Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom 

"If you stand for something, you will always find some
people for you and some against you. If you stand for
nothing, you will find nobody against you and nobody
for you." -- Bill Bernbach

"Only to the degree that I am known can I be fully
loved and accepted." -- Dick Innes

"Keep your face always towards the sunshine and the
shadows will fall behind you." -- M.B. Whitman 

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

"Be true to yourself. Don't sell out your core beliefs
and values, for money or glory. In the end you will
find yourself feeling empty, the money gone, no glory
and wondering who you really are. Nothing is worth
that." -- Ray Lammie

"To a child, 'love' is spelled T-I-M-E." -- Zig Ziglar

Today

Today is the only day that you will ever have in your
life. Yesterday is now history and you cannot use it.
Tomorrow is still a mystery, and you cannot use it.
Today is all the present, the only present that you
have, a present that needs reception, a clean start, an
opportunity to improve on what is left from yesterday
and make a solid base for what is yet to come tomorrow.
Every day is worth pondering over to avoid wondering
about. 

  -- Cited on andychaps_the-funnies AndyChaps@aol.com

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"Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of Wisdom.
Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just
nation." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the
ability to make yourself work on only those things that
are most important to you." -- Brian Tracy

"I missed all the shots I never took." -- Wayne
Gretsky, Ice Hockey star 

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to
recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." --
Arnold Glasgow

"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as
he fashions his goods or his dwellings. Nothing that he
says, thinks or does is without consequences." --
Norman Cousins

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

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you
can do." -- John Wooden

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"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to
grow." -- Lawrence Clark Powell

"Better to light one small candle than to curse the
darkness." -- Chinese Proverb 

"Take a deep breath. It calms the mind." -- Regina
Brett

"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate
someone, don't keep it a secret." -- Mary Kay Ash

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand
who are silent." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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"Whether your faith is that there is a God or that
there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts you
are either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the
ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and
moving." -- Frederick Buechner

"Man's extremity is God's opportunity." -- John Flavel

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." --
Hal Borland

"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

"Colors are the smiles of nature." -- Leigh Hunt 

"I might have been born in a hovel, but I am determined
to travel with the wind and the stars." -- Jacqueline
Cochran, aviator

Victory

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

  -- Edmund Hillary

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"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking
about acting." -- Carlos Casteneda

"Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner
conviction that there are some things so precious, some
things so eternally true that they are worth dying for.
And if a person has not found something to die for,
that person isn't fit to live!" -- Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.

"Complaining about the boss won't make the boss a
better boss. It will make you a bitter employee." --
Schlesinger

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon
without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

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

"Rivers know that there is no hurry. We shall all get
there one day." -- Winnie the Pooh

"God made time, but man made haste." -- Irish Proverb

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

"Who has not served cannot command." -- John Florio 

"Experience is not what happens to a person; it's what
a person does with what happens to them." -- Aldous
Huxley

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will
never go any higher than you think." -- Benjamin
Disraeli 

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do
what they want to, when all they need is one reason why
they can." -- Willis R. Whitney 

"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

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"Respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater,
than popularity." -- Julius Erving

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will
never go any higher than you think." -- Benjamin
Disraeli

"Anyone who stops learning is already old. Whether at
twenty or eighty, anyone who keeps learning stays
young...." -- Henry Ford 

"You can't talk yourself out of a problem you behaved
yourself into." -- Stephen Covey

"If we are not thankful for what we have, we are not
likely to be thankful for what we are going to get." --
Frank A. Clark

"A celebrity is a person who always wanted to be
famous, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being
recognized." -- Fred Allen

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"We don't have to be sick to get better." -- Michael
Josephson

"There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity."
-- Tom Peters

"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

"Take a rest: a field that has rested gives a bountiful
crop." -- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD) 

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade." --
Rudyard Kipling 

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of
the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." --
Frank Lloyd Wright

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 will have sought and found how to serve."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"The truest test of integrity is to still do the right
thing, even when no one can ever find out." -- Oprah
Winfrey

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position
that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which
he has overcome." -- Booker T. Washington 

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation
of reward; safe in the knowledge that one day someone
might do the same for you." -- Diana Spencer, princess
of Wales

"The will to succeed is important, but what's more
important is the will to prepare." -- Bobby Knight,
basketball coach

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from
the soul." -- Hosea Ballou

Riding Dead Horses

Conventional wisdom tells us that, "When you discover
that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is
to dismount." However, in institutionalized
organizations scientifically advanced strategies are
often employed by doing the following: 

Buying a stronger whip,
Changing riders,
Appointing a committee to see how other cultures 
  ride dead horses,
Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be
  included,
Reclassifying the dead horse as "living impaired",
Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse,
Harnessing several dead horses together to increase
  speed,
Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position. 

    -- Cited on GoodStuffFriday Online

Words of Wisdom

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." -- Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe

"I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will never
forget how you made them feel." -- Unknown 

"We must take change by the hand or rest assuredly
change will take us by the throat." -- Winston
Churchill

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

"To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to,
something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
-- Tony Dorsett

"Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest
emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in
your work and free you up mentally to complete other
tasks." -- Brian Tracy

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"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms
upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you." --
T.S. Eliot 

Someone once said to Helen Keller, "What a pity you
have no sight!" Helen Keller replied, "Yes, but what a
pity so many have sight but cannot see!"

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I
cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and
the wisdom to know it's me!" -- Cited by Andy Chap 

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so
gentle as true strength." -- Ralph Sockman

"The seeds of our death are present at the moment of
our conception." -- Dick Innes 

"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

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

"You make the world a better place by making yourself a
better person." -- Scott Sorrell 

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to
people who want to feel important." -- T.S. Eliot

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

"If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct
thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it." -- Epictetus

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others,
whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde

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"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

"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

"A good way to have the last word is to apologize." --
Barbara Johnson

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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in
spirit from revolutionists and rebels--men and women
who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their
heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with
disloyal subversion." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and
with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and
go forward without fear, and with manly hearts." --
Abraham Lincoln

"There is no such thing as separation of church and
state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of
infidels." -- W.A. Criswell

"We must fight against those radical minorities who are
trying to remove God from our textbooks and Christ from
the nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours."
-- Jerry Falwell

"God gives us oranges--not orange juice." -- Unknown

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due
season we shall reap, if we faint not" (Galatians 6:9).

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"It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail
of success." -- John Mason

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most
likely to find it, because those who are searching
forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek
happiness for others." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but
touches your heart." -- from Mickey's Funnies

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if
you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when
you try something new." -- Brian Tracy

"In the middle of every difficulty comes opportunity."
-- Albert Einstein 

"Light houses don't blow horns, they just shine!" --
Unknown

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

The Trap of Churchianity

"You can be baptized in the church, raised in the
church, confirmed in the church, serve in the church,
marry in the church, die in the church, and have your
funeral in the church, and still wake up in hell if you
are merely in the church and not in Christ." 

  Mark Driscoll (Pastor of Mars Hill Church, 
  Seattle, WA).

NOTE: If you are not sure of your life after this life,
click on http://tinyurl.com/real-christian for the
article, "How to Be Sure You're a Real Christian."

Words of Wisdom

"Nothing under God's control is ever out of control."
-- Charles Swindoll

" Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a
smile, a kind word, a listening ear." -- Leo Buscaglia

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed
of two characters--one represents danger and the other
represents opportunity." -- John F. Kennedy

"To get the full value of a joy, you must have somebody
to divide it with." -- Mark Twain 

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

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Giving is the greatest way to receive." -- Rick
Beneteau

"It is easy to be wise after the event." -- Proverb 

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win
glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure
than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy
much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray
twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." --
Theodore Roosevelt 

"Your living is determined not so much by what life
brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not
so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind
looks at what happens." -- John Homer Miller 

"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice
and need." -- Voltaire

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the
credit for doing them." -- Benjamin Jowett

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"There comes a special moment in everyone's life; a
moment for which that person was born. That special
opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his
mission: a mission for which he is uniquely qualified.
In that moment, he finds greatness. It is his finest
hour." -- Winston Churchill 

"Leaders don't create followers, they create more
leaders." -- Tom Peters

"I cannot live without books." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they
take of things." -- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.) 

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are
extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people." --
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more
difficult problem." -- Henry Kissinger

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

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

"The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you
think has a way of becoming true." -- Roger von Oech

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life
that no man can sincerely try to help another without
helping himself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always give without remembering and always receive
without forgetting." -- Brian Tracy

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by
what we give." -- Norman MacEwan

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"Generosity isn't about how much you gave, it's about
how much you kept." -- Unknown

"All achievements, all earned riches, have their
beginning in an idea." -- Napoleon Hill

"Painting [and many another task] is easy when you
don't know how, but very difficult when you do." --
Edgar Degas

"Whatever you believe with feeling [be it true or not]
becomes your reality." -- Brian Tracy 

"People who speak out have always ruled ... and they
will always continue to rule. The smart thing is to
join them." -- Unknown

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

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

"All men who have achieved great things have been great
dreamers." -- Orison Swett Marden

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be
lost." -- G.K. Chesterton

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person
refuses to quit." -- Napoleon Hill

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll
be able to see farther." -- J.P. Morgan

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know
how soon it will be too late." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve
outstanding success because they don't know when to
quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."
-- George Allen, football coach

"You become what you think about all day long." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As he man thinks in his heart, so is he." -- Proverbs
23:7 (KJV) 

"'What the mind dwells on the body acts on.' If you
don't agree with this, just think how temptation
works." -- Dick Innes

"You are not what you think you are, but what you
think--you are." -- Unknown

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
-- Plato

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

"I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity,
but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with
setbacks without defeat." -- Allen Klein

"If ever a time should come when vain and aspiring men
shall possess the highest seats in Government, our
country will stand in need of its experienced patriots
to prevent its ruin." -- Samuel Adams

"A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was
talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the
end he realized that prayer is listening" -- Soren
Kierkegaard

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or
eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The
greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." --
Henry Ford 

"Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most
often, are within." -- Thomas Paine