Author Unknown

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury.

It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.

What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.

Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.

Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.

To save time is to lengthen life.

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer.
"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by."

It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before.

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind

You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.

There is a growing suspicion that what the world needs now is a religion that will cover the other six days of the week.

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?"

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Where ambition ends happiness begins.

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

Hate pollutes the mind.

The guilty catch themselves.

We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

The best answer to answer to anger is silence.

Age withers only the outside.

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Where we go and what we do advertises what we are.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right - selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.

No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.

Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.

Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind.

"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

"Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.

People who know the least always argue the most.

Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Author Unknown - (apocryphal)
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

If we miraculously became the people we hate, how lovable we would find ourselves.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle.

Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.

Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.

Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.

A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.

The average person living to age 70 has 613,000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

It is better to live richly than to die rich.

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.

The shortest answer is the doing the thing.

Most people pay too much for the things they get for nothing.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.

To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well

It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind.

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Friendship is love with understanding.

Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word.

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.

- Author Unknown