Thought for the day or Something to think about.

[SmokeyBob]

"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship." ~Dick Gregory

If you're on a ball field and someone shouts "Heads up!" don't actually raise your head up. Cover it with your arms and duck.

"I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does."
~Joe Garagiola

[SmokeyBob]

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
~Samuel Ullman

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like you do when nobody's watching.
~Unknown

Dreams have the power to take us anywhere. Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is the health of every man.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[SmokeyBob]

It doesn't matter if you win or lose, until you lose... then it matters.

"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether *I* win or lose."
~Darrin Weinberg

"Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives."
~Joan Rivers

[SmokeyBob]

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
~Samuel Johnson

I have never been drunk, but I've often been overserved.
~George Gobel

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."
~Jim Bishop

[SmokeyBob]

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
~A.W. Pinero

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
~Unknown

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
~David Viscott

[SmokeyBob]

The greatest discovery is that a person can change their future by merely changing their attitude.
~Unknown

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
~Franklin P. Jones

Life is a series of problems. Either you're in one now, you're just coming out of one or you're getting ready to go into another one.
~Unknown

[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

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
~B.C. Forbes

[JSadler]

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

Need to use this one with my students.

[SmokeyBob]

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

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

Success doesn't come to you. You go to it.
~Marva Collins

[SmokeyBob]

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

~Allan K. Chalmers

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
~Helen Keller

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
~Cynthia Nelms

[SmokeyBob]

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast, you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

~Eddie Cantor

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
~Mary Tyler Moore

Enjoy the little things, for one day, you may look back and realize they were the big things.
~Robert Brault

[SmokeyBob]

To be satisfied with what one has, that is wealth.
~Mark Twain

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
~Unknown

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
~Kathleen A. Sutton

[SmokeyBob]

Hating people is like burning down your own house to try to get rid of a rat.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
~Jim Fox

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end, it's the beginning.
~Orrin Hatch

[SmokeyBob]

When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes fail. But you only fail if you give up.
~J. Peterman

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
~Unknown

It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.
~Dana Meadows

[SmokeyBob]

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
~Kurt Vonnegut

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~Unknown

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~Cicero