Otherisms

Words to live by from a higher scrum (of wise guys).

Subject	Quality	Quote	Attributed to
Character	Action	“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”	John Maxwell
Character	Action	“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.”	Native American Proverb
Character	Attitude	“Act like a heel and you can be sure you'll be stepped on.”	anonymous
Character	Attitude	“I'd rather be optimistic and a fool, than pessimistic and right.”	Albert Einstein
Character	Attitude	“Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.”	Jesse Jackson
Character	Attitude	“The man who doesn’t stand for something will fall for anything.”	Peter Marshall
Character	Attitude	“Your I Can is more important than your I.Q.”	Robin Sharma
Character	Friendship	“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”	Mark Twain
Character	Knowledge	“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”	Theodore Roosevelt
Character	Motivation/Habit	“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”	C. S. Lewis
Character	Popularity	“What is popular is not always right, what is right is not always popular.”	Albert Einstein
Character	Restraint	“Every time you speak, your mind is on parade.”	anonymous
Character	Sacrifice	“My life is my message.”	Mahatma Gandhi
Character	Tact	“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, argument an exchange of ignorance.”	Robert Quillen
Character	Tact	“Great minds discuss ideas, small minds discuss people.”	Eleanor Roosevelt
Character	Tact	“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”	Isaac newton
Character	Teamwork	“A star can win any game, a team can win every game.”	Jack Ramsay
Character	Wisdom	“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”	Hyman G Rickover
Decisions	Action	I really don’t want you to hang my portrait on your office walls. Because a president is not an icon and not an idol. A president is not a portrait. Hang pictures of your children. And before you make any decision, look into their eyes.	Volodymyr Zelensky
Decisions	Action	“The right thing to do is the best thing to do. The worst thing to do is nothing.”	Theodore Roosevelt
Decisions	Mistakes	“Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for.”	Ruth Boorstin
Decisions	Mistakes	“Beware of a half truth, you may be getting the wrong half.”	anonymous
Decisions	Time	“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”	John Wooden
Decisions	Wisdom	“The best solution uses the fewest assumptions.”	William of Ockham
Emotions	Change	“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”	George Bernard Shaw
Emotions	Fear	“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”	Mark Twain
Emotions	Humour	“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”	Emo Philips
Emotions	Love	“Two in a hammock attempted to kiss when all of a sudden they landed like sıɥʇ.”	anonymous
Emotions	Restraint	“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”	Chinese Proverb
Emotions	Tact	“It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important.”	Thomas Huxley
Emotions	Wisdom	“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”	Benjamin Franklin
Emotions	Worry	“Don’t worry when those things bother you, worry when they don’t.”	anonymous
Friends	Popularity	“It's better to be alone than in bad company.”	Booker T. Washington
Friends	Trust	“The best thing you can give someone is a chance.”	Bits and Pieces
Growth	Action/Risk	“If your life is free of failures, you aren’t taking enough risks.”	H. Jackson Brown
Growth	Age	“At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, and at 40 the judgment.”	Benjamin Franklin
Growth	Attitude	“Leave the past, engage the present, create the future.”	Julio Melara
Growth	Attitude	“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”	Scott Hamilton
Growth	Change	“Be the change you want to see in the world.”	Mahatma Gandhi
Growth	Change	“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.”	Robin S. Sharma
Growth	Change	“If you change nothing, nothing changes.”	Dr. Joyce
Growth	Change	“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”	Maria Robinson
Growth	Change	“We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.”	Anais Nin
Growth	Change	“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”	Lao Tzu
Growth	Change	“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”	Jim Rohn
Growth	Character	“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”	Mark Twain
Growth	Choices	“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”	Buddha
Growth	Family	“Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.”	John Ed Pearce
Growth	Wisdom	“The young know the rules, the old know the exceptions.”	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Happiness	Action/Risk	“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.”	Vicki Corona
Happiness	Attitude	“Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”	Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness	Attitude	“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success.”	Albert Schweitzer
Happiness	Character	“There are far more people trying to meet the right person than there are people trying to become that person.”	Gloria Steinem
Happiness	Character	“When a man moves away from his nature, his heart becomes hard.”	Lakota proverb
Happiness	Family	“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.”	George Moore
Happiness	Family	“You can’t have the comfort of a home and the convenience of a hotel.”	Dad
Happiness	Love	“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”	Albert Einstein
Happiness	Love	Love people, not things; use things, not people.	Spencer W. Kimball
Happiness	Love	“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he is not the man she married?”	Barbra Streisand
Happiness	Tact	“Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go”	Oscar Wilde
Happiness	Worry	“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”	Morris West
Honesty	Restraint	“One’s eyes are what one is, ones mouth is what one becomes.”	Galsworthy
Honesty	Tact	“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”	Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge	Age	“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”	Tom Stoppard
Knowledge	Age	“I am not young enough to know everything.”	Oscar Wilde
Knowledge	Change	“The surest way to corrupt a young mind is to teach it to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.”	Neitzsche
Knowledge	Choices	“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two is never sure.”	Mark Twain
Knowledge	Communication	“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”	Charles Kettering
Knowledge	Communication	“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge	Motivation/Habit	“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”	Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge	Trust	“Better untaught, than ill-taught.”	English Proverb
Knowledge	Weakness	“90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.”	anonymous
Knowledge	Wisdom	“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”	Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge	Wisdom	“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts, wisdom lies in their simplification.”	Martin Fisher
Knowledge	Wisdom	“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Knowledge	Wisdom	“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success, leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”	Stephen Covey
Life	Action/Risk	“I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead. ”	Jimmy Buffett
Life	Action	“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”	Aesop
Life	Action	“The proper function of a man is to live, not exist.”	Jack London
Life	Attitude	“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”	Abraham Lincoln
Life	Attitude	“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”	Robert Byrne
Life	Change	“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”	Bits and Pieces
Life	Choices	“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”	Aldous Huxley
Life	Choices	“One day your life is going to flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.”	anonymous
Life	Choices	“You can spend your life anyway you want, but you can spend it only once.”	John Maxwell
Life	Discipline	“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”	Frederick Douglass
Life	Family	“Insanity is hereditary – you get it from your children.”	Sam Levenson
Life	Friendship	“In prosperity our friends know us, in adversity we know our friends.”	John Churton Collins
Life	Friendship	“My friends are my estate.”	Emily Dickinson
Life	Mistakes	“Experience is the worst teacher, it gives the test before presenting the lesson.”	Vernon Law
Life	Mistakes	“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”	Friedrich Nietzsche
Life	Motivation/Habit	“Let us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out.”	Theodore Roosevelt
Life	Obstacles	“Life is just one damn thing after another.”	Mark Twain
Life	Perseverence	“Don't let life discourage you, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”	Richard L. Evans
Life	Perseverence	“The best way out is always through.”	Robert Frost
Life	Success	“If you don't have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have.”	Erk Russell
Life	Time	“Don't count the days, make the days count.”	Muhammad Ali
Life	Time	“Killing time, can murder opportunity.”	anonymous
Life	Time	“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're through.”	anonymous
Life	Worry	“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”	Albert Einstein
Life	Worry	“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”	Robert Frost
Life	Worry	“Worrying is like a rocking chair: It may give you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”	Erma Bombeck
Life	Mistakes	“Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.”	Paul Brown
Misc	Change	“Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.”	José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
Misc	Humour	“America's no. 1 energy crises is Monday morning.”	Anonymous
Misc	Humour	“Dogs have owners, cats have staff.”	anonymous
Misc	Humour	“If it's not on fire, it's a software problem.”	anonymous
Misc	Humour	“MultiTasking – Twice the mistakes in half the time.”	anonymous
Misc	Obstacles	“Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.”	Javier P"ascuel Salcedo
Motivation	Attitude	“A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a lamp to be lighted.”	Plutarch
Success	Action/Risk	“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”	LaoTzu
Success	Action/Risk	“Winners make it happen, Losers let it happen.”	Leonard Lavin
Success	Action	“Well done is better than well said.”	Benjamin Franklin
Success	Action	“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”	Henry Ford
Success	Attitude	“A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it.”	anonymous
Success	Attitude	“Don't try out, stick out.”	anonymous
Success	Attitude	“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”	Coco Chanel
Success	Attitude	“Ideas don't work unless you do.”	anonymous
Success	Attitude	“It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.”	Zig Ziglar
Success	Attitude	“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it”	Lou Holtz
Success	Attitude	“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”	Albert Einstein
Success	Attitude	“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”	George Halas
Success	Attitude	“Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it, it's only good for wallowing in.”	Katherine Mansfield
Success	Attitude	“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”	Gary Player
Success	Attitude	“The higher you stretch, the more you grow.”	anonymous
Success	Attitude	“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”	Oscar Wilde
Success	Attitude	“The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails.”	William Arthur Ward
Success	Attitude	“Tough times don't last, tough people do.”	Robert H. Schuller
Success	Attitude	“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.”	Thomas Edison
Success	Attitude	“What counts is not the number of hours you put in but how much you put into those hours.”	Sam Ewing
Success	Attitude	“Winners find a way, losers find an excuse.”	anonymous
Success	Attitude	“Winners make it happen, losers let it happen.”	Leonard Lavin
Success	Change	“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”	Charles Darwin
Success	Change	“To improve is to change, to succeed is to change often.”	Winston Churchill
Success	Character	“Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.”	Judy Garland
Success	Character	“In the end, each of us will be judged by our standard of life, not our standard of living, by our measure of giving, not our measure of wealth by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.”	William Arthur Ward
Success	Communication	“Knowing what you want is the first step to getting it.”	Louise Hart
Success	Communication	“One idea driven home is worth three left on base.”	James Liter
Success	Communication	“We have two ears and one tongue so as to listen more and talk less.”	Diogenes
Success	Decisions	“It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.”	Roy Disney
Success	Discipline	“A hammer doesn't lose its head until it flies off the handle.”	anonymous
Success	Discipline	“A picture is worth a thousand words—unless you can't find it!”	Good Housekeeping
Success	Discipline	“People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.”	John J. Beckley
Success	Fear	“You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.”	Marion Blakely
Success	Goals/Enthusiasm	“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”	Winston Churchill
Success	Goals	“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”	Napolean Hill
Success	Goals	“Before you score, you have to have a goal.”	anonymous
Success	Goals	“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”	Henry Ford
Success	Goals	“The only way to think straight is by not running around in circles.”	anonymous
Success	Goals	“When you have measurements, you have performance.  When you have no measurements, you have excuses.”	Peter Drucker
Success	Honesty	“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”	Thomas Jefferson
Success	Honesty	“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”	Michael Evans
Success	Honesty	“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”	Mahatma Gandhi
Success	Mistakes	“A person doesn't stay defeated because of something that happens to him, but within him.”	anonymous
Success	Mistakes	“Any time you fail to correct a mistake, you are destined to make another.”	anonymous
Success	Mistakes	“Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”	Henry Ford
Success	Mistakes	“It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up.”	Vince Lombardi
Success	Mistakes	“Make the most of every failure, fall forward.”	anonymous
Success	Mistakes	“Stupidity is not making mistakes, but repeating them.”	anonymous
Success	Mistakes	“There are a thousand reasons for failure, but not a single  excuse.”	Mike Reid
Success	Motivation/Habit	“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”	Lao Tzu
Success	Motivation/Habit	“Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going.”	Jim Ryun
Success	Perseverence	“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”	Bill Bradley
Success	Perseverence	“In matters of style swim with the current, in matters of principle stand like a rock.”	Thomas Jefferson
Success	Perseverence	“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”	Gary Player
Success	Perseverence	“To finish first, you must first finish.”	Rick Mears
Success	Restraint	“The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”	Jeremy Paxman
Success	Restraint	“They  may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”	Carl W. Buechner
Success	Restraint	“When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt it.”	Henry J. Kaiser
Success	Sacrifice	“Pain is temporary, pride is forever.”	anonymous
Success	Teamwork	“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”	Henry Ford
Success	Teamwork	“None of us is as smart as all of us.”	Ken Blanchard
Success	Wisdom	“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.”	Fats Domino
Success	Work Ethic	“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”	Alan Kay
Success	Work Ethic	“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.”	Arthur Birsbane
War	Change	“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”	Winston Churchill
Success	Action/Risk	You'll never get what you've never had until you're willing to do what you've never done.	anonymous
Growth	Choices	You become what you think about.	Earl Nightingale
Growth	Age	The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.	Aldous Huxley
Life	Wisdom	God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.	Reinhold Niebuhr
Success	Attitude	Whether you think you can, or think you cannot... you are right.	Henry Ford
Character	Action	The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.	Paulo Coelho
Life	Change	Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.	Franklin P. Adams
Decisions	Wisdom	When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.	Bruce Mau
Success	Restraint	The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.	anonymous