ATTITUDE
7) Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
8) Smile it increases your face value.
9) The control center of your life is your attitude.
10) Use what talents you have. The woods would be a quiet place
if no birds sang except those who sang best.
11) We may only save part of the day, but the attitude we take,
not the circumstances we face is critical.
12) What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
13) When a shower brings a rainbow we hardly remember getting wet.
14) Your attitude will determine your altitude.
15) Your life is in the hands of any fool that can make you lose
your temper.
BEAUTY
16) God gave us memories so that we can have roses in December.
17) If you think the world is all wrong, remember it contains people
like you and me.
18) If you think you have no faults, that makes one more.
19) It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow.
20) Money can’t buy sunsets, songs of wild birds, and the music
of the wind in trees-these are as free as the air we breath.
21) Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.
CHILDREN
22) A baby is born with the need to be loved---and never outgrows
it.
23) A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
24) Children need more models than critics.
25) Correction does much, encouragement does more.
26) If there is anything we wish to change in a child we must first
examine it and see if it is not something better changed in ourselves.
27) Patriotism is not so much protecting the land of your fathers
but preserving the land of our children.
28) The best thing you can spend on children is your time.
29) The only way to make your children miserable is to satisfy all
their desires.
30) The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is
to sit down and look comfortable.
31) We need to be patient with our children the same way God is
patient with us.
CONVERSATION
32) A good test for conversation: if you wouldn’t write it and sign
you name to it-don’t say it.
33) An apology is the best way to have the last word.
34) Better to slip with your foot than your tongue. A closed mouth
catches no feet.
35) Discussion is an exchange of knowledge. Argument is an exchange
of ignorance.
36) Having a sharp tongue can cut your throat.
37) It’s better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you
are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
38) No matter what language we speak, we all laugh in the same tongue.
39) Silence is the only thing that can’t be misquoted.
40) Swallowing angry words is better then having to eat them.
41) Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion.
42) The hardest thing about business is minding you own.
43) The only fair way to talk to people is to speak to them as though
you knew they were listening in.
44) The person who is always blowing his own horn is usually off
key.
45) There will always be people who know the last word about everything
and the first word about nothing.
46) Think twice before you speak, especially if you intend to say
what you think.
47) Too many of us speak twice before we think
48) When you speak you only learn what you already know. When you
listen you learn what somebody else knows.
COURAGE
49) Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage.
50) Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
51) I am but one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can
do something.
52) I used to ask, “Why doesn’t somebody do something?” Then I realized
I was somebody.
53) Once you find courage to get out of bed in the morning, the
rest of the day should be easy.
54) We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to
lose sight of the shore.
55) You have become a mature person when keeping a secret gives
you more satisfaction then passing it along.
DREAMS
56) If you believe you can or if you believe you can’t, you’re right.
57) If you don’t practice you don’t deserve to dream.
58) You see things that are and say “WHY?” I see things that never
were and say “WHY NOT?”
FAITH
59) A small leak can sink a great ship.
60) Don’t be ashamed when you cry, Testimonies don’t grow unless
there watered.
61) Faith and works are like the light and heat of a candle; they
cannot be separated.
62) Faith can light a candle in the darkest night.
63) Faith makes things possible not easy.
64) I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can
do something. And what I can do, with the help of God, I will do.
65) I am the way, the truth, and the life. No men come unto the
father, but by me.
66) If God does not guide you will be guided by something or someone
else.
67) It doesn’t take money to pay tithing... it takes faith.
68) Joseph Smith, the prophet and seer of the Lord, has done more,
save Christ alone, for the salvation for man in this world, than any other
man that ever lived.
69) Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
70) Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good
works and glorify you father which is in heaven.
71) Make up your mind that you can’t and you will always be right.
72) There are no detour signs along the straight and narrow path.
73) To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
74) We are not human beings having spiritual experiences rather
spiritual beings having human experiences.
75) We never lose our religion by a blowout, usually it is just
a slow leek.
76) When the way is rough your patience has a chance to grow.
77) When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
78) You must believe to achieve.
FRIENDS
79) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
80) A friend is someone who comes to you when all others leave.
81) A friend is someone who knows everything about you and still
likes you just the same.
82) A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.
83) A good example is the best serum.
84) Being a good friend is a 24-hour job.
85) Do unto others as though you were the others.
86) Friendship fills up a lot of little ruts in the road!
87) I will not complain today, I will listen with patient understanding
to those who do.
88) Instead of loving your enemies; try treating your friends a
little better.
89) Never do anything you can’t ask God to help you do.
90) One may walk over the highest mountain, one step at a time.
91) Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from our books of possibilities.
92) Pray for a good harvest but continue to hoe.
93) Prepare and prevent instead of repair and repent.
94) The best vitamin for making friends is B-1.
95) The more difficult the obstacle the stronger one becomes from
hurdling it.
96) The most we can do is our best.
97) The one thing worse than being alone is wishing you were.
98) When you’re sick friends can be the best medicine.
99) Words are easy like the wind, faithful friends are hard to find.
100) Your best friend is the one who is a friend without expecting
anything.
GODHEAD
101) All that I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all
I have not seen.
102) Definition of a mission: Two-year “Trip” on L.D.S.”
103) Don’t ask God for what you think is good; ask him for what
he thinks is good for you.
104) Draw nearer to God and he will draw nearer to you.
105) Each day is God’s gift to you. Make it blossom and grow into
a thing of beauty.
106) Give your troubles to God, he will be up all night anyway.
107) God does not take away the darkness. He guilds us through it.
108) God hath entrusted me with myself.
109) God hath made all men to be happy.
110) God is closest to those with a broken heart.
111) God supplies us with the opportunity, but he can’t take advantage
of it for us.
112) God wants us to succeed, and he understands success better
than we do.
113) God will never abandon those who abandon themselves to god.
114) God’s retirement plan is out of this world.
115) I know I’m special cuz God don’t make no junk.
116) I will not complain today, I will listen with patient understanding
to those who do.
117) If it is true that it is whom we know, not what we know that
counts, let us be sure to know the lord.
118) If people thanked God for the good things, they wouldn’t have
time to complain about the bad.
119) If we give everything we have for eternal life it will still
be the best bargain we ever made.
120) If we think celestial thoughts, which are the kind of thoughts
that God thinks, then we develop celestial minds.
121) If you are not so close to God as you once were, you need not
wonder whom it is that moved.
122) If you believe in the Lord he will do all the work-but the
last half.
123) If you get the tools ready then God will find the work.
124) It is difficult to make a man miserable if he feels that he
is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
125) It is not that God does not speak to us, it’s that we do not
listen to God.
126) Life is like a chess game, you are white, and God is black.
127) No Jesus No peace, Know Jesus Know peace.
128) Please be patient! God isn’t finished with me yet!
129) Popularity comes from pleasing people but greatness comes from
pleasing God.
130) Reach up as far as you can and God will reach down the rest
of the way.
131) Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.
132) The greatest power in the world is God’s love.
133) The only way to realize we are God’s children is to let Christ
lead us to our father.
134) Today, I will chose to work with God’s purposes, not against
them.
135) What I can do, by the grace of God, I will.
136) What the world needs is a loudspeaker for the still small voice.
137) What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift
to God.
138) Without God, I can’t. Without me, God won’t.
139) Work for the lord, the pay isn’t much but the retirement plan
is out of this world.
140) You can do everything right as a parent, but if you don’t begin
with loving God you are going to fail.
GREAT TRUTHS OF LIFE
141) A memory is a treasure that survives.
142) A pint can’t hold a quart; if it holds a pint, it’s doing all
that is expected of it.
143) A pint of examples is worth a gallon of advice.
144) Adversity introduces a man to himself.
145) Any fault recognized is half-correct.
146) Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
147) Being right half the time beats being half right all the time.
148) Better to ask twice then to loose your way once.
149) Beware of what you want for you might get it.
150) Church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
151) Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
152) For every problem there is an opportunity.
153) Forbidden fruit is responsible for many bad jams.
154) Give a man a fish, you’ve fed him once; teach a man to fish,
you’ve fed him for a lifetime.
155) Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
156) He is braver who overcomes desire that he who overcomes his
enemies.
157) He that waits for repentance waits for that which cannot be
had as long as it is waited for.
158) He who throws mud losses ground.
159) If others have sinned you need not mention it.
160) If you always do what you always did, than you’ll always get
what you always got.
161) If you are not committed to something you are just talking
up space.
162) Influence is something you think you have until you try to
use it.
163) It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to
enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering.
164) It is better to learn late--than never.
165) It was pride that changed angels into devils it is family that
makes man into angels.
166) It would be nice if we could forget our problems as easy as
we forget our blessings.
167) It’s temper that gets most of us in trouble and pride that
keeps us there.
168) Jumping to conclusions may be bad exercise.
169) No matter how long you nurse a grudge it won’t get any better.
170) No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
171) No one raises their reputation by lowering others.
172) Nothing in this world is good or bad but thinking makes it
so.
173) Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must
be overcome first.
174) Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
175) One of the greatest pleasures in life is doing what people
say you can’t.
176) Only he who attempts the ridiculous can achieve the impossible.
177) Opportunity always looks bigger going away than coming.
178) Perhaps you can’t be a star, but you need not to be a cloud.
179) Remember to be little, one must be little.
180) Service is the price you pay for the space you occupy.
181) Simple solutions seldom are.
182) Sin has many tools but a lie is the handle that gets them all.
183) Sitting down never makes footprints in the sand of time.
184) Some people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging
their prejudices.
185) Sow a thought, reap an act, sow an act, Reap a heart. Reap
a character sow a character reap a destiny.
186) The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your
own arms.
187) The greatest mistake you can make is to continually fear you
will make one.
188) The greatest of all our faults is to imagine that we have none.
189) The impossible is often untried.
190) The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.
191) The only way to be nothing is to do nothing.
192) The poorest people in the world are the ones who have more
than they need and feel it is still not enough.
193) The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
194) The smallest good dead is greater than the grandest intention.
195) The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice.
196) The three worst frustrations in life are to lie in bed and
sleep not, to wait for one who comes not, and to try to please and please
not.
197) The trouble with doing something right the first time is that
no one realizes how difficult it was but it is always worth the effort.
198) The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
199) The worst punishment of all is that the court of his own conscience,
no guilty man is acquitted.
200) There are two freedoms-the false, where a man is free to do
what he likes; the truth, where a man is free to do what he ought.
201) Those who can’t forget are worse off than those who can’t remember.
202) Truth is the greatest thing that man may keep.
203) When a man is wrapped up in himself he usually makes a pretty
small package.
204) When looking for faults use a mirror not a telescope.
205) When one door closes, another one opens; but we often look
so long and regretfully at the locked door, that we do not see the one
that has opened for us.
206) Wouldn’t it be wonderful if, when we loose our temper, we couldn’t
find it again.
207) You cannot keep trouble from coming, but you needn’t give it
a chair to sit on.
208) You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
HAPPINESS
209) Enjoy the now!
210) Every life has its dark and cheerful hours; happiness comes
from choosing which to remember.
211) Every minute I am angry I lose 60 seconds of happiness.
212) Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the
inward things we are.
213) Happiness does not come from the destination, but from making
the journey.
214) Happiness is an inside job.
215) Happiness is like jam; you can’t spread even a little bit without
getting some on yourself.
216) Happiness is not an absence of problems, but the ability to
deal with them.
217) He who chops his own wood gets warm twice.
218) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
219) I rejoice my ability to learn, to grow, and to receive inspiration
from my Heavenly Father.
220) If you want to be more happy, be more religious.
221) Keeping away from manure is better than washing it off.
222) Learn to forgive with bitterness in your soul, you can never
be happy.
223) Seek joy in what you give, not what you get.
224) The darkest hour is only 60 minutes long.
225) The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts/.
226) The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime.
227) The secret of life is not doing what one likes but liking what
one has to do.
228) The sound of laughter is the most civilized music in the world.
229) The world is full of people looking for happiness while they
snub contentment.
230) When the outlook is poor, try the uplook.
231) You can complain because roses have thorns or rejoice because
thorn bushes have roses.
232) You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying over you
but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.
233) You cannot pursue happiness and catch it. Happiness comes upon
you unaware while you are helping others.
234) You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
HEAVEN
235) Better to serve in heaven than to rein in hell.
236) Heaven would often be unjust if it answered all our prayers.
237) Remember--we can’t handle dirty things and keep clean hands.
238) We are not human beings having spiritual experiences but rather
Spiritual beings having human experiences.
HUMOR
239) A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
240) Always remember to pillage before you burn.
241) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he will
never cease to be entertained.
242) Catch the bear before you sell his skin.
243) Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
244) If at first you don’t succeed, don’t go skydiving.
245) If you can laugh at it than you can live with it.
246) If you loose the power to laugh than you have lost the power
to think.
247) If you thing driving recklessly is funny, you may die laughing.
248) If you’re given an open book exam chances are you will forget
your book.
249) In the beginning there was nothing then God said “let there
be light.” Then there was still nothing it was just easier to see.
250) INSOMNIA: A contagious disease often passed from babies
to their parents.
251) It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer
in laboratory animals.
252) Keep busy at something. A very busy person has no time to be
unhappy.
253) Laughter crowds tension out of our lives, brings worry to a
halt, and gives the personality a chance to stretch.
254) No one is entirely useless…you can always serve as a bad example.
255) Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
256) Nothing is as tiresome as doing nothing, you can’t rest and
you can’t quit.
257) Nothing is quite so annoying as to have someone go right on
talking when you’re interrupting.
258) Paul’s Law: You can’t fall off the floor.
259) Psychiatrists say 1 out of 4 people are mentally ill. Check
3 friends, if there’re ok you’re it.
260) Remember the days when popular music made you want to tap you
feet on the floor, not bang your head on the wall.
261) Remember--Forest fires prevent bears.
262) Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they
go.
263) Stand up that you might be seen; speak up that you might be
heard, shut up that you might be appreciated.
264) The fly that buzzes the loudest gets swatted first.
265) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity.
266) The world is a wonderful and beautiful place and everyone should
just shut up and enjoy it every once in a while.
267) Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from
where you put them to where you can’t find them.
268) Woman should stop having children at 35,35 children is enough.
269) Would it be so bad to die laughing?
HOME
270) Home is not were you live, but were your understood.
271) Home is where you are treated best and grumble most.
HONESTY
272) A bad conscience has a very good memory.
273) Another good thing about telling the truth is that you don’t
have to remember what you said.
274) Dishonesty is like a boomerang, about the time you think all
is well, it hits you in the back of the head.
275) If we could see ourselves as others see us we would probably
deny it.
276) Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
277) This above all to thine own self be true, and it must fallow
as the night the day.
278) We lie most when we lie to ourselves.
279) What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
280) When you tell the truth you never have to worry about your
lousy memory.
KINDNESS
281) A kind word is never lost; it keeps going on, from one person
to another, until it comes back to you again
282) Christmas is more than just getting gifts, it’s giving.
283) Do all the good you can by all means you can in all the ways
you can in all the places you can.
284) Feelings are everywhere, be gentle!
285) Help people reach their full potential. Catch them doing something
right.
286) How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.
287) I am part of all I have met.
288) I will set aside my wants for this day and make it a better
day for someone else.
289) If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word that
you have spoken about people and collect five cents for every unkind word,
would you be rich or poor?
290) If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
291) If you meet a man who can’t smile give him one of yours.
292) If you sew kindness you will reap a crop of friends.
293) It’s hard to give a hug without getting one in return.
294) It’s nice to be important but it is more important to be nice.
295) Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.
296) Kindness is like fresh fallen snow; it makes beautiful everything
it touches.
297) Kindness is the language deaf people hear and blind people
see.
298) Learn to say kind things, nobody ever resents them.
299) Life is not so short but there is always time for courtesy.
300) May I grasp the opportunity to be kind to somebody today.
301) Never does the human soul become more strong as when it dares
to forgive an injury.
302) People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
303) People don’t care how much you know until they know how much
you care.
304) Spread kindness as you go along because life is a one way street
and you’re not coming back.
305) The best way to cheer up yourself is to try to cheer up someone
else.
306) The best way to get rid of an enemy is make him your friend.
307) The ones, whom you should try to get even with, are the ones
who have helped you.
308) There is a lot of thanks in giving.
309) There is no better exercise for the heart than reaching down
and lifting someone up.
310) To be able to love a butterfly we must care for a few caterpillars.
311) When I bask in self-pity, take my hand to show me those who
are truly suffering and fill me with a desire to ease their pain.
312) You never really own anything, until you give it away.
313) You should give till the lord stops giving to you.
KNOWLEDGE
314) If you have knowledge, let others light their candles by it.
315) To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give
it.
316) When you help someone up a hill you are that much closer to
the top yourself.
LIFE
317) Believe life is worth living and it will be.
318) Don’t spend your entire life at the end of a string that someone
else is holding.
319) If you want a man who will be the best husband, find one who
is wearing our scriptures
320) If you want a woman who will be the best wife, find one who
is wearing our scriptures
321) Instead of counting your days, make your days count.
322) It is better to aim for the stars and hit the fence, than to
aim for the fence and hit the manure.
323) Just to be is a blessing, just to live is holy.
324) Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you
were going to die tomorrow.
325) Life is a precious gift keep it unwrapped in love.
326) Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never
use.
327) Like life, few gardens only have flowers.
328) Look to God and live.
329) Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a
life.
330) Nine-tenths of efficiency is pureness.
331) People judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
332) The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter, to be
productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at
all.
333) There is no such thing as a problem that doesn’t have a gift.
334) Today is the last day of life because today is life.
335) When men speak ill of thee, live so that no one will beleive
them.
336) When you’re through changing, you’re through living.
337) You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when, you
can only decide how you are going to live.
LOVE
338) A smile is a curve that often can set a lot of things straight.
339) Do all your work in love.
340) Don’t wait for a crisis to discover what is important in your
life.
341) For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
that whatsoever beleiveth in him should not perish but have everlasting
life. -John 3:16
342) God can do wonders with a broken heart if you will give him
all the pieces.
343) God cares for people through people.
344) In spite of what God knows about us (and that is more than
we know about ourselves) he loves us.
345) Love is the fruit of all seasons at all times and within the
reach of every hand.
346) Marriage is the best method ever for becoming aquatinted.
347) Most smiles are started by another smile
348) Patience is the ability to idol your motor when you feel like
stripping you gears.
349) Peace is not a season it is a way of life.
350) People become lonely when they build walls instead of bridges.
351) People judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
352) Replace anger with love, irritation with tolerance, and frustration
with hope.
353) Sympathy is never wasted except for when you use it on yourself.
354) Tears are often the telescope through witch men can see far
into heaven.
355) The bitterest tears shed over the graves are for words left
unsaid and deeds left undone.
356) The door to the human heart can be opened only from the inside.
357) The first great gift we can bestow on one another is a good
example.
358) The greatest gift I could give you is if you could see yourself
the way I do.
359) The smile on your face is the light in the window telling people
you are home.
360) The soul would have no rainbows, if the eyes had no tears.
361) To love and be loved is to feel the sun through both sides.
362) Today is the last day of life because today is life.
363) We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
364) What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult
for each other?
365) When God shuts a door he opens a window.
366) Where the heart is, the mind works best.
367) You give but little when you give of your possessions, it is
when you give of yourself when you truly give.
PRAYER
368) Brigham Young said, “If you don’t feel in the mood to prey,
stay on your knees until you do”.
369) Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, prey for powers
equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work will be no miracle, but
you shall be the miracle.
370) Don’t be discouraged; it’s often the last key in the bunch
that opens the lock.
371) Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience
is what you get from not reading it.
372) Give me the grace to forgive those who have hurt and offended
me.
373) God grant me the patience to accept what I cannot change, the
courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
374) God, help me never to judge my brother until I have walked
a mile in his shoes.
375) Heavenly Father hear my prayer for forgiveness for all my sins-and
teach me how to forgive myself.
376) Heavenly Father, I thank you for your gentle guidance. You
have given me the ability to choose.
377) Heavenly Father, with your help I can distinguish between worthy
challenges and empty challenges.
378) Help is as far as your knees, heaven never closes.
379) Help me to be kind, loving and merciful today even in the most
trying situations.
380) Help me to be pleasant today; to speak kindly and to act and
feel concern for those whom I come in contact with.
381) Help me to forget my painful memories and press on with living
a joyous life.
382) Help me to make a difference in someone’s life so that they
will be glad I am their friend.
383) Help me to remember to tell people when I appreciate them and
when I am grateful for their services.
384) Help me to take advantage of every opportunity I have to help
someone a helping hand, a kind word, or a pat on the back.
385) I prey for the courage to embrace dreams and the strength to
sacrifice for them.
386) If you are looking up for help you may want to be on you knees.
387) If your troubles are deep seated and of long standing, try
kneeling.
388) It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
389) Kneeling keeps you in good standing with the lord.
390) Let me always have the strength, the courage, and the loyalty
to follow what is right.
391) Let me never be afraid of endings or beginnings.
392) Let me not be content to wait and see what will happen, but
give me the determination to make the right things happen.
393) Let us live so that we are not afraid to die and when we die
we are not afraid to live again.
394) Life is fragile-handle with prayer.
395) Lord help me to reach out to others- that may be just as scared
as I am.
396) Lord help my words to be gracious and tender today, for tomorrow
I may have to eat them.
397) Lord when we are wrong, make us willing to change, and when
we are right make us easy to live with.
398) Lord, give me strength and courage for the days ahead, for
I know not what I will be called upon to endure.
399) May I learn to live as the scriptures teach.
400) Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can’t
answer.
401) Never read anything that is not worth remembering.
402) Only when you have knelt before God can you stand before
man.
403) Pray hardest when it’s hardest to pray.
404) Seven days without a prayer makes one weak.
405) Soften my heart when anger has closed it to those who have
upset me.
406) Some people won’t look up until they are flat on their backs.
407) Teach me how to be forgiving and loving towards those who have
hurt me.
408) The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
409) The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge
has increased so much faster then our wisdom.
410) The greatest ignorance of all is to reject something you know
nothing about.
411) The Lord gave you two ends one for sitting and one for thinking.
412) The only way to avoid mistakes is to gain experience. The only
way to gain experience is to make mistakes
413) The wise carry their knowledge as they carry their watches,
not foe display but for useful information.
414) There would be fewer arguments if we tried to determine what’s
right instead of who’s right.
415) When I am wrong, make me willing to change, and when I am right
make me easy to live with.
416) Why do we do what we do when we know what we know?
417) Why worry when you can pray.
418) Wisdom is knowing what to do, skill is knowing how to do it,
virtue is doing it will.
419) With your help O Lord, I will be a better person: a caring,
supportive, helpful person to do your will.
420) You are a child of God. Call Home!
421) You have to know yourself before you can share that self with
others.
MEN
422) A father is a banker provided by nature.
423) Fathers are pals nowadays because they don’t have the guts
to be fathers.
SUCCESS
424) ‘Tis looking downward that makes one dizzy.
425) “Remember Faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly
kindness, godliness, charity, humility and diligence.
426) A life with out a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
427) A merry heart doth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
428) A true leader faces the music even when he dislikes the tune.
429) Act as if it were impossible to fail.
430) Act as if you were something, and you will become that something.
431) An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off
the goal you are trying to reach.
432) Don’t be content with being average. Average is as close to
the top as it is to the bottom.
433) Don’t be discouraged everyone who got were he is started where
he was
434) Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well you
can do a big thing well to.
435) How high I am, how far I see, how far I reach depends on me.
436) I’m not concerned that you’ve fallen, I’m concerned that you’ll
arise.
437) If you blame others for your failures, do you then credit them
for your successes?
438) If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
439) If you don’t know were you are going, how will you know when
you get there.
440) It is better to plan too much and only get half of it done,
than to plan nothing and accomplish it.
441) It is hard to try and fail, but it is worse to have never tried
to succeed.
442) Lay stepping-stones, not stumbling blocks.
443) Make up your mind that you can’t and you will always be right
444) May the God of the hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope?
445) Men don’t stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
446) Men who try and fail are defiantly better off than those who
succeed at doing nothing.
447) No formula for success will work if you don’t.
448) No man becomes a failure without his own consent.
449) No matter what may be your lot in life, build something on
it.
450) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
451) Our today’s and yesterday’s are the blocks of which we build
our tomorrow’s.
452) Self-discipline is doing what you should when you don’t want
to do it.
453) Self-trust is the first secret to success.
454) Success depends on which you use---Heads you win - Tales you
lose.
455) Success is getting what you want, happiness is liking what
you get.
456) Successes need no explanation; failures need the excuse of
a lifetime.
457) The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we
give to others.
458) The best you can, where you are, with what you have.
459) The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping-stones
is the way a man uses them.
460) The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not
bitter.
461) The lord is close to the broken hearted and rescues those whose
spirit is crushed.
462) The only thing worse than a quitter is the person who is afraid
to begin.
463) The sooner we face a problem, the sooner we can turn our backs
on it.
464) There are only two kinds of people who fail those who listen
to nobody and those who listen to everybody.
465) Those who succeed find ways to get things done-those who fail
find reasons why they can’t be done.
466) We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust our sails.
467) We make a living by what we get, but we build ourselves by
what we give.
468) What you bring to the bible depends to some extent to what
you carry to it.
469) When you can’t change the direction of the wind, adjust you
sails.
470) You can choose to wear out your Scriptures, or let them be
a door stop.
471) You can fail many times, but you aren’t a failure until you
begin to blame others.
472) You cannot climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.
TEMPTATION
473) A tree will not only lie as it falls but will also fall as
it leans.
474) An idle man is like a house with no walls, the devil can enter
on any side.
475) An inch off course can lead to miles off destination.
476) If you fear people will know, don’t do it.
477) Opportunity knocks but once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
478) People are quick to condemn you for what you’ve done, but they’ll
never give you credit for all the times you
resisted temptation.
479) We are free to chose but we are not free to alter the consequences
to those choices.
480) When you flee temptation, be sure you don’t leave a forwarding
address.
TIME
481) A way to have a better tomorrow is to start working on it today.
482) Be sure to take an interest in the future; that’s where you
will spend the rest of your life.
483) Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and
the way we spend our time.
484) Cultivate good habits. In time the bad ones will grow wild.
485) Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.
486) Don’t fret over what you could do with your life if you had
it to do over again. Get busy with what you have
left.
487) Don’t let yesterday use up much of today.
488) If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday
and worry about the problems of tomorrow, we
will have no today in
which to be thankful.
489) If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time
to do it over?
490) If you look back to much, you will soon be headed that way.
491) Instead of asking ourselves what might have been, we should
ask ourselves what might be; then make it
happen.
492) It is a mistake too look to far ahead. Only one link in the
chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
493) Learn from others mistakes. You won’t live long enough to make
them all yourself.
494) Learn to pause or nothing will catch up with you.
495) Lost time is never found again.
496) One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.
497) Ordinary people think how they should spend their time. A man
of intellect tries to use it.
498) Procrastination is the thief of time.
499) The best time to do anything worth while is between yesterday
and tomorrow.
500) The determined man is not he who never gets discouraged; but
he who continues on in spite of it.
501) The past cannot be changed; the future is still in your power.
502) The past, the present, and the future are really one; they
are today.
503) What makes a person think he can do twice tomorrow what he
cannot do once today?
504) You can’t change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good
present by needlessly worrying about the future.
VALUES
505) Don’t let your neighbors set your standards.
506) Hope sustains our efforts; the worst human condition is hopelessness.
507) If we put our troubles on a table to exchange with one another
- we’d all take our own back.
508) In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle
stand like a rock.
509) It is not hard to make decisions if you know what your values
are.
WOMAN
510) A grandmother is a mother who has a second chance.
511) A mother is neither cocky nor proud because she knows that
the school principle may call at any given
moment to inform her
that her son has just driven a motorcycle through the School gymnasium.
512) Heavenly Father, help me to be as good person as my mother
thinks I am.
513) The heavens are very much open to women today. They are not
closed unless we ourselves close them.
WORK
514) Chose a job you like and you won’t have to work a day in your
life.
515) Everything comes to those who wait, if they work while they
wait.
516) It is surprising how lucky people get when they work hard.
517) Luck may sometimes help; work always does.
518) Man’s ability is usually rated by what he has finished not
what he has started.
519) When the hour of action arises, the hour of preparation has
passed.
