Wisdom To Start The Day,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Chris Ryser]

When an elderly woman was asked why she was standing in line to buy stamps from a teller when she could have used a stamp machine she replied: The machine won't ask me about my arthritis!

Source Unknown

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

Louis L'Amour

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Don't drive to the unemployment office in your Toyota and wonder why you're out of work.

Grandpa use to say that. I never knew what it meant till I was in my 20's.:p

Grampa was short sighted and misled you. He should have said " Son , if the North American car manufacturers don't learn why we love Toyotas and start to build Camry Quality into their products , marketing and way of treating a customer, then mark my words son, you will see them file for bankruptcy and beg for government protection. "

[Chris Ryser]

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Walter Savage Landor

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Mario Puzo

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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

Wilson Mizner

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The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

Earl Nightingale

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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Epicurus

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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Samuel Lover

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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.

Nonnee Coan

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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

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Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.

Dr. David Schwartz

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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Will Rogers

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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Roger Bannister

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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck

Euripides

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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

E. Joseph Cossman

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If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

B. Traven

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Source Unknown

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Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

Leo Durocher