Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
~Joseph Sugarman

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
~Whoopi Goldberg

[SmokeyBob]

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
~Thomas Carlyle

The value of compassion cannot be over emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
~Arthur H. Stainback

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
~James Thurber

[SmokeyBob]

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow; let no soul ask to be free from pain, for the gall of today is the sweet of tomorrow and the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~Unknown

There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
~Carl W. Buechner

[SmokeyBob]

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
~Albert Einstein

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
~Henry David Thoreau

At the moment, you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand and you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.
~Lily Tomlin

[SmokeyBob]

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
~Thomas Alva Edison

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
~Napoleon Hill

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

[SmokeyBob]

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
~Ann Landers

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
~Orison Swett Marden

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
~Laurence J. Peter

[SmokeyBob]

You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
~Meredith Wilson

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
~Mark Twain

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
~Barry Switzer

[SmokeyBob]

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
~Benjamin Franklin

Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
~Unknown

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
~Yugoslav proverb

[SmokeyBob]

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
~Mother Teresa

We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're going to get in the end. It's not the final curtain. It's really in the doing it and loving what you're doing.
~Ralph Lauren

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
~Helen Keller

[SmokeyBob]

Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing and conveys much.
~Erastus Wiman

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
~Charles Du Bos

[SmokeyBob]

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
~Goethe

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~Josh Billings

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

[SmokeyBob]

"Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do."
~Ivan Turgenev

"And goodness only knowses/ The Noselessness of Man."
~G. K. Chesterton

"A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose."
~Mark Twain

[SmokeyBob]

A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares, but has learned how to deal with them.
~Beverly Sills

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief, but intrinsic participation with it.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

Pray diligently. Stay alert, with your eyes wide open in gratitude.
~Colossians 4:2

[SmokeyBob]

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all: to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
~Leo. C. Rosten

Intelligent is a term used to describe someone who agrees with you.
~Unknown

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. But while we wait, we need to prepare symbolically a place for our hopes and dreams.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach

[SmokeyBob]

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender."
~Mary Lorraine Buckley

"Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it."
~Lady Duff-Gordon

"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends."
~Benjamin Franklin