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

[Chris Ryser]

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

[Chris Ryser]

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Publilius Syrus

[Chris Ryser]

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

William Saroyan

[Chris Ryser]

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Wheeler

[Wes]

What a coincidence that you might say that.

[Chris Ryser]

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

[Chris Ryser]

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Chris Ryser]

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

Charles Dickens

[Chris Ryser]

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

Maxwell Maltz

[Chris Ryser]

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

[Chris Ryser]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

[Chris Ryser]

If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price

Source Unknown

[Chris Ryser]

There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.

Napoleon Bonaparte

[Chris Ryser]

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

[Chris Ryser]

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

Oscar Wilde

[Chris Ryser]

Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Alphonse Karr

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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.

William Shakespeare

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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Horace

[Chris Ryser]

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

Kin Hubbard

[Chris Ryser]

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

[Chris Ryser]

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

[Robert Martellaro]

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
― Abraham Lincoln

[Chris Ryser]

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirk Kirkpatrick

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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Lena Horne