10 of my Favorite Quotes, Part I
Many of the quotes below, have multiple applications. They can provide boundaries, and even alerts, that you might be getting close to a threshold you did not want to cross. Great quotes also improve your people skills.
1-What lies before you and what lies behind you should be of little concern to what lies within you. Emerson
2-A bad habit never goes away by itself. It’s always an undo-it-yourself project.
3-The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. Edmond Burke
4-People would worry less about what others think of them if they only realize how seldom they do.
5-No one was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what they gave. Calvin Coolidge
6-Criticizing another’s garden doesn’t keep the weeds out of your own.
7-Following the path of least resistance is what makes people and rivers cooked.
8-Your struggle may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
9-If it is to be, it is up to me.
10-What you don’t know through experience, you gain through exposure.
10 of my favorite quotes, Part II
11--Never judge a person’s horsepower by their exhaust.
12-There are a lot of ways to become a failure, yet never taking a chance is the most successful.
13-Those who are given to white lies soon become color blind.
14-Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.
15-Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.
16-How many people do you know who became successful at something they hate?
17-There are a lot of ways to become a failure, yet never taking a chance is the most successful.
18-There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
19-With today's access to information, most ignorance is vincible ignorance.. We don't know because we don't want to know.
20-A close friend exclaimed in a discussion, "there are two things wrong with America." The other person in the conversation said, "I don't know and I don't care." To which my friend said, "You got both of them right."