Positive Quote Of The Day June 2009

[pjbs35a]

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is
evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.

-- Calvin Coolidge

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

-- Norman MacFinan

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

Thank you:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those
who can do nothing for them or to them.

-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

Cool, thanks:thumbsup:

[DeniseMB]

The hardest mountains to climb have the most spectcular views. :mickey:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Anger is a prelude to courage.

-- Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

[ibrowse17]

So true, thanks:thumbsup:

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

-- Linda Ellerbee (1944- ) American Journalist

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

-- Wilma Askinas (1926- ) American Author

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

-- Brooke Astor

[vizsla]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

Very true, thanks:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

-- W.J. Slim

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

-- Joshua L. Liebman

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

-- General George S. Patton

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

-- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Writer



Tomorrow I am heading to Omaha for a few days to see LSU play in the College World Series. I should be back next Wednesday.

Think Positive!!!

[Jeff]

Great one!

[pjbs35a]

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

[vizsla]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

-- Harold E. Stassen

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

-- English proverb

[Jeff]

Thanks Frankie

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.

-- Mabel Newcomber

[ibrowse17]

Very true, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

-- Elbert Hubbard

[ibrowse17]

Very good, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled from no danger through cowardice.

-- J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[Jeff]

Great one!:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul.

-- From an old English prayer.

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of
immortality.

-- John Quincy Adams

[Jeff]

Nice thought!

[ibrowse17]

Cool idea, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

-- H. A. Overstreet

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

-- Terence

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Thank you:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

-- C.A. Beard

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and
lifting people up.

-- John Andrew Holmes

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

So true, thanks:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

-- Hindu proverb

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.

-- Duguet

[ibrowse17]

Nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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