Category Archives: kata mutiara

tentang kemarahan

Peribahasa Cina
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone’s letter.

Di tengah-tengah kesenangan, jangan membuat janji kepada seseorang. Ditengah-tengah kemarahan, jangan menjawab surat seseorang.

the power of money (kuasa uang)

With money you can buy a house but not a home.
With money you can buy a clock but not time.
With money you can buy a bed but not sleep.
With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge.
With money you can buy a doctor, but not good health.
With money you can buy a position but not respect.
With money you can buy blood but not life.
With money you can buy sex but not love.



Dengan uang anda dapat membeli rumah tetapi tidak dapat membeli kehidupan.
Dengan uang anda dapat membeli jam tetapi tidak dapat membeli waktu.
Dengan uang anda dapat membeli tempat tidur tetapi tidak dapat membeli tidur.
Dengan uang anda dapat membeli buku tetapi tidak dapat membeli pengetahuan.
Dengan uang anda dapat membeli dokter tetapi tidak dapat membeli hidup sehat.
Dengan uang anda dapat membeli kedudukan tetapi tidak dapat membeli kehormatan.
Dengan uang anda dapat membeli darah tetapi tidak dapat membeli hidup.
Dengan uang anda dapat membeli seks tetapi tidak dapat membeli cinta.

About Action (tentang Tindakan/Aksi)

John Locke ~
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Saya selalu berpikir bahwa tindakan seseorang merupakan penerjemah yang paling baik atas pikiran-pikiran mereka.

Benjamin Franklin~
Well done is better than well said.

Mengerjakan dengan baik itu lebih baik daripada mengatakan dengan baik.

Italian proverb~
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Banyak hal yang berbeda di antara perkataan dan tindakan.

Anonimous~
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.

Antara yang dikatakan dan dilakukan, ternyata masih lebih banyak yang dikatakan daripada yang dilakukan.

Lord Herbert~
The shortest answer is doing.

Jawaban yang paling singkat adalah melakukan.

Alfred Adler~
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Kepercayaan hanya kepada gerakan. hidup terjadi pada tingkat peristiwa atau kejadian, bukan pada kata-kata. jadi, percayalah pada gerakan/tindakan.

Frank Tibolt~
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Kita harus berpikir untuk tidak menunggu inspirasi untuk memulai sesuatu. Tindakan selalu menghasilkan inspirasi. sedangkan inspirasi jarang menghasilkan tindakan.

Peribahasa Arab
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

Sebuah janji itu awan; isinya adalah hujan.

Arnold Glasow~
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Sebuah gagasan yang tidak diikuti dengan tindakan tidak akan pernah lebih besar dari batok kepala saja.

Brendan Francis~
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Inspirasi tidak akan pernah masuk ke dalam pemikiran yang lama, ia menuntut tindakan yang melakukannya.

Peter Marshall~
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Tindakan kecil yang dilakukan lebih baik dari pada tindakan besar yang hanya direncanakan.

Ernest Hemingway~
Never mistake motion for action.

Tidak pernah ada kata salah dalam bertindak.

William Shakespeare~
Action is eloquence.

Tindakan adalah kata-kata yang paling baik.

Mignon McLaughlin~
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

Banyak sekali hal yang ingin kita lakukan pada hari kemarin, namun hanya beberapa yang benar-benar bisa kita lakukan hari ini.

Washington Irving~
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Anjing yang menggonggong terkadang lebih berguna daripada singat yang tidur.

Oscar Wilde~
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Tindakan adalah sumber terakhir dari orang-orang yang tidak tahu bagaimana caranya bermimpi.

Walter Anderson~
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

tidak ada sesuatu yang bisa mengurangi kecemasan yang lebih cepat daripada tindakan.

Anonimous~
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold – but nothing without actions.

Ingatlah! orang-orang akan menilai anda dari tindakan-tindakan anda, bukan dari niat anda. Mungkin anda memiliki hati yang terbuat dari emas, tetapi tidak ada gunanya jika tidak dibarengi dengan tindakan.

Robert Brault~
Never act until you have clearly answered the question: “What happens if I do nothing?”

Anda tidak akan pernah melakukan sebuah tindakan sebelum anda benar-benar mengetahui jawaban dari pertanyaan: “Apa yang akan terjadi jika saya tidak melakukan sesuatu?”

Charles Barkeley~
If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

jika “seandainya” bisa menjadi hadiah, maka setiap hari adalah hari raya Natal.

Edmund Burke~
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Contoh adalah pelajaran bagi umat manusia, dan mereka akan belajar dengan sendirinya.

Peribahasa Cina~
Talk doesn’t cook rice.

Berkata-kata tidak akan pernah bisa mengubah beras menjadi nasi.

Baltasar Gracian~
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Jadilah gerakan untuk bertindak, dan jangan banyak bicara dengan orang lain.

Bodhidharma~
All know the way; few actually walk it.

Semua pengetahuan adalah jalan, dan hanya sebagian kecil saja yang benar-benar bermanfaat.

Nicolas de Chamfort~
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Komtemplasi (merenung/berpikir) sering kali membuat hidup kita menjadi sengsara. kita harus lebih banyak bertindak, lebih sedikit berpikir, dan berhentilah menonton hidup kita sendiri.

Peribahasa Prancis~
The first step binds one to the second.

Langkah pertama akan menarik langkah yang kedua, begitulah seterusnya.

Henry J. Kaiser~
If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.

Jika pekerjaan anda berbicara kepada dirinya sendiri, maka jangan ganggu.

Maria Edgeworth~
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Tidak ada masa seperti masa sekarang. Orang yang tidak mau melakukan gagasannya ketika gagasan itu masih segar, maka setelah itu ia tidak akan memiliki harapan lagi terhadap gagasan tersebut; gagasan itu akan sirna, hilang, dan binasa dari dunia ini, atau tenggelam dalam rawa kemalasan.

Charles de Gaulle~
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Musyawarah adalah fungsi dari banyak orang; sedangkan tindakan adalah fungsi dari seorang saja.

Joan Baez~
Action is the antidote to despair.

Tindakan adalah penawar dari putus asa.

Grey Livingston~
Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.

Ironisnya, membuat pernyataan dengan kata-kata adalah cara yang paling efektif.

Robert Brault~
The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

Cara untuk bisa melakukan sesuatu adalah mendaftar segala sesuatu yang bisa dilakukan.

Nathaniel LeTonnerre~
Action worships the deed.

Tindakan memuja perbuatan (sebuah tindakan akan mengundang tindakan yang lain).

Ernest Newman~
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.

Seorang komposer yang hebat bukan bekerja karena ia terinspirasi, tetapi ia terinspirasi karena ia bekerja. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, dan Mozart duduk berhari-hari untuk melakukan pekerjaannya sama banyaknya dengan para akuntan yang setiap hari berkutat dengan angka-angka. mereka semua tidak menghabiskan waktu menunggu datangnya inspirasi.

Harold Nicolson~
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Kita semua cenderung menilai diri kita sendiri berdasarkan gagasan-gagasan kita, dan menilai orang lain berdasarkan tindakan mereka.

Vance Havner~
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

Visi harus diikuti dengan usaha. Tidak cukup untuk menaiki tangga hanya dengan memandanya saja, kita harus menaikinya.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford

What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used. ~William R. Inge

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. ~Benjamin Franklin

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? ~George Clason

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ~James Baldwin

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. ~Tehyi Hsieh

Men expect too much, do too little. ~Allen Tate

When deeds speak, words are nothing. ~African Proverb

As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ~Andrew Carnegie

All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them. ~William F. Halsey

The best way out of a problem is through it. ~Author Unknown

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. ~William J. Lock

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. ~Lewis Cass

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~Calvin Coolidge

source: quotegarden.com/

About Humor (tentang Humor)

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one’s bottom. ~Taki

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ~Christopher Morley

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. ~Irvin S. Cobb

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ~Francis Bacon

Humor results when society says you can’t scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public. ~Tom Walsh

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I’m rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. ~Ron Dentinger

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. ~Author Unknown

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. ~Mark Twain

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. ~James Thurber

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~William James

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. ~Bill Kelly, “Mordillo”

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ~Mahatma Gandhi

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ~Peter De Vries

Humor is just another defense against the universe. ~Mel Brooks

Humor is reason gone mad. ~Groucho Marx

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~Peter Ustinov

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. ~Sid Caesar

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ~Ellie Katz

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it. ~George Saintsbury

Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously. ~Arland Ussher

Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. ~Mary Hirsch

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. ~William Davis

Many a true word is spoken in jest. ~English Proverb

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ~Frank A. Clark

Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. ~Thomas W. Higginson

Let your humour always be good-humour, in the double sense of the phrase: if it comes from a bad humour, it is almost sure to be bad humour. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events. ~E.T. “Cy” Eberhart

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ~Max Eastman

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs – jolted by every pebble in the road. ~Henry Ward Beecher

There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ~Victor Borge, London Times, 3 January 1984

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. ~Abe Burrows

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him. ~Roman Gary

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ~Leo Rosten

About Everything (Tentang Segalanya)

Thomas à Kempis ~
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Steven D. Woodhull ~
You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ~
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Albert Camus ~
Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

Henry David Thoreau ~
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Allison Gappa Bottke ~
Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!

Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

im Rohn ~
If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Liz Armbruster ~
In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.

Pope John XXIII ~
See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros ~
Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

Terri Guillemets ~
Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life’s affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion – of fun, love, or something that will outlast you – so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Mignon McLaughlin ~
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

Coleman Cox ~
Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning?

Laziness will cause you pain. (Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense)

Max Lerner, Actions and Passions ~
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.

Anonimous ~
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Anonimous ~
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.

Brecht ~
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.

[O]wning your burdens is half the battle. (From the television show Scrubs).

Victor Hugo ~
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~William James

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~Frank Herbert, Dune Chronicles

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~Plato

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard

Always when judging
Who people are,
Remember to footnote
The words “So far.”
~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me. ~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from “The Serenity Prayer” by Reinhold Neibuhr

A day is Eternity’s seed, and we are its Gardeners. ~Erika Harris, lifeblazing.com

People cannot go wrong, if you don’t let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ~W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Last Tournament,” Idylls of the King

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~Sara Teasdale, “The Philosopher”

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it – torn up to irrecoverable tatters. ~Samuel Butler

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it…. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard

On the bathing-tub of King T’ang the following words were engraved: “If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.” ~Confucian Analects

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. ~Samuel Johnson

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. ~John W. Gardner

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised. ~William Hale White

Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you, “What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?” Instead, they demand: “How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?” Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French

Just remember, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become. ~Charles DuBois

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. ~Albert Einstein

Decorate yourself from the inside out. ~Terri Guillemets

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. ~Charles Dickens

We have a choice every day – to act on yesterday’s good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow’s regrets. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale

Be kind to your shadow. ~Rebecca Lawless

I thought growing up was something that happened automatically as you got older. But it turns out it’s something you have to choose to do. ~From the television show Scrubs

If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You do not have the right to quit trying. (The universe wobbles when you do.) You have the right to quit Toxic People. (They’re contagious.) ~Dr. SunWolf

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ~Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis

Whatever you are be a good one. ~Abraham Lincoln

It’s better to fight for something than against something. ~Author Unknown

The day will happen whether or not you get up. ~John Ciardi

Nature gave men two ends – one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ~George R. Kirkpatrick

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb

When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith

When “Why not do it?” barely outweights “Why do it?” – don’t do it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

If you hate your lot but wouldn’t trade it, it’s not your lot you hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the horse as he is leaping. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

When you invite trouble, it’s usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise. ~Author Unknown

All philosophy in two words, – sustain and abstain. ~Epictetus

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. ~Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne

Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got. ~Janis Joplin

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein

The biggest problem in the world
Could have been solved when it was small.
~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~Albert Schweitzer

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~Robert Frost

What you can’t get out of, get into wholeheartedly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard

I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, http://www.wildthymecreative.com

Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice. ~Robert Charles Whitehead

Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched. ~Author Unknown

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind. ~S.A. Sachs

Now and then it is a joy to have one’s table red with wine and roses. ~Oscar Wilde

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. ~Howard Ruff, How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years, 1979

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you’re tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ~Bruce Lee

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

While seeking revenge, dig two graves – one for yourself. ~Doug Horton

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. ~Hippocrates

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. ~Buddha

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business. ~Ann Landers

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour. ~William Shakespeare, King Richard the Second, 1595

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~Abraham Lincoln

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ~J.R.R. Tolkien, “Three Is Company,” The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. ~James Thurber

The essential question is not, “How busy are you?” but “What are you busy at?” ~Oprah Winfrey

Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. ~Kathryn Carpenter

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. ~G.C. Lichtenberg

Being loved by all is little fun
Unless you’re also loved by one.
~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. ~Frederick W. Faber

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship. ~Benjamin Franklin

Don’t despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. ~Martin H. Fischer

Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb

Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ~Tad Williams

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian

Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, “Chuck Versus the Ring”

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace

Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David Thoreau

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. ~Swedish Proverb

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~Thomas Edison

Aspire to a lower level of harm. ~Anonymous

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don’t mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ~Bill Veeck

You can’t truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

It’s all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. ~Mick Jagger

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. ~John C. Collins

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. ~Frank Tyger

Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. ~Benjamin Franklin

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down. ~W. Migner

When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ~Albert Schweitzer

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. ~Brigham Young

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else’s eyes. ~From the television show Scrubs

Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go. ~Author Unknown

It isn’t what you know that counts, it’s what you think of in time. ~Author Unknown

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show. ~Author Unknown

For visions come not to polluted eyes. ~Mary Howitt

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man’s only two choices. ~Terri Guillemets

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you’re the easiest person to fool. ~Richard Feynman

Don’t let it be all in your head, nor all in your body. ~Terri Guillemets

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~Joaquin de Setanti

God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. ~Joseph Joubert

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. ~Robert Brault, http://www.robertbrault.com

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. ~Glenda Jackson

About Success (Tentang Kesuksesan)

Euripides ~
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

seiring dengan kesuksesan, reputasi bijaksana selalu selalu mengikutinya.

Virgil ~
They can because they think they can.

Mereka bisa karena mereka berpikir bahwa mereka bisa.

Thomas Jefferson ~
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Tidak ada yang bisa menghentikan seseorang yang memiliki sikap mental yang tepat dari meraih impiannya; tidak ada sesuatu pun di dunia ini yang bisa menolong seseorang dengan sikap mental yang salah.

Theodore T. Hunger ~
Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.

Bersiap-siaplah selalu sebelum kesuksesan benar-benar datang kepada anda.

Cicero ~
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.

Kita semua termotivasi oleh keinginan yang kuat untuk dipuji, dan sebaik-baiknya orang adalah orang yang semakin hari semakin terinspirasi untuk mendapatkan kemuliaan.

Robert Collier ~
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Kesuksesan merupakan hasil penjumlahan dari berbagai usaha dalam skala kecil, yang selalu terjadi secara berulang-ulang setiap hari.

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

Sesuatu akan terjadi jika anda benar-benar yakin bahwa hal itu akan terjadi. dan keyakinanlah bisa menjadikan sesuatu itu terjadi.

Elbert Hubbard ~
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Kegagalan adalah manakala seseorang telah jatuh, tetapi ia tidak mampu belajar dari pengalamannya (yang pernah jatuh).

Christopher Morley ~
There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Hanya ada satu kesuksesan–yaitu mampu menghabiskan waktu anda dengan cara anda sendiri.

A. Branson Alcott ~
Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

Sukses itu manis: akan semakin manis jika datangnya terlambat dan bisa dicapai melalui usaha yang bermacam dan berulang-ulang.

Aristotle Onassis ~
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

Rahasia untuk mencapai kesuksesan adalah mengetahui sesuatu yang tidak diketahui oleh orang lain.

Owen Feltham ~
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.

Hasil yang paling hebat di dalam hidup ini adalah biasanya dicapai dengan cara yang sederhana dan pengujian kualitas yang luar biasa. semua ini bisa disimpulkan dalam dua kata: tekad dan ketekunan.

Dennis Waitley ~
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Pecundang berusaha untuk menenangkan ketegangan, sementara pemenang/juara selalu berusaha untuk mencapai tujuan.

Vince Lombardi ~
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Hal yang membedakan antara orang yang sukses dan yang lain bukan terletak pada kurangnya kekuatan, bukan juga tidak adanya pengetahuan, tetapi pada kuranganya keinginan yang kuat.

Herbert Bayard Swope ~
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.

Saya tidak bisa memberimu rumus kesuksesan, akan tetapi saya bisa memberi anda rumus untuk gagal: yaitu coba untuk menyenangkan semua orang.

Josh Billings ~
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

Kesuksesan bukan berarti tidak pernah gagal, akan tetapi kegagalan itu tidak pernah membuat seseorang mengalami kegagalan yang sama untuk kedua kalinya.

Earl of Beaconsfield ~
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Rahasia kesuksesan dalam hidup ini adalah bahwa seseorang harus bersiap-siap memanfaatkan kesempatan ketika ia telah datang.

Evan Esar ~
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.

Kesuksesan merupakan nasib baik yang datang dari sebuah aspirasi, kenekatan, keringat, dan juga inspirasi.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Cara yang paling meyakinkan untuk gagal adalah menentukan kesuksesan.

Jospeph Addison ~
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Jika anda ingin sukses dalam kehidupan ini, maka belajarlah dari ketekunan teman anda, dari pengalaman penasihat anda yang bijaksana, dari perhatian kakak anda, dan juga harapan dari orang-orang yang mencintai anda.

Edwin H. Chapin ~
Impatience never commanded success.

Ketidaksabaran tidak akan pernah mengantarkan kepada kesuksesan.

Henry W. Longfellow ~
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Bakat untuk menjadi orang sukses tidak lebih berharga dari pada melakukan sesuatu yang bisa anda lakukan.

Shakespeare ~
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Untuk bisa memanjat bukit yang tinggi diperlukan satu langkah yang pelan di awal.

Albert Einstein ~
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Berusahalah untuk tidak menjadi orang yang sukses tetapi jadilah orang yang berharga.

W.C. Fields ~
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.

Jika pada awalnya anda tidak sukses, cobalah dan teruslah mencoba. sedikti demi sedikit. Tidak ada gunanya anda terus larut dalam ketidakberhasilan anda.