Saturday, April 24, 2010

365 Daily Success Quotes-good ones

365 Daily Success Quotes
Compiled by Steve Strahl
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The "Success Quote of The Day"
The quotes are arranged in calendar order so you can easily read and think
about each "Success Quote of The Day".
January
1/1
"Anything in life worth having is worth working for." - Andrew Carnegie
1/2
"Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who
are ever afraid of the consequences." - Jawaharlal Nehru
1/3
"Success is never ending, failure is never final." - Dr. Robert Schuller
1/4
"I just love when people say I can’t do something because all my life people said
I wasn’t going to make it." - Ted Turner
1/5
"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all
mankind." - Emily P. Bissell
1/6
"Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off
your goal." - Henry Ford
1/7
"It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with
it." - John Crowe
1/8
"You will never find time for anything. You must make it." - Charles Buxton
1/9
"Remove failure as an option." - Joan Lunden
1/10
"There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps." - Peter A. Cohen
1/11
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars." - Les
Brown
1/12
"Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off.
But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and
build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you." - Amelia Earhart
1/13
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance
like nobody is watching." - Mark Twain
1/14
"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill
1/15
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and
learning from failure." - Colin Powell
1/16
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what
lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1/17
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." - Samuel
Johnson
1/18
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi
1/19
"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The
man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." -
Alan Ashley-Pitt
1/20
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think
about that, you'll do things differently." - Warren Buffett
1/21
"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they
have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali
1/22
"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing
really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment
onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and
understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every
thought and deed." - Eileen Caddy
1/23
"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple
as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something
about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur
is a doer." - Nolan Bushnell
1/24
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and
enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!" - Paul J. Meyer
1/25
"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become
great." - Mark Twain
1/26
"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work,
patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold
of real service." - John Burroughs
1/27
"To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then
resolve to pay the price to get it." - Bunker Hunt
1/28
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
1/29
"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you
find it simply means to follow through." - F.W. Nichol
1/30
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'" - Brian Tracy
1/31
"If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them." - Yogi Berra
February
2/1
"Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental
attitude." - W. Clement Stone
2/2
"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters
2/3
"What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence." -
Samuel Johnson
2/4
"We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we
modify it." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2/5
"A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt.
He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the
vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The
grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather
answered, 'The one I feed.'" - Blackhawk
2/6
"Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine." - Napoleon Hill
2/7
"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on
the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or
would have done, or what they can't do." - Dennis Waitley
2/8
"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for
yourself. It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas
2/9
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts
can do that." - Norman Vincent Peale
2/10
"One man with courage is a majority." - Andrew Jackson
2/11
"Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once
and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can
handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to
consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the
essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces." - Joseph
Sugarman
2/12
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to
believe in me.'" - Robert Schuller
2/13
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he
bounces when he hits bottom." - George Patton
2/14
"One step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything." - Scott Reed
2/15
"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can
get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine
their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." -
Stephen Covey
2/16
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones
among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how
to serve." - Albert Schweitzer
2/17
"Success is the child of audacity." - Benjamin Disraeli
2/18
"Teamwork is the long word for success." - Jacquelinemae A. Rudd
2/19
"Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive." - Lori Hard
2/20
"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to
overcome to reach your goals." - Booker T. Washington
2/21
"In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
2/22
"Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there." - Marcus Washling
2/23
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!" - Jim Ryun
2/24
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
world." - Albert Einstein
2/25
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -
T.S. Eliot
2/26
"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived
notions." - Charles F. Kettering
2/27
"People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success." - Pete
Zafra
2/28
"No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement." - Greg Henry Quinn
March
3/1
"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you
can only win." - Shelley Long
3/2
"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the
secret of success." - Swami Sivananda
3/3
"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily
and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." - Cecil B. DeMille
3/4
"One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a
time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought
never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you
think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'" - Margaret Thatcher
3/5
"It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny." -
Anthony Robbins
3/6
"Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half
won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you
do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become
indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the
rewards you receive." - Og Mandino
3/7
"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and
above all confidence in ourselves." - Marie Curie
3/8
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
3/9
"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed
opportunities and starve problems." - Stephen Covey
3/10
"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't
particularly feel like it." - Alistair Cooke
3/11
"Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when
to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased." -
Ralph C. Smedley
3/12
"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the
quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D.
Rockefeller
3/13
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion
to the things you want to see happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
3/14
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once
eccentric." - Bertrand Russell
3/15
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs
the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who
recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity." - Joseph Sugarman
3/16
"Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight
course towards his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by
either commendation or condemnation." - Napoleon Hill
3/17
"Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control." -
Booker T. Washington
3/18
"Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire,
for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit." - Plato
3/19
"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start
with all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible." - Henry Ford
3/20
"I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be
what I want to be." - Muhammad Ali
3/21
"The highest reward for one's toil is not what one gets for it, but what one
becomes by it." - John Ruskin
3/22
"I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men and
women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with
everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work." - Harry S.
Truman
3/23
"The seat of freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in
that work, does what he wants to do." - George Robin Collingwood
3/24
"Success is measured in terms of reaching your goals, dreams, and
expectations. Your success is determined by hard work, persistence, and
determination. If you are going to be a success in life, it is up to you... it is your
responsibility." - Will Horton
3/25
"The difference between success and mediocrity is all in the way you think." -
Dean Francis
3/26
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - Les
Brown
3/27
"What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion
to one's ability to ask for help." - Donald Keough
3/28
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do
too many things wrong." - Warren Buffett
3/29
"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." - Roger
Babson
3/30
"Success is a journey, not a destination." - Ben Sweetland
3/31
"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande
April
4/1
"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." - Al
Bernstein
4/2
"You can do it if you believe you can." - Napoleon Hill
4/3
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson
4/4
"I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind." -
George Bernard Shaw
4/5
"You must do the very thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
4/6
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that
most frequently makes for success." - Dale Carnegie
4/7
"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief
becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." - Claude M. Bristol
4/8
"The biggest temptation is to settle for too little." - Thomas Merton
4/9
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight,
and see the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
4/10
"Don't dream it. Be it!" - Richard O'brian
4/11
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much." -
Bessie Anderson Stanley
4/12
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the
answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
- Nora Roberts
4/13
"Henry Ford could get anything out of men because he just talked and would tell
them stories. He'd never say, 'I want this done!' He'd say, 'I wonder if we can do
it.'" - George Brown
4/14
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who
dream only by night." - Edgar Allen Poe
4/15
"The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them
come true." - James Allen
4/16
"Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will
either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them." - Rick
Warren
4/17
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison
Swett Marden
4/18
"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn
4/19
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more
leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader
4/20
"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and
imaginatively for its hidden assets." - Michael Korda
4/21
"Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work."
- Booker T. Washington
4/22
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you." - Brian Tracy
4/23
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard
at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is
no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't you won't." - Bruce Jenner
4/24
"Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the
average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top." - J.C. Penny
4/25
"Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he
has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle
against overwhelming odds." - Charles Lindbergh
4/26
"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you
have achieved half your failure." - David Ambrose
4/27
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -
Beverly Sills
4/28
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you
will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn
4/29
"Your success and happiness lie in you." - Helen Keller
4/30
"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They
vary in their desires to reach their potential." - John Maxwell
May
5/1
"The only difference between a success and a failure is that the successful
person is willing to do what the failure is not willing to do." - J.R. Ridinger
5/2
"The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small
stones." - Chinese Proverb
5/3
"Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." - Vincent Lombardi
5/4
"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein
5/5
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there
is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties
arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier
needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5/6
"Successful leaders recognize that great innovation comes from observing the
same ideas as everyone else and seeing something different." - Reed Markham
5/7
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Anthony Robbins
5/8
"Be humble always and identify with the common man; even when success and
achievements want to make you proud." - Bishop Leonard Umunna
5/9
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different
way." - Dale Carnegie
5/10
"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really
believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing there is a solution paves
the way to a solution." - Dr. David Schwartz
5/11
"All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future
could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their
distant vision, that goal or purpose." - Brian Tracy
5/12
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes." - Benjamin
Disraeli
5/13
"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond." - Marcel
Proust
5/14
"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of
him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that
determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams
5/15
"I will speak ill of no one and speak all the good I know of everybody." - Andrew
Jackson
5/16
"You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really
interesting problems." - Mark Victor Hansen
5/17
"I've always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up." -
Beverly Sills
5/18
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to
let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington
5/19
"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back." - Babe Ruth
5/20
"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you
meet it with the best you have to give." - Eleanor Roosevelt
5/21
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
5/22
"Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the
moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a
destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey." - Jennifer
James
5/23
"I praise loudly; I blame softly." - Queen Catherine II
5/24
"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are
commonly the most valuable." - Francis Bacon
5/25
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to
succeed." - Napoleon Hill
5/26
"You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life." - John Addison
5/27
"Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow is
wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's
footsteps." - Eileen Caddy
5/28
"Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom." - George Patton
5/29
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
5/30
"Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge." - Henry Charles
Bukowski
5/31
"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness." - Publilius Syrus
June
6/1
"The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end." - Genghis Khan
6/2
"To move the world we must first move ourselves." - Socrates
6/3
"Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly." -
Cecil B. De Mille
6/4
"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he
can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to
succeed." - Henry Ford
6/5
"Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will
be." - Harvey Mackay
6/6
"Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable
achievements." - Walt Disney
6/7
"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts." - Sylvester
Stallone
6/8
"When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Take the next shot
thinking of what you must do right." - Tony Alfonso
6/9
"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in
advance of the event." - Brian Tracy
6/10
"A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have
made happy." - Robert J. Lumsden
6/11
"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in
themselves." - Swami Vivekananda
6/12
"Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there." - William
Blake
6/13
"Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal
goals." - Paul J. Meyer
6/14
"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully
6/15
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in
life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker
T. Washington
6/16
"The secret of success is consistency of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
6/17
"It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert
Einstein
6/18
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." -
Aristotle
6/19
"Sometimes our best is simply not enough. We have to do what is required." - Sir
Winston Churchill
6/20
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action." - Anthony Robbins
6/21
"Live out of your imagination, not your history." - Stephen Covey
6/22
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - Colin Powell
6/23
"Forget yourself and start to work." - Gordon B. Hinckley
6/24
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
- Zig Ziglar
6/25
"Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than
any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
6/26
"One must have strategies to execute dreams." - Azim Premji
6/27
"Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of
ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we
work for others, our efforts return to bless us." - Sidney Powell
6/28
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu
6/29
"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It moves stones, it charms brutes.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without
it." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
6/30
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve
other problems." - Rene Descartes
July
7/1
"Success equals goals... all else is commentary." - Brian Tracy
7/2
"If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe." -
John Maxwell
7/3
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody." - Bill Cosby
7/4
"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." - Arthur
Brisbane
7/5
"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't
planted." - David Bly
7/6
"As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big." - Donald Trump
7/7
"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." - Robert
Collier
7/8
"No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind." - Napoleon Hill
7/9
"Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more
importantly, what's your plan to read?" - Jim Rohn
7/10
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess
7/11
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale
Carnegie
7/12
"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses ... on your powers,
instead of your problems." - Paul J. Meyer
7/13
"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." - Earl
Nightingale
7/14
"Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great
discoveries, inventions and achievement." - Mark Victor Hansen
7/15
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows." - Aristotle
Onansis
7/16
"In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard." -
Theodore Roosevelt
7/17
"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to
work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we
build end up building us." - Jim Rohn
7/18
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
7/19
"Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the
difficulty in every opportunity." - Reed Markham
7/20
"When you're going through hell, keep going." - Albert Einstein
7/21
"Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at
once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms
available." - Andrew Carnegie
7/22
"If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it." -
William Arthur Ward
7/23
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good that we oft may win by
fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare
7/24
"There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything." -
Vince Lombardi
7/25
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you
love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
7/26
"Success... it's what you do with what you've got." - Leroy Van Dyke
7/27
"Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years." - Bob Brown
7/28
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity
in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
7/29
"Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the
next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for
you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly." - Tom
Hopkins
7/30
"Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it
can lead." - Julia Morgan
7/31
"The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before
they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be
willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever
before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them." -
David Schwartz
August
8/1
"For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be. What is once well
done, is well done forever." - Henry David Thoreau
8/2
"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw
8/3
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest
stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie
8/4
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right." - Henry
Ford
8/5
"He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great." - Herman
Melville
8/6
"Recipe for success: Study while others are sleeping; work while others are
loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing." -
William A. Ward
8/7
"Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are." - Jim Rohn
8/8
"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you
will be drawn toward it. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top." - Napoleon Hill
8/9
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -
Eleanor Roosevelt
8/10
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
8/11
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston
Churchill
8/12
"The real secret to success is enthusiasm." - Walter Chrysler
8/13
"Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while
others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced the
valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose." - Grenville
Kleiser
8/14
"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." - Basil King
8/15
"To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will." -
Sugar Ray Robinson
8/16
"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on
the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a
winning touchdown." - Ross Perot
8/17
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because
they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined
to." - George E. Allen
8/18
"If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that
repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you
admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that
draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you
want to be like." - Brian Tracy
8/19
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Anthony Robbins
8/20
"Consumers are statistics. Customers are people." - Stanley Marcus
8/21
"One half of life is luck, the other half is discipline and that's the important half.
For without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck." - Carl Zuckmeyter
8/22
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." - Bernadette Devlin
8/23
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when
you lounge around doing nothing. It's when you've had everything to do and
you've done it." - Margaret Thatcher
8/24
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will
Rogers
8/25
"When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I
did ten times more work." - Bernard Shaw
8/26
"Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands
in their pockets." - Zig Ziglar
8/27
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.
Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - E. Joseph
Cossman
8/28
"I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
8/29
"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better
abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a
calculated risk and to act." - Maxwell Maltz
8/30
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought
together." - Vincent van Gogh
8/31
"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of
success." - Rob Gilbert
September
9/1
"Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to
success." - Harry Fosdick
9/2
"Peak performance in life isn't about succeeding all the time or even being happy
all the time. It's often about compensating, adjusting, and doing the best you can
with what you have right now." - Ken Ravizza
9/3
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on
fire." - Reggie Leach
9/4
"It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I
was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets." -
Wilma Rudolph
9/5
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we
fall." - Nelson Mandela
9/6
"A strong successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates
favorable conditions." - Orisen Marden
9/7
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford
9/8
"Dreams are only foolish to those who lack them." - Peter Reese
9/9
"Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that
someone will ask me, 'What's the secret of it?' I shall say simply this: 'I get up
when I fall down.'" - Paul Harvey
9/10
"Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and
seizing it when it comes." - Alice Foote MacDougall
9/11
"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not
me? Why not now?" - Jimmy Dean
9/12
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do
that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark
Twain
9/13
"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." - Winston Churchill
9/14
"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor,
has known the magic that lies in these words: Every adversity has the seed of an
equivalent or greater benefit." - W. Clement Stone
9/15
"Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
9/16
"Our power is in our ability to decide." - Buckminster Fuller
9/17
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties." - Samuel
Johnson
9/18
"You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success." - Zig Ziglar
9/19
"Make your life a mission - not an intermission." - Arnold Glasgow
9/20
"Do it trembling if you must, but do it!" - Emmet Fox
9/21
"Consider the postage stamp. It secures success through its ability to stick to one
thing until it gets there." - Josh Billings
9/22
"It takes twenty years to become an overnight success." - Eddie Cantor
9/23
"The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get." - Scott
Alexander
9/24
"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his
power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." -
James Allen
9/25
"The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing
makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
9/26
"The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin
9/27
"Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality." - L.J.
Cardina Suenens
9/28
"They can because they think they can." - Virgil
9/29
"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." - Tobias Wolff
9/30
"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself.
It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas
October
10/1
"Men are born to succeed, not to fail." - Henry David Thoreau
10/2
"It's no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing
what is necessary." - Winston Churchill
10/3
"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing
affirmation of life." - Alex Noble
10/4
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
- T.S. Eliot
10/5
"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."
- Charles Schwab
10/6
"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration,
Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication." - Michael Gerber
10/7
"One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success." - Napoleon Hill
10/8
"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough." - Helen Keller
10/9
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." -
William Feather
10/10
"Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish
anything if you're willing to pay the price." - Vince Lombardi
10/11
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford
10/12
"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success." - Malcolm Forbes
10/13
"In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein
10/14
"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you are doing, love
what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing." - Will Rogers
10/15
"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William
James
10/16
"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history.
Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk." - J.C. Penney
10/17
"The successful man is one who had the chance and took it." - Roger Babson
10/18
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
10/19
"If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances."
- Julia Soul
10/20
"Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and
striving for his goals." - Aristotle
10/21
"The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it." -
Sir William Osler
10/22
"Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which
he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise." - Ayn Rand
10/23
"The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than
doing things right." - Peter Drucker
10/24
"I have failed over and over again - that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
10/25
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action." - Thomas Henry Huxley
10/26
"The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big
things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success." - B.C. Forbes
10/27
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
10/28
"Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go
after life ... live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it." - Joe Knapp
10/29
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F.
Kennedy
10/30
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He
inspired the power and energy to get it done." - Ralph Lauren
10/31
"What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." - Napoleon Hill
November
11/1
"The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. Failure is the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford
11/2
"Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can." - Richard Bach
11/3
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do
things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." -
Norman Vincent Peale
11/4
"Spectacular achievements are always preceded by painstaking preparation." -
Roger Staubach
11/5
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish
ourselves." - Thomas Edison
11/6
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao-Tse
11/7
"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have." - Zig Ziglar
11/8
"The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the
accomplishments and victories of tomorrow." - William Boetcker
11/9
"Do what you can with what you have where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
11/10
"Failure is the tuition you pay for success." - Walter Brunell
11/11
"Real wealth equals ideas plus energy." - Buckminster Fuller
11/12
"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers." - Woodrow Wilson
11/13
"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble
problems." - Lee Iococca
11/14
"Private victories precede public victories." - Stephen R. Covey
11/15
"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes." - Washington Irving
11/16
"The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things
that failures don't like to do." - Albert Gray
11/17
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter
what may be one's aim." - John D. Rockefeller
11/18
"I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well, you
are certain they will get better." - Frank Hughes
11/19
"Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never
were, and say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw
11/20
"Perseverance is a great element of success." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
11/21
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
11/22
"A person's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about
things." - Wallace D. Wattles
11/23
"Success demands singleness of purpose." - Vince Lombardi
11/24
"A man is but of product of his thought, What he thinks he becomes." - Mahatma
Gandhi
11/25
"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of
having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If
you don't, life controls you." - Anthony Robbins
11/26
"First, say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do." -
Epictetus
11/27
"If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself." - Brian
Tracy
11/28
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." - Duke Ellington
11/29
"Nature gave men two ends... one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then
man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most." -
George R. Kilpatrick
11/30
"The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do." - James Allen
December
12/1
"It is observed that successful people get ahead in the time that other people
waste." - Henry Ford
12/2
"You see things and say, 'Why?' But I dream of things that never were and say
'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw
12/3
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison
12/4
"You must have long range goals to keep from being frustrated by short-term
failures." - Bob Bales
12/5
"I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and
succeed." - Robert Schuller
12/6
"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and
magic in it." - Goethe
12/7
"Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult
risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." - Walter Anderson
12/8
"Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it." - Ovid
12/9
"I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living." - Steven Spielberg
12/10
"Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success. For those of us
who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles." - Sydney Bremer
12/11
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." -
Confucius
12/12
"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere." - Henry
Kissinger
12/13
"Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekhov
12/14
"Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill." - Zig Ziglar
12/15
"Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed
positively, pursue persistently." - William A. Ward
12/16
"I never waste time looking back." - Eleanor Roosevelt
12/17
"Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his
credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?" - Napoleon Hill
12/18
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." -
Goethe
12/19
"I am a slow walker ... but I never walk backwards." - Abraham Lincoln
12/20
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding, and it is not to be found in foreign
lands, but in the heart itself." - Robert Louis Stevenson
12/21
"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous
decision." - Peter F. Drucker
12/22
"The road to success runs uphill." - Willie Davis
12/23
"Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results.
Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort." -
Charles Givens
12/24
"The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to
your true potential." - Paul J. Meyer
12/25
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that
determines our success or failure." - Norman Vincent Peale
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12/26
"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking
action." - Al Batt
12/27
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale
Carnegie
12/28
"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work." - Sister Mary
Lauretta
12/29
"Never, never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill
12/30
"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments." - Henry Ward
Beecher
12/31
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full
of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The
phrase 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human
race." - Calvin Coolidge
365 Daily Success Quotes
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Sixty Amazing-but-True Facts

Sixty Amazing-but-True Facts!
○ In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with
Pepsi.
○ The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a shift in the
Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-
Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
○ The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are
actually born pregnant.
○ Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile
penises.
○ Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent
the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
○ Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and
swelling.
○ The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the
wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
○ The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank
Sinatra.
○ The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a
monkey steals your golf ball.
○ Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was
never repealed.
○ Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but
don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.
○ SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
○ Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
○ Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the
sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
○ Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
○ The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland,
and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
○ The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how
bumblebees fly.
○ You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.
○ Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms
were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
○ Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
○ The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.
○ The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by
their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with
their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
○ A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry
White.
○ The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his
"signature" on the keyboard.
○ The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period
contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.
○ King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
○ Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the
Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of
their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.
○ In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died
of starvation.
○ Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and
Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled
in favor of developing the 911 system.
○ Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
○ Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin
Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
○ Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour
baseball game.
○ Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.
○ You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils
in aluminum foil before inserting them.
○ To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
○ Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For
Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
○ A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
○ A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice
of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free
from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
○ Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27
issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is
reportedly an avid reader.
○ Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for
lantern fuel.
○ At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually
monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
○ Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
○ If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its
weight in honey.
○ Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface
during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
○ Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your
eyeballs.
○ Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs
amputate in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of
the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."
○ When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small
intestine.
○ Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
○ Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his
tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
○ If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it
on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.
○ When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
○ In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of
Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs.
The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.
○ Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool
Ranch Doritos.
○ Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.
○ The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI,
memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
○ Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.
○ In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to
keep them hairless throughout their lives.
○ It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky
than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
○ The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary
whiskers.
○ The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German
propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan
features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.
○ The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight,
arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

56 Facts About Blood and Blood Donation

56 Facts About Blood and Blood Donation
4.5 million Americans would die each year without life saving blood transfusions.
Approximately 32,000 pints of blood are used each day in the United States.
Every three seconds someone needs blood
One out of every 10 people entering a hospital needs blood.
Just one pint of donated blood can help save as many as three people's lives.
The average adult has 10 pints of blood in his or her body.
One unit of blood is roughly the equivalent of one pint.
Blood makes up about 7% of your body's weight.
A newborn baby has about one cup of blood in his or her body.
The average red blood cell transfusion is 3.4 pints.
Blood fights against infection and helps heal wounds, keeping you healthy.
There are four main blood types: A, B, AB and O. AB is the universal recipient and O negative is the universal donor.
Blood centers often run short of type O and B blood.
Shortages of all types of blood occur during the summer and winter holidays.
If all blood donors gave 2 to 4 times a year, it would help prevent blood shortages.
If you began donating blood at age 17 and donated every 56 days until you reached 76, you would have donated 48 gallons of blood.
About three gallons of blood supports the entire nation's blood needs for one minute.
Blood donation takes four steps: medical history, quick physical, donation, and snacks.
The actual blood donation usually takes less than 10 minutes. The entire process, from when you sign in to the time you leave, takes about 45 minutes.
Giving blood will not decrease your strength.
You cannot get AIDS or any other infectious disease by donating blood.
Fourteen tests, 11 of which are for infectious diseases, are performed on each unit of donated blood.
Any company, community organization, place of worship or individual may contact their local community blood center to host a blood drive.
People donate blood out of a sense of duty and community spirit, not to make money. They are not paid for their donation.
Much of today's medical care depends on a steady supply of blood from healthy donors.
One unit of blood can be separated into several components (red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets and cryoprecipitate) .
Red blood cells carry oxygen to the body's organs and tissue.
There are about one billion red blood cells in two to three drops of blood.
Red blood cells live about 120 days in the circulatory system.
Platelets help blood to clot and give those with leukemia and other cancers a chance to live.
Apheresis (ay-fur-ee-sis) is a special kind of blood donation that allows a donor to give specific blood components, such as platelets.
Donated red blood cells must be used within 42 days of collection.
Donated platelets must be used within five days of collection.
Plasma can be frozen and used for up to a year.
Plasma is a pale yellow mixture of water, proteins and salts.
Plasma, which is 90% water, constitutes 55% of blood volume.
Healthy bone marrow makes a constant supply of red cells, plasma and platelets.
People who have been in car accidents and suffered massive blood loss can need transfusions of 50 pints or more of red blood cells.
The average bone marrow transplant requires 120 units of platelets and about 20 units of red blood cells. Patients undergoing bone marrow transplants need platelets donations from about 120 people and red blood cells from about 20 people.
Severe burn victims can need 20 units of platelets during their treatment.
Children being treated for cancer, premature infants, and children having heart surgery need blood and platelets from donors of all types.
Anemic patients need blood transfusions to increase their iron levels.
Cancer, transplant and trauma patients and patients undergoing open-heart surgery require platelet transfusions to survive.
Sickle cell disease is an inherited disease that affects more than 80,000 people in the United States, 98% of whom are of African descent. Some patients with complications from severe sickle cell disease receive blood transfusions every month – up to 4 pints at a time.
In the days following the September 11 attacks, a half a million people donated blood.
Females receive 53% of blood transfused; males receive 47%.
94% of all blood donors are registered voters.
60% of the US population is eligible to donate – only 5% do on a yearly basis.
17% of non-donors cite "never thought about it" as the main reason for not giving, while 15% say they're "too busy." The #1 reason donors say they give is because they "want to help others."
After donating blood, you replace these red blood cells within 3 to 4 weeks. It takes eight weeks to restore the iron lost after donating.
Granulocytes, a type of white blood cell, roll along blood vessel walls in search of bacteria to eat.
White cells are the body's primary defense against infection.
There is no substitute for human blood.
It's about Life.
Since a pint is pound, you lose a pound every time you donate blood.
Anyone who is in good health, is at least 17 years old, and weighs at least 110 pounds may donate blood every 56 days.

First sloka with nine names

from e-mail received from DR.V.T.Sundaramurthy, Scientist

Hare Shrinivasa

"adhika mAsa niyAmaka shrI purushOttamAyA namaH"

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OM vishvaM vishhNur-vashhaThka aro bhoota-bhavya- bhavat-prabhuH
bhoota-kRit bhoota-bhRid bhaavo bhootaatmaa bhootabhaavanaH

1. vishvaM

He is the one who has embraced and engulfed the whole world. He is the embodiment of the world. He is in all things in the world and everything in the world is in Him.

vishati sarvam iti vishvam. It means He who can enter into everything.

vishvam means all pervasive and all inclusive.


2. vishNuH

He is the one who is all pervading. He controls internally everything and everyone. The upanishads say that these qualities are 'natural' to Him and He is completely independent while everything else depends on Him.
Ancient scriptures of India declare, eko vishnuh mahadbhutah. There is only one mega presence in the world everywhere and that is Lord Vishnu.

3. vashaTkaaraH

vashatkara is the name of the Lord who is invoked by the sacred vedic terminology vashat. It is an ancient term which is exclaimed at the time of performing the yagna, that too at the end of the sacrificial verse. After hearing this, the adhvaryu priest pours the oblation for the deity into the fire. vashat bascially precedes the oblation, which is an important ritual in any yagna. In fact, in many contexts, yagna has itself been referred to as vashatkara and the vedic texts declare yagna as none other than vishnu only. yagnovai vishnuh.

4. bhUta-bhavya- bhavat prabhuH

He is the Lord of the past, present and future. He controls the flow of time. Thereby He controls the changes that happen at every split second of time.He is beyond the influence of time, past, present and future and that is why He is called kAlAtIta.
He is the creator of time and hence called as kAlOtpAdaka.
As He controls the time, He is called as kAlaniyAmaka.
He is also called as trikAlagna being the one who is responsible for all the happenings in the universe.
He continues forever and that is why He is eternal.

5. bhUtakrut

Without the assistance of any external factor, independently on His own, He can create all the things and beings just by one resolve. He is the creator of the living world, which includes Gods, human beings as well as other creatures. Also He is the creator of the non-sentinent things as well as the entire natural world around us which is made up of the five elements namely space, air, fire, water and earth (as stated in the taittariya upanishad).

As this world is created by God, the world is divine and beautiful. So, if we love and worship the world and the universe thinking that it was created by Him, it is also another form of worshipping God who is popularly known as bhutakrut

6. bhUtabhrut

He is the sustainer of all the beings and all the things. He is the supporter of the entire universe. He is the protector, sustainer and supporter of every one of us internally and externally. He is the ultimate protective force who can promise security for us. Once we feel secure, we can develop more confidence. Confidence gives courage. Courage brings conviction. Conviction brings credibility.


7. bhAvaH

He is the absolute existence in everyone and in everything.
bhAva is the name of such Lord who takes care of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the entire world. bhAva is the pure, divine and noble feelings and sentiments. The moment we call the name of the God by bhAva, such pure thoughts, divine feelings and noble ideas are blessed by such God. It is also a message that our thoughts and deeds, our ambitions and aspirations should be pure, divine and noble.


8. bhUtAtmA

He dwells in all beings. He is there within everybody and everything. He is the sole controller of all that exists. He is the sense and essence of all the beings.

bhUtAtmA is the in-dweller of all the gods and jivas. That is why He is called antaryami of all the people, beings, gods and objects. He is that special divine spark who is dearer than our life. It is He who resides in the inner core of our consciousness.


bhUtAbhAvanaH

It is He who is the cause of all the creation and growth of all the beings. It is He who makes the souls to take birth any number of times according to their actions in each life. He is the one who controls and directs the bhAvanas or feelings and sentiments in everyone. All the elements will have their origin and blossoming in Him.

bhUtabhAvana, through His bhAvana will be controlling the minds of all the beings starting from brahma up to the last jiva.

Friday, April 23, 2010

177More Facts

from internet

177More Facts
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo
Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the
bottom of the glass to the top.
3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is
enough to kill a small sized dog.
8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.
That's the opposite of the norm.
15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so
they don't know you're there.
18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid
airborne particles resulting from the flush.
19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in
Malaysia combined.
22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her
doctor.
24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that
order.
25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go
instantly.
27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345,
678, 987, 654, 321.
28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
38. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
39. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
40. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
41. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
42. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
43. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
44. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.
45. There are more chickens than people in the world.
46. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
47. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.
48. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is
49. "s ub c ont in ent al".
50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
51. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30
feet.
52. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female
initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
53. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
54. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
55. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
56. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it
was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet
facilities for blacks and whites.
57. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English
language.
58. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered
after 38 minutes.
59. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
60. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
61. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
62. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
63. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the
keyboard.
64. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
65. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
66. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
67. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.
68. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next
time you chop onions.
69. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed
convenient!
70. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
71. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
72. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
73. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.
74. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each
stamp.
75. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
76. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
77. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold
water.
78. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
79. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
80. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
81. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
82. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
83. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass
through the system and be excreted.
84. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.
85. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
86. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left
foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.
87. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
88. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas
bubbles bursting.
89. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
90. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
91. A snail can sleep for three years.
92. All Polar bears are left-handed.
93. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in
first-class.
94. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
95. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
96. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of
age.
97. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
98. Butterflies taste with their feet.
99. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
100.Cat's urine glows under a black light.
101.China has more English speakers than the United States.
102.Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
103.Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
104.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
105.Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
106.February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
107.Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
108.'I am' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
109.If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet,
two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
110.If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of
the rate of reproduction.
111.If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy
of an atomic bomb.
112.If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
113.If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy
to heat one cup of coffee.
114.In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and
eyelashes.
115.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
116.More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
117.No word in the English language rhymes with month.
118.Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
119.On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
120.One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied
against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.
121.Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
122.Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
123.Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do
124.Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
125.Starfish haven't got brains.
126.The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
127.The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
128.The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
129.The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it
burns.
130.The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
131.The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200 matches, enough fat
for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one nail.
The human body has over 45 miles of nerves.
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
132.The human brain is about 85% water.
133.The human eyes can distinguish about 17,000 different colors.
134.The human head weighs 7 pounds.
135.The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
136.The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.
137.The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
138.The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot
walk.
139.The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).
140.The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup,
sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and
substituted ice cream.
141.The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.
142.The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's
route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to
Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.
143.The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created
by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).
144.The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.
145.The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.
146.The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football
field.
147.The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
148.The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.
149.The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
150.The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.
151.The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to be celibate.
152.The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia's coat of arms.
153.The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18
inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.
154.The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
155.The kilt was invented by a English gentleman who came to Scotland to open a factory because
he got tired of his Scottish workers showing up in a long tunic with a belt (they couldn't afford
pants). Rather than raise wages so they could afford pants he invented the kilt which is just a
lot of fabric and they could afford that. The kilt did not become a symbol of clan pride until the
English banned the kilt in Scotland. Then it became part of national pride to wear the newly
invented clan plaids.
156.The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
157.The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates
from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the
eyes of half the village.
158.The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.
159.The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to sniff the ground for food.
160.The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost
blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million
years.
161.The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than
the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.
162.The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3
quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
163.The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
164.The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City,
AZ in 1971.
165.The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
166.The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolokol in the Kremlin in Moscow. It’s 20’ 2” high
and 21’ 8” in diameter. Cast in 1735, it weighs 222.56 tons and has never been wrung...it
cracked before it was installed.
167.The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8
inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to
hard-boil.
168.The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.
169.The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in
diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm
cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
170.The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
171.The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city of New Orleans, LA.
172.The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.
173.The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.
174.The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It
was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
175.The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter bigger than a basketball.
176.The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150
pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest
organ at 384 ounces.
177.The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
7 Don’ts After a Meal
* Don't smoke - Experiment from experts proves that smoking a
cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances
of cancer is higher).
* Don't eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after
meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take
fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal.
* Don't drink tea - Because tea leaves contain a high content of
acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we
consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.
* Don't loosen your belt - Loosening the belt after a meal will
easily cause the intestine to be twisted & blocked.
* Don't bathe - Bathing
will cause the increase of blood flow to
the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach
will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in
our stomach.
* Don't walk about -
People always say that after a meal walk a
hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not
true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb
the nutrition from the food we intake.
* Don't sleep immediately
- The food we intake will not be able
to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric & infection in our
intestine.
10 Classic Definitions
1. Cigarette : A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool at the other.
2. Love affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day
test.
3. Marriage: It’s an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her
master.
4. Divorce: Future tense of marriage.
5. Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students
without passing through “the minds of either”.
6. Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
7. Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest
piece.
8. Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power.
9. Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage.
10. Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.

50 Interesting (and very random) facts!

50 Interesting (and very random) facts!
1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are
left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is
dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria
on it.
5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something
pleasing.
8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Sixyear-
olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but
rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
11. Dalmatians are born without spots.
12. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
13. The ‘v’ in the name of a court case does not stand for ‘versus’, but for ‘and’ (in civil
proceedings) or ‘against’ (in criminal proceedings).
14. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the
left.
15. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their
lower eyelids.
16. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.
17. Roosters cannot crow if they cannot extend their necks.
18. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
19. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
20. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
21. The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms
of each other: adhere and separate.
22. When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
23. When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
24. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a
carburetor.
25. The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.
26. Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
27. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of
flag of Japan.
28. It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
29. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
30. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
31. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen
gas bubbles bursting.
32. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
33. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
36. The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes
in oxygen directly from the air.
37. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000
people die.
38. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then
the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).
39. Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries.
Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”
40. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit
and the parrot.
41. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
42. The average person laughs 13 times a day.
43. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are:Mizaru(See no evil),
Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)
44. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
45. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
46. Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
47. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
48. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a
slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a
broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
49. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person
died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of
wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of
natural cause.
50. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

"Anyway - The Paradoxical Commandments" by Kent M Keith

From "Anyway - The Paradoxical Commandments" by Kent M Keith
These commandments are often attributed to Mother Teresa as she had them up on her classroom wall! They were in
fact written by Kent M Keith -
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centred.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest
minds.
Think big anyway.
People favour underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

FACTS FUNNY

1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet
can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the
company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’ garbage annually. On
average, that’ 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’
digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28,
1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter “”is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest
son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means
fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is
considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold
separately).
16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in “IP code”means Zoning Improvement Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A “ by 4″ is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
20. It’ estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’ population is
drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades
= David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald’ profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along
with their finger print.
24. The “pot”on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an
albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster’ 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
26. The “ave”icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter
on backwards.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa
Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).
28. Camel’ have three eyelids.
29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
30. John Wilkes Booth’ brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’ son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be
soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’ stomach from
underneath, causing the shark to explode.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name “oyce”
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.