Quotes Added in August 2007

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.James Cabell

• purpose
• direction
• legacy

Nothing is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.John McCain

• purpose

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.Mother Teresa

• contribution
• service

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving: as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• contribution
• service

We all have something to give. So if you know how to read, find someone who can't. If you've got a hammer, find a nail. If you're not hungry, not lonely, not in trouble - seek out someone who is.George Herbert Walker Bush

• contribution
• service

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.Yo-Yo Ma

• imitation
• uniqueness

Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.Warren Buffett

• investing
• time
• compounding

This is the source.

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.Ferdinand Foch

• will
• victory

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.George Bernard Shaw

• death
• life