Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom

"The work of the individual still remains the spark
that moves mankind forward." -- Igor Sikorsky 

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

"Bob Hope was often asked why he doesn't retire and go
fishing. He had one stock answer, 'Fish don't
applaud.'" -- Unknown 

"Remember, life is not measured by the number of
breaths we take, but by the moments that take our
breath away." -- Angela Akers 

"Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move
the world." -- Archimedes (287 B.C.-212 B.C) 

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
preparation, hard work and learning from failure." --
Colin Powell

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"It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects
the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness." --
Henri-Dominique Lacordaire

"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of
your likes." -- Jawaharlal Nehru 

"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." -- John Henry Cardinal Newman

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." --
Sally Berger

"The problem with the rat race it that even if you win
you're still a rat." -- Lily Tomlin

"Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where
your head is the bull's-eye." -- Michael Josephson

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"This country will not be a good place for any of us to
live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to
live in." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single
moment before starting to change the world." -- Anne
Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone
else." -- Booker T. Washington

"Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You
don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't
have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated
by love." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something; and because I
cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something
that I can do." -- Edmund Everett Hale

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"What the vast majority of American children need is to
stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being
chauffeured, and stop being catered to. In the final
analysis it is not what you do for your children but
what you have taught them to do for themselves that
will make them successful human beings." -- Ann Landers


"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to
give our children. One is roots; the other, wings." --
Hodding Carter 

The following are quotes from Billy Graham:

"Overcoming Adversity: Comfort and prosperity have
never enriched the world as much as adversity has."

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are stiffened."

"Business: Hot heads and cold hearts never solved
anything."

"Attitude: If a person gets his attitude toward money
straight, it will help straighten out almost every
other area in his life."

"Belief: We cannot truly face life until we face the
fact that it will be taken away from us."

"Character: When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when
health is lost, something is lost; when character is
lost, all is lost."

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"Most of the important things in the world have been
accompanied by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie

"Temptation usually comes in through a door that has
deliberately been left open." -- Unknown

"The last thing one knows is what to put first." --
Blaise Pascal

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and
expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein 

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." --
Charles Dederich

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it
has been." -- Wayne Gretzky

"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite
of it." -- Mark Twain

Money ... Money ... Money

"Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not
brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a
house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries
but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion
but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but
heaven." -- Author Unknown

"And He [Jesus] said to them, 'Take heed and beware of
covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the
abundance of the things he possesses.'" -- The Bible,
Luke 12:15 (NKJV).

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"One man with courage makes up a majority." -- Andrew
Jackson

"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes." --
Washington Irving

"Men see what is and ask why. I see what could be and
ask why not." -- Pablo Picasso

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of
ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue
is the equal sharing of misery." -- Winston Churchill

"You can't turn back the clock, but you can certainly
wind it up again." -- Unknown

Friendship is a gift. A friend is someone who fills our
lives with beauty, joy and grace, and makes the world
in which we live a better and happier place" - Unknown

"Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of
faith is to see what you believe." -- St. Augustine

"You are the way you are because that's the way you
want to be. If you really wanted to be any different,
you would be in the process of changing right now." --
Fred Smith 

"Failure should be our teacher--not our undertaker.
Failure is delay--not defeat. It is a temporary
detour--not a dead end." -- Denis Waitley 

"Who begins too much accomplishes little." -- German
Proverb 

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small
bundle." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The difference in winning and losing is most often not
quitting." -- Walt Disney

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 Modern Man
"When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact
that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the
spirit. This stands in glaring contrast to his
scientific and technological abundance. We've learned
to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the
seas like fish, and yet, we haven't learned to walk the
earth as brothers and sisters." 
 -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be
mentally faithful to himself." -- Thomas Paine

"A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies." --
William Wrigley Jr. 

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But
I can't accept not trying." -- Michael Jordan

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected
the Sermon on the Mount ... The world has achieved
brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of
nuclear giants and ethical infants." -- General Omar
Bradley 

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by
what we give." -- Winston Churchill

"I always view problems as opportunities in work
clothes." -- Henry Kaiser, businessman

The Power of Reading 

I have read how a young Christian was discouraged in 
his attempts to read and remember the Bible. He said, 
"It's no use. No matter how much I read, I always 
forget what I have just read."

A wise pastor replied, "Take heart. When you pour 
water over a sieve, no matter how much you pour, you 
don't collect much. But at least you can end up with a 
clean sieve."1

Even if we can't remember a great deal of what we read,
if we keep reading God's word, quality books, uplifting
magazine articles, the content will rub off on us and 
have a much greater effect on our thinking and life 
than we realize.

"When you give someone a book, you don't give him 
just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the 
possibility of a whole new life." Christopher 
Morley 1890-1957, Novelist, Journalist and Poet

Take time every day both to read and to pray. As 
prayer changes things so does constructive reading.

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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought
not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe
to be just." - Abraham Lincoln

"Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and
meet the call of a possibility greater than themselves.
People who, despite their doubts and fears, commit
themselves to action. People who go beyond their limits
in what they think is possible." - Joan Holmes 

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that
good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke 

"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take
charge and rule our lives from within." - Earl
Nightingale

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as
important as what you become by achieving your goals."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people
live in a hostile world. Same world." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

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"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something.
But, I can't accept not trying." -- Michael Jordan 

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small
bundle." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Leadership Insight: Leadership is action, not
position." -- Donald H. McGannon

"There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you
must not stay there, you must go beyond them." -- Bruce
Lee

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in
front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and
be my friend." -- Albert Camus

"You are what you repeatedly do; excellence then is not
an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle

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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who
does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
-- Nelson Mandela

"Choice, not chance, determines human destiny." --
Robert W. Ellis

"The man who chases two rabbits catches neither." --
Confucius

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a
saint. " -- Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." --
Eleanor Roosevelt

"You're never too old to set another goal or to dream a
new dream." -- C.S. Lewis

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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain
what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for
God." -- William Carey

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the
yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up
the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply.
'We're raising boys.'" -- Harmon Killebrew 

"If we are correct and right in our Christian life at
every point, but refuse to stand for the truth at a
particular point where the battle rages---then we are
traitors to Christ." -- Martin Luther

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

"None are so empty as those who are full of
themselves." -- Benjamin Whichcote 

"Each one of us can work for a small change in the
world around us." -- Lamar S. Smith, Politician

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

"The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable
it becomes." -- Amy Grant

"Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great
dreams." -- Robert K. Greenleaf 

"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person." -- Anon

"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some
days you're the statue." -- Anon

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going." --
Joseph P. Kennedy

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether
you get back up." -- Vince Lombardi

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"It is choice, not chance, that determines our
destiny." -- Brian Tracy

"We're all self made. Only the rich will admit it." --
Unknown

"If you don't change directions, you'll end up where
you are headed." -- Dorothy Satten

"The trouble with most people is that they stop trying
in trying times." -- Dennis Waitley

"He who throws mud loses ground." -- Unknown

"We don't always act consistently with what we profess,
but we always act consistently with what we deep down
believe." -- Unknown

WORDS OF WISDOM
 Words of Wisdom

"I saw the angel in the marble, and I chiseled until I
set it free." -- Michelangelo

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence
of God, no matter what the conflict." -- Unknown

"Emotional illness is avoiding reality at any cost.
Mental health is accepting reality at any cost." -- M.
Scott Peck

God "desires truth in the innermost being: and in the
hidden part you will make me to know wisdom." -- The
Bible, Psalm 51:6

"Every unshed tear is a prism through which all of
life's hurts are distorted." -- Cecil Osborne

"Where love reigns, there is no will for power." --
Carl Jung

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"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to
start a thing. Action always generates inspiration.
Inspiration seldom generates action." -- Frank Tibolt

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away
small stones." -- William Faulkner 

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly
are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you
that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the
big ones tend to take care of themselves." -- Dale
Carnegie, Author 

"Do what is right, not what you think the high
headquarters wants or what you think will make you look
good." -- General Norman Schwarzkopf

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
cannot change, the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know one from the other" -- Reinhold
Niebuhr

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world,
is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free
men and women." -- Ronald Reagan

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"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried
is the true failure." -- George Woodberry

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God,
then we will be a nation gone under." -- President
Ronald Reagan

"Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.
People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as
young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as
your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as
your hope, as old as your despair." -- Douglas
MacArthur

"Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you
humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a
powerful motivator." -- Yogi Berra

"Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness
without dogmatism, and love without weakness." -- Jim
Elliot

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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short
races one after another." -- Walter Elliott

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for
curiosity." -- Dorothy Parker

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working." --
Pablo Picasso

The day the child realizes that all adults are
imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he
forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives
himself, he becomes wise." -- Alden Nowlan

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is
that little 'extra'." -- Jimmy Johnson

"It is curious that people who are filled with
horrified indignation whenever a cat kills a sparrow
can hear the story of the killing of God told Sunday
after Sunday and not experience any shock at all." --
Dorothy Sayers

WORDS OF WISDOM
THOUGHT PROVOKING - INSPIRATIONAL
Rules of Three

Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.

Three things to cultivate - courage, affection, gentleness.

Three things to command - thrift, industry, and promptness.

Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance, and ingratitude.

Three things to desire - health, friends, and contentment.

Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellect.

Three things to practice - faith, hope and charity.

…..Tim’s Inspiration (timsinspiration@yahoop.com) by way of “Christian Voices” (www.ChristianVoicesWorldwide.net)

Words of Wisdom
"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade." -- Rudyard Kipling
"Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you; but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity." -- D.L. Moody

"There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." -- Denis Waitley
"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has." -- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The four hardest tasks on earth are neither physical nor intellectual feats, but spiritual ones: To return love for hate; to include the excluded; to forgive without apology, and to be able to say, 'I was wrong.'" -- Author Unknown
"Who has not served cannot command." -- John Florio

"The greatest conflicts are not between two people, but between one person and himself." -- Garth Brooks

"The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." -- Martha Washington

"The amount of satisfaction you get from life largely depends on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiently, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead." -- Dr. William Menninger

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Never Complain About What You Permit." -- Unknown

"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it." -- Benjamin Franklin

Words of Wisdom -- Integrity/Honesty

"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will." -- John D. MacDonald
"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure." -- Joseph Sugarman
"The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts." -- Anatole France
"The proof of integrity is what you do when no one is looking." -- Denis Waitley

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