Their utility comes more in the insights they bring into tasks that are more of a rigmarole in our busy routine lives along with the time-tested wisdom they impart.
"Excellence is never an accident"
"If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence..
it is time to fertilize your lawn!"
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
"If you want to feel rich...
just count all of the things you have... that money can't buy"
"The best things in life aren't things"
"If you play it safe in life,
you've decided you don't want to grow anymore"
"The man on top of the mountain did not fall there"
"Creativity is finding new things...
or expressing old truths in new ways"
"What the caterpillar calls 'the end'... the butterfly calls 'the beginning'"
"You are young at any age...
if you're planning for tomorrow"
"Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of evidence.
Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequence"
"To forgive calls upon your love...
To forget calls upon your strength"
"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul
by making me hate him"
"Success can be another form of failure...
if we forget what our priorities are"
"He who makes a mistake and fails to correct it...
makes another"
"If you try to improve another person by setting a good example...
then you are really improving two people"
"There is no substitute for intelligence...
the only thing that comes close to it is silence"
"You cannot control the length of your life...
but you can control the width and depth"
"This is the final test of a gentleman...
his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him"
"It's not hard to make decisions
when you know what your values are"
"Nothing is all wrong.
Even a clock that has stopped running...
is right twice a day"
"People who cross their bridges before they come to them...
have to pay the toll twice"
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins...
not through strength but by perseverance"
"Winning is a habit.
Unfortunately, so is losing."
"The bigger we get...the smaller we have to think.
Customers still walk in one at a time."
"Stress is what happens when your gut says, 'No'...
but your mouth says, 'Of course. I'd be glad to' "
"We cannot change the wind...
but we can adjust the sail."
"If it weren't for the rocks in its bed...
the stream would have no song."
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on...
after others have let go."
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins...
not through strength...but by perseverance"
"Life can only be understood backwards...
but it must be lived forwards"
"The right to be heard is constitutionally guaranteed.
The right to be listened to must be earned."
"Life is like riding a bicycle...
you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling"
"What is the difference between school and life?
In school, you are taught a lesson and given a test.
In life, you are given a test that teaches you a lesson."
"Opportunity's favorite disguise in trouble"
"Be early if you are a bird...
and late if you are a worm"
"If you want your dreams to come true...
the first thing you have to do is wake up"
"If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence..
it is time to fertilize your lawn!"
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
"If you want to feel rich...
just count all of the things you have... that money can't buy"
"The best things in life aren't things"
"If you play it safe in life,
you've decided you don't want to grow anymore"
"The man on top of the mountain did not fall there"
"Creativity is finding new things...
or expressing old truths in new ways"
"What the caterpillar calls 'the end'... the butterfly calls 'the beginning'"
"You are young at any age...
if you're planning for tomorrow"
"Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of evidence.
Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequence"
"To forgive calls upon your love...
To forget calls upon your strength"
"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul
by making me hate him"
"Success can be another form of failure...
if we forget what our priorities are"
"He who makes a mistake and fails to correct it...
makes another"
"If you try to improve another person by setting a good example...
then you are really improving two people"
"There is no substitute for intelligence...
the only thing that comes close to it is silence"
"You cannot control the length of your life...
but you can control the width and depth"
"This is the final test of a gentleman...
his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him"
"It's not hard to make decisions
when you know what your values are"
"Nothing is all wrong.
Even a clock that has stopped running...
is right twice a day"
"People who cross their bridges before they come to them...
have to pay the toll twice"
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins...
not through strength but by perseverance"
"Winning is a habit.
Unfortunately, so is losing."
"The bigger we get...the smaller we have to think.
Customers still walk in one at a time."
"Stress is what happens when your gut says, 'No'...
but your mouth says, 'Of course. I'd be glad to' "
"We cannot change the wind...
but we can adjust the sail."
"If it weren't for the rocks in its bed...
the stream would have no song."
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on...
after others have let go."
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins...
not through strength...but by perseverance"
"Life can only be understood backwards...
but it must be lived forwards"
"The right to be heard is constitutionally guaranteed.
The right to be listened to must be earned."
"Life is like riding a bicycle...
you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling"
"What is the difference between school and life?
In school, you are taught a lesson and given a test.
In life, you are given a test that teaches you a lesson."
"Opportunity's favorite disguise in trouble"
"Be early if you are a bird...
and late if you are a worm"
"If you want your dreams to come true...
the first thing you have to do is wake up"
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