Words of Wisdom

Timely Tips

"News is the first rough draft of history." - Ben
Bradlee

"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

Words of Wisdom 

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find,
delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the
policy you've decided upon is being carried out." --
Ronald Reagan

"I will study and prepare, and someday my opportunity
will come." -- Abraham Lincoln

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

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings
in disguise." -- Oscar Wilde

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

"Personality can open doors, but only character can
keep them open." -- Elmer G. Letterman

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"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

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the
kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock
that treasure." -- Emma Goldman 

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart
enough to profit from them, and strong enough to
correct them." -- John Maxwell

"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no
tears." -- Unknown

"Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually
defeated. They simply quit." -- Paul J. Meyer

Words of Wisdom 
For all the sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are
these: "It might have been!" 
Unknown

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you
wish. But you can only spend it once." -- Michael
Josephson

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young." -- Henry Ford

"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts." --
Edward R. Murrow

"It is better to walk in the dark with God, than to run
in the light alone." -- Dr. Alexander Blackburn

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." --
Bobby Unse

"Don't pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for
powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work
shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle." --
Phillips Brooks 

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"Good friends are like stars, you can't always see them
but you know they're always there." -- Allison Driscoll

"Love is as love does." -- Dick Innes

"A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the
world walks out." - Unknown

"True friends are like diamonds, precious but rare." --
Unknown 

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding
back." -- Unknown 

"Opportunity comes to pass--not to pause." -- James
Wallace 

"Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of
choice; it is not a thing to be waited for; it is a
thing to be achieved." -- Unknown 

"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting
closer to the top yourself." -- Norman Schwarzkkopf

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 

"A teacher affects all eternity. You never know where
his influence stops." -- Henry Adams

"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch
that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before
handing on to future generations." -- George Bernard
Shaw 

"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done
little by little." -- William Jennings Bryan,
politician

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty
of their dreams." -- Eleanor Roosevelt 

"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about
the future, but only in the present can I act. The
ability to be in the present moment is a major
component of mental wellness." -- Abraham Maslow

"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding
arguments for going on believing as we already do." --
James Harvey Robinson

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will
happen, but give us the determination to make the right
things happen." -- Peter Marshall

I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to
the Father [God] except through Me." -- Jesus Christ 

"You can't push a river, but you can go with the flow."
-- Unknown 

"You see things as they are and say, 'Why?' But I dream
of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" --
George Bernard Shaw 

"You will know the truth and the truth will set you
free." -- Jesus Christ 

"We get damaged in damaging relationships. We get
healed in healing relationships." -- Dick Innes 

"Failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the
best one can do under the circumstances. The real
mistake is to stop trying." -- B.F. Skinner 

"The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the
obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune are
positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly,
and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which
power is developed." -- William Matthews 

"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart." --
Ruth Graham 

"A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within
himself." -- Ben Okri 

"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch
that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before
handing on to future generations." -- George Bernard
Shaw 

"When you judge someone, you don't define them, you
define yourself." -- Wayne Dyer

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is
best to admit them quickly and get on with improving
your other innovations." -- Steve Jobs, Apple Computer
founder 

"The Bible has a word to describe 'safe' sex: It's
called marriage." - Unknown

Words of Wisdom 

 Immersed in Benefits 

While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked
up a solid round stone from the water and broke it
open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it
had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is
true of many people in the Western world. For centuries
they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live
immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has
not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The
fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts,
which have been hardened by materialism and
intellectualism." 

  -- Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929)

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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher
inspires." -- William Ward 

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us
that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds
are made under pressure." -- Peter Marshal 

"Epitaph: Here lies an atheist. All dressed up and no
place to go." -- Unknown

"Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning
and works to no end." -- H.G. Wells

"Courage isn't freedom from fear; it's being afraid but
going on." -- Unknown

"A great deal of what we see depends on what we are
looking for." -- Unknown

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"We do not attract that which we want; we attract that
which we are." -- James Allen 

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always
someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are
always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe
that your critics are right. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires ... courage."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony
in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a
good reputation." -- Jim Rohn 

"The journey you wish to take can only begin from where
you are right now this very minute." -- Ron Atchison 

"A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is
made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much
deeper and more binding than a decision." -- Nido
Qubein

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." --
Beverly Sills

"When you're finished changing, you're finished." --
Benjamin Franklin

HUMOR
 
 
THE EYES                                                                                 THE MORSE CODE
When you rearrange the letters:                                                When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE                                                                                 HERE COME DOTS

DORMITORY                                                                            SLOT MACHINES
When you rearrange the letters:                                                When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM                                                                            CASH LOST IN ME

ELECTION RESULTS                                                                SNOOZE ALARMS
When you rearrange the letters:                                                 When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT                                                             ALAS! NO MORE Z'S

A DECIMAL POINT                                                                    ELEVEN PLUS TWO
When you rearrange the letters:                                                 When you rearrange the letters:
I'M A DOT IN PLACE                                                                  TWELVE PLUS ONE

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Words of Wisdom 

"To believe and not to act is not yet to believe
because I only truly believe that which motivates me to
action." -- Richard Innes

"The parable of the shepherd who left his flock of 99
to search for the 1 missing sheep has now been
reversed. The shepherd has one sheep and looks for the
99." -- An Englishman.

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile
can do." -- Mother Teresa

"Everyone starts from scratch, but not everyone keeps
on scratching!" -- Anonymous 

"Being defeated is often just a temporary condition.
Giving up makes it a permanent one." -- Marilyn Von
Savant

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

Words of Wisdom 

"The true measure of people is how they treat others
who can do them absolutely no good." -- Ann Landers

"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are
built for." -- Grace Murray Hopper

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

"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my
soul." -- William Ernest Henley

"The final forming of a person's character lies in
their own hands." -- Anne Frank

"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent
how you take it." -- Irving Berlin

Words of Wisdom 

"When we refuse to hear criticism, we might miss a
chance to learn something." -- Author Unknown 

"Today's problems cannot be solved if we still think
the way we thought when we created them." -- Unknown 

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back
into the same box." -- Unknown

"Cooperation is working together agreeably...
Collaboration is working together aggressively; and
there's a world of difference between those two." --
John C. Maxwell 

"If you want to sail your ship in a different
direction, you must turn one degree at a time." --
Brian Tracy 

"Always remember that striving and struggle precede
success, even in the dictionary." -- Sarah Ban
Breathnach 

"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is
never found again." -- Benjamin Franklin

Words of Wisdom

"Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his
sophistication, and many accomplishments, owes the fact
of his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the
fact that it rains." -- Unknown

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to
stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not
change his mind." -- Leonardo da Vinci

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be
wise--begin!" -- Horace

"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special
talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance,
combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my
ideas." -- Albert Einstein

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have
to use the stairs ... one step at a time." -- Joe
Girard

"Light tomorrow with today!" -- Elizabeth Barrett
Browning 

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

Words of Wisdom 

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

"I complained that I had no shoes until I met someone
who had no feet." -- Persian proverb

"Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time." --
Michael Josephson

"Dreams are what get your started. Discipline is what
keeps you going." -- Jim Ryun

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

"What is popular is not always right. And what is right
is not always popular." -- Unknown

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"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are
built for." -- Grace Murray Hopper

"Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am
thankful that the thorns have roses." -- Jean Baptiste
Alphonse Karr

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

Be true to your word and your work and your friend." --
John Boyle O'Reilly

"Vision does not vanish when there is action
accompanying." -- Gary Kalio

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul,
impossibilities vanish." -- Jean de la Fontaine

Words of Wisdom
"Don't just do something, sit there! Sit there long
enough each morning to decide what is really important
during the day ahead." - Richard Eyre

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once,
he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice
shots." - Charles Kettering, Inventor

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
- Author Unknown 

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, thus, is not
an act, it is a habit." - Aristotle

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
- Seneca

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What
are you doing for others?'" - Martin Luther King Jr

"I always view problems as opportunities in work
clothes." - Henry Kaiser
Words of Wisdom

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

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues
mount." - Clare Boothe Luce

"Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you
really want." - Robert G Allen

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of
world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich
Bonhoeffer

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short
races one after the other." - Walter Elliot

"Successful people are simply those with successful
habits." - Brian Tracy

Words of Wisdom

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and
patience for the small ones; and when you have
laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep
in peace. God is awake." -- Victor Hugo 

"I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining.
I believe in love, even when I do not feel it. 
I believe in God, even when He is silent."

These lines were found scrawled on a cellar wall in
Cologne which was destroyed by bombing in WWII. 

  -- Author Unknown
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man,
with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only
for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." --
Abraham Lincoln 

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just
one." -- Mother Teresa

"If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained." -- Sir
John Heywood 

"Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or
power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as
they resolve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the
sense that we have figured out how to live, so that our
lives matter, so that the world will be at least a
little bit different for our having passed through it."
-- Harold Kushner

Words of Wisdom

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will
shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you
will become like them." - W. Clement Stone 

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
- Author Unknown 

"The supreme task of the church is the evangelization
of the world." - Oswald J. Smith 

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

"Our greatest legacy will be those who live eternally
in heaven because of our efforts." - Unknown 

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all
the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the
end will come." - Jesus Christ, Matthew 24:14 (NKJV).

Words of Wisdom 

"Don't fix the blame, fix the problem." - Keith S.
Pennington 

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman
knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that
counts." - Booker T. Washington 

"Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the
beginning. That's only the initial impression. The
important thing is not to retreat; you have to master
yourself." - Olga Korbut, Gymnast, Four Time Olympic
Gold Medalist 

"You are accountable for what you do, and no one else
is accountable." - Edith Martin 

"Even the most daring and accomplished people have
undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more
successful they became, the more they attributed their
success to the lessons learned during their most
difficult times." - Barbara Rose 

"Real power comes by empowering others." - Denis
Waitley

Words of Wisdom 

"There's only one direction you can coast." - Brian
Tracy 

"Life is lived forward, but understood backward." -
Soren Kierkegaard 

"I began my education at a very early age--in fact,
right after I left college." - Winston Churchill 

"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's
always been done that way.'" - Grace Hopper 

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

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a
friend." - William Blake 


 Words of Wisdom

"There is a difference between knowing the path and
walking the path." - The Matrix

"America today is running on the momentum of a Godly
ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help
America." - General Omar Bradley 

"People become really quite remarkable when they start
thinking that they can do things. When they believe in
themselves they have the first secret of success." -
Norman Vincent Peale 

"Anger of the mind is poison to the soul." - Ecuadorian
Proverb 

"Every accomplishment large and small begins with the
same decision: I'll try." - Ted Key

"Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of
mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have,
will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat
the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be
rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of
the game." - Harvey B. Mackay

Words of Wisdom

"Age does not protect you from love but love to some
extent protects you from age." -- Jeanne Moreau

"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of
love is worth a pound of knowledge." -- John Wesley

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'" --
Erich Fromm

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it
extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." --
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"You don't do drugs; drugs do you." -- Unknown

"Where there's a will, there's a way." -- Unknown

"There are two things you don't want to be: a user or
someone who is used." -- Michael Josephson

Words of Wisdom 

"There is always a way to get there from here." --
Unknown 

"Keep changing. When you're through changing, you're
through." -- Bruce Barton 

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must
undergo the fatigue of supporting it." -- Thomas Paine,
patriot

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we
stand, as in what direction we are moving." -- Oliver
Wendell Holmes Sr.

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you
back." -- Arthur Rubinstein

Words of Wisdom 

"Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common
than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not ...
the world is full of educated derelicts." -- Calvin
Coolidge, 30th US President 

"You will become as small as your controlling desire,
as great as your dominant aspiration." -- James Allen

"The will to win means nothing if you haven't the will
to prepare." -- Juma Ikangaa, 1989 NYC Marathon winner

"Humor is the shortest distant between two people" --
Victor Borge 

"The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the
more determined you will become." -- Brian Tracy 

"If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery,
it wouldn't seem so wonderful." -- Michelangelo, Artist

Words of Wisdom

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

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

"You control your life by controlling your time." --
Conrad Hilton 

"A thought a day is a worthwhile investment of time. A
word from the Creator, as recorded in the book of
books, The Holy Bible, makes the best reference." --
Unknown. 

"One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back
and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be
troubled about the future, for it has not yet come.
Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it
will be worth remembering." -- Ida Scott Taylor 

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to
test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham
Lincoln, 16th US President

Words of Wisdom

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

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but
from their errors and mistakes, the wise and the good
learn wisdom for the future." -- Plutarch

"The heights that some reached and kept were not
attained in sudden flight. For these, while their
companions slept, toiled upward in the night." -- Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow 

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think
of what you can do with what there is." -- Ernest
Hemingway

"I would like my life to be a statement of love and
compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work
lies." -- Ram Dass 

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

Words of Wisdom 

"The foundation stones for a balanced success are
honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and
loyalty." -- Zig Ziglar 

"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl
who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from
an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I
had to make good." -- Oprah Winfrey

"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be
right." -- Henry Ford, Industrialist 

"During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole
succession of technological revolutions. But none of
them has done away with the need for character in the
individual or the ability to think." -- Bernard Baruch
- 1870-1965, Financier and Philanthropist

"Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is
in reality great if it is given with affection." --
Pindar, Greek poet

The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
-- Henry David Thoreau