A Quotes

• “The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.” -  Abraham Maslow
• “The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” -
• “Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service — but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay — and not much of at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops — Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes — they are the best and stoutest soldiers in Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia. And what, finally, of the two men in supreme command? You have Alexander, they — Darius!” - Alexander The Great
• “We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. ” - Abraham Maslow
• “In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” - Abraham Maslow
• “If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.” - Alexander The Great
• “When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” - Abraham Maslow
• “There are no more worlds to conquer!” - Alexander The Great
• “Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians… and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.” - Alexander The Great
• “A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough." - Alexander The Great
• “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.” - Abraham Maslow
• “In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” - Alexander The Great
• “You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.” - Abraham Maslow
• “The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.” - Alexander The Great
• “Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ” - Abraham Maslow
• “I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”
• “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.” - Alexander The Great
• “It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Upon the conduct of each determines the fate of all” - Alexander The Great
• “If life doesn't offer a game worth playing then invent a new one.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.” - Abraham Maslow
• “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” - Alexander The Great
• “Don’t fear change – embrace it.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.” - Abraham Maslow
• “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.” - Alexander The Great
• “But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.” - Alexander The Great
• “We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Your mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions." - Alexander The Great
• “Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everyone's heart” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.” - Abraham Maslow
• “Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. ” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.” - Abraham Maslow
• “We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.” - Abraham Maslow
• “The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “Be independent of the good opinion of other people.” - Abraham Maslow
• “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be” - Abraham Maslow
• “The most important things in life aren't things.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo
• “What one can be, one must be!” - Abraham Maslow
• “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” - Alexander The Great
• “The only real failure in life is one not learned from.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo