Friday, March 21, 2008

Quotes to Ponder...

I have been typing up quotes I would like to remember. The list is getting pretty big! I thought I would share them with you all. Enjoy!
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Shira Tehrani


Know your limits...but never stop trying to exceed them.
- Anonymous

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have. The question is what shall we do with it.
- Anna Robertson Brown, author

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
-Robert Frost

You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.
- Robert E. Lee, Civil War General

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
- John Maxwell, author and public speaker

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work.~Thomas Edison

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.- Helen Keller


The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
- Albert Ellis


Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up.
- Jesse Jackson

Don't be afraid to give your best at what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and , with the help of God, I will do." ~Everett Hale, American author

You can complain because roses have thorns. Or you can rejoice that thorns have roses.
- Ziggy

If you think twice before speaking once, you will speak twice the better for it.
- William Penn

Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
- Anonymous

The future comes one day at a time.
- Dean Acheson

Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian. ~ D.L. Moody


There are two ways to spread light; to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton


A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.
-D.L. Moody

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