Quotes......

A Great Work

Hello Reena Ji,

I would like to appreciate your interest and hard work to find so many thoughts. Really it is a marvellous job and very praiseworthy.

rInaa jaI Aapka ikyaa huAa kaya- va p`yaasa bahut hI sarahnaIya hO . maO [sakI Kulao idla sao p`SaMsaa krta hUM .
Thanks a lot for this.

Bahadur Sinsinwar
 
Bravo !
Very Large Compilation Reena.
To add a few....

"Creativity needs Courage".
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them". Both from HENRI MATISSE
One more which I like -
" Once you begin to see potential in someone else, even if they dont see it, they evolve into the person you envisaged them to be". - Quoted from a Book.
 
Good collection Reena!

“Nothing is interesting if you're not interested” - Helen MacInness

“Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare”.-Harriet Martineau

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” -Dr. Joyce Brothers

“That's what life is all about—timing.” - Lee Iacocca

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” - Mark Twain

“There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.” - Anthony Robbins

“To err is human, to forgive is divine.” - Alexander Pope

Adding a few more:

Success


Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. - George Eliot

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. - Barbara Johnson

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man. - R. Duvall

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is amazing what you can accomplish, if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman

Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top. - J.C. Penny

Kindness


Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. - Kahlil Gibran

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now. - William Penn

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind. - Richard Dehmel

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. - Helen Keller

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. - Whoopi Goldberg

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
 
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Thanks all of You for your contribution and appreciating my efforts.

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“To fill the hour ---- that is happiness.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Today's problems come from yesterday's 'solutions.” - Peter Senge

“Transformation is the ability and willingness to live beyond your form.” - Dr. Wayne W. Dye

“Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it.” - Emily Dickinson

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” - Jonathan Swift

“We get so concerned with the urgent, we never have time to deal with the important." - William James

“Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the sworld pursue”. - Bhagavad Gita.

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” - Abraham Lincoln

“When power leads man to arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reds of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.” - John F. Kennedf

“When you judge another, you do not define them,you define yourself.” – Unknown

“When you look for the Good in others,You discover the best in yourself.” - Martin Walsh

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” - Albert Einstine

“With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable.” - Thomas Fowell Buxton

“You cannot use and save the same time.” – Unknown

“A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.” - General George Patton

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

“A manager's informed side of things is fed from two sources: left-brain analysis and right-brain intuition.” – Waterman

“A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.” - Ed Land (Polaroid)

“A 'problem' is the gap between the existing situation and the ideal situation or objective.” - Katsuya Hosotani

“All problems become smaller if, instead of indulging them, you confront them. Touch a thistle timidly and it pricks you; grasp it boldly and its spine crumbles.” - William S. Halsey

“An environment which calls for perfection is not likely to be easy. But aiming for it is always a goad to progress.” - Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM)

“As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.” – Ishikawa

“Brevity is the soul of wit.” - William Shakespeare

“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Chance is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.” – Voltaire

“Continuous improvement is nothing but the development of ever better methods.” - Mary Walton

“Control without action is simply a hobby.” - Kauru Ishikawa

“Develop a healthy disrespect for the impossible.” - Gene Hoffman (Super Valu)

“Do not let the tiniest problem escape your notice. Remember: little brooks grow into mighty rivers.” - Katsuyoshi Ishihara

“Effective delegation is perhaps the best indicator of effective management simply because it is so basic to both personal and organizational growth.” - Steven Covey
 
"One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."
-- Khalil Gibran
 
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“Effective delegation is perhaps the best indicator of effective management simply because it is so basic to both personal and organizational growth.” - Steven Covey

“Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual has phrased it, 'like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.” - Steven Covey

“Everyone in the company is the CEO's customer.” - Fred Smith (Federal Express)

“Fear is a bad guardian for a thing that ought to last.” – Cicero

“For every complex question there is a simple answer, and it is wrong.” - H. L. Mencken

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the many sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” - Bertrand Russell

“For there are few things as useless—if not as dangerous—as the right answer to the wrong question.”- Peter Drucker

“Forget your tired old ideas about leadership. The most successful corporation of the 1990s will be something called a learning organization.” - Fortune magazine

“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” - Samuel Johnson

“Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough ."-Josh Billing

“Happy is he who can find out the causes of things.” – Virgil

“Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.” – unknown

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” - H. G. Wells

“Humans have always lived partly on present satisfaction, partly on hope. And it's the task of the leader to keep hope alive. It is the ultimate fuel.” - John W. Gardner

“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” - Thomas Edison

“I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.."- Albert Einstein

“I have no particular talent. I am merely extremely inquisitive.” - Albert Einstein

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.” - Boris Pasternak

“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow." - Rachel Carson

“If I wasn't making mistakes, I wasn't making decisions.” - General Johnson

“If management is split about teams, implementing them won't work, plain and simple.” - Harrington-Mackin

“If no problem is recognized, there is no recognition of the need for improvement.” - Masaaki Imai

“If only one or two hours of a forty-hour week use the team approach, the approach is likely to have limited impact.” - Buchholz and Roth

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail to you.” - Abraham H. Maslow

“If the problem is vague and unobservable, the same will be true for the solution.” - Plsek and Onnias

“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti

“If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.” – Walton

“If you don't fail some of the time, you're not trying.” - Thomas J. Peters

“If you don't generate excitement, you don't generate much.” - Bill Marriott

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.” - Albert Einstein
 
great job done rekha ji !!!

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

"The mind is like an umbrella - it only works when it is open."

"If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk; happy for a long time, fall in love; happy for ever, take up gardening."

"Do, or die. There is no 'try'."

"It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

"Life is made up of giving and getting and forgiving and forgetting."

"Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which they were created."

"Two men look out through the same bars;
One sees the mud and one sees the stars."

"You see things that are and say 'Why?' But I dream of things that never were and say 'Why not?'"

"The most subversive people are those who ask questions."

"Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left?
There are still five - because there's a difference between deciding and doing."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing".

"Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you. Do not feel you have to follow is someone else's footsteps."

"When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking."

"Dream as though you'll live for ever; live as though you'll die today."

"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong."

"If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out."

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."

"Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts."

"An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold."

"When a finger points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger."

"The person who says it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best is now."

"Do what gives you a buzz."

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'."

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong...

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
 
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“Invention is only the beginning. Product reengineering and cloning are driving the product technology advantage out and the process technology advantage in.” - A. Blanton Godfrey

“It has been well said that the effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.” - Philip Selznick

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments.” - Thomas Carlyle

“It is our experience that, 90 percent of the time, what passes for commitment is compliance.” - Peter Senge

“It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.’ - Thomas Huxley

“It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.” - Fred Hoyle

“It is time to stop perpetuating the myth of simplicity. The system of organization invented by mankind generates complex problems that cannot be solved by simple solutions.” - Ralph H. Kilman

“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.” - G. K. Chesterton

“It may be said that those who succeed in problem-solving in quality control are those who succeed in making a useful cause-and-effect diagram.” - Hitoshi Kume

‘It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” - Alfred North Whitehead

“It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.” - Robert Fritz

“Just as passion without a system will fail, so will a system without passion fail. We must have a system with passion.” - Thomas Berry

“Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.” - Henry Kissinger
 
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“Leadership fails when it concentrates on sheer survival.” - Philip Selznik

“Leadership is more than just leading; it is providing opportunities for others to grow and to contribute more to the overall achievements of the organization.” - Wynn and Guditus

“Life is a continual problem-solving process.” - Katsuya Hosotani

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” - Samuel Butler

“Make sure you generate a reasonable number of mistakes.” - Fletcher Byrom

“Man is a stubborn seeker of meaning.” - John W. Gardner

“Man will err while yet he strives.” – Goethe

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” - Steven Covey

“Management that tries to induce people to meet the specifications is reacting to the situation knee-jerk fashion.” - Rafael Aguayo

“Management's principal job is to get the herd heading roughly west.” - Peters and Waterman

“Mediocrity is the result when fear of failure permeates an organization.” – Scherkenbach

“Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us.” - Rabindranath Tagore

“No effort is trouble-free. . . . The great American myth is that there is a quick fix or easy solution to most problems. Not true.” - Harry Forsha

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” - Isaac Newton

“No one desires what is unknown.” - Ovid
 
Ek boond apni bhi...

Winners are too busy to be sad,
too positive to be doubtful,
too optimistic to be fearful
and
too determind to be defeated!
 
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“Nobody yields to force unless he is forced to.” - Bertolt Brecht

“Not being able to see any problem is itself a problem.” - Shigeru Mizuno

“Nothing happens unless first a dream.” - Carl Sandburg

“Nothing has the power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” - Marcus Aurelius

“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Once in a while you come up with something for which there is no solution. Then you make a judgment and accept the situation, and life goes on. Count on one or two per career.” - Philip Crosby

“Overreliance on experience, intuition, and gut feeling is a surefire way of increasing waste.” - Katsuya Hosotani

“Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.” – Anonymous

“Preaching quality won't help.” - Hammer and Champy

“Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.” - Masaaki Imai

“Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.” - Mary Walton

“Running a company by profit alone is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. It tells you where you've been, not where you are going.” - Rafael Aguayo

“Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threatens all the basic needs.” - Abraham Maslow

“Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.” - Germaine Greer

“Self-generated quality control is more effective than inspector-generated quality control. “- Thomas J. Peters
 
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“Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Slogans, posters on the wall, appearances in company videos and at occasional in-house quality award ceremonies are always impersonal and inadequate.” - Allan Sayle

“Quality control and standardization are extremely closely linked.” - Katsuya Hosotani

“Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'”- Bernard Shaw

“Some say, 'You only get what you measure.' I say, 'And that's all you get!'” - A. Donald Stratton

“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.” - Cervantes

“Quality control is the art of doing the obvious and doing it right.” - Shigeru Mizuno

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier—not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability than any other under the sun.” - John D. Rockefeller

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Peter Drucker

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” – McCormack

“The easy way out usually leads back in.” - Peter Senge

“The economic losses from fear are appalling. To assure better quality and productivity, it is necessary that people feel secure.” - Mary Walton

“The fact that the captain of the ship can clearly see the port is of no use if the crew continues to paddle in different directions.” - Townsend and Gebhardt

“The first faults are theirs that commit them; The second faults are theirs that permit them.” - Thomas Fuller
 
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“Quality improvement is a do-it-yourself effort.” – George

“Quality improvement will result from people improving their processes and from management improving the system.” - Thomas Pyzdek

“Quality is not a sprint; it is a long-distance event.” – Hunt

“Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.” -Harriet Martineau

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.” – Bacon

“The correlation between service and slogans is essentially nil.”- Albrecht and Zemke

“The genius of the leadership function is articulating a vision of the future that is at once simple, easily understood, clearly desirable, and energizing.” - Bennis and Nanus

“The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.” - Bernard Shaw

“The institutional leader . . . is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values.” - Philip Selznick

“The intuitive thinker may even invent or discover problems that the analyst would not. But it may be the analyst who gives these problems the proper formalism.” - Jerome S. Bruner

“The journey toward excellence is a never-ending road. Some people, because they see no end to their road, never take the first step.” - H. James Harrington

“The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!'” - Steven Covey

“The leader must have infectious optimism”. - Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery

“The mind is slow to unlearn what it has been long in learning.” – Seneca

“The more complex the task, the better it serves as preparation for a more complicated task the next time. One puzzle leads to another.” - Robert B. Reich
 
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“The more haste the less speed.” - English Proverb

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

“The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.” - Peter Drucker

“The new idea either finds a champion or dies.” - Edward Schon

“The problem is not the result but the process.”- Katsuya Hosotani

“The problem is not to get people to do what they are told, but to do what they are not told or even what they can't be told.” - Richard Cornuelle

“The really good team is more than the sum of its players. On an ordinary team, one plus one is two, but on the best team it is three. Rather than having one star, the whole team stars.”

“The recipe for action should consist of 90 percent substance and 10 percent exhortation.” - J.M. Juran

“The road to continuous improvement is and must be an appropriately tailored, optimized, and personal one.” - V. Daniel Hunt

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.” - Thomas Huxley

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” - Benjamin Disraeli

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” - Albert Einstein

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” - Henry Kissinger

“Quality is simple; people are complicated.” - Harry Forsha

“Quality needs to be constantly improved, but it is just as necessary to make sure that quality never deteriorates.” - Shigeru Mizuno
 
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“Quality, like anything else worth doing, doesn't just happen. It's not like tomorrow; you can't just wait and it will come to you.” - H. James Harrington

“The theory doesn't mean anything unless it is accompanied by the practice. The important thing is to start now. Get your hands dirty. Find the problems. And fix them.” - Takashi Osada

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” - John F. Kennedy

“The true creator is necessity, which is the mother of our invention.” – Plato

“The wisest of the wise may err.” – Aeschylus

“The worst thing a person can do is to ignore or cover up a problem.” - Masaaki Imai

“There are no half measures in the pursuit of excellence'you have to do it all.” - David K. Carr

“There are no simple tricks for eliminating blame. You simply must stop doing it.” - Juran Institute, Inc.

“There are some remedies worse than the disease.” - Publilius Syrus

“There can be no freedom without the freedom to fail.” - Eric Hofer

“There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.” - Carl Jung

“There is little chance that your customers will be excited about your products or services unless your workers are.” - Ernst & Young

“There is never a shortage of challenges for people in industry.” - Ronald G. Day

“There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.” - Peter Drucker

“There's no harm in admitting you made a mistake'but don't make a habit of it.” - McCormack
 
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