Pearls of Wisdom  

1. The liar's punishment is not in the least that heis not believed, but that he cannot believe anyoneelse.  George Bernard Shaw

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Justice without strength is helpless; strengthwithout justice is tyrannical.  Blaise Pascal

3. Four things never come back-the spoken word, thesped arrow, the past live, and the neglectedopportunity.  Arabian Proverb

4. You will never get ahead trying to get even.

5. The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon,but only to hold a man's foot long enough toenable him to put the other somewhat higher.Thomas Huxley

6. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.Henry David Thoreau

7. The first time you quit, it's hard. The secondtime, it gets easier. The third time, you don'teven have to think about it.  Paul "Bear" Bryant

8. When you win, there's glory enough for everybody.When you lose, there's glory for none.  Paul "Bear"Bryant

9. Winners do things the hard way, and losers dothings the easy way.  Paul "Bear" Bryant

10. When you make a mistake, admit it; learn fromit and don't repeat it.  Paul "Bear" Bryant

11. What matters...is not the size of the dog inthe fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.Paul "Bear" Bryant

12. Do YOURSELF Proud.  Paul "Bear" Bryant

13. The scoreboard is not the correct measure ofone's performance; If you gave everything you had- then you won; on the other hand, if you didn'tgive it your all, and the scoreboard says you won- you didn't, cause all you did was outscore youropponent and wasted your God given talent.  Paul"Bear" Bryant

14. The greater the obstacle the more glory inovercoming it.  Jean Moliere

15. Other men are lenses through which we read ourown minds.  Francois de la Rochefoucauld

16. There is no comparison between that which islost by not succeeding, and that which is lost bynot trying.  Francis Bacon

17. You cannot do a kindness too soon, because younever know how soon it will be too late.

18. He who prizes little things is worthy of greatones.  German Proverb

19. It is not only what we do, but also what we donot do, for which we are accountable.  Jean Moliere

20. To live is to change, and to be perfect is tohave changed often.  Cardinal Newman

21. If you tell the truth, you don't have toremember anything.  Mark Twain

22. The gem cannot be polished without friction,nor man perfected without trials.  Chinese Proverb

23. There's only one corner of the universe you canbe certain of improving, and that's your own self.Aldous Huxley

24. This above all; to thine own self be true, Andit must follow, as the night the day.  Thou canstnot then be false to any man.  William Shakespeare

25. People seldom improve when they have no othermodel but themselves to copy after.  Oliver Goldsmith

26. Experience is not what happens to a man; it iswhat a man does with what happens to him.  AldousHuxley

27. Always do right; this will gratify some peopleand astonish the rest.  Mark Twain

28. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasksequal to your powers.  Pray for powers equal toyour tasks.  Phillips Brooks

29. A man who has committed a mistake and doesn'tcorrect it is committing another mistake.Confucius

30. The great thing in the world is not so muchwhere we stand, as in what direction we aremoving.  Oliver Wendell Holmes

31. A man shows his character by what he laughs at.

32. The face of the enemy frightens me only when Isee how much it resembles mine.

33. Shun idleness. It is a rust that attachesitself to the most brilliant of metals.  Voltaire

34. Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.There can be no courage unless you're scared.Eddie Rickenbacker

35. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear,not absence of fear.  Mark Twain

36. A fool aways find a greater fool to admire him.Nicolas Bolleau-Despraux

37. Courage is not the absence of fear, but thewillingness to do the thing we fear.Elisabeth Elliott

38. The most important thing to remember when youare going through hell, Is to keep going.

39. Through adverse situations we do not have thepower to change the wind, but we do have the powerto adjust the sails.

40. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courageis the little voice at the end of the day thatsays ...I'll try again tomorrow

41. We will either find a way, or make one.Hannibal

42. Success consists of getting up just one moretime than you fall.  Oliver Goldsmith

43. Success is how high you bounce when you hit thebottom.  George Patton

44. Ability is what you're capable of doing.Motivation determines what you do. Attitudedetermines how well you do it.  Lou Holtz

45. What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were missing, the ocean wouldlack something.  Mother Teresa

46. There are better things ahead than any we leavebehind.  C.S.Lewis

47. The really great person is the one who makeseveryone feel great.  G.K.Chesterton

48. Only a life lived for others is a lifeworthwhile.   Albert Einstein

49. Start by doing what's necessary, then what'spossible, and suddenly you are doing theimpossible."  Saint Francis of Assisi

50. Most people are about as happy as they make uptheir minds to be.  Abraham Lincoln

51. Optimism is the faith that leads toachievement.  Nothing can be done without hope andconfidence.  Helen Keller

52. Work like you don't need the money, love likeyou've never been hurt, and dance like no one'swatching.

53. Your attitude is the control center of yourlife.

54. Good luck is being prepared to acceptopportunity when it knocks.

55. Even if you're are on the right track, you'llget run over if you just sit there.  WillRogers

56. What lies behind us and what lies before us aretiny matters compared to what lies within us.Ralph Waldo Emerson

57. There's no thrill like doing something youdidn't know you could.

58. Finish each day and be done with it. You havedone what you could; some blunders and absurditieshave crept in; forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenelyand with too high a spirit to be encumbered withyour old nonsense.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

59. Far and away the best prize that life offers isthe chance to work hard at work worthdoing.  Theodore Roosevelt

60. We weren't promised an easy life. We werepromised help to live it.

61. There are many reasons for doing a thing, butone of the most effective is the lack of analternative.

62. To succeed - do the best you can, where youare, with what you have.  Theodore Roosevelt

63. Every problem contains the seeds to its ownsolution.  Norman Vincent Peale

64. If you don't invest very much, then defeatdoesn't hurt very much, and winning is not veryimportant.  NFL Coach Dick Vermeil

65. What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rae is first-rate. To pretend that you don't needlove when you do; or you like your work when youknow quite well you're capable of better.   DorisLessing

66. If you think you can do something, you areprobably right.  Henry Ford

67. I do the best I know how, the very best I can,and I mean to keep on doing it to theend.  Abraham Lincoln

68. Never, Never, Never Quit.  Winston Churchill

69. Practice makes perfect, except when it comes togetting up in the morning.

70. Enjoy the little things. One day you may lookback and realize that they were the big things.

71. There are three kinds of people: Those who makethings happen. Those who watch things happen. Andthose who wonder what happened.

72. You can't control the length of your life, butyou can control its width and depth.

73. When you get to the end of your rope, tie aknot and hang on.

74. A pessimist is someone who complains about thenoise when opportunity knocks.

75. Success comes in cans, not in cannots.

76. If you ask of life, "What have you to offerme?", the answer will be, "What have you to give?"

77. Too often we seek a change in our condition,when what we need is a change in our attitude.

78. Worry is like a rocking chair - it will giveyou something to do, but it won't get youanywhere.

79. If we appreciate what we have, it alwaysbecomes more. If we belittle what we have, italways becomes less.

80. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long runthan outright exposure. The fearful are caught asoften as the bold.  Helen Keller

81. I long to accomplish a great and noble task;but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasksas if they were great and noble.  Helen Keller

82. The mark of a motivated man is his ability todistinguish a setback from a defeat.

83. Many of life's failures are those who did notrealize how close they were to success when theygave up.

84. Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

85. More important than how we live, is how wespend each day.

86. Of all the things you wear, your expression isthe most important.

87. The reason a dog has so many friends is becausehe wags his tail instead of his tongue.

88. Even a woodpecker owes his success to the factthat he uses his head and keeps pecking away untilhe finishes the job he starts.

89. If you want a place in the sun, you've got toput up with a few blisters.  Abigail Van Buren

90. Look at what you have left, not at what youhave lost.

91. Tomorrow is not promised us, so take today andmake the most of it.

92. Life is a team sport, sometimes you give, andsometimes you get.

93. Today gives us another chance to love, to work,to play, and to look up at the sky.

94. Those who bring sunshine into the lives ofothers, cannot keep it from themselves.  Sir James M.Barrie

95. We all admire the wisdom of people who come tous for advice.  Jack Herbert

96. Happy is the person who is too busy to worry inthe daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

97. The quality of a person's life is in directproportion to their commitment to excellence,

regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.  NFLCoach Vince Lombardi

98. The will to win is not nearly as important asthe will to prepare to win.  Bobby Knight

99. Some dream of worthy accomplishments, whileothers stay awake and do them.

100. Well done is better than well said.Benjamin Franklin

101. Life is what happens to you while you're makingother plans.

102. You can always find the sun within yourself ifyou will only search.

103. Courage is the art of being the only one whoknows you're scared to death.

104. Giving your best today is the recipe for abetter tomorrow.

105. You can't change the past, but you can ruin aperfectly good present by worrying too much aboutthe future.

106. A total commitment is paramount to reaching theultimate in performance.

107. Luck is where preparation meets withopportunity.

108. Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

109. Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.

110. It takes courage to push yourself to placesthat you have never been before ... to test yourlimits ... to break through barriers.

111. To dream anything that you want to dream - isthe beauty of the human mind. To do anything thatyou want to do - is the strength of the humanwill. To trust yourself to test your limits - isthe courage to succeed. There is always room atthe top.  Daniel Webster

112. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel theexhilaration of victory.  Gen. George S. Patton

113. It's what you learn after you know it all thatcounts.  UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden

114. Every job is a self-portrait of the person whodid it. Autograph your work with excellence.

115. Goals are dreams with deadlines.

116. Always remember that strength is attained bymeeting resistance.

117. Nothing is so full of victory as patience. Hethat can have patience can have what he will.Benjamin Franklin

118. Believe and act as though it were impossible tofail.  Charles F. Kettering

119. Knowledge is the foundation on which to build abetter world.

120. Do not wish to be anything but what you are,and try to be that perfectly.  St. Francis De Sales

121. The reward for work well done is theopportunity to do more.  Dr. Jonas Saulk

122. You never learn anything talking, you onlylearn when you ask questions.

123. Ability will never catch up with the demand forit.  Malcom S. Forbes

124. A stumble may prevent a fall.  English Proverb

125. Ideas bring nothing unless carried out.

126. A winner is someone who sets his goals, commitshimself to those goals, and then pursues his goalswith all the ability given him.

127. A truly great person makes everyone else feelgreat.

128. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believein cause and effect.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

129. To accomplish great things, we must not onlyact, but dream; and not only plan, but believe.

130. Minds are like parachutes. They only functionwhen they are open.  Sir John Dewar

131. No one can make you feel inferior without yourconsent.  Eleanor Roosevelt

132. We are tomorrow's past.

133. The mind is not a storehouse to be filled, butan instrument to be used.

134. Don't count your years, make your years count.

135. Do not follow where the path may lead. Goinstead where there is no path and leave a trail.

136. People who do things that count, never stop tocount them.

137. The man who goes the farthest is generally theone who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thingboat never gets far from shore.

138. Be bold and courageous. When you look back onyour life, you'll regret the things you didn't do,more than the ones you did.

139. ...the greater part of our happiness or miserydepends on our dispositions and not on ourcircumstances.  Martha Washington

140. Opportunity always involves some risk. Youcan't steal second base and keep your foot onfirst.

141. If it is to be, it is up to me.

142. A mind, once stretched by a new idea, neverregains its original dimensions.

143. You become successful the moment you startmoving toward a worthwhile goal.

144. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannotsee the shadows.  Helen Keller

145. The race for quality has no finish line.

146. You will always miss 100% of the shots youdon't take.Larry Byrd

147. Attitude is a little thing that makes a bigdifference.

148. Success is a journey, not a destination.

149. A professional is someone who can do his bestwork when he doesn't feel like it.  Alistair Cooke

150. The mind is like a TV set - when it goes blank,it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

151. The hardest thing in life to learn is whichbridge to cross and which to burn.

152. If you have made mistakes...there is alwaysanother chance for you...you may have a freshstart any moment you choose, for this thing wecall "failure" is not the falling down, but thestaying down.

153. Success has a simple formula: do your best andpeople will like it.

154. It is the greatest of all mistakes to donothing because you can only do a little. Do whatyou can!

155. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. Ifyou can dream it, you can become it.

156. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderfulthings happen to you.

157. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit iswhat keeps you going.  Jim Ryun

158. No matter what happens, there's always somebodywho knew it would.

159. Perseverance is not a long race; it is manyshort races, one after another.Walter Elliott

160. Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

161. A cloudy day is no match for a sunnydisposition.

162. Necessity is the mother of taking chances.Mark Twain

163. If you want to truly understand something, tryto change it.

164. It is wise to keep in mind that no success orfailure is necessarily final.

165. I am a true believer in luck, and I find theharder I work the more of it I have.  ThomasJefferson

166. A man can succeed at almost anything for whichhe has unlimited enthusiasm.  Charles Schwab

167. Life is like riding a bicycle - you don't falloff unless you stop pedaling.  Claude Pepper

168. The only man who never makes a mistake is theman who never does anything.  Theodore Roosevelt

169. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfiedat the end. It is not a day when you loungedaround doing nothing. It will be a day when you'vehad everything to do and you've done it.

170. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt

171. Weekends are a bit like rainbows - they lookgood from a distance but disappear when you get upclose to them.

172. Advice your parents give when you're 18sometimes doesn't reach you until you're 40.

173. Obstacles are those frightful things you seewhen you take your eyes off your goals.FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche

174. The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it isto fill his shoes.

175. It's not your aptitude but your attitude thatdetermines your altitude.

176. A winning attitude is at least 80 percent ofyour success. Everything else balances out theother 20 percent.

177. Enthusiasm is a sunshine that keeps everythingin us alive and growing.

178. Instead of pointing a finger, why not hold outa hand.

179. Life is a ten speed bike: Most of us have gearswe never use. Charles Schultz

180. Our eyes are placed in the front because it ismore important to look ahead than to look back.

181. An optimist believes we live in the best of allpossible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.

182. He who thinks he can, can; and he who thinks hecan't, can't. This is an inexorable, indisputablelaw.  Orison Swett Marden

183. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear- not absence of fear.  Mark Twain

184. A strong passion for any object will ensuresuccess, for the desire of the end will point outthe means.  William Hazlitt

185. If man has done his best, what else is there?George S. Patton

186. Failure is only the opportunity to moreintelligently begin again.  Henry Ford

187. If a man has talent and cannot use it, he hasfailed. If he has talent and uses only half of it,he has partly failed. If he has talent and learnssomehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriouslysucceeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumphfew men ever know.  Thomas Wolfe

188. Think like a man of action and act like a manof thought.  Henri Bergson

189. It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, andhappier to be sometimes cheated than not totrust..  Samuel Johnson

190. Thought is the blossom; language the bud;action the fruit behind it.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

191. Action may not always bring happiness; butthere is no happiness without action.  BenjaminDisraeli

192. They also serve who only stand and wait.  JohnMilton

193. The way to be nothing is to do nothing.Nathaniel Howe

194. There are two kinds of weakness, that whichbreaks and that which bends.  James Russell Lowell

195. It has been my experience that folks who haveno vices have very few virtues.  Abraham Lincoln

196. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem toolightly; it is dearness only that gives everythingits value.  Thomas Paine

197. One-half of knowing what you want is knowingwhat you must give up before you get it.  SidneyHoward

198. The man who makes no mistakes does not usuallymake anything.  Edward Phelps

199. Everything comes to him who hustles while hewaits.  Thomas A Edison

200. The truth is more important than the facts.Frank Lloyd Wright

201. As long as the world shall last there will bewrongs, and if no man objected and no manrebelled, those wrongs would last forever.Clarence Darrow

202. You are today where your thoughts have broughtyou; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts takeyou.  James Allen

203. The probability that we may fail in thestruggle ought not to deter us from the support ofa cause we believe to be just.  Abraham Lincoln

204. Little minds are tamed and subdued bymisfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving

205. Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.  Felicia Hemans

206. You are only what you are when no one islooking.  Robert C Edwards

207. People often say that motivation doesn't last.Well, neither does bathing - that's why werecommend it daily.  Zig Ziglar

208. Success is never final and failure never fatal.It's courage that counts.   George F. Tiltonood

209. Achievement seems to be connected with action.Successful men and women keep moving. They makemistakes, but they don't quit.  Conrad Hilton

210. You can conquer almost any fear if you willonly make up your mind to do so. For remember,fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.Dale Carnegie

211. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangibleand achieves the impossible.  Charles Caleb Colton

212. All things are difficult before they are easy.Thomas Fuller

213. Much of the stress that people feel doesn'tcome from having too much to do. It comes from notfinishing what they started.  David Allen

214. Enjoy everything that happens in your life, butnever make your happiness or success dependent onan attachment to any person, place, or thing.  Dr.Wayne Dyer

215. It's the repetition of affirmations that leadsto belief. And once that belief becomes a deepconviction, things begin to happen.  Claude M. Bristol

216. The chief beauty about time is that you cannotwaste it in advance. The next year, the next day,the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect,as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted ormisapplied a single moment in all your life. Youcan turn over a new leaf every hour if youchoose.  Arnold Bennett

217. It is our duty as men and women to proceed asthough the limits of our abilities do not exist.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

218. Think you can't change the world? Too late, youalready have. It was changed for the better theminute you were born. There are more people thanyou can imagine who will never be the same becausethey came in contact with you, if only for afleeting moment.  Gail Pursell Elliott