose of stress isn’t to hurt you, but to let you know it’s time to go back to the heart and start loving.
Hunter Patch
Adams
The most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy.
unknown
Change is inevitable; growth is optional.
Carlos Castaneda
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same.
Daphine Rose Kingma
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.
Galileo
You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.
Doc Childre
Care is the actualization of love assumed.
Albert Einstein, quoted in H Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu (
Boston
1977).
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
Doc Childre
Neutral is a state where you are not jumping ahead too quickly or moving too slow. Neutral does not mean being inactive, complacent or passive. It’s about a calm poise that allows for new information and new possibilities to emerge before taking further action. When in neutral you actually increase your sensitivity and intuitive intelligence. Neutral is fertile ground for new possibilities to grow from.
Igor Stravinsky
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Albert Schweitzer
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Marcus Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Doc Childre
Remember, you create your own reality by the choices you make in the moment. Today, go for more moments of creating ‘heaven on earth.’ It’s your choice. Efficient decisions from the heart will take you there.
Carl W. Buechner
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
HeartQuotes from December, 2002
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
When we learn to manage our emotions long enough to stop and shift our attention to the quieter message of the heart, we can gain a wider perspective on any situation, often saving ourselves from hurt, frustration and pain.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) Russian novelist
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
The emotional frontier is truly the next frontier to conquer in human understanding. The opportunity we face now, even before that frontier is fully explored and settled, is to develop our emotional potential and accelerate rather dramatically into a new state of being.
Richard Carlson
To a happy person, the formula for happiness is quite simple: Regardless of what happened early this morning, last week, or last year - or what may happen later this evening, tomorrow, or three years from now - now is where happiness lies.
Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving… and that’s your own self.
Joni Mitchell
Keep a good heart. That’s the most important thing in life. It’s not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.
George Herbert
He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
In the new days, once a critical mass of people have made a shift into heart awareness, life will be quite different for everyone. All of these benefits—and many more—are earned through systematically learning to focus on, listen to, and follow your heart.
Teilhard de Chardin
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for the second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire!
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
You may not always be able to feel a deeper heart feeling right away, but stay focused in the heart. The sincerity of your effort can reconnect you to your heart current and start the juices flowing. To plug in, think of someone you love or remember what feels good, maybe a fulfilling experience. Feelings help you remember.
Antione de Saint-Exupery
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Mother Teresa
The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
Prof. Ludwig Wittgenstein
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero 1855-1934
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
A benchmark of emotional management and responsibility is the realization that our past can no longer be blamed for our actions in the present.
Stephen Covey
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC)
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Dean Ornish, "Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy"
Love and intimacy are the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well.
I am not aware of any other factor in medicine - not diet, not smoking, not exercise… not drugs, not surgery - that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death.
Unless I am vigilant, I will become a prisoner of process instead of an enjoyer of experience. How much of our time is spent on the means rather than the ends — the rules and policies, the structures (strategic plans, budgets, proposals, compensation programs, agendas, etc.) and the rituals (meetings, voice mail, e-mail, performance appraisals, agendas, and politics)?
Lance Secretan
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration — of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.
HeartQuotes from February, 2002
Evander Holyfield
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
Leo Buscaglia
Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
William James (1842-1910)
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
Doc Childre and Sara Paddison, HeartMath Discovery Program
Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
Mother Teresa
The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
Jonas Salk
If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
Leo Buscaglia
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Lord Byron
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
John F. Kennedy
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame
When you slow down, step back a moment and put things in perspective, you can then move on with more efficiency. It only takes a moment to adapt and control how you respond.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice is nine-tenths.
Duke Ellington, when asked his response to racial discrimination
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you’ll see a noticeable difference in your life.
Zubin Mehta
Essentially, the [
New York
] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind
Julianne Kepley, Atlanta Ballet dancer
You put the body on autopilot and let the emotional part of the performance guide you.
Kahlil Gibran, (1883 - 1931) "The Vision"
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Hope Quotes and Proverbs
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality.
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart
Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality.
Benjamin Franklin, preface, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1758
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Martin Luther King
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. .
Vaclav Havel
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Emily Dickenson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul…
Arabian Proverb
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Elie Weisel
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Matthew Prior
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
La Rochefoucauld
Hope and fear are inseparable.
Thomas Fuller
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.
Unknown
Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
HeartQuotes from April, 2003
Carl W. Buechner
People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them.They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Henri Amiel, 19th-century Swiss writer
All appears to change when we change.
Albert Camus
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Ramakrishna
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
Hans Selye
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Leo Buscaglia
To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
Fred Rogers (a.k.a., "Mister Rogers ) 1928-2003
At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.
Lawrence
Bixby
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Haddon W. Robinson
What worries you, masters you.
Myla Kabat-Zinn
Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.
Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Doc Childre
Practice appreciating for the first fifteen minutes you are awake every day…..Appreciation first thing in the morning is one of the most valuable efforts you can make to create more heart coherence in your system and release you from old attitudes that no longer serve you.
Daphine Rose Kingma
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.
Leo Buscaglia
Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Care inspires and gently reassures us. Lending us a feeling of security and support,it reinforces our connection with others. Not only is it one of the best things we can do for our health, but it feels good whether we’re giving or receiving it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the Great Man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Martha Washington
I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
At the deepest level, it’s real love and care that people crave. Give those things, and you’ll receive them. Through your caring deeds and actions, you’ll truly make your mark on the world.
HeartQuotes from May, 2003
Howard Schultz, CEO Starbucks Coffee, Pour Your Heart Into It
Care more than others think wise.
Risk more than others think safe.
Dream more than others think practical.
Expect more than others think possible.
Dalai Lama
If humanity is to survive, happiness and inner balance are crucial. Otherwise the lives of our children and their children are more likely to be unhappy, desperate and short. Material development certainly contributes to happiness - to some extent - and a comfortable way of life. But this is not sufficient. To achieve a deeper level of happiness we cannot neglect our inner development.
Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution
Look at life as an energy economy game. Each day, ask yourself, "Are my energy expenditures (actions, reactions, thoughts, and feelings) productive or nonproductive? During the course of my day, have I accumulated more stress or more peace?"
William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what
sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.
Doc Childre
Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we’ve been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them.
Albert Einstein
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Gail Sheehy
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Hagakure
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.
Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Charles Swindoll
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
Margaret Wheatley
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
Vaclav Havel
Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Confucius
Forget injuries, never forget kindness.
Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
Deep listening from the heart is one half of true communication.
Speaking from the heart is the other half.
Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Henry David Thoreau
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day–that is the highest of arts.
Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame
With the guidance of your heart, you can make quality decisions and your life will be more fun. Being alive in the heart is what makes life our worthwhile. When you are in touch with your heartfelt emotions, you find your true core values and enrich your life.
Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Henry David Thoreau
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day–that is the highest of arts.
Doc Childre, Freeze-Frame
With the guidance of your heart, you can make quality decisions and your life will be more fun. Being alive in the heart is what makes life worthwhile. When you are in touch with your heartfelt emotions, you find your true core values and enrich your life.
Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends, and spirit - and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.
Abigail Adams, (1744-1818), wife of John Adams, 2nd president of the
U.S.
, and mother of John Quincy Adams, 6th president.
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974)
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
Thomas Watson, Sr., Founder, IBM
To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.
Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman, Overcoming Emotional Chaos: Eliminate anxiety, lift depression and create security in your life
With heart integrity and practice, it is possible for anyone, even in our chaotic society, to regulate their emotional energy and to manage overwhelm. Through the heart, we can find a new flow no matter what comes up. The choice is ours.
Helen Keller
It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Mother Teresa
It is not how much you do, but how much Love you put into the doing that matters.
