• The most reliable way to anticipate the future is by understanding the present. (Megatrends)

• One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

• Strategic planning is worthless--unless there is first a strategic vision. (Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives)

• We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. (Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives)

Nance, W. A. (Reverend)

• Failure can be divided into those who thought and never did and into those who did and never thought.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

• The teachings of elegant sayings
  Should be collected when one can.
  For the supreme gift of words of wisdom,
  Any price will be paid.

Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte)

• A leader is a dealer in hope.

• To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

• Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Narrimore, Clyde M.

• When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances around you become stepping stones.

Nash, Ogden

• The cow is of the bovine ilk;
  One end is moo, the other milk. ("The Cow")

• How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are;
  One day a bachelor, the next a grampa.
  What is the secret of the trick?
  How did I get so old so quick? ("Preface to the Past" You Can't Get There from Here)

• I think that I shall never see
  A billboard lovely as a tree.
  Indeed, unless the billboards fall
  I'll never see a tree at all.

• Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

• To keep your marriage brimming,
  With love in the loving cup,
  Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
  Whenever you're right, shut up.

Navratilova, Martina

• The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Neal, Patricia

• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Near, Holly

• All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

• Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.

Necker, Susanne Curchod

• Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Needham, Richard

• Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit them, laugh at them, learn form them. This is how they become strong.

Nehru, Jawharlal

• Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

• A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Neiswanger, David

• If each of us can be helped by science to live a hundred years, what will it profit us if our hates and fears, our loneliness and our remorse will not permit us to enjoy them? What use is an extra year or two to the man who "kills" what time he has?

Nelms, Cynthia

• Nobody really cares if you are miserable, so you might as well be happy.

Nerburn, Kent

• It is much easier to become a father than to be one. (Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man)

Nevelson, Louise

• In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

Nevill, Dorothy

• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Newcomb, Charles B.

• The ebb and flow of will is like the movements of the tides...if we cease our vain struggles and lamentations long enough to look away from the personal self...we realize life is going well with us after all.

• If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.

Newman, John Henry (Cardinal)

• If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

• In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.

• Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not.... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

• A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done.

• Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Newman, Windred

• There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.

Newsome, Natasha

• In order to make your dreams come true, you must awaken and take charge.

Newton, Isaac (Sir)

• I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Newton, John

• Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

Newton, Joseph Fort

• We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us--how we can take it, what we do with it--and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty--that is the test of living.

Newton-John, Olivia

• Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

Nichol, F. W.

• When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through.

Nichols, Beverly

• Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk. (The Fool Hath Said)

Nichols, Michael P.

• He says, "You're always late."
  She says, "You're always rushing me."
  One point for him.
  One point for her.
  Total score: zero. (The Lost Art of Listening)

Nicolosi, Dick

• Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

• Forgiveness is the final form of love.

• Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

• Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

Niemoeller, Martin

• In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

• A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

• He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying.

• On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

• Perhaps this is why it is man alone who laughs: he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

• What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you.

• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Nightingale, Earl

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

• A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

• People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be--whether they will admit that or not.

Nightingale, Florence

• I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

• So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Nin, Anais

• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

• The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

• Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. ("The New Woman" The White Blackbird)

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

• Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

Nixon, Richard Milhous

• Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

• Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

• Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth--to see it like it is, and tell it like it is--to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

• Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active. (Leaders)

Noonan, Peggy

• I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. (What I Saw at the Revolution)

Nordau, Max

• It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Norris, Kathleen

• In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent.

Norton, Isabel

• In my friend, I find a second self.

Nourot, Patricia

• If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play...if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.

Nouwen, Henri

• Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all of us love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour--unceasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

• Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us. Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing--sickness, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

• Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nuveen, John

• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nyland, Larry

• You get criticized most when you deserve it least. (Nyland's Law)

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