Transcript Thoughts for the day
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PEACE OF MIND
• The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
• Lucius Annaeus Seneca 3
HAPPINESS
• There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
• Robert Louis Stevenson 4
ACCEPTANCE
• God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
• Reinhold Niebuhr 5
FORGIVENESS
• Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
• Gerald Jampolsky 6
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
• Aughey 7
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
• Jean Vanier 8
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Make yourself necessary to somebody.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson 9
FRIENDSHIP
• True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
• Dave Tyson Gentry 10
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
• When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
• Anon 11
FAITH AND BELIEF
• Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
• Guideposts 12
PRAYER
• Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.
• John Aikman Wallace 13
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself.
• William J.H. Boetcker 14
SELF-CONTROL
• Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
• George Bernard Shaw 15
SELF-CONFIDENCE
• Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
• Stan Smith 16
SIMPLICITY
• What I do, I do very well, and what I don’t do well, I don’t do at all.
• Anon 17
ONE DAY
• Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
• John H. Patterson 18
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old days” you’re going to miss in the years ahead.
• Anon 19
TODAY: THE PRESENT
• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
• Elbert Hubbard 20
THIS MOMENT
• If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.
• Anon 21
MORNINGS
• Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
• Edgar Watson Howe 22
EVENINGS
• Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
• Lord Herbert 23
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 24
AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS
• Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
• Charles Baudelaire 25
DIFFICULT DAYS
• The secret of patience … to do something else in the meantime.
• Anon 26
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
• Madeline Bridges 27
ENTHUSIASM
• Give me a man who sings at his work.
• Thomas Carlyle 28
HOPE
• Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
• Anon 29
VISUALIZATION
• We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
• Konrad Adenauer 30
ROLE MODELS
• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
• Burke 31
CHANGE
• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
• George Bernard Shaw 32
DECISIONS
• Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
• Peter Drucker 33
INSTINCTS
• Systems die; instincts remain.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
• Skills vary. We must … strive by that which is born in us.
• Pindar 35
MOTIVATION
• To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
• Baruch Spinoza 36
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
• Lin Yutang 37
GOALS
• The one thing worth living for is to keep one’s soul pure.
• Marcus Aurelius 38
FEAR
• Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
• Ron Meyer 39
WORRY
• Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts.
• Howard Chandler Christy 40
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
• Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
• George Eliot 41
SECURITY
• There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
• General Douglas MacArthur 42
RISKS
• No one reaches a high position without daring.
• Publilius Syrus 43
COURAGE
• To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
• Confucius 44
WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US
• The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
• Anon 45
COMMITMENT
• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
• Michael Evans 46
GETTING GOING
• Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
• Brendan Francis 47
SUCCESS
• The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
• Sir William Osler 48
LUCK
• The one who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
• B.C. Forbes 49
OPPORTUNITY
• The successful person is one who had the chance and took it.
• Roger Babson 50
COMMITMENT
• Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
• Isaac Barrow 51
CONCENTRATION
• Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
• Colonel Michael Friedsman 52
WORK
• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
• Ulysses S. Grant 53
PERFECTION
• The person with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
• Johann von Goethe 54
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO
• God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
• Katheryn Hulme 55
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
• Lord Chesterfield 56
PERSEVERANCE
• They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
• Samuel Smiles 57
PROBLEMS
• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
• Corrie ten Bloom 58
FAILURES AND MISTAKES
• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
• Bertolt Brecht 59
THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
• Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
• Frank Harris 60
REACTING TO EVENTS
• What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
• George Levinger 61
SELF-PITY
• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
• Helen Keller 62
PEACE OF MIND
• Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
• Lin Yutang 63
HAPPINESS
• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
• Hosea Ballou 64
ACCEPTANCE
• We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
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FORGIVENESS
• The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
• Dr. Robert Anthony 66
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
• Karl Barth 67
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
• Foe Ancis 68
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
• Vauvenargues 69
FRIENDSHIP
• The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
• Bob Lemon 70
ACCEPTANCE
• Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
• G.K. Chesterton 71
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
• Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.
• Anon 72
FAITH AND BELIEF
• Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
• Erich Fromm 73
PRAYER
• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
• Soren Kierkegaard 74
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• I’m not OK, you’re not OK - and that’s OK.
• William Sloane Coffin 75
SELF-CONTROL
• When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
• Robert Browning 76
SELF-RELIANCE
• Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
• Frank Tyger 77
SIMPLICITY
• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
• Confucius 78
ONE DAY
• Nothing is worth more than this day.
• Johann von Goethe 79
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big.
• Audrey Snead 80
TODAY: THE PRESENT
• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
• Jim Bishop 81
THIS MOMENT
• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
• Mignon McLaughlin 82
MORNINGS
• With each sunrise, we start anew.
• Anon 83
EVENINGS
• Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.
• Scottish proverb 84
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
• Isak Dinesen 85
AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS
• Being bored is an insult to oneself.
• Jules Renard 86
DIFFICULT DAYS
• Pain is never permanent.
• Saint Teresa of Avila 87
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
• Herbert Samuels 88
ENTHUSIASM
• You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
• Colette 89
HOPE
• Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.
• LeRoy Douglas 90
VISUALIZATION
• A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
• Anon 91
ROLE MODELS
• People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
• Tyron Edwards 92
CHANGE
• Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
• Arthur Christopher Benson 93
DECISIONS
• Full maturity … is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
• Angela Barron McBride 94
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
• You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.
• Joan Baez 95
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
• There is just one life for each of us: our own.
• Euripides 96
MOTIVATION
• Don’t let other people tell you what you want.
• Pat Riley 97
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
• Mignon McLaughlin 98
GOALS
• If you don’t know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?
• Basil S. Walsh 99
FEAR
• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca 100
WORRY
• If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
• Krishnamurti 101
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
• To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it.
• Olin Miller 102
SECURITY
• To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca 103
RISKS
• It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
• Erica Jong 104
COURAGE
• It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
• James A. Michener 105
WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US
• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
• Sir Winston Churchill 106
“IGNORANCE”
• Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
• Edgar Degas 107
GETTING GOING
• We will not know unless we begin.
• Howard Zinn 108
SUCCESS
• Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
• Helen Hayes 109
LUCK
• You don’t just luck into things … You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
• Barbara Bush 110
OPPORTUNITY
• Opportunity knocks but once.
• Anon 111
COMMITMENT
• He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
• George P. Schultz 112
CONCENTRATION
• One arrow does not bring down two birds.
• Turkish proverb 113
WORK
• To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
• Katharine Graham 114
PERFECTION
• If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
• Gaelic proverb 115
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO
• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
• Friedrich Engels 116
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult.
• Madame Marquise du Deffand 117
PERSEVERANCE
• It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day.
• Willie Mays 118
• Every path has its puddle.
• English proverb
PROBLEMS
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FAILURES AND MISTAKES
• Our mistakes won’t irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
• James E. Sweaney 120
THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
• Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.
• Robert R. Updegraff 121
REACTING TO EVENTS
• When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
• Anon 122
THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY
• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
• Duke Ellington 123
SELF-PITY
• The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
• Og Guinness 124
PEACE OF MIND
• If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
• Paula A. Bendry 125
HAPPINESS
• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
• Agnes Repplier 126
ACCEPTANCE
• Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 127
FORGIVENESS
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• Mahatma Ghandi 128
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
• Ruth Ann Schabacker 129
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
• R.H. Stoddard 130
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
• George Eliot 131
FRIENDSHIP
• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
• Saint Thomas Aquinas 132
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
• Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.
• D.M. Street 133
FAITH AND BELIEF
• I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
• 2 Tm. 4:7 134
CHANGE
• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
• Sir Winston Churchill 135
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
• When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live.
• Norvin G. McGranahan 136
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
• Saint Francis de Sales 137
SELF-CONFIDENCE
• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
• Johann von Goethe 138
SELF-RELIANCE
• The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
• Swedish proverb 139
SIMPLICITY
• There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.
• Erich Fromm 140
ONE DAY
• We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
• George MacDonald 141
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
• Anon 142
TODAY: THE PRESENT
• Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
• Horace 143
MORNINGS
• If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca 144
EVENINGS
• Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
• Eph. 14:26 145
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
• Albert Einstein 146
DIFFICULT DAYS
• God grant us patience!
• William Shakespeare 147
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• Change your thoughts and you change your world.
• Norman Vincent Peale 148
ENTHUSIASM
• The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
• William McFee 149
CHANGE
• Every new adjustment is a crisis in self esteem.
• Eric Hoffer 150
VISUALIZATION
• We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
• Konrad Adenauer 151
ROLE MODELS
• A good example is the best sermon.
• Anon 152
CHANGE
• Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
• Bertolt Brecht 153
FORGIVENESS
• One forgives to the degree that one loves.
• Francois de La Rochefoucauld 154
INSTINCTS
• The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
• Soren Kierkegaard 155
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
• He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.
• Joan L. Brannon 156
MOTIVATION
• We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
• Walter Savage Landor 157
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
• Jean Vanier 158
GOALS
• You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
• Billy Wilder 159
FEAR
• Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
• Shih King 160
WORRY
• Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
• Swedish proverb 161
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
• The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
• Pliny, the Elder 162
SECURITY
• No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person.
• Willa Cather 163
RISKS
• Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you cannot take the cubs.
• Japanese proverb 164
COURAGE
• Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
• John Dewey 165
WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US
• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
• Victor Hugo 166
“IGNORANCE”
• No one knows what he can do until he tries.
• Publilius Syrus 167
GETTING GOING
• If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try.
• W.H. Auden 168
SUCCESS
• Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
• Henry Ford 169
OPPORTUNITY
• I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
• Mark Twain 170
COMMITMENT
• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
• Michael Evans 171
WORK
• Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
• David Bly 172
PERFECTION
• Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.
• Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs 173
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO
• God doesn’t make orange juice, God makes oranges.
• Jesse Jackson 174
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult.
• Madame Marquise du Deffand 175
PERSEVERANCE
• It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
• Confucius 176
PERSEVERANCE
• It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day.
• Willie Mays 177
FAILURES AND MISTAKES
• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
• Eleanor Roosevelt 178
REACTING TO EVENTS
• Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
• Abraham Lincoln 179
SELF-PITY
• Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
• André Gide 180
PEACE OF MIND
• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
• Anon 181
HAPPINESS
• Happiness depends upon ourselves.
• Aristotle 182
ACCEPTANCE
• One cannot get through life without pain … What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
• Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
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FORGIVENESS
• Judge not, that ye be not judged.
• Mt. 7:1 184
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• The mere sense of living is joy enough.
• Emily Dickinson 185
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.
• Elbert Hubbard 186
HAPPINESS
• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
• Mark Twain 187
FRIENDSHIP
• When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.
• Anon 188
HAPPINESS
• Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?
• A Course In Miracles 189
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
• Lin Yutang 190
PRAYER
• The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
• Oswald Chambers 191
PERSEVERANCE
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes 192
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
• Saint Francis de Sales 193
HAPPINESS
• Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
• John Barrymore 194
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.
• Malcolm Forbes 195
HAPPINESS
• Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
• Anon 196
ONE DAY
• We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
• George MacDonald 197
ACCEPTANCE
• Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
• Margaret Mitchell 198
FORGIVENESS
• Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
• Harriet Uts Nelson 199
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
• Thomas Fuller 200
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
• William Hazlitt 201
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
• Albert Einstein 202
FRIENDSHIP
• We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
• Thucydides 203
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• You can promote your healing by your thinking.
• James E. Sweeney 204
PRAYER
• When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
• Anon 205
HOPE
• All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
• Alexandre Dumas 206
ACCEPTANCE
• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
• J.C.F. von Schiller 207
CHANGE
• There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
• Rollo May 208
DECISIONS
• Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
• Harry A. Hopf 209
FORGIVENESS
• They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
• Anon 210
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
• I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
• George Burns 211
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson 212
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
• Jean Vanier 213
GOALS
• Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
• Chinese proverb 214
• Fear is the absence of faith.
• Paul Tillich
FEAR
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WORRY
• Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
• Swedish proverb 216
ACCEPTANCE
• If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.
• Malcolm Forbes 217
FORGIVENESS
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
• Madame Dorothee Deluzy 218
RISKS
• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
• General George S. Patton 219
COURAGE
• Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
• John Dewey 220
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
• Ken Keyes, Jr.
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TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
• Dante Alighieri 222
ACCEPTANCE
• Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
• Anon 223
SUCCESS
• A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
• William Hazlitt 224
OPPORTUNITY
• I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
• Mark Twain 225
FORGIVENESS
• When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
• Norman Vincent Peale 226
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
• English proverb 227
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
• Luther Burbank 228
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO
• With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.
• 2 Chr.
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TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
• Chinese proverb 230
FRIENDSHIP
• It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
• Chinese proverb 231
PEACE OF MIND
• There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.
• L. Thomas Holdcroft 232
HAPPINESS
• Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
• Abraham Lincoln 233
ACCEPTANCE
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
• George Bernard Shaw 234
FORGIVENESS
• Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
• Arthur J. Rehrat 235
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don’t make.
• Bill Veeck 236
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure.
• Ogden Nash 237
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
• Mother Teresa 238
FRIENDSHIP
• One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.
• William E. Holler 239
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD
• Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.
• Phillip Hewett 240
PRAYER
• When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.
• Edward M. Goulburn 241
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Eleanor Roosevelt 242
SELF-CONFIDENCE
• Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
• Thomas Merton 243
SELF-RELIANCE
• The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
• Sophocles 244
SIMPLICITY
• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
• Mother Teresa 245
ONE DAY
• The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
• Anon 246
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Never let yesterday use up today.
• Richard H. Nelson 247
PRAYER
• Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
• Satchel Paige 248
MORNINGS
• When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
• Sydney Smith 249
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s all in the mind.
• Thomas Wolfe 250
ENTHUSIASM
• Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower 251
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
• I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.
• William A. Hulbert 252
VISUALIZATION
• Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.
• Solomon 253
ACCEPTANCE
• If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.
• Abigail Van Buren 254
CHANGE
• Nothing in this world is permanent.
• German proverb 255
INSTINCTS
• It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
• Thomas Carlyle 256
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
• The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh 257
MOTIVATION
• A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
• Napoleon Bonaparte 258
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• We cannot all be masters.
• William Shakespeare 259
GOALS
• Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven’t even begun to live.
• William P. Merrill 260
FEAR
• If you are afraid for your future, you don’t have a present.
• James Petersen 261
WORRY
• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
• A.J. Cronin 262
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
• If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
• Lee Iacocca 263
RISKS
• In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.
• Dennis Dugan 264
COURAGE
• Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca 265
GETTING GOING
• Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
• Janet Erskine Stuart 266
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
• Susan L. Lenzkes 267
GOALS
• It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
• Johann von Goethe 268
RISKS
• Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
• Mark Twain 269
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• He has enough who is contented with little.
• Anon 270
ACCEPTANCE
• There are things I can’t force. I must adjust.
• C.M. Ward 271
PERSEVERANCE
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes 272
FAILURES AND MISTAKES
• The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
• Eleanor Roosevelt 273
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
• Estonian proverb 274
FRIENDSHIP
• Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
• Turkish proverb 275
HAPPINESS
• No one gives joy or sorrow … We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
• Garuda Purana 276
ACCEPTANCE
• The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.
• Charles Dudley Warner 277
FORGIVENESS
• Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
• Louis L’Amour 278
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
• Friedrich Nietzsche 279
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.
• Frank A. Clark 280
ONE DAY
• I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
• Golda Meir 281
FRIENDSHIP
• Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
• Anon 282
MORNINGS
• Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn.
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox 283
PRAYER
• Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
• The Desert Fathers 284
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
• Anon 285
SELF-RELIANCE
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
• Francis Bacon 286
SIMPLICITY
• If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?
• Joe Namath 287
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• More than enough is too much.
• Anon 288
YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
• Max Beerbohm 289
TODAY: THE PRESENT
• So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies.
• John Mason Brown 290
MORNINGS
• With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
• Anon 291
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
• Lin Yutang 292
ENTHUSIASM
• The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
• Marshal Ferdinand Foch 293
HOPE
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
• Anon 294
CHANGE
• When you’re through changing, you’re through.
• Bruce Barton 295
INSTINCTS
• Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
• George Bernard Shaw 296
FRIENDSHIP
• Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox 297
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca 298
PRAYER
• The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
• Martin Luther 299
FEAR
• The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
• Elbert Hubbard 300
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
• Henry L. Stimson 301
ENTHUSIASM
• The difference between one man and another is not mere ability … it is energy.
• Thomas Arnold 302
RISKS
• And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
• Erica Jong 303
COURAGE
• You’re only as sick as your secrets.
• Anon 304
GETTING GOING
• Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
• Alonzo Newton Benn 305
SUCCESS
• Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
• Sir Winston Churchill 306
COMMITMENT
• Whether you are really right or not doesn’t matter, it’s the belief that counts.
• Robertson Davies 307
FEAR
• Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
• Anon 308
RISKS
• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
• Moliere 309
PRAYER
• Amazing things start happening when we start praying!
• Anon 310
SUCCESS
• Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
• Anon 311
• Humor acts to relieve fear.
• Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
FEAR
312
HAPPINESS
• Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes 313
ACCEPTANCE
• He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
• David Hume 314
FORGIVENESS
• Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
• Louis L’Amour 315
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.
• Maurice Setter 316
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
• George Santayana 317
FRIENDSHIP
• They are rich who have true friends.
• Thomas Fuller 318
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
• Ancient Persian saying 319
PRAYER
• Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
• The Desert Fathers 320
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
• Ethel Barrymore 321
SELF-RELIANCE
• God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
• Josiah Holland 322
COURAGE
• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
• Vincent van Gogh 323
RISKS
• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
• Ray Bradbury 324
FRIENDSHIP
• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
• Samuel Butler 325
TODAY: THE PRESENT
• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
• Morris West 326
PRAYER
• Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
• Thomas B. Brooks 327
ONE DAY
• A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
• Charles Darwin 328
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS
• The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
• André Godin 329
GOALS
• He who begins many things finishes but few.
• Italian proverb 330
COURAGE
• No great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
• German proverb 331
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
• We are betrayed by what is false within.
• George Meredith 332
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
• Anon 333
GOALS
• The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
• Michel de Montaigne 334
FEAR
• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
• Billie Jean King 335
FRIENDSHIP
• The best mirror is an old friend.
• Anon 336
PRAYER
• I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
• Dwight L. Moody 337
ONE DAY
• Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions to actual deeds.
• Grenville Kleiser 338
COURAGE
• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
• Admiral Chester W. Nimitz 339
FRIENDSHIP
• Hold a true friend with both your hands.
• Nigerian proverb 340
ONE DAY
• Every day is a messenger of God.
• Russian proverb 341
COURAGE
• To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
• John Cage 342
GOALS
• I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
• William J. Locke 343
CHANGE
• If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
• Woodrow Wilson 344
FRIENDSHIP
• One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca 345
HAPPINESS
• How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
• Publilius Syrus 346
CHANGE
• Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
• Arthur Christopher Benson 347
FORGIVENESS
• Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
• Isaac Friedmann 348
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
• Robert Quillen 349
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• It is more blessed to give than to receive.
• Acts 20:35 350
FRIENDSHIP
• A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.
• Arnold H. Glasow 351
PRAYER
• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
• Oswald Chambers 352
GOALS
• Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
• J.C.F. von Schiller 353
FRIENDSHIP
• Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
• Anon 354
GOALS
• Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you.
• John F. Kennedy 355
FRIENDSHIP
• A man is known by the company he keeps.
• Anon 356
GOALS
• A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
• John Powell 357
MORNINGS
• With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
• Anon 358
ACCEPTANCE
• There are things I can’t force. I must adjust.
• C.M. Ward 359
ENTHUSIASM
• It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
• General Douglas MacArthur 360
CHANGE
• Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
• Oscar Wilde 361
DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US
• A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca 362
GOALS
• Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
• Colonel Michael Friedman 363
FEAR
• The habit of doing one’s duty drives away fear.
• Charles Baudelaire 364
WORRY
• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
• William Ralph Inge 365
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES
• Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
• Tehyi Hsieh 366
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure.
• Ogden Nash 367