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Happy Birthday America!

July 3, 2011 Posted by | Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Thinking (believing in the possibilities)…Enjoy your Friday!

If you think you are beaten, you are

If you think you dare not, you don’t,

If you like to win, but you think you can’t

It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost

For out of the world we find,

Success begins with a fellow’s will

It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are

You’ve got to think high to rise,

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before

You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man,

But soon or late the man who wins

Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!

Source: Walter D. Wintle, Poet, 1905; Blog distribution provided by Kenneth Bargers and Bargers Solutions residential real estate services located in Nashville, Tennessee

April 1, 2011 Posted by | dedication, Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Enjoy your Friday! Aphorisms; 110510…

Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. – Ogden Nash 

Don`t worry about avoiding temptation… as you grow older, it will avoid you. – Winston Churchill 

In jealousy there is more self-love than love. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld 

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don`t have it. – George Bernard Shaw 

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. – Mark Twain 

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton 

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. – Margaret Thatcher 

It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak. – Jean Paul Richter 

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. – Plato 

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – William Faulkner

November 5, 2010 Posted by | humor, Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Enjoy your Friday! Quotes of Inspiration and Thought (100110)…

Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after. – Henry David Thoreau 

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. – Author Unknown 

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. – William Hazlitt 

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein 

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. – William Shedd 

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. – Lucretius 

Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. – Josh Billings 

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. – Hypocrites 

The acts of this life are the destiny of the next. – Eastern Proverb

October 1, 2010 Posted by | Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Enjoy Your Friday! Inspirational Quotes for September 24, 2010…

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.  Confucius 

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.  Henry Ward Beecher 

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.  Italian Proverb 

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.  Thomas Paine 

In adversity those talents are called forth which are concealed by prosperity.  Horace 

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.  Chinese Proverb 

There is more to life than increasing its speed.  Mahatma Ghandi 

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.  Catherine the Great 

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  Martin Luther King, Jr. 

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.  H. C. Payne

September 24, 2010 Posted by | Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Enjoy your Friday! Aphorisms of Wisdom and Ignorance (091710)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. 

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. 

Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don’t speak. 

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. 

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. 

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. 

Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. 

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. 

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

September 17, 2010 Posted by | Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Enjoy Today’s Aphorisms – Life and Death – 082710

The brave don’t live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all. Here’s to the brave! – Timothy Luce 

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. – William Osler 

I’ve been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn’t require my presence. – Gary Trudeau 

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road. – Unknown 

You are only young once… but you can be immature your whole life. – Unknown 

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other’s funeral. – Kehlog Albran 

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Hector Berlioz 

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life! – Garth Brooks 

Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. – Susan Ertz 

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. – M. Grundler

August 27, 2010 Posted by | Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Enjoy Today’s Aphorisms – Success and Failure – 082010

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already. – Soren Kierkegaard 

I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader. – Unknown 

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. – Charlie McCarthy 

A ship doesn’t travel far in a calm sea. – Unknown 

It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead. – William Markiewicz 

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach 

Modesty is the opium of the mediocre. – Marty Milner 

An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it. – Unknown 

Just because you’ve been wiping your %^& for twenty years, that doesn’t mean you’ve been doing it right. – Unknown 

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. – Wallace Arnold

August 20, 2010 Posted by | Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Enjoy your Friday! Are you an Optimist or Pessimist?

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”  Gil Stern 

“A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them.”  Leonard Louis Levinson 

“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.” Daniel L. Reardon 

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!” Oscar Wilde 

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”  Lucille Ball 

“I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.” Nancy Reagan 

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.” Muhammed Ali 

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” Helen Keller 

Source: Famous Quotes of Optimism

July 16, 2010 Posted by | Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Happy New Year! – Wishing you a safe celebration…

Be safe on this New Year’s Eve whether you are celebrating out on the town, with family and friends, or at home with loved ones toasting the New Year!

“We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”  Edith Lovejoy Pierce

December 31, 2009 Posted by | Inspiration, quotes | , , , , , | Leave a Comment

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