Evans Politics

Evans Politics, November 30, 2009 (a repeat from August 14), compilation by Paul Evans:

The best time to plant a tree was always 20 years ago. The second best time is always today. ~ old Chinese saying

Destiny is not a matter of chance, It’s a matter of choice;  It’s not a thing to be waited for, It’s a thing to be achieved. ~ William Jennings Bryan

When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it. ~ Jim Rohn

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~ Albert Einstein

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. ~ James Broughton

“Someone once asked me why do you always insist on taking the hard road? and I replied  why do you assume I see two roads?” ~ unknown

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours. ~ Richard Bach

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” ~ unknown

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~ William Feather

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. ~ Charles Schwab

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. ~ Joshua J. Marine

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson

He is the most unfortunate who’s today is not better than yesterday. ~Muhammad (PBUH)

“Success can never be controlled, but performance always can.” ~John F. Murray

“If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.” ~Walter Reuther

“Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.” ~ unknown, may sound a little like Republican propoganda, but there you have it….

There are two ways of meeting difficulties:  you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ~Phyllis Bottome

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ unknown

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ~ unknown

You always pass failure on the way to success. ~Mickey Rooney

Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’  I know I’m close to success ~ Michael Flatley

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. ~ Jim Rohn

“God gives every bird it’s food, but does not always drop it into the nest.” ~ unknown, but I’d read his book!

Kites rise highest against the wind not with it ~ Sir Winston Churchill

“To make yourself exceptional is the biggest achievement of your life.” ~ unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have: three meals a day for their bodies, – education and culture for their minds – and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein.

On political activisim: If you think you’re too small to be effective, you’ve never been in the dark with a mosquito.” — source unknown.

Given to us by GreenSooner over at DailyKos: “Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House.” – Bob Herbert

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson