Thought for the day...

Those who warn of a population explosion picture a world of too many people and not enough to eat—sort of like the average cocktail party. Bill Vaughan

People all over the world smile in the same language.

A small house will hold as much happiness as a mansion.

Triumph is just umph added to try.

There are no rules for success that work unless you do.

A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight.

 

Abe Lincoln once walked 20 miles to borrow a book. Now all the libraries close to celebrate his birthday!

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

One of the keys to getting ahead is setting aside 8 hours a day for work and 8 hours for sleep. Then make sure they’re not the same hours.

Ever been embarrassed? Of course, everyone has. Here’s a good one. A fellow was instructing others in the basics of public speaking, which was a part of his job. Once he had an opportunity to set an example by speaking at the annual banquet. He began by suggesting everybody stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He proudly faced the flag, shoulders squared, hand over his heart and began. “Our Father, who art in Heaven…”

Why are coin banks pig-shaped? Cookware in Europe was once made of a dense, orange clay called pygg. As housewives began saving coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as pygg pots. In the 19th century, English potters misunderstood the term, and when asked to make a pygg bank, they made one shaped like a pig.

 

Perhaps a coincidence is just a little miracle in which God remains anonymous.

Speaking of anonymous, there is a new self-help group for people who can’t stop talking. It is called On and On, Anon.

Be contented with what you have, but never with what you are.

God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon and sun, how they move in silence? Mother Teresa

It doesn’t matter so much as to where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to the circumstances.

 

You look at your hands to see if they are dirty. Now look to your conscience.

Pray as you can, not as you can’t.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.

Nobody would have remembered Jesus if he had only good intentions.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Churchill

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. Mark Twain

 

It is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Part of managing to grow old gracefully is that you just take the next step and hope you don’t fall when you take it. Walter Cronkite

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that’s precisely why I succeed. Michael Jordan

Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned.

To love yourself, just as you are, is to accept God’s evaluation instead of your own. You are, right now, as loved and worthy of esteem as you ever shall be, already infinitely loved and respected.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger but it won’t taste good.
Joe Paterno

 

Try to go a step beyond wherever people expect you to end up.

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. Tom Brokaw

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Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn’t know what he is capable of until he is asked.

Hope in a renewed future is one of the most profound gifts.

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action. What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for and so bring about, as far as that power lies within us.

 

Inspiration more often comes during or sometimes, after the work more than before it.

A teacher or leader is judged by the achievement of his students.

In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Henry Ward Beecher

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

You can only keep one thought in your mind at a time, so you might as well make it a good thought.

Someone with real character is one who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.