Quotes for the day

[anhaney]

Okay, here is a postive thread to post positive quotes that can get us through the rough winter months when we can't go boarding. Here is some to start the thread.

OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE

"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

"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back." -- Rubel Shelly

"Living in the past is kind of like living in a coffin…it’s totally constraining, and ends up being a lid on your growth…" -- Doug Firebaugh

"If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won’t be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret." -- Jim Rohn

[Jason B]

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette Davis

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour


Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Marion Barry

[Jason B]

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher


The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney


Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan

[anhaney]

FEAR


"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin,
and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."

Brendan Francis

[anhaney]

PARENTING/FAMILY

If you’ve had wonderful family relationships, you will be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you’ve achieved." - Vic Conant

"Destructive criticism in childhood causes you to fear failure and rejection as an adult." -- Brian Tracy

"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows." -- Erma Bombeck

"Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing." -- Jim Rohn

[anhaney]

A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
-- Danish Proverb

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
-- Albert Schweitzer

[Jason B]

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

Men are like parking spots, the good ones are taken and the free ones are handicapped



The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think


When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson

[Jason B]

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. - George Bush

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." -George W. Bush

[anhaney]

FEARLESSNESS

"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear.
It's the mastery of fear.
It's about getting up one more time than we fall down."

Arianna Huffington

[chadster2]

When in doubt, leave it out. MOM
You get freedom through discipline or discipline through freedom. DAD

[shake-n-bake]

"Don't be afraid to tell them where the Bear Sh*ts" my uncle

[Greg Mallek]

When in doubt, leave it out. MOM
You get freedom through discipline or discipline through freedom. DAD

An Excellent quote for all of us that have growing teen agers.

Thank you Chadster2 !!

[anhaney]

PASSION

"People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference." -- Luciano Pavarotti

"Chase your passion, not your pension!" -- Denis Waitley

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of love, and feed his sacred flame." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"If passion drive you, let reason hold the reins." -- Benjamin Franklin

[anhaney]

NO TIME FOR REST


Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Poet


In order to succeed, at times you have to make something from nothing.

Ruth Mickleby-Land

[anhaney]

POWER

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart Udall