Source Unknown Quotes

A collection of quotes by Source Unknown.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceasele

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Past

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Ye

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Parenting

The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of

The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

Past

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up t

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

Past

If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way

If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way

Past

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims a

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

Insects

Organization is the enemy of improvisation.

Organization is the enemy of improvisation.

Organization

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

Opportunity

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity t

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

Opportunity

Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel

Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.

Optimism

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals i

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

Optimism

In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable

In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense.

Organization

The new organization is edgeless, permeable, amorphous... co

The new organization is edgeless, permeable, amorphous... constantly re-forming according to need.

Organization

Organizations that remain vital show their new employees tha

Organizations that remain vital show their new employees that they are needed. At the same time, they never forget the value of their long-service employees. And they always give both a second chance.

Organization

Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

Optimism

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

Optimism

To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of lear

To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.

Organization

The foolish think that nothing is well done, except that whi

The foolish think that nothing is well done, except that which they do themselves.

Organization

Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount o

Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea.

Dissent

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

Opportunity