All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

Accuracy

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

Advantage

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Adversity

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them

The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours.

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

We need tough days to drive us to our knees.

Advice

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Age and Aging

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.

Angels

We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other.

Anger

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes."

Appearance

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Appreciation

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Argument

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

An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.

Arts and Artists

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Ask

The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!

Atheism

How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook.

Attitude

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

Averages

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Beginning

Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.

Behavior

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

Belief

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Blame

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Body

The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

Bores and Boredom

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

Busyness

If you are pre-occupied with life and death then you aren't ready for heaven.

Caution

Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage

Certainty

If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.

Chance

If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.

Change

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Character

Before you advise anyone "Be yourself!" reassess his character.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

Charm

Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.

Children

Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

Choice

There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.

Circumstance

Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Comfort

To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

Common Sense

In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty.

Communication

Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

Complaints and Complaining

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Concentration

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.

Confidence

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

Conscience

A bad conscience has a very good memory

Control

Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.

Conversation

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

Correction

The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don't have the courage to bear correction themselves.

Courage

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

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

Coward and Cowardice

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Credit

Buying on trust is the way to pay double.

Critics and Criticism

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

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

Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it.

The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

Customers

The customer is our reason for being here.

The customer is the final inspector.

Cynics and Cynicism

CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future.

Death and Dying

A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.

Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes.

Debt

If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid.

Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.

Deeds and Good Deeds

O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.

Desire

A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.

The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.

Determination

Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, "What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today?" He replied, "I would finish hoeing my garden."

Difficulties

Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.

Diplomacy

Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.

Doubt

When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble.

Dreams

Dreams are free.

Like dreams, small creeks grow into mighty rivers.

When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!

Education

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

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

Effort

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

It's the last inch that counts.

Ending

The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.

Enemies

One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.

Enjoyment

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

Enthusiasm

Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match!

Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever.

Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.

Evil

Evil spelled backward is live.

Exaggeration

Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large screen TV with surround sound. The other is a miniature 1 screen TV. What would you tend to focus on and become absorbed in? Some people make their problems the size of the large screen TV and their personal goals the size of the miniature one. It is important to mentally minimize the problems and the cant's and maximize the goals and the cans.

Example

Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.

Excellence

Let each day be your masterpiece.

Exercise

Exercise: you don't have time not to.

Expenditure

When your OUTGO exceeds your INCOME then your UPKEEP will be your DOWNFALL.

Experience

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Explanations

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

Extra Mile

The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams.

Facts

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.

Failure

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

If you've never failed you've never tried.

Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

When you fall, don't get up empty handed

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

Faith

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

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

Farewells

Never say goodbye, say farewell.

Faults

A spirit to find fault is an enemy to your peace and comfort, and also to the happiness of those around you. It is the key to your destruction.

Fear

Fear is what kills us.

Fellowship

Who practices hospitality entertains God Himself.

Focus

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Fools and Foolishness

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it

Frankness

People who talk much say nothing.

Freedom

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

It is quite impossible to guarantee world peace. But is should be possible to guarantee world freedom.

Friends and Friendship

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

Make friends before you need them

Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

Future

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

Genius

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Gifts

What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.

Giving

Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.

Goals

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

God

Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction.

Goodness

Only happy people can learn. Only happy people can teach. Our religion should put a sparkle in our eyes and a tone in our voice, and a spring in our step that bears witness of our faith and confidence in the goodness of God.

Gossip

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.

Greatness

If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

Guidance

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

Habit

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him into the hot water, he reacts so quickly that he immediately jumps out unharmed. But if you put him in cold water and gradually warm it up until it is scalding hot, you have him cooked before he knows it. The encroachment of bad habits in our lives is very much like this.

Happiness

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Hatred

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

Heart

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

Hell

It does not require a decision to go to hell.

History and Historians

Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever.

Honesty

An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

Look a man in the eye and say what you really think, don't just smile at him and say what you're supposed to think.

Hope

Our hopes are but memories reversed.

Human Nature

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

Humankind

Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too.

Humility

When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.

Humor

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

Ideas

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

Idleness

Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

Ignorance

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

Illness

When an elderly woman was asked why she was standing in line to buy stamps from a teller when she could have used a stamp machine she replied: The machine won't ask me about my arthritis!

Imagination

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

Impatience

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

Impossibility

I didn't know it was impossible when I did it

Inaction

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Innocence

The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.

Integrity

The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.

Intelligence and Intellectuals

You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

Intuition

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

Job

My job is never work -- the only time it seems like work is when I'd rather be doing something else.

Judgment and Judges

Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?

Kindness

Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

Knowledge

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Language

How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his/her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote.

Laughter

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

Leaders and Leadership

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

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

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.

Learning

If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.

Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

Leisure

A hobby is hard work you wouldn't do for a living.

Lies and Lying

It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

Life and Living

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Live poor so you can die rich.

Making a life comes before making a living.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

Listening

There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen.

You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of listening.

Love

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Luck

Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them.

Management

If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

Manners

Manners are happy ways of doing things.

Marriage

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

Materialism

Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it.

Mediocrity

The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.

Memory

Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we he!0 percent of what we see •50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

Men and Women

Men never remember, but women never forget.

Mind

Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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

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

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

Mistakes

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

Moderation

It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation.

Money

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

Mothers

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Neighbors

Love thy neighbor but keep your high.

Obedience

Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.

Obstacles

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goals you are trying to reach.

Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.

Opinions

A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.

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

If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

Opportunity

A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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.

Opportunities are never lost; they are taken by others.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

Optimism

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

Parents and Parenting

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Passion

Passion is the trigger of success.

Past

The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

Patience

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

Peace

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

People

There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't.

Perfection

No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

Perseverance

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

Pessimism

I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.

Planning

Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went.

Possibilities

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

Potential

Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.

Praise

When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.

Prayer

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

Preachers and Preaching

A minister asked a little boy how to get to the Post Office. After the little boy told him, the minister said, Why don't you come to church tonight? I'm giving instructions on how to get to heaven. After thinking a minute, the boy replied, I don't think so. You don't even know how to get to the Post Office.

Prejudice

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

Present

Every day is just one day.

Pride

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

Problems

Anytime you think that the problem is out there, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is out there then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.

Procrastination

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

Progress

Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.

Purpose

If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Quality

Quality will be prized as a precious possession.

Questions

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

The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.

Reason

Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one.

Reputation

It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

Responsibility

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

Rest

No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one.

Retirement

A man is known by the company that keeps him on after retirement age.

Right and Rightness

True happiness comes from doing what's right not just doing what makes you feel good.

Risk

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

Rules

When everything else fails read the instructions.

Sadness

We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.

Self-discovery

Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.

Self-esteem

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

Self-knowledge

Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

Self-mastery

Self mastery comes through denial of the little things.

Self-worth

A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300, 000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself.

Service

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

Silence

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Those that are silent profess consent.

Sincerity

Sincerity gives wings to power.

Smile

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.

A winning smile makes winners of us all.

It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown.

Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips.

Solitude

You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.

Soul

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

Speakers and Speaking

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Speech

A long tongue shortens life.

Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

Spirit and Spirituality

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

Statistics

Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts... for support rather than illumination.

Success

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.

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

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.

Suffering

If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all...

Taxes and Taxation

It's getting so that children have to be educated to realize that "Damn" and "Taxes: are two separate words.

Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.

Teachers and Teaching

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.

Teams and Teamwork

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.

Technology

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Things and Little Things

If we triumph in the little things of our common hours, we are sure to triumph in our lives.

Someone has calculated that in fifteen minutes a day we can read the Bible through twice in a year's time.

Thoughts and Thinking

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

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

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

The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.

Time and Time Management

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

Travel and Tourism

Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.

Truth

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

Understanding

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

Value

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Vision

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceiva!. The Previously Unthinkable.

Vocabulary

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

Voting

In times of stress and strain, people will vote.

Wealth

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

Weddings

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for; he said one that would make me his wife.

Winners and Winning

Remember that the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race.

The only way to be number one is to be number one.

Wisdom

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

Wish and Wishing

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.

Wives

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

Words

Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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

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

Work

A woman's work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

Work is a four letter word!

World

Spring will still come, without you. Fruit will still be on the trees, without you. The tide will still come in, without you. If they can do without you so can I. So go back in your shell -- I'll do bloody well without you.

Worry

Don't worry, be happy.

Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them?

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.

There are only two things to worry about, either you are healthy or you are sick. If you are healthy, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you are sick there are only two things to worry about, either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. But if you die there are only two things to worry about, either you will go to heaven or to hell. If you go to heaven, then there is nothing to worry about. And if you to go hell, you'll be so darn busy shaking hands with your friends you won't have time to worry!

Worth

Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be.