A Quote by Orlando Aloysius Battista

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

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Orlando Aloysius Battista
Canadian - Scientist
June 20, 1917 - October 3, 1995

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Dickens

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Mahatma Gandhi

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.

Fred Allen

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

Diogenes Laertius

There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep - and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light.

Rajneesh

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

Frank Delaney

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

William Inge

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Gautama Buddha

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

P. G. Wodehouse

America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.

B. C. Forbes

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Richard Baxter

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

Richard Kinder

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

N. T. Wright

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

William Arthur Ward

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