Words to Live By

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A Thought a Week

Wisdom begins in wonder -- Socrates


"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking." - Earl Wilson

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitution for paying attention." - Diane Sawyer

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is." - Charles M. Schwab

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing." - Phyllis Diller

To create one's own world takes courage." - Georgia O'Keeffe

What's important is that one strives to achieve a goal." - Ronald Reagan

Flying? I've been to almost as many places as my luggage!" - Bob Hope

There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by." - Lucille Ball

It's time to start living the life we've imagined." - Henry James

You can never find yourself until you face the truth." - Pearl Bailey

The man who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali

Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway

I can give you a six-word formula for success. Think things through -- then follow through." - Eddie Rickenbacker

You are never a loser until you quit trying." - Mike Ditka

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Bacall

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it." - Jimmy Connors

Advice: It's more fun to give than to receive." - Malcolm Forbes

Light tomorrow with today!" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

There's a better way to do it. Find it!" - Thomas Edison

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." - Kin Hubbard

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours." - Dag Hammarskjold $$$

We make ourselves rich by making our wants few." - Henry David Thoreau

The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill

It is never too late to become what you might have been." - George Eliot

Before I speak, I have something important to say." - Groucho Marx

Every man believes that he has a greater possibility." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself." - Mel Brooks

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are." - Muhammad Ali

A problem is a chance for you to do your best." - Duke Ellington

Funny is an attitude." - Flip Wilson

Trust your gut." - Barbara Walters

One man's way may be as good as another, but we all like our own best." - Jane Austen

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen

Trust in your own untried capacity." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books -- how not to eat what you've just learned to cook." - Andy Rooney

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there." - Yogi Berra

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." - Sophia Loren

Insanity is hereditary -- you get it from your children." - Sam Levenson

Life itself is the proper binge." - Julia Child

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." - Irving Berlin

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax." - Charles Kettering

Nothing in life just happens. You have to have the stamina to meet the obstacles and overcome them." - Golda Meir

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18." - Mark Twain

We can do no great things -- only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success." - Anonymous

The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." - R. G. Ingersoll

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." - Tom Landry

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning." - Billy Wilder

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." - Peter Drucker

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