He who throws dirt loses ground.

The first step to wisdom is silence, the second is listening.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Conscience doesn't necessarily keep people from doing what they shouldn't,
it just keeps them from enjoying it.

Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.

Live as though you might die tomorrow.
Learn as if you might live forever.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give but not so easy to take.

Success is not defined by obtaining everything you want, but by appreciating everything you have.

* *Treat everyone with kindness, even the ones who are rude to you--not because they are nice, but because you
are.

Love is a gift we can give every day.

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

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Today is a gift, that's why it is called the present.

It is a curious world when you can be in jam at one time and in a pickle at another and can't tell the difference.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes; after that you had better know something.

It takes years to build up trust and only seconds to destroy it.

Temper gets most of us in trouble, pride keeps us there

A bad attitude is like a flat tire; it must be changed before we can get any where.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Always try to follow in the footsteps of someone who has not had to cover his tracks.

"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." ~ Abraham Lincoln�

"The world will not come to an end if you do not have an education, it will simply pass you by." ~ Lynn Johnston

�Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering... ~ Pooh's Little Instruction Book

"The best proof of love, is trust." ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying the umbrella."

"Follow the first law of holes, if you are in one, stop digging." ~ Dennis Healy

True wealth is what you are, not what you have."

"Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere."

"If you make friends with yourself, you will never be alone."� ~ Maxwell Maltz

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. ~ Elbert Hubbard

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi

The power of the visible is the invisible. ~ Marianne Moore

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. ~Henry James

Make yourself necessary to somebody. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you�re alive, it isn�t. ~ Richard Bach

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of it�s own. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don�t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. ~ Anne Frank

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views. ~ George Sand

The blue of Heaven is larger than the cloud. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. ~ Saint Augustine

The Lord is my strength and my shield. ~ Psalm 28:7

Everyone comes between men�s souls and God, either as a brick wall or a bridge. ~ Canon Linsay Dewar

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disaeli

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ~ Samuel Smiles

You can give without love, but you cannot love without giving. ~ Amy Carmichael

Our prayer and God�s mercy are like two buckets in a well; while one ascends the other descends. ~ Mark Hopkins

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ~ Gandhi

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." ~ President Jimmy Carter

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ~Bill Watterson-Calvin and Hobbes

'Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.' ~ Michelangelo

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. ~ Ruth Gordon

'Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."~ Sir Winston Churchill

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm ~ Unknown

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today - Abraham Lincoln

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