Favorite Quotes
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always try to do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain -
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. -Edward John Phelps-
Success is to laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to enjoy the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a little bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There was so much talking going on, it was hard to get a conversation going" - Casey Stengal- (TV coverage of the Playoffs for World Series)
Love deeper, listen more, complain less, overlook faults, grow in faith, reach out to others, be less selfish, and care more. – a good way to live life -
Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare, he can blame none but himself. -Louis L'Amour- ( from his book Bendigo Shafter)
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors ...but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. – Babe Ruth –
It's no good running a pig farm badly for thirty years while saying, "Really I was meant to be a ballet dancer." By that time, pigs will be your style. - Quentin Crisp -
"It's not what you have in your life, it's who you have in your life that counts."
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much, nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You should have education enough so that you won't have to look up to people; and then more education so that you will be wise enough not to look down on people." - M.L. Boren -
You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Anonymous -
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers -
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein -
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight David Eisenhower -
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. - Abraham Lincoln -
"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane." - J. Buffett -
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchell Paige -
"Work hard and cheerfully at all you do..." - Colossians 3:23 -
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door - Milton Berle -
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: hit the line hard
- Theodore Roosevelt -
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - J. Jenkins -