Thoughts

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."~Oprah Winfrey~

"You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over."
~Paul H. Dunn~

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."~Sir Winston Churchill ~

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you." John E. Southard

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Ben Franklin

"Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day (pause). Aren't we all?" - Vince Scully

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.   ~Mark Twain~

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.   ~Aristotle~

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself...   ~Benjamin Franklin~

"When a Company compromises its principles one time, the next compromise is right around the corner." ~Zig Ziglar~

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.~Albert Einstein~

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

"It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering."   ~Patrice Gifford~

If you want happiness, create it now.  Find the joy and beauty of this moment. Give yourself permission to be happy now. Give yourself permission to be beautiful now. Decide at this moment to be a leader, and you have become one. It can be that fast. "Taking responsibility" is not difficult. It is the "deciding to take responsibility" that is hard.   ~Thomas D. Willhite~

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.~Dr. Frank Richards~(1875-1961) English Writer

"If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one."~Cavett Robert~

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. ~Bernice Johnson Reagon~

"Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, I will understand."   ~Chinese Proverb~

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. ~Peyton Conway March~

Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.  ~Victor Frankl~

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~Helen Keller~

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." ~Franklin Roosevelt~

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four
C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."     ~Walt Disney~

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ~Unknown~

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.~Mark Twain~

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."~Henry David Thoreau~

"When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it hitched to the rest of the Universe." ~John Muir~ 

" If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?"
~Jeffery J. Mayer~

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
~Sir Winston Leonard spencer/Churchill~

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.~author unknown~

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" - Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.".-Johann Von Goethe

"The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results."  ~Norman Vincent Peale~

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

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." ~Michael Jordan~ 

"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~ 

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."~Lewis Carroll~"Alice in Wonderland"

Your profession is not what brings home your pay. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. ~Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch Painter~

If you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space.~Greg J Scherr

"You miss a 100 percent of the shots you don't take."~Wayne Gretzky

"The road to success is always under construction."~Lily Tomlin~

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover."~Mark Twain    

It's what we learn after we know it all that really counts.~Anonymous

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant"~Robert Louis Stevenson~

"Nothing is hard except a hard boiled egg"~Tom Romano-American Patriot~


"Nothing is permanent but change." and "You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are always flowing in."~Greek philosopher Heraclitus, 500 B.C.~

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.~ 

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -Thomas Jefferson


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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