QUOTES AND SAYINGS

A COLLECTION OF WRITTEN WORDS THAT HAVE MEANT SOMETHING TO ME ON THE DAY THAT I READ THEM.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny.-- John Oliver Hobbes. 

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. Samuel Goldwyn.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller

Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmoniously assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength. Dr. Alexis Carrel

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great activities. J. F. Clarke.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. James E. Byrnes.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight? Wm. J. H. Boetcker

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. Ruskin

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick. Dr. Frank Crane

 Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place. Rabbi Ben Azai

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe form reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. Hazlitt

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall tress must protect the weak plants beneath them. Henry Ward Beecher

The young man who would succeed must identify his interests with those of his employer and exercise the same diligence in matters entrusted to him as he would in his own affairs....the one way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work. A. T. Mercier

This world and life of ours is filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always " growing pains" working within us. George Matthew Adams.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces. Henry Kaiser.

To save something each month develops self-control. This power frees one from fear and gives abiding courage. Samuel Reyburn.

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is the business shrinks. It is not possible for an executive to hold himself aloof from anything. No business, no matter what its size, can be called safe until it has been forced to learn economy and rigidly to measure values of men and materials. Harvey S. Firestone.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. Metastasis.

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can....the more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work. William James.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote. George McDonald.

He hath riches sufficient, who hath enough to be charitable. Sir T. Browne. 

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. Charles F. Kettering.

A man at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom. Joseph E. Rogers.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. Ernest Holmes.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Henry Ward Beecher.

"Life doesn't have any bad breaks, only opportunities for growth and learning." Ace Collins.

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through other people. John Craig.

One man can completely change the character of a country, and the industry of its people. By dropping a single seed into fertile soil. John C. Gifford.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you. B. C. Forbes.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles one Encounters on the road to fortune are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which power is developed. W. Mathews.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. J. G. Holland.

Belief in ourselves always precedes our achievements. Our successes are always within. We need only learn how to find the power to bring them into the without. I strongly believe that this power is to be found in our God. Look daily for his teachings and listen to his inner voice that is within you. Study the book that he has written for you for within its pages lies the wisdom of the ages. Adapted from Zig Ziglar's daily calendar of sayings.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to make him happier. Cicero.

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

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness. Arnold Bennett.

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. Ruskin.

In the business of life, man is the only product. And there is only one direction in which man can possibly develop if he is make a better living or yield a bigger dividend to himself, to his race, to nature or to God. He must grow in knowledge, wisdom, kindliness and understanding. V. C. Kitchen.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. Horace Rutledge.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. Plato.

The man who is worthy of being "a leader of men" will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the in appreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before then in disgust, discouragement or defeat--that is the final proof of power. Wm. J. H. Boetcker.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. Calvin Coolidge. 

Someone has well said, "success is a journey, not a destination." happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them. Robert R. Updegraff.

Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it. Tom D. Taylor

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. Lord Jeffery.

Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well wisest and best of all. Persian proverb.

Make money your God and it will plague you like the devil. Henry Fielding.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland.

What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-- but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude. W. W. Ziege.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. Demosthenes.

Progress in industry depends very largely on the enterprise of deep-thinking men, who are often ahead of the times in their ideas. Sir William Ellis

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White on his 70 th birthday.

No man is self-made who un-makes others. Stephen VorisT

here are two kinds of failures: the man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will nothing else. Dr. Perle Thompson.

If I have done the public service, it is due to patient thought. Sir Isaac Newton.

Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give and honest return for the other man's dollar. Edward H. Harriman.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain-- and most fools do. Dale Carnegie.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. Christopher Morley.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and to read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? Seneca.

 If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it. Roger Babson

.He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, that is, of one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life. Bates.

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. Boethius. 

A man there was they called him mad; the more he gave, the more he had. Bunyan.

They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing. Hindu proverb. I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Disraeli.

A man can be as truly a saint in a factory as in a monastery, and there is as much need of him in the one as in the other. Robert J. McCracken, D.D.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. William James.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Shelley.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. Edward E. Hale.

Success in business implies optimism, mutual confidence, and fair play, a business man must hold a high opinion of the worth of what he has to sell and he must feel that he is a useful public servant. Frederick W. Robinson.

If you believe in the lord, he will do half the work--but the last half. He helps those who help themselves. Cyrus H. K. Curtis.

Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitudes even than by mental capacities. Dr. Walter Scott long time president of N. Western Univ.

Shakespeare "assume a virtue if you have it not."

Edison kept in his desk this saying "When down at the mouth, remember Jonah, he came out all right. 

"If you do not follow your own thoughts than you will follow the thoughts of the fellow who followed his. An old saying.

If you work for a man, then for goodness' sake work for him. Elbert Hubbard.

I do not have to make over the universe; I have only to do my job, great or small, and to look often at the trees and the hills and the sky, and be friendly with all men. David Grayson.

The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd. Donnell.

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

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation. Napoleon Hill.

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. Frederick Pierce.

Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it. You simply give to others a bit of yourself--a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart. Charles H. Burr.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Disraeli.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw. Wm. J. H. Boetcker. 

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. George Mac Donald.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's about the same thing. George Horace Lorimer.

Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. Sir Theodore Martin.

The constitution of the united states only guarantees the pursuit of happiness-- you have to catch it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position but on disposition, and life is what you make it. Gill Robb Wilson.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder. B. C. Forbes.

Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. Drew.

Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. Harold V. Melchert.

"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help." Abe Lincoln.

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by keen desire and by definite resolution to do. Edgar F. Roberts.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe. But the more chance you have of getting somewhere. Charles F. Kettering. 

When a man has equipped himself by thought and study for a bigger job, it usually happens that promotion comes along even before it is expected. P. G. Winnett.

A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. Fred Estabrook.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads. Burke.

Your morning thoughts may determine your conduct for the day. Optimistic thoughts will make your day bright and productive, while pessimistic thinking will make it dull and wasteful. Face each day cheerfully, smilingly and courageously, and it will naturally follow that your work will be a real pleasure and progress will be a delightful accomplishment. William M. Peck.

A desire for bigness has hurt many folks. Putting oneself in the limelight at the expense of others is a wrong idea of greatness. The secret of greatness rather than bigness is to acclimate oneself to one's place of service and be true to one's own convictions. A life of this kind of service will forever remain the measure of one's true greatness. Richard W. Shelly Jr. 

Most of the critical things in life, which become the starting points of human destiny, are little things. R. Smith

Unless the job means more than the pay it will never pay more. H. Bertram Lewis.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one. Sir P. Sidney.

The golden rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize that it is your move. Dr. Frank Crane.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the health. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt. Dr. Charles Mayo--founder Mayo Clinic.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it. William Penn.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power. Grenville Kleiser.

Many a man who pays rent all of his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house. Bruce Barton.

That great southern philosopher and gentleman Colossians Harland Sanders explained his philanthropy this way: "there's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery, you can't do any business from there."

Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke on the elusiveness of success: " I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it. I think most kids have that but it's knocked out of them because as young men they try so many things and they fail, and finally say, in effect, 'it isn't worth continuing to butt my head up against this granite indifference.' and they settle for less than the best." 

There are five types of men who fail in life; the machine, the miser, the hermit, the snob, and the brute. Walter Wilbur Gruber.

The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on. Joseph French Johnson."

Patience is a particular requirement. Without it you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair." Charlie W. Shedd.

The line of least resistance makes crooked rivers and crooked men. William Danforth.

Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening; those which, when shared, multiply. Our least valuable possessions are those which, when divided, are diminished. Danforth.

Your days won't be humdrum when you lift your head above the crowd. Danforth. 

The more you pour out, the more you find to pour. The more of life's treasures you keep to yourself, the less you have. The more you share with others, the more you have yourself. One of life's great rules is this: the more you give, the more you get. You give your life away and behold! A richer life comes back to you. Danforth.

The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon how much you want it--how much you are willing to work and plan and co-operate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong. L. G. Elliott.

A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other. John Burroughs.

The good that we take with us at the last call is the good that we do while here. William M. Peck.

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards. Preston Bradley.

They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing. Hindu proverb.

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used. Napoleon.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. Duguet.

More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went. Roger Babson.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them. Elbert Hubbard.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Emerson.

Experience shoes that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Babson.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. Orison Swett Marden. 

Beaten paths are for beaten men. Eric Johnston.

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work. Perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: "Don't grumble. Plug on!" Sir Fredrick Treves.

The person who fears to try is thus enslaved. Leonard E. Read.

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in the carrying of responsibilities. Jules Ormont.

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher.

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, when doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal---and they'll soon forget my number. Edith Armstrong. 

Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. Ruskin.

Take two workers in an organization. One limits his giving by wages he is paid. He insists on being paid instantly for what he does. That shows he is a man of limited imagination and intelligence. The other is a natural giver. His philosophy of life compels him to Make himself useful. He knows that if he takes care of other people's problems they will be forced to take care of him to protect their own interests. The more a man gives of himself to his work, the more he will get out of it, both in wages and satisfaction. J.T. Mackey.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some ones else's work in exchange for our own. There is not happiness except in the realization the we have accomplished something. Henry Ford.

The grand essential to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. Joseph Addison.

Continuous effort- not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. Liane Cordes.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson.

Worry is the misuse of the imagination. Mary Jo Crowley. 

What lies behind you and what lies before you pales insignificant when compared to what lies within you. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Be at matter great or small, you do it well or not at all. Mama Ziglar

If you're in something, get in it. If you're not in it, get out. Mama Ziglar

If you will set the example, you don't need to bother about setting the rules. Mama Ziglar. Wow! Now we know why Zig turned out so good! Mama was really sharp!!!

Success depends on previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. Confucius. 

RE-READ THIS AGAIN AND RECALL MY COMMENTS ON BECOMING EDUCATED LONG BEFORE YOU THINK YOU NEED THE EDUCATION.