QUOTES AND COMMON SENSE

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
      Chinese Proverb

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
      Benjamin Franklin

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
      Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
      Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
      Martin Luther King Jr.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong
       Charles Wadsworth

One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.
       James Long

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.
       Benjamin Franklin

It's what you do AFTER you get back up that counts.
       John Maxwell

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
       Mike Ditka

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
       Bill Cosby

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
       Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
       Albert Einstein

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal.
       Mike Ditka

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

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
       Steven Wright

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
       Rita Rudner

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
       Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.
       Fran Lebowitz

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
       Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech given in 1910 in Paris

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
       Albert Schweitzer, minister and 1952 Nobel Peace Price

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
       Grantland Rice

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
       Jules Renard

Great Wisdom, anonymous gathering of senseless thoughts.

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire.
• It's always darkest before dawn, so if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
• Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
• Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.
• It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a bad example.
• It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes.
• If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day.
• If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
• Don't squat with your spurs on.
• Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
• There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
• Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
• Never miss a good chance to shut up.
• We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

Difference between a goal and a dream is it's DEADLINE!  Stop dreaming and start attaining your goals!!

I watched the deck stands on the great liner United States, as they docked that ship in New York Harbor.  Then inside the boat the great motors went to work and pulled the great cable.  But oddly enough, the pier wasn't pulled out to the ship; but the ship was pulled snugly up to the pier.  Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together.  But it doesn't pull God down to us; it pulls us to Him.  - Billy Graham

Resentment is the cocaine of the emotions.  It causes our blood to pump and our energy level to rise.  But, also like cocaine, it demands increasingly large and more frequent dosages.  There is a dangerous point at which anger ceases to be an emotion and becomes a driving force.  A person bent on revenge moves unknowingly further and further away from being able to forgive, for to be without the anger is to be without a source of energy.  Hatred is the rabid dog that turns on its owner.  Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.  Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter.  And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.  - Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven