Thought for the day...

Sometimes you just have to leap and learn to fly on the way down.

Among the worlds domesticated animals, only dogs outnumber pigs. And that is why there is no silence anymore in the country.


Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

If at first you don’t succeed, you’ll get lots of advice.

An expert is a man who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.

The deepest principle in human nature is to be appreciated. William James

 

The trouble with some people is that they are educated beyond their intelligence.

One of the greatest mysteries of life is how the idiot that your daughter married can be the father of the smartest grandchildren in the whole wide world.

Genius: A person who aims at something that no one else can see and hits it.

To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. Zane Grey

The longer we live the more we realize that the people who want to help themselves can only do so by helping others. It’s a basic law of success. Or as Zig Ziglar so wisely said, “You can get everything you want in life, just by helping enough other people get what they want.”

 

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

 

Behind every successful man stands a very surprised mother-in-law.

Work hard and save your money and when you are old you will be able to afford to buy the things only the young can enjoy.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn’t do.

People who try to command respect are wasting their time. Respect can’t be commanded. It has to be earned.

The greatest ability is dependability.

Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior work.

 

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and then you’ll understand what little chance you have of trying to change somebody else.

Learn from the mistakes of others; you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

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

The reason I know my youth is all spent is that my get-up and go has got-up and went.

The Old English word for white was “balde.” When settlers named the bald eagle, it was for the birds white head, not his featherless skull.

The 7,000 feathers on a bald eagle weigh only 21 ounces. The wing and tail feathers are incredibly strong. They are made of keratin, the same material as human fingernails.

 

Of course modern man sees no angels, experiences no miracles, even though they are there. He is just too busy with other things. How can you hear angles sing with a radio in your ears, a TV making all sorts of noise (especially during commercials) or music blasting away. Are we so totally self-centered that only a catastrophe gets our attention?

When we lack the society of our fellowmen, we take refuge in that of animals, without always losing by the change.

Nature speaks freely to the individual, but rarely to a crowd.

By the time someone says to you, “To make a long story short...” It’s too late.

A man’s wealth can be estimated in terms of what he can do without.

It’s only five miles to the top of Mt. Everest. Almost everybody can walk five miles, can’t they?

 

When you pray, don’t give God orders; report for duty.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

Somebody said, “The computer is down! I hope it’s something serious.”

No two snowflakes are alike, in contrast to politics, where all the flakes are alike.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy more tunnel.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Emerson