Thought for the day...

Ever had to eat your words? Might as well make them sweet just in case you have to eat them again.

Often the first screw that works loose in a person's head is the one that held the tongue in place.

Be careful, you never know when you are making a memory.

You gotta wake up if you want your dreams come true.

You can be part of the solution or part of the problem; it’s up to you.

Your interests in life should come from more than your bank deposits.

 

Never underestimate the ignorance of stupid people.

Some people are alive simply because it's against the law to kill them.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." John F. Kennedy

"They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work." Casey Stengel

"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." duck Cavett

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

 

"When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision."
Lord Falkland

"By the time we've made it, we've had it." Malcolm Forbes

"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." St. Francis of Assisi

"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams." Emerson

"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something." Robert Browning

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." James Crook

Example is contagious behavior.

 

"Where there is unity there is always victory." Publilius Syrus

"Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile." Mary Beard

"Every noble work is at first impossible." Carlyle

"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up." James A. Garfield

"The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it." Voltaire

"In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." Adam Smith

 

"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true." Honore de Balzac

"My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner." Cicero
"A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady." Voltaire

"The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it." Voltaire

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." William Ralph Inge

"Man is what he believes." Anton Chekhov

The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel. Russian Proverb

 

"Better to do a little well, than a great deal badly." Socrates

"Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive." George Knight

"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters." Nathaniel Emmons

"If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us." William Feather

"Dreams never hurt anybody if he keeps working right behind the dream to make as much of it come real as he can." Frank W. Woolworth

"The price of power is responsibility for the public good." Winthrop W. Aldrich

"The more noise a man or a motor makes the less power there is available." W. R. McGeary

 

"It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause." Pascal

"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed." Buddha

"He that wrestled with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." Burke

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars. Henry Van Dyke

"Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life." Woodrow Wilson

"Don't knock your competitors. By boosting others you will boost yourself. A little competition is a good thing and severe competition is a blessing. Thank God for competition." Jacob Kindleberger

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect." Marcus Aurelius

 

"No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!" Gerard

In life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability." Flower A. Newhouse

"One principal reason why men are so often useless is, that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits." Emmons


"How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people." Edward F. Benson