Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous
in the common." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but
small ones surround us every day." -- Sally Koch

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes." -- Benjamin
Disraeli

"Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises
against--not with--the wind." -- Hamilton Mabie

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing
I know: The only ones among you who will be really
happy are those who sought and found out how to serve."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a
direct bearing on your performance." -- Zig Ziglar

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"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk
about other people." -- Lucille S. Harper

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve
greatly." -- Robert Kennedy

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're
going, because you might not get there." -- Yogi Berra 

"The most powerful element in advertising is the
truth." -- William Bernbach 

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do
something at once." -- Calvin Coolidge

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that
matters is where you are going." -- Unknown

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"Reading without reflection is like eating without
digesting." -- Edmund Burke

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you
wish, but you only spend it once." -- Lillian Dickson 

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for
your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you
in the best place for the next moment." -- Oprah
Winfrey

"What is important is not what happens to us, but how
we respond to what happens to us." -- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain--and most
fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be
understanding and forgiving." -- Dale Carnegie

"Every failure is a challenge. If taken as a feedback,
you are bent to succeed!" -- Unknown 

"Remember, what we allow we encourage." -- Michael
Josephson

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that
count. It's the life in your years." -- Abraham Lincoln

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"Your abilities don't define who you are, your choices
do." -- Unknown

"Character is much easier kept than recovered." --
Thomas Paine

"What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than
how valuable we are." -- Edgar Friedenberg

"The true test of a good government is its aptitude and
tendency to produce a good administration." --
Alexander Hamilton

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking
boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to
be more productive than energy devoted to patching
leaks." -- Warren Buffett

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near
exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There
are deep wells of strength that are never used." --
Richard Byrd

Words of Wisdom 

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we
will not see." -- Neil Postman

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no
prompting of the conscience; without God there is a
coarsening of the society; without God democracy will
not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we
are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone
under." -- Ronald Reagan

"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak
ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing."
-- John Tillotson

"It requires less character to discover the faults of
others than is it does to tolerate them." -- J. Petit
Senn

"Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us
of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others."
-- J. Petit Senn

"The most significant decision I make each day is my
choice of an attitude. When my attitudes are right
there's no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no
dream too extreme and no challenge too great." --
Charles Swindoll

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"The more you say, the less people remember." --
François Fénelon

"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word." -- William
Thackeray 

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
-- Unknown

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I
was standing on the shoulder of giants." -- Isaac
Newton 

"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or
touched--they must be felt with the heart." -- Helen
Keller 

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
-- William Wordsworth

Words of Wisdom 

"A friend is someone who knows the song of your heart
and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the
words." -- Unknown

"Give light and the people will find their own way." --
Motto of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

"Always take a job that is too big for you." [It will
help you stretch and grow.] -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Fear is the imaginary mountain that hides the
horizon." -- Rick Beneteau

"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety
from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is
the storm within that endangers him, not the storm
without." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who builds according to every man's advice will
have a crooked house." -- Danish Proverb

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"Never test the depths of the river with both of your
feet." -- W. Buffett

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have
to do what's required." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"We look forward to the time when the power to love
will replace the love of power. Then will our world
know the blessings of peace." -- William Ellery

"Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool
friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads
shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect. "-- William
Arthur Ward

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God
cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." --
Mahatma Gandhi 

"Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall
I send? And who will go for us?' And I said, 'Here am
I. Send me!'" -- Isaiah 6:8 (NIV).

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"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do
something at once." -- Calvin Coolidge

"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws
will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose
manners are universally corrupt." -- John Adams

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins, not through strength but by
perseverance." -- H. Jackson Brown

"Never give in---never, never, never, never, in nothing
great or small, large or petty, never give in except to
convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to
force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might
of the enemy." -- Winston Churchill

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money,
but you cannot get more time." -- Jim Rohn

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It
comes from indomitable will." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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"The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness;' the
second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness.'" --
Orison Swett Marden, Editor, Success Magazine 

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." --
Albert Einstein

"A strong man stands up for himself ... A stronger man
stands up for others." -- Keeler

"The best helping hand that you will ever receive is
the one at the end of your own arm." -- Fred Dehner

"Harry Emerson Fosdick said: 'Democracy is based upon
the conviction that there are extraordinary
possibilities in ordinary people.' Sadly, it can be
destroyed by evil, controlling people." -- RWI

"Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of
light. All other impossibilities are optional." --
Robert Brault 

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"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and
take without forgetting." -- Elizabeth Bibesco

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the
parent of all others." -- Cicero, Roman statesman

"If you never learn the language of gratitude you'll
never be on speaking terms with happiness." -- Proverb

"When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted
the tree." -- Vietnamese saying

"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." --
Thomas Fuller

"Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Fear is." -- Verna
Dozier

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"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil--it has
no point!" -- Unknown

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships
are built for." -- William Shedd

"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own
self-fulfilling prophecy." -- Brian Tracy

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It
is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." --
Arthur Ashe

"The biggest tragedy in America is not the great waste
of natural resources--though this is tragic; the
biggest tragedy is the waste of human resources because
the average person goes to his grave with his music
still in him." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes 

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can
spend your life running up and down the field and never
scoring." -- Bill Copeland

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"Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves
listening and responding to others honestly and openly;
it involves being in the moment." -- Sidney Poitier

"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble
as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an
injury." -- E. H. Chapin

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." -- Golda
Meir

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was
put up." -- Robert Frost 

"I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and
the sky didn't fall down." -- Allen H. Neuharth

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle
and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness
sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is
light from within." -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 

On the Lighter Side

Several days ago as I left a meeting at a hotel; I
desperately gave myself a personal TSA pat down.

I was looking for my keys. They were not in my pockets.

A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing.
Suddenly I realized I must have left them in the car.
Frantically, I headed for the parking lot.

My husband has scolded me many times for leaving the
keys in the ignition. My theory is the ignition is the
best place not to lose them. His theory is that the car
will be stolen.

As I burst through the door, I came to a terrifying
conclusion. His theory was right. The parking lot was
empty. I immediately called the police. I gave them my
location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car,
and that it had been stolen.

Then I made the most difficult call of all, "Honey," I
stammered; [I always call him "honey" in times like
these.] "I left my keys in the car and it's been
stolen."

There was a period of silence. I thought the call had
been dropped, but then I heard his voice. "Are you
kidding' me", he barked, "I dropped you off!"

Now it was my time to be silent. Embarrassed, I said,
"Well, come and get me."

He retorted, "I will, as soon as I convince this cop I
didn't steal your car." 

  -- Submitted by Kath Newman, Australia

Wise Words from President Thomas Jefferson 

It is reported that John F. Kennedy held a dinner in
the White House for a group of the brightest minds in
the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This
is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever
to gather at one time in the White House with the
exception of when [President] Thomas Jefferson dined
alone." 

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away
from those who are willing to work, and give to those
who would not." -- Thomas Jefferson

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own
debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would
save one-half the wars of the world." -- Thomas
Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can
prevent the government from wasting the labors of the
people under the pretense of taking care of them." --
Thomas Jefferson

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad
government results from too much government." -- Thomas
Jefferson

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the
right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to
protect themselves against tyranny in government." --
Thomas Jefferson

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to
time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas
Jefferson

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the
propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is
sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson

Words of Wisdom 

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid
to fail." -- Edwin Land

"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity;
nothing more easily managed than one in adversity." --
Plutarch

"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a
thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle 

"Actions speak louder than words, but not as often." --
Unknown

"The less you talk, the more people will listen." --
Unknown

"Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon
will find his right road." -- Dag Hammarskjold

Words of Wisdom 

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid
to fail." -- Edwin Land

"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity;
nothing more easily managed than one in adversity." --
Plutarch

"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a
thought without accepting it." -- Aristotle 

"Actions speak louder than words, but not as often." --
Unknown

"The less you talk, the more people will listen." --
Unknown

"Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon
will find his right road." -- Dag Hammarskjold

Words of Wisdom 

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what
we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into
acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It
can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a
stranger into a friend." -- Melody Beattie

"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30
days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who
makes a success of his life." -- Edward Butler

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as
though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein

"God feeds the sparrows, but he doesn't throw their
food into their nest." -- Anonymous

"Government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take everything you have." --
Thomas Jefferson

"Christians can disagree on matters of faith and
practice while agreeing that the world needs Jesus.
Someone told Dwight Moody, the famous evangelist, "I
don't like your soul-winning methods." Moody said, "I
don't like them much, either. What are yours?" The man
admitted he didn't have any. Moody replied, "I like
mine better than yours." -- Anonymous

 Words of Wisdom 

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of
misfortune, or temporary defeat." -- Napoleon Hill

"It's not what you do once in awhile; it's what you do
day in and day out that makes the difference." -- Jenny
Craig 

"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life
or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for
others." -- Danny Thomas

"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from.
The ability to triumph begins with you. Always." --
Oprah Winfrey

"Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little
more than you have to. Try a little harder than you
want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible,
and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and
friends." -- Art Linkletter 

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting
a particular way. You become just by performing just
actions, temperate by performing temperate actions,
brave by performing brave actions." -- Aristotle

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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor
business." -- Henry Ford

"The path of least resistance is the path of the
loser." -- H.G.Wells

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been
declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis
Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court justice

"Better to be prepared and not called, than to be
called and not prepared." -- James Wallace

"When someone shares something of value with you, and
you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to
share it with others!" -- Chinese Proverb

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no
prompting of the conscience ... without God there is a
coarsening of the society; without God democracy will
not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we
are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone
under." -- Ronald Reagan

Words of Wisdom

"A man's make [character] can be seen by the way that
he treats those who are of absolutely no value to him."
-- Unknown

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is
indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
-- David Lloyd George

"I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately
triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately
fail." -- Jim Elliot

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than
to write for the public and have no self." -- Cyril
Connolly

"Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel
bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of
hell." -- C.T. Studd

"Would that God would make hell so real to us that we
cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men
there; Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim
shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by
the conversion to Him of many." -- J. Hudson Taylor.

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your
neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better
[person]." -- Benjamin Franklin

"No one can go back and start a new beginning, but
anyone can start today and make a new ending." --
Unknown

"Vanity is the quicksand of reason." -- George Sand

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets
better by change." -- Jim Rohn

"The happiest people in the world are those who feel
absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the
natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for
every part of their life." -- Brian Tracy

"Character: The willingness to accept responsibility
for one's own life is the source from which
self-respect springs." -- Joan Didion

"The enemy surrounds us. Don't let one escape." --
Vance Havner

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." --
Countess of Blessington

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of
ninety-nine who have only interests." -- John Stuart
Mill

"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief
will help create the fact." -- William James

"A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the
man perfected without trials." -- Chinese Proverb

"By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and
stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal,
reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they
perfume life; discouraged, they poison it." -- Joseph
Collins
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is
dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas
Edison, Inventor 

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to
failure is trying to please everybody." -- Unknown

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a
prepared mind." -- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did
do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain, Author 

"What happens is not as important as how well you react
to it." -- Unknown

Persistent people begin their success where others end
in failure." -- Edward Eggleston

Words of Wisdom

"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more
in a shorter period of time than people without them
could ever imagine." -- Brian Tracy

"The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that
you are the pilot." -- Unknown

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the
end: if you look for comfort, you will not get either
comfort or truth." -- C.S. Lewis

"I tell them that if you stay committed, your dreams
can come true. I'm living proof of it. I left home at
17 and had nothing but rejections for 25 years. I wrote
more than 20 screenplays, but I never gave up." --
Michael Blake, author of Dances With Wolves

"Sunny Daze days are here again: Thank you God for sun
and rain / For joy and sorrow, bliss and pain / For
battles lost and battles won / For precious glimpses of
your Son." -- Submitted by Sandra Herron

"It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside
the frame." -- R.S. Trapp

Words of Wisdom

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find
that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have
lived the width of it as well." -- Diane Ackerman

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will
be a friend better than any possession." -- Sophocles

"Every farmer knows that you can't sow and reap on the
same day. There is a timetable for your harvest that
requires both working and waiting. Patience is a small
price to pay for what you will receive." -- Neil
Eskelin

"Trying times are not the times to stop trying." -- Ray
Owen

"Everything that is done in the world is done by the
hopeful." -- Martin Luther

"There are no hopeless situations--only people who are
hopeless about them." -- Dinah Shore

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"Our patience will achieve more than our force." --
Edmund Burke

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one
thinks of changing himself." -- Leo Tolstoy

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of
choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a
thing to be achieved." -- William Jennings Bryan

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly
are small jobs." -- Dale Carnegie

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." -- Socrates

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no
prompting of the conscience. Without God there is a
coarsening of the society; without God democracy will
not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we
are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone
under." -- Ronald Reagan