Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes." ~ St. Clement of Alexandra

"Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement."~ Grover Cleveland


"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

[SmokeyBob]

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." ~ Florence Nightingale


"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle" ~ Abraham Lincoln


"Remember this--that very little is needed to make a happy life." ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

[SmokeyBob]

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love and to let it come in." ~ Morrie Schwartz

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let each new year find you a better man." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier." ~ Thomas Robert Gaines

[SmokeyBob]

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." ~ John Wooden

"To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.” ~ Joe Hill

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.”
~ W.H. Auden

[SmokeyBob]

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." ~ Mark Russell

“It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.” ~ Vera Nazarian

“Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience." ~ Allan Lokos

[SmokeyBob]

If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done. ~ Thomas Jefferson

[SmokeyBob]

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." ~ Mark Twain



“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.” ~ Win Borden



"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ~ Thomas A. Edison

[SmokeyBob]

"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too." ~ Dr. Seuss



“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as a wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld



“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

[SmokeyBob]

“If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday.” ~Mignon McLaughlin

“The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.” ~ Erma Bombeck

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” ~ Will Rogers

[SmokeyBob]

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” ~ William Arthur Ward

[SmokeyBob]

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." ~ Mary Kay Ash

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence." ~ Baslo

[SmokeyBob]

"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality." ~ John Stuart Mill


"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright


"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."
~ Flavia Weedn

[SmokeyBob]

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." ~ Vince Lombardi

"If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer." ~ Yogi Berra

"I have a terrible memory. I never forget a thing." ~ Edith Konecky

[SmokeyBob]

"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." ~ Harriet Woods


"An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald


"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone." ~ Emily Bronte

[SmokeyBob]

"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success." ~ Robert Orben

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet." ~ Stanislaw J. Lec

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." ~ Margaret Anderson