“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”Seneca 4 BC – 65 AD, Spanish-born Roman statesman, philosopher

“When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.” Lao Tzu

- from the website of socialDragon

“There is no doubt that we live in a more risky world, but the biggest risk today is doing nothing.”

Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO, General Electric

(picture courtesy of monobp)

I’ve started putting some weekly quotes in the sidebar of this blog. Currently they are of the motivational variety: I’m considering varying that in the future, with a mixture of humor, wisdom, and other categories I haven’t thought of right now.

An enquiry about how to sign up to receive these quotes made me think it would be a good idea to add a new category of Quotes and post each week’s quote as a blog post. Then if they wished, people could bring all the quotes up together by clicking on the category – or by using the lijit search facility in the sidebar.

I need to figure out also how to set up for subscribing to an RSS link (possibly also an email alert?) for a specific category. That was one of the good features of the Blogware software which used to be the platform for this blog. Now I have to figure out how to do it with WordPress. I’ve looked for a plugin, but so far to no avail.

Here are quotes from previous weeks, including this week just ending.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

John Burroughs

“If everybody’s thinking alike, somebody isn’t thinking.”

General George S. Patton (American General in World War I and II, 1885-1945)

“If you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go further, go together.”

African Proverb

via David McGregor’s ThoughtSpurs

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet, Lecturer, Essayist, 1803-1882

If you have a favorite quote you would like to see featured here, please provide the details at the Contact page on this site.

If you submit a quote for featuring, please understand and accept that I will be completely subjective about which quotes I use and which I don’t.

Please make sure to include a Web link for the source.

If you can’t quite remember the quote, just Google the words you recall, with the word “quote” or “quotation”.

Or check some of the standard sites:

The Quotations Page

Bartelby

The Yahoo! Directory of Quotations

Brainy Quote

Famous Quotes

This could be fun!