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Do you see difficulties in every opportunity or opportunities in every difficulty?

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

Some people would rather be wrong than quiet for a minute.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

Companies that give excellent service reward employees for providing it.

A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

A winning smile makes winners of us all.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

Attitude Adjuster: When you smile at someone, nine times out of 10 the other person will smile back and you've made two people's days brighter and better.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.

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

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

Quality will be prized as a precious possession.

Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don't feel like it.

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later.

Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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.

Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

Technology does not drive change -- it enables change.

Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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.

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts.

Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.

Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.

Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails. - AP report describing Fresno State basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all.

Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.

Adulation is the ever ready attendant to great wealth.

A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.

You're not what you think you are; you're not what others think you are; you're what you think others think you are!

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

You never know how many apples there are in a seed.

In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t.

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

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

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

If you continually give, you will continually have.

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...

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.

If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.

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.

If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you.

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

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

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

Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

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

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

No amount of Guilt can change the past, and no amount of Worrying can change the futur

The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.

The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.

Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.

Nothing is worth making that does not make the man.

A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes.

A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as ''Lover's Lane.''

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.

A baby sitter is someone who watches your TV set While your kids cry themselves to sleep.

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.

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

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks

A smile on the face is a sign that the heart is at home.

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

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

Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

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

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

The ladder of success can not be climb with your hands in your pocket.