One Moment of Patience & Impatience

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster.  One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. - Chinese Proverb

Opportunities.....

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. - Hugh Allen


When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. - William Hale White


Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. - William Arthur Ward

Christmas...

This is the message of Christmas:  We are never alone. - Taylor Caldwell

 As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. - Eric Sevareid

 Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.  To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.  ~Calvin Coolidge, 1927

Teamwork

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. - Bill Bradley

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Meade

In union there is strength. - Aesop

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.  You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. - Babe Ruth
 

Coffee.....

Hot coffee and cold winter mornings are two of the best soul mates who ever did find each other. - Terri Guillemets

Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee. - Alexander King

Nothing is sad on a beautiful morning save to look down and realize you just had the last sip of coffee and the mug sits indifferently empty. - Terri Guillemets

 Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee. - Stephanie Piro

 

Great Minds Have Purpose

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. - Washington Irving

Ideals

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. - Norman Douglas

Einstein on Technology

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

Thanksgiving by Teddy Roosevelt

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds - Theodore Roosevelt

Ansel Adams Quote

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter - Ansel Adams

Thanks For This Most Amazing Day!

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. - e.e. cummings

Flattery

What flatterers say, try to make true. - German Proverb

Mothers

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. - Tenneva Jordan

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter De Vries

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. - Robert Brault

Thoughts on Property

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.  ~Ayn Rand

The things you own end up owning you.  It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.  ~From the movie Fight Club

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.  ~Abraham Lincoln
 

Envy

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. - Harold Coffin

Beauty by John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. - John Muir

Good Manners

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.  If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use. - Emily Post

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer


Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. - Bill Kelly

The Beauty of Silence

“Be still, and know that I am God."  - Psalm 46:10

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. - William Penn

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. - Walter Bagehot

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.  ~Samuel Johnson

Silence is the mother of truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

We Judge...

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. - Ian Percy

More Marriages Might Survive If.....

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. - Doug Larson

Healthy Lifestyle

When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow."  Tomorrow is disease. - Terri Guillemets

Home Is.....

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. - Christian Morgenstern

Thrift!

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. - Calvin Coolidge

He who does not economize will have to agonize. - Confucius

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. - Seneca

Trust

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare


You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. - Frank Crane