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Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way.
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.
If you don't care where you're going, any road will get you there.
A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.
He who throws dirt loses ground.
Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others.
Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Ideas won't work unless you do.
The future is purchased by the present.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time
Lost time is never found again.
A hard thing about business is minding your own.
Triumph is just "umph" added to try.
Caution is not cowardly - Carelessness is not courage.
He who forgives ends the quarrel.
Children need more models than critics.
Frogs have it easy; they can eat what bugs them.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime.
If the going gets easy you may be going downhill.
Dieters - people who are thick and tired of it.
Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise.
The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow.
A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.
Failure is the path of least persistence.
Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.
Patience is counting down without blasting off.
Some people won't look up until they are flat on their backs.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.
Friend - one who knows all about you and likes you just the same.
Money talks and often just says, "'Good-bye".
Birds have bills and they keep on singing.
Forbidden fruit is responsible for many a bad jam.
God's retirement plan is out of this world.
A good example is the best sermon.
The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice.
Well done is better than well said.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Live as you wish your kids would.
Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion.
If you can laugh at it then you can live with it.
People don't fail, they give up.
When looking for faults, use a mirror, not a telescope.
Smile, it takes only 13 muscles; A frown takes 64.
Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind can see.
Heaviest thing to carry is a grudge.
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
A small leak can sink a great ship.
You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Tact is the ability to see others as they wish to be seen.
A bad conscience has a good memory.
Hug your kids at home; belt them in the car.
One thing that you can give and still keep is your word.
A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.
If you must cry over spilled milk, then please try to condense it.
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Make friends before you need them. I
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
Success is more attitude than aptitude.
Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.
The grandest of all faults is to imagine you have none.
Many of us speak twice before we think.
Some people develop eye strain looking for trouble.
Everyone has 20/20 hindsight.
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death.
It is no crime not to be perfect.
If others have sinned, you need not mention it.
No man knows less than the man who thinks he knows it all.
Patience carries a lot of wait.
One who lacks courage to start has already finished.
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Break a bad habit - drop it.
Don't learn safety rules simply by accident.
Failing to prepare, we prepare to fail
Past failures are guideposts to future success.
There is no right way to do a wrong thing.
Read the Bible - it will scare the hell out of you.
Money is a good servant, but a cruel master.
Seek joy in what you give, not in what you get.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Success comes in cans: failures comes in "can'ts".
Anger is one letter short of danger.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
2/3 of promotion is motion.
Having a sharp tongue can cut your throat.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support.

The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveler coming down the road, and the Sun said: "I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveler to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger. You begin."So the Sun retired behind a cloud, and the Wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveler. But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveler wrap his cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give up in despair. Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveler, who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on. Kindness effects more than severity.

An old philosopher used to meet the people and teach them the lessons of virtue and uprightness which he drew from the flowers and shrubs that grow so luxuriantly in the land. One morning following his lecture, the old philosopher was accosted by a workman, who said, "Tonight when you come back from your walk, will you please bring me a rose that I may study its stamens, its petals, and see the lesson that you gave us last night." The old philosopher said, "I will give you the rose tonight.

And a second accosted him and said, "Will you bring me a hawthorn twig that I may continue my study of that?" and he replied, "I will bring you a hawthorn twig."

And a third said, "Will you bring me a lily tonight that I may study the lesson of purity?" "I will bring you a lily."

After working hours the three were at the gate to meet the philosopher. To the first he gave the rose, to the second the hawthorn twig, and to the third the lily, as he had promised.

Suddenly the man with the rose said, "Oh, here's a thorn on the stem of my rose !"

And the second said, "And here's a dead leaf clinging to my hawthorn twig!"

And the third, encouraged by the remarks of his companions, said, "And here's dirt clinging to the root of my lily!"

"Let me see," said the old philosopher, and he took the rose from the first, the hawthorn twig from the second, and the lily from the third.

From the rose he broke the thorn and gave it to the first. He plucked the dead leaf from the hawthorn twig and handed it to the second. He took the dirt from the roots of the lily and placed it in the hands of the third.

Holding the rose, the hawthorn twig, and lily, he sald, "Well, each of you has what attracted him first. I left the thorn on the rose purposely, the dead leaf on the hawthorn twig, and the dirt on the lily. Each of these attracted you first. You may keep them now, and I vill keep the rose, the twig, and the lily for the beauty I see in them."

Perhaps to some of us a dead leaf of some past act is clinging. It may be that there is a little dirt in our character, but each one has also a rose in his life, a hawthorn twig, a lily in his life. And it is a glorious lesson for us to learn; to see the rose and be blind to the thorn; to see the hawthorn twig and be blind to the dead leaf; to see the lily and not the dirt in our fellow's character.

Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Noah's Ark...

1. Don't miss the boat.

2. Remember that we are all in the same boat.

3. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.

4. Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something big.

5. Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.

6. Build your future on high ground.

7. For safety sake, travel in pairs.

8. Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.

9. When you're stressed, float a while.

10. Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.

11. No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting.

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