Positive Quote Of The Day June 2015

[pjbs35a]

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist

[Mrs Bus Driver]

Good one! :mickey:

[Jeff]

Excellent!:thumbsup:

[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

[Jeff]

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[Mrs Bus Driver]

Right on! :mickey:

[pjbs35a]

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.-- Walter Savage Landor

[Jeff]

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[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

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.-- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish Novelist

[pjbs35a]

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.-- Jesse Herman Holmes

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.-- Sydney Smith

[pjbs35a]

Activity and sadness are incompatible.-- Christian Bovee (1820-1904) American Lawyer, Author

[Jeff]

Not sure on that one!:confused:

[pjbs35a]

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

[pjbs35a]

Not sure on that one!:confused:

If you keep moving sadness can't catch you!
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[pjbs35a]

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.-- English proverb

[Jeff]

True!: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

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.-- Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) American Methodist Minister

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:and therefore I am retiring in 2 weeks!

[pjbs35a]

I had no vision of the scope of what I would start. But I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.-- Sam Walton

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are. -- James Mackintosh (1765-1832) Scottish Statesman, Historian

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

You sort of come face to face with your own values at some point, where you can walk away or do something about it.-- Scott Neeson, who left the presidency of Sony Pictures to found a nonprofit helping very poor children in Cambodia

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.— Sidney Sheldon

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too.-- Joseph Storey

[pjbs35a]

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.-- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States

[Jeff]

Both good!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Determine that a thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul.-- From an old English prayer.


HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

[Jeff]

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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]

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[pjbs35a]

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.-- Japanese proverb

[pjbs35a]

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.-- Gloria Gaither

[Jeff]

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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]

“If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.” (Anonymous)

[pjbs35a]

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.-- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American First Lady and Political Activist

[pjbs35a]

Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence and to victory, even though we know complete victory cannot be obtained, it must be pursued with all one’s might. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.-- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) American Football Coach

[Jeff]

Vince! The Great Motivator!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out into the world and doing something original.-- Tom Morris, from his book 'If Aristotle Ran General Motors'

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Politician

[Jeff]

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