Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 03/31/08

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
     - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1929-1968, American Civil Rights leader

Source:  www.jimpoz.com

Martin Luther King, Jr. Newspaper Archive 

BBC History - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Avenues to Success for 03/30/08

When you set yourself on fire, people love and come to see you burn.
     - John Wesley, Eighteenth century evangelist

Source:  www.consettmethodist.co.uk

Island of Freedom - John Wesley

John Wesley - Biography & Bibliography - Brycchan Carey

John Wesley - Resources - Rapture Ready

Avenues to Success for 03/29/08

Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
     - Mohandas Gandhi, 1869-1948, Hindu national leader
        Aka Mahatma in India. Spelling also Mohandis

Source:  www.nepalnews.com

Welcome to the Complete Website About Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi: The Art of Non-Violence - by Peter N. Herdon - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Mohandas K. Gandhi: Indian Home Rule (1909) - Department of English - Washington State University

 

 

Avenues to Success for 03/28/08

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
     - Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American Poet

Source:  www.harvardsquarelibrary.org

Robert Frost - Poems and Biography - Americanpoems.com

Robert Frost 1874-1963: Critical Essay by Yvor Winters - BookRags.com

Avenues to Success for 03/27/08

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
     - Geoffrey F. Abert, Author - Before the Crash (Signet, 1982)

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Avenues to Success for 03/26/08

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
     - H.P. Liddon, 1829-1890, Clergyman, Oxford University Professor

Source:  Henry Parry Liddon - anglicanhistory.org

Henry Parry Liddon - Wikipedia

Avenues to Success for 03/25/08

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
     - Warren Buffett, Born 1930, American financier

Source:  The Blotter - ABC New Blog

Warren Buffett - Biography - About.com

The Warren Buffett Compilation - www.freewebs.com

Warren Buffett - The Making Of An American Capitalist

Avenues to Success for 03/24/08

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
      - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1849, Scottish novelist
      

Source:  Gutenberg.org

Robert Louis Stevenson - Biography - National Library of Scotland

Complete Collection of Poems - Robert Louis Stevenson  - poetryloverspage.com

Robert Louis Stevenson Biography and Summary - BookRags.com

Note - also seen the quotation attributed to Stuart B. Johnson, British artist

 

Avenues to Success for 03/23/08

One must be something in order to do something.
     - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832,  German poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, philisopher

Source:  http://portrait.kaar.at

 Biographical Captions - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Invisisble Bisilica Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About Vienna - Personalities Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Avenues to Success for 03/22/08

Imagination grows by exercise and, contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
     - W. Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, English novelist, playwright, dramatist, and short-story writer

Source:  defreitasbooks.com

W. Somerset Maugham - A Who2 Profile

W. Somerset Maugham - British Empire Bographies

W. Somerset Maugham - Biography - BookRags