Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom 

"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers."
-- Robert Quillen

"What would you do, how would you change your life, if
you learned today that you only had six months to
live?" -- Brian Tracy

"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to
fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on
flying anyway." -- Mary Kay Ash

"There is nothing we can do to make God love us more.
There is nothing we can do to make God love us less."
-- Philip Yancey

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something
that will outlast it." -- William James, psychologist

"The bend in the road is not the end of the road,
unless you forget to make the turn." -- Submitted by
Kathy Savage

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take
another step. If that is of no avail I will take
another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time
is not too difficult ... I know that small attempts,
repeated, will complete any undertaking." -- Og Mandino

"Every intersection in the road of life is an
opportunity to make a decision." -- Duke Ellington

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"A good place to find a helping hand is at the end of
your arm." -- Unknown

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over again and expecting a different result."
-- Albert Einstein

"Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars--they are
decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours." -- Mark
Victor Hansen

"Difficulties are things that show what men are." --
Epictetus

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won." --
Winston Churchill

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is
shining." -- John F. Kennedy,

"Dig your well before you're thirsty." -- Chinese
Proverb

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and
it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the
heart itself." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if
a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power
to move you, if the simple things of nature have a
message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is
alive!" -- Eleonora Duse

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"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we
are challenged to change ourselves." -- Viktor Frankl

"Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is
true power." -- Lao Tzu

"Don't waste your time striving for perfection.
Instead, strive for excellence--doing your best." --
Laurence Olivier

"All our dreams can come true--if we have the courage
to pursue them." -- Walt Disney

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings
because it has a song." -- Maya Angelou 

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the
key to success" -- Albert Schweitzer

The Scoundrel

There was a story of a duke who boarded a galley ship
and went below to talk with the criminals manning the
oars. He asked several of them what their offenses
were. Almost every man claimed he was innocent, blaming
someone else or accusing the judge of taking a bribe.
One young fellow, however, replied, "Sir, I deserve to
be here. I stole some money, No one is at fault but me.
I'm guilty." 

Upon hearing this, the duke shouted, "You scoundrel,
you! What are you doing here with all these honest men?
Get out of their company at once!" The duke ordered
that this prisoner be released. He was set free, while
the rest were left to tug at the oars.

-- Charles Spurgeon

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"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is
shining." -- John F. Kennedy

"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change;
where we are right, make us easy to live with." --
Peter Marshall, Former US Senate chaplain

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so
most people don't recognize them." -- Ann Landers

"Fear is the greatest inhibitor to the progress of
mankind." -- Rick Beneteau 

"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst is
your own fear." -- Rudyard Kipling

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

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less
than a single lovely action." -- James R. Lowell

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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye." -- Saint
Exupery

"Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is
managed nothing else can be managed." -- Peter F.
Drucker

"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape
itself to meet our expectations." -- Richard M. DeVos

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put
in the doing." -- Mother Teresa

"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is
difficult is getting up and taking action." -- Al Batt 

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

"One person with passion is better than forty who are
merely interested." -- Thomas K. Connellan 

A Great Street Sweeper

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should
sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or
Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of
heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great
street sweeper who did his job well."

  -- Martin Luther King, Jr. 


Peace 

"Peace becomes possible when we stop blaming anything
or anyone for how we feel and take responsibility for
our own perceptions. If we pursue happiness in the way
our culture suggests, we reach for it outside of
ourselves and remain dependent on circumstances that
will remain forever beyond our control. But if we
anchor our sense of self in our consciousness, rather
than in the outer trappings or events of our life,
peace becomes possible.

"Peace is ours when we live from the inside out instead
of from the outside in."

  -- Petrea King, Your Life Matters, 
    Random House Australia, 2004, p. 33

A Great Street Sweeper

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should
sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or
Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of
heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great
street sweeper who did his job well."

  -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Give Thanks 

"Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain
that teaches you courage--and give exceeding thanks for
the mystery which remains a mystery still--the veil
that hides you from the infinite, which makes it
possible for you to believe in what you cannot see." 

  -- Robert Nathan

Words of Wisdom 

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye." -- Saint
Exupery

"Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is
managed nothing else can be managed." -- Peter F.
Drucker

"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape
itself to meet our expectations." -- Richard M. DeVos

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put
in the doing." -- Mother Teresa

"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is
difficult is getting up and taking action." -- Al Batt 

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

"One person with passion is better than forty who are
merely interested." -- Thomas K. Connellan

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"People are in greater need of your praise when they
try and fail, than when they try and succeed." -- Bob
Moawad

"Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in
school, but they can in prison?" -- Unknown

"Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court, when the
Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in a federal
building?" -- Unknown

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." --
Henry Winkler

"A skeptic won't take KNOW for an answer." -- Unknown

"Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism." --
Eric Gibson in "The Wall Street Journal"

"He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted
one of the most sublime enjoyments of life." -- Johann
K. Lavater (eighteenth century)

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"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first
steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own
vision." -- Ayn Rand 

"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting
for others to come to you. You have to go to them
sometimes." -- Winnie the Pooh 

"Use the past as a springboard, not as a sofa." --
Unknown

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be
useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have
it make some difference that you have lived and lived
well." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn
more, do more and become more, you are a leader." --
John Quincy Adam

"The will to conquer is the first condition of
victory." -- Ferdinand Foch

"When your dad is mad and asks you, 'Do I look stupid?'
don't answer him." -- Michael, 14 

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way
of standing still." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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"The person who never made a mistake never made
anything." -- Les Smith

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of
circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set
of attitudes." -- Hugh Downs

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare
is vital." -- Joe Paterno, football coach

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others
cannot keep it from themselves." -- James Matthew
Barrie 

"The church has been likened to a football game in
which thousands of spectators desperately in need of
exercise are watching a handful of players desperately
in need of rest. Are you a spectator or a player?" --
Unknown

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

"I know the price of success; dedication, hard work and
an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see
happen." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage
over the man who cannot read them." -- Mark Twain

"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that
is to give everything." -- Vince Lombardi, football
coach

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow
you, unless you know how to follow, too." -- Sam
Rayburn

"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is
to have succeeded in life." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds
and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by
example--and perhaps by excitement, by having
productive ideas to make others feel involved." --
Rupert Murdoch 

"Wherever you are--be all there." -- Jim Elliot


Words of Wisdom 

"I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one
was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet
those that were still to come. I grew in all my
difficulties." -- J.C. Penney, businessman 

"Sometimes the best way to say something is to say
nothing." -- Gary Kallio

"It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going
that counts." -- Ella Fitzgerald

"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the

gift of unconditional love and acceptance." -- Brian
Tracy

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second
base and keep your foot on first." -- Frederick Wilcox

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired
with enthusiasm." -- Vince Lombardi

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"If you do build a great experience, customers tell
each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
-- Jeff Bezos

"Remember: 'Those who laugh ... last.'" - Anonymous

"We only become what we are by the radical and
deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of
us." -- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Change and growth take place when a person has risked
himself and dares to become involved with experimenting
with his own life." -- Herbert Otto 

"He that will not reflect is a ruined man." -- Asian
Proverb 

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over
if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers 

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're
the pilot." -- Michael Althsuler

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the
depth of your convictions." -- William F. Scolavino

"A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and
greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what
is worse, to avoid trouble." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a
dinner." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage
over the man who cannot read them." -- Mark Twain

"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that
is to give everything." -- Vince Lombardi, football
coach

"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from
a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." --
Unknown

Words of Wisdom 

"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to
person." -- Mother Theresa

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes
one day at a time." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Don't sacrifice your future on the altar of the
immediate." -- Bob Jones 

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're
the pilot." -- Michael Althsuler

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the
depth of your convictions." -- William F. Scolavino

"A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and
greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what
is worse, to avoid trouble." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a
dinner." -- Benjamin Franklin

Words of Wisdom 

You're never a loser until you quit trying." -- Mike
Ditka

"Education. Desire. Planning. All these contribute to
success but none of them are enough without
persistence." -- Michael Josephson 

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you. This is the principal difference
between a dog and a man." -- Mark Twain

"How many men have dated a new era in their life from
the reading of a book?" -- Henry David Thoreau

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to
cross and which to burn." -- David Russell

"He that will not sail until all dangers are over must
never put to sea." -- Thomas Fuller

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"Nothing in this world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common
than unsuccessful men with talent." -- Calvin Coolidge

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

"Successful mothers are not the ones who have never
struggled. They are the ones who never give up despite
the struggles." - Unknown

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow, it empties
today of its strength." -- Corrie ten Boom

"Wisdom is knowing what to do; virtue is doing it." --
David Jordan

"What the mind dwells on the body acts on." -- RWI

Words of Wisdom 

"I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one
was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet
those that were still to come. I grew in all my
difficulties." -- J.C. Penney, businessman

"It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look
back and regret." -- Jacki Joyner-Kersee, Athlete

"Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a
great ship." -- Benjamin Franklin

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." -- Wayne
Gretzky, Hockey Great

"Wisdom is knowing what to do; virtue is doing it." --
David Jordan, scientist

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake
up." -- Paul Valery, French Poet

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"If you take care of your character, your reputation
will take care of itself." -- American Proverb 

"Where there's a will there's a way." -- Anon

"Women have an incredible ability to pick up on
emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves
that are so clever they have learned to dress up like
sheep. Man says, 'Looks like a sheep. Talks like a
sheep.' Woman says, 'Ain't no sheep!'" -- Jim Rohn

"If it is to be, it is up to me." -- William H. Johnson

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

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"To become a great communicator, live what you say."

"If you're gonna talk the talk, you better walk the
walk."

"A person's message cannot be easily separated from
their own character and credibility."

"Some people's Actions speak so much louder than their
words, that their words are never heard."

"In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far
more eloquently than anything we SAY."

"Pray towards heaven but row towards the shore." --
Unknown 

"Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead, tell
your storm how big your God is." -- Unknown 

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

"Compassion puts love into action." -- Unknown 

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't
change it, change your attitude." -- Maya Angelou

"Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the
door of success." -- Denis Waitley

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing
it." -- David Starr Jordan

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"Those who have a great sense of entitlement, usually
have the least amount of gratitude" - Anonymous

"We must become the change we wish to see in the
world." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you are going through hell, keep going." -- Sir
Winston Churchill 

"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any
'how'." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I am not young enough to know everything." -- Oscar
Wilde 

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake
up." -- Paul Valery

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to
others." -- Jonathan Swift

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"Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our
self-sabotaging behavior." -- Mark Victor Hansen

"Anybody can become angry--that is easy; but to be
angry with the right person, and to the right degree,
and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and
in the right way--that is not within everybody's power
and is not easy." -- Aristotle

"Your character is what you really are while your
reputation is merely what others think you are." --
John Wooden

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." --
Henry Kaiser

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing
necessary to a worthwhile achievement." -- Henry Ford

"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so
that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we
can let them soften us and make us kinder. We always
have the choice." -- Tenzin Gyatso 

"Opportunity knocks but once; temptation leans on the
doorbell." -- Unknown 

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"We must become the change we wish to see in the
world." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's
about learning to dance in the rain." -- Anonymous

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

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you
can." -- Arthur Ashe 

"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time
you lose." -- John McEnroe 

"You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to
live a positive life." -- Anonymous

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"God Himself doesn't propose to judge a man until he is
dead, so why should you/we?" -- Unknown

"Coincidence is when God chooses o remain anonymous."
-- Unknown 

"Don't put a question mark where God put a period." --
Unknown

"God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the
called." -- Unknown

"The will of God never takes you to where the Grace of
God will not protect you." -- Unknown

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't
settle." -- Steve Jobs

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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most
certain way to succeed is always to try just one more
time." -- Thomas A. Edison

"Don't let your worries get the best of you; remember,
Moses started out as a basket case." -- Unknown

"Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers."
-- Unknown

"It's easier to preach ten sermons than to live one."
-- Unknown

"When you Get to your wit's end, you'll find God
there." -- Unknown

"Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on
the front door forever." -- Unknown

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"Passionate commitment is powerful, but its power will
often be drained by setbacks, disappointments and
failures. Persistence is the power that allows you to
regenerate your passion and your will to keep trying
until you succeed." -- Michael Josephson

"If you do what you ought to do, when you ought to do
it, the time will come when you can do the what you
want to do, when you want to do it." -- Zig Ziglar

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up." --
Thomas Edison 

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." --
Dalai Lama

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own
powers you cannot be successful or happy." -- Norman
Vincent Peale

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will
harvest later." -- Og Mandino

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

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like
wrapping a present and not giving it." 
  -- William Arthur Ward

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be
defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the
defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise
from, how you can still come out of it." 
  -- Maya Angelou

"It's always too soon to quit." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"If at first you don't succeed, try and try again." 
  -- Proverb

"Winners never quit and quitters never win." -- Unknown

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"Denying our actions when we have done wrong and
willfully continuing with these wrong or sinful actions
can readily lead to a seared conscience." -- Dick Innes

"If humans evolved from apes, why do we still have
apes?" -- Unknown

"Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real
tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner
tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or
standing alone when you're misunderstood." -- Charles
Swindoll

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

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known
God." -- Corrie ten Boom, author, The Hiding Place

"Highly successful people often make more mistakes than
those they surpass. They succeed because they learn
from every mistake and turn them into stepping stones."
-- Michael Josephson