Dr. Dan Lim - Previous Quotes

"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a month, get married. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else." -- A Chinese Proverb (posted on December 19, 2007)
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." --Alphonse Karr (posted on December18, 2007)
“A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?” -- Anonymous (posted on September 21, 2007)
"We must become the change we want to see.” -- Mahatma Gandhi, father of India (posted on September 11, 2007)
"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." -- Winston Churchill, most admired prime minister (posted on September 6, 2007)
"Whatever life we get is a bonus" -- Miles Levin, a young cancer blogger who died recently. (posted on August 21, 2007 - Read his blog for CNN)
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." -- Dale Carnegie (posted on 08/14/07)
"The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.” -- Chuck Swindoll, one of my favorite preachers (posted on 08/08/07)
"I have found there are three stages to every great work of God: first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.” -- Hudson Taylor, the great missionary to China (posted on 07/31/07)
"If change is happening on the outside faster than on the inside the end is in sight.” -- Jack Welch (posted on 07/24/07)
"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone" -- John Maxwell, one of my favorite authors (posted on 07/19/07)
"You affect the world by what you browse" -- Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of WWW (posted on 07/10/07)
"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest" -- Henry David Thoreau (posted on 07/03/07)
"I do not think there is any quality so essential to success, of any kind, as perseverance. It overcomes almost everything" -- John D. Rockefeller
(posted on 06/22/0)
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed" -- Michael Jordan (posted on 06/20/07)
"Talk does not cook rice" -- Chinese Proverb (posted on 06/19/07)
"You reach a point where you don't work for money" -- Walt Disney (posted on 06/13/07)
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity" -- Albert Einstein (posted on 06/08/07)
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm" -- Winston Churchill (posted on 05/28/07)
"Look for achievement not affirmation" -- John Maxwell (posted on 05/24/07)
"In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life" -- Joseph Sizoo (posted on 05/21/07)
"The road to success has many tempting parking places" -- Steve Potter (posted on 05/08/07)
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones" -- Chinese Proverb (posted on 04/30/07)
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen" - Ralph Waldo Emerson (posted on 04/26/07)
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill...Great works are performed not by strength but perseverance" -- Samuel Johnson (posted on 04/25/07)
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all" -- John F. Kennedy (posted 04/22/07)
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble" -- Helen Keller (posted on 04/15/07)
"The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve" -- Albert Schweitzer (posted on 04/11/07)
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk" -- Thomas Edison (posted on 04/10/07)
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work" -- Aristotle (posted on 04/0807)
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves" -- Lao Tzu (posted on 04/06/07)
"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it" -- Samuel Smiles (posted on 04/05/07)
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" -- Confucius (posted 04/04/07)
"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground" --Theodore Roosevelt
(posted 04/02/07)
"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything; in the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter" -- Chinese Proverb (posted 03/30/07)
"The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother" -- Josh McDowell (posted 03/25/07)
"Not in time, space, or circumstances, but in the person lies success" -- Charles Rouss (posted 03/20/07)
"We need to attract people who can create light more than heat" -- From A Fortune Cookie (posted 03/14/07)