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Quotes of the Week appearing on Camsoft's site
June 10
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
Lord Byron
1788 – 1824, regarded as
one of the greatest British poets and a leading figure in
Romanticism.
May 10
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in
escaping from the old ones."
John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946,
British
economist who identified the causes
of
business cycles and how
fiscal and
monetary measures can be used to
mitigate the adverse effects of economic
recessions and
depressions.
April 10
"No one can give you better advice than yourself"
Marcus Tillius Cicero
106 – 43 BC,
Roman
philosopher,
statesman,
lawyer,
political theorist, and
constitutionalist.
March 10
"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin"
Anonymous
February 10
"Character is who you
are when no one is watching."
Anonymous
January 10
'Two things are infinite: the
universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein
1879
-1955,
best known for his theory of relativity
and the mass-energy equivalence E=mc2, considered to be
the greatest theoretical physicist of all time.
December 09
“One who knows
how to show and accept kindness will be a friend better than any
possession.”
Sophocles
496 -
406BC,
Ancient Greek tragedian that was the
most awarded Athenian playwright for over 50 years, having written
123 plays although only seven have survived in a complete form;
those concerning Oedipus and Antigone are the most famous tragedies.
November 09
“Everybody's a
self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to
admit it”
Anonymous
October 09
“We will either
find a way, or make one!”
Hannibal
248–183BC,
Carthaginian military commander and
tactician who is popularly credited as one of the most talented
commanders in history. His most famous achievement was when he
marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the
Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy at the outbreak of the
Second Punic War.
September 09
“Kind words can
be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.”
Mother Teresa
1910 -
1997, Roman Catholic Albanian nun
renowned for humanitarian and charitable deeds. Winner of
1979 Nobel peace Prize and founder of Missionaries of Charity in
Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950, having 610 missions in 123
countries at time of her death.
August 09
“Nature does
nothing uselessly.”
Aristotle
384 - 322BC,
Greek Philosopher, student of
Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
July 09
“No
problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking
.”
-
Voltaire
1694 - 1778,
French Enlightenment writer, essayist,
and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport and defence
of civil liberties, including both freedom of religion and free
trade.
June 09
"Tension is who
you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
- Chinese Proverb
May 09
“What
is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
Samuel Johnson
1709 - 1784,
English poet, essayist, moralist,
novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and
lexicographer.
April 09
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing."
Edmund Burke
1729
- 1797, Irish
statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher;
served in British House of Commons as a member of Whig party
and regarded as philosophical founder of modern conservatism.
March 09
"A
man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value
of life."
Charles Darwin 1809
- 1882, English naturalist and author of On the Origin of
Species which described how all species evolved over time from
common ancestors through natural selection.
February 09
"Owners
of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of
expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more
and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The
unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be
nationalized, and State will have to take the road which will
eventually lead to communism.
Karl Marx 1818
- 1883, German philosopher, political economist, historian,
sociologist, humanist, political theorist and revolutionary,
credited as the founder of communism.
January 09
'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by
inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will
grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property
until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.’
Thomas Jefferson 1743
- 1826, US Founding Father, 3rd president and
principle author of the US Declaration of Independence.
December 08
"Eighty
percent of success is showing up"
Woody Allen 1935 - ,
American
film director,
writer,
actor,
comedian,
musician, and
playwright.
November 08
"A
society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members"
Harry S. Truman 1884-1972 ,
33rd President of the United States, regarded by scholars as one of
the greatest US Presidents.
October 08
"Do
your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of
good put together that overwhelm the world"
Archbishop Desmond Tutu 1931- ,
South African cleric, activist, opponent of Apartheid and winner of
Nobel Peace Prize.
September 08
"Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a
man's character, give him power"
Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865,
16th US President and abolitionist, American Civil War president and
credited with ending slavery in America. First US president to be
assassinated.
August 08
"Lead, follow, or get out of the way"
Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809 ,
English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor and
intellectual. Author of "Common Sense", "Rights of Man" and
"Agrarian Justice".
July 08
"Hard work spotlights the
character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn
up their noses, and some don't turn up at all"
Sam Ewig
July 08
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly"
Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809 ,
English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor and
intellectual. Author of "Common Sense", "Rights of Man" and
"Agrarian Justice".
June 08
"It is not the oath that makes the
man, but the man the oath"
Aeschylus
525 - 455 BC, Greek playwright regarded
as father of tragedy, central figure in battle of Marathon during
Persian wars.
May 08
"Admission of ignorance is
often the first step in education."
Stephen Covey
1932
- , author of best-selling
book "The
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People".
May 08
"It is time for us all to
stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognises
the challenges and does something about it."
Vince Lombardi
1913
-1970, Legendary
American NFL professional football coach, renowned for his winning
coaching philosophy and motivational skills.
April 08
"Success is not final,
failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
1874
-1965 ,Orator, statesman and artist. Prime Minister of Britain
during WWII (1940-1945) and
1951 to 1955.
March 08
"If you want to make an
apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Carl Sagan 1934
- 1996, American astronomer and astrochemist, popularizer of
astronomy, astrophysics & other natural sciences.
February 08
"It
is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to
be always right by having no ideas at all."
Edward de Bono
1933
- , Physician, inventor, author and pioneer of the concept of
lateral thinking.
January 08
"There
are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy 1917-1963,
35th president of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner.
December 07
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay"
Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809 ,
English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor and
intellectual. Author of "Common Sense", "Rights of Man" and
"Agrarian Justice".
November 07
"If A equals
success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z with X being
work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein
1879
-1955,
best known for his theory of relativity
and the mass-energy equivalence E=mc2, considered to be
the greatest theoretical physicist of all time.
November 07
"A
wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Francis Bacon
1561
-1626,
English philosopher,
statesman and essayist.
October 07
"Americans
can always be expected to do the right thing, after exhausting all
other options first."
Winston Churchill
1874
-1965,
statesman, orator & strategist; war years Prime Minister of UK
(1940-1945).
September 07
"Every
man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and
that which he thinks he has."
-
Alphonso Karr
August 07
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving."
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, a
physician by profession,
one of the most regarded
American poets of the
19th century.
August 07
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always
clearer than the windshield."
-
Warren Buffet
1930 - , American
investor,
businessperson and
philanthropist.
July 07
"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith."
-
Paul Tillich 1886-1965,
influential
German-American
Protestant
theologian and
Christian
existentialist
philosopher.
June 07
"The best way to be boring is
to leave nothing out."
-
Voltaire
1694-1778, French
Enlightenment
writer
and
philosopher and proponent of
freedom of
religion and the right to a
fair trial.
June 07
"Plus
ça change, plus c'est la même chose." (The more
things change, the more they stay the same).
-
Alphonso Karr
May 07
"People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be."
-
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, 16th president of the United States, abolished
slavery.
May 07
"If passion drives you, let
reason hold the reins."
-
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 (84 years!), US
Founding Father and Scientist.
April 07
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead & rotten,
either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."
-
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 (84 years!), US
Founding Father and Scientist.
April 07
“To
show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have
deserved it"
-
Publius
Tacitus
56-117, Roman senator and foremost historian of the Roman
Empire.
March 07
"Treat
people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become
what they are capable of becoming"
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German polymath, cited as one of history's greatest geniuses.
March 07
"Honesty is the best policy. If I
lose mine honour, I lose myself"
-
William Shakespeare
1564-1616,
English
poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer of the
English language.
March 07
"Girls we love for what they are, young
men for what they promise to be"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German polymath, cited as one of history's greatest geniuses.
February 07
"One of the indictments of
civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found
in the same person"
-
William Feather
1889-1981, author,
editor and publisher.
January 07
"Cogito,
ergo sum" (I think,
therefore I am)
-
René
Descartes
1596-1650, known as the father of modern philosophy and
mathematics, devised the cartesian coordinate system.
January 07
"Personality
can open doors, but only character can keep them open"
-
Elmer G. Leterman
1897- , one of
the world's most successful salesmen and author of numerous famous
quotations.
December 06
"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"
-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756-1791, a
prolific and influential composer, he produced more than six hundred
compositions.
November 06
"Men
show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they
think laughable"
-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German polymath, cited as one of history's greatest geniuses.
November 06
"Learning without thinking is
labour lost; thinking without learning is dangerous."
- Chinese proverb
October 06
"We must
become the change we see in the world"
-
Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, political and spiritual leader,
pioneer of non-violent resistance through mass civil disobedience.
September 06
"Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to
speak and remove all doubt"
-
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, 16th president of the United States, abolished
slavery.
September 06
"I have often regretted my speech, never my
silence"
-
Publilius Syrus
100BC, Syrian slave & writer of Latin maxims, freed by Caesar.
September 06
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task
which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
-
William James 1890,
American Psychologist and
Philosopher.
September 06
"The mind is its
own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of
Heaven. "
-
John Milton
(1608-1674)
August 06
"When you're too
busy for customers, don't worry about it. In time, you won't be busy
at all."
-
Bud Hadfield Founder & CEO,
Kwik-Kopy.
August 06
"Our doubts are
traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to
attempt."
-
William Shakespeare Measure for Measure, 1603.
August 06
"Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the
dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does."
-
Stuart Henderson
Britt advertising consultant, quoted in 'The International Thesaurus of
Quotations', 1970.
July 06
“Advertising is a young mind’s business, not a young man’s business.
It isn’t how old you are – it’s how bold you are. How resourceful
and resilient; how clever and courageous!”
-
Maxwell B. Sackheim (1890-1982)
July 06
"Time is
money."
-
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 (84 years!), American Statesman ("a US
Founding Father") and Scientist. |
