Quotes credited to Joseph P. Martino

I have the following quotes accredited to Joseph P. Martino which he has given me permission to publish on my little site.

• A child like the most beautiful precious and perfect of orchids must first receive a tender hand, nourishing care in an atmosphere and environment of love, if expected to fully blossom and bloom to reach and attain their full growth, maturity and potential in life. (Joseph P. Martino)
• On Life's long, hard journey, it would be wise to pack light any ego, false pride, and deceit, and take away and make well of your faithful travelling companions - integrity, truth, and honesty of character. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The naked truth and bald faced lies sometimes conflict with the bare faced facts. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Envision with your mind, feel with your heart and love with your whole soul. (Joseph P. Martino)
• A calendar is the most useless of things to the unambitious who have neither desire or have never set a timetable to attain and achieve any goal in life. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Your conscience teaches your mind how to 'think' your heart how to 'feel' your soul how to 'obey' and most importantly your body how to 'perform' extraordinary 'acts' of charity and human kindness toward your fellow man. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Never submit to love, only commit to love. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Try to avoid the most natural of all human tendencies. The nonchalant habit of resisting and rejecting out of hand, what we fail to appreciate or comprehend. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Don't attempt to attain success at any and all costs, the price may prove to high. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The tongue cuts sharper than any tooth. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Temptation is giving in when you should be holding out. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Moral and spiritual decay have brought about the demise of more great nations (empires) than any invading enemy force, plague, famine and natural disasters combined. (Joseph P. Martino)
• To unlock the door to the future, you must first posses the key to the past. (Joseph P. Martino)
• More people are imprisoned by the self-imposed limitations of their mind, than by the limitations of any prison cell. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The best way to determine the success of a man is not by wealth alone, but more importantly if he is alone in his wealth. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Figure out the meaning of life and you have conquered the universe. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Life can sometimes turn into one big 3 ring circus. When we attempt to climb upward on the ladder of success we sometimes are required to juggle while performing a precarious balancing act on a taught tight-rope like a trapeze artist left to hang without a net. We are also constantly confronted with assorted clowns and court jesters. Like the ringmaster, our boss may sometimes expect us to jump though hoops. If not, they're eager and ready to feed us to the lions. Like the elephant, we sometimes are expected to work a full day for just peanuts, while also trying to make a monkey out of us. So, if you become disillusioned with you job and decide to seek greener pastures and a change of scenery, remember the old adage: 'It may be a jungle out there'. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The high price of success is bought, paid and purchased with blood, sweat and tears. (Joseph P. Martino)
• He who drinks from the fountain of life and quenches his thirst for knowledge never comes up dry. (Joseph P. Martino)
• True genius obeys no protocol. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The only true limitation in life is one's own lack of imagination. (Joseph P. Martino)
• True love cannot be measured or evaluated by any standard or conventional methods. Not by weight, percentage or any other yardstick. One knows they reached the limit and capacity of their love when they feel their heart overflowing with it. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Injustice breeds contempt, out of which all revolution is born. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The greatest legacy and inheritance an individual can leave to others is a life lived and remembered by fond memories of unselfish love, devotion and service to god, family and mankind. (Joseph P. Martino)
• If one attempts to walk the straight and narrow path in life, it may be advisable to remain thin and sober. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Success may be the symphony in life's sweet rhapsody, but love is the conductor that orchestrates life's every note. (Joseph P. Martino)
• In the grand game and art called life, it is wise of one to cultivate an environment of understanding, knowledge and purpose of heart to reach and attain all your noble and lofty goals in life, unlike others who pursue and chase vague, shallow and other meaningless trivial pursuits. (Joseph P. Martino)
• False humility is as shallow as a pond without water. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Even the most ignorant speak at least two languages: their native tongue and profane. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Some doors are positioned to swing both ways, while others open in one direction and return closed to their original position, still others are positioned to revolve in a circle. So learn from the door, to place yourself in the proper position in life where all the doors to success will always remain open to you. (Joseph P. Martino)
• You can learn more from your competitors than your friends, they will be among the very first to expose all your flaws and shortcomings. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Judge all things by their content and not by the beauty of its wrapping. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Through hard work, the successful person can expect to attain their every goal in life. The unsuccessful person, because they hardly work, can only expect to obtain a cheap, pale imitation of success in their life. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Happiness and contentment in life reside less in the transient mansions, spa's and international playgrounds of the rich, but more in the permanent residence of the heart and mind. (Joseph P. Martino)
• If you aspire to become a 'giant' of industry you first must learn to 'grow' from all your past mistakes and failures. (Joseph P. Martino)
• It's not what you think of the 'World' that makes a 'world' of difference but what the 'World' thinks of you. (Joseph P. Martino)
• One never stands taller or more firmly grounded than when they stand on their principles. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Quotes are poems less the rhyming, containing thoughts and observations, beat and timing. Poems are very lyrical, quotes mostly empirical, both combining for a miracle. (Joseph P. Martino)
• A genius without balance is like a wise man devoid of common sense. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Great is the character and integrity of the person who stands their ground while the whole world is tumbling from under them. (Joseph P. Martino)
• in the grand 'game' called 'life', it is better to always plan one step 'ahead' of your competitors, as the chess master, rather than the inferior pool player left perpetually to stand 'behind' the eight ball. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The successful person goes the extra mile; the failure never reaches the half-way point. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The wise man relies on his two most trusted and loyal companions. Their names are moderation and common sense. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Marriage is the only union where you're unable to take your complaints to a delegate. (Joseph P. Martino)
• A wise man knows his limitations but never sets limits on himself. A fool does not recognize his limitations, thus limiting himself. (Joseph P. Martino)
• What you sometimes think of as failure is often success in disguise. (Joseph P. Martino)
• I have traveled to all of the world's continents but none less 'explored' or 'understood' than the human mind. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Learn from the past. Live in the present. Prepare for the future. (Joseph P. Martino)
• If you want to see the brighter side of life, you first must remove your blinders. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Allow truth, honesty and compassion to become your faithful travel guides on life's uncertain journey to fame and fortune. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Life is a merry-go-round, love is the brass ring. (Joseph P. Martino)
• You would be surprised how luck, success and opportunity are never very far "behind" for the individuals who position themselves far "ahead" of the pack. (Joseph P. Martino)
• You cannot turn back time, but time can turn its back on you. (Joseph P. Martino)
• All religions contain, like an apple, the same common core beliefs. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Wisdom. That soft and gentle voice. It will always guide you faithfully to make the wisest choice. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The true genius possesses the wisdom and judgment to know and stay 'within' his parameters and boundaries while still thinking 'outside' the box. (Joseph P. Martino)
• There is no such thing as boredom for the person who cultivates, trains and develops his mind, to act and serve, as his own personal playground. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Our body, like a camera, is similar in the fact that it allows our eyes to act as the lens and shutter, that snaps the subject that our mind instantly conceptualizes into an image, (like a roll of film) that our brain is later left to develop. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Life is an ever revolving door; you can be 'in' one minute and 'out' the next. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Our life starts as a blank canvas and our choices and decisions are the colors that determine and enables us to paint our very own masterpiece. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Men and women with sight see things as they are. Men and women with insight, see things as they could be. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Free nations' are ruled by canon law. 'Dictators' govern by the barrel of a gun. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The difference between the successful person and the unsuccessful person is the unsuccessful person stops short of his goals; the successful person surpasses his goals. (Joseph P. Martino)
• The high price of success is bought,paid and purchased with blood,sweat and tears. (Joseph P. Martino)
• Truth and the knowledge of the ages are often the hardest and most intangible thing to learn in life. But, once comprehended and fully understood, they will provide the possessor with a wealth of wisdom and insight more valuable than both gold and diamonds combined. (Joseph P. Martino)

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Jayne Herbert - Penzance - Cornwall