Wisdom To Start The Day ...........................

[Chris Ryser]

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Jesse Owens

[Chris Ryser]

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

T. Boone Pickens

[Chris Ryser]

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Thomas Fuller

[Chris Ryser]

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Jack Benny

[Chris Ryser]

Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

Source Unknown

[Chris Ryser]

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

W. C. Fields

[Chris Ryser]

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

[Chris Ryser]

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Leo Aikman

[Chris Ryser]

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

G. K. Chesterton

[Chris Ryser]

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

[Chris Ryser]

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Johann von Goethe

[Chris Ryser]

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Chris Ryser]

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

[Chris Ryser]

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewig

[Chris Ryser]

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

[Chris Ryser]

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

[Chris Ryser]

It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.

Samuel Smiles

[Chris Ryser]

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

[Chris Ryser]

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

James Barrie

[Chris Ryser]

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

[Chris Ryser]

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain

[Chris Ryser]

There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.

Gordon Graham

[Chris Ryser]

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

[Chris Ryser]

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

Ogden Nash

[Chris Ryser]

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live. Bayard Taylor