Sunday, March 28, 2010

Wise words; take it leave it but don't forget it

Sunday, March 28, 2010

“If at first you don’t succeed, if at second you still aren’t getting it, if at third you want to throw your arms up and run away, just give it a week or so and try again.” – Me, myself, and I

“Women hold up half the sky.” – Chinese proverb

“Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.” – Sheryl Louise Moller

“Your job is you. Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give anybody.” - Anonymous

“Remember, when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.” - Neil Gaiman

“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.” – Thomas Carlyle

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.” - Zig Ziglar

“A person is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.” - Michel de Montaigne

“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.” - C.D. Jackson

“We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.” – Peter De Vries

“There’s nothing wrong with today’s teenager that twenty years won’t cure.” - Edith Stirwell

“The mathematical probability of a cat doing exactly what it wants is the one scientific absolute in the world. – Lynn M. Osband

“To think too long about doing a thing, often becomes its undoing.” - Eva Young

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas A. Edison

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” –Leslie Poles Hartley.

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William A. Ward

“You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated of it.” –Henry Ward Beecher

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“If you don’t find opportunity knocking, find another door.” - Anonymous

“In doing anything, the first step is the most difficult.” – Chinese proverb

“Fear is the little dark room where negatives are developed.” – Michael Pritchard

“You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” – E.L. Doctorow

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” - Sophia Loren

“There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” - Jean Paul Sartre

“For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” - Lily Tomlin

“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she has laid an asteroid.” - Mark Twain

“Good fathers are the ones who make the women in their lives feel like good mothers.” – Unknown

“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” - E. Joseph Cossman

“The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.” – Arnold Bennett

“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.” –Alan Alda

“You shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.” – Unknown

"Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their children, and their children's children." -- Noah benShea

“Find spaces of stillness if you want to get to the spaces where the answers are.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Anything is possible.” - Bruce Caldwell

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” – Unknown

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