Wisdom to start the Day ..................................

[Chris Ryser]

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

-Charles Caleb Colton

[Chris Ryser]

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

-Alexander Cannon

[Chris Ryser]

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

-Source Unknown

[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]

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]

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

-Anon.

[Chris Ryser]

When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part of the problem or part of the solution?

-Source Unknown

[Chris Ryser]

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

-Robert A. Heinlein

[Chris Ryser]

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

-Immermann

[Chris Ryser]

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

-Leo Durocher

[Chris Ryser]

There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.

-Proverb

[Chris Ryser]

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

-Bertrand Russell

[Chris Ryser]

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

-Konrad Lorenz

[varzay]

if you want to be motivated feel the other person as motivation is not one sided

[Chris Ryser]

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

-Germain G. Glien

[Chris Ryser]

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and ;him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.

-Erastus Wiman

[Chris Ryser]

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

-Dale Carnegie

[Chris Ryser]

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[Chris Ryser]

If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid.

-David Eccles

[Chris Ryser]

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some

-Charles Dickens

[Chris Ryser]

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

-Earl Nightingale

[Chris Ryser]

Every story has three sides. Yours, mine and the facts.

-Foster M. Russell

[Tallula]

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert A. Heinlein
I admire the wisdom of this author. I read his book many times. This is a quote from here.

[Chris Ryser]

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

-Jim Rohn

[Chris Ryser]

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

-Ernest Benn