AZ Arizona Lou Kiteboarder: LOUisms

LOUisms

We called these weekly morsels Tidbits or Self Sayings when teaching (all caps) but now call them LOUisms: sayings we have collected over the years. Sayings with no tribute are mostly our own.

Maybe you will be inspired by some of them as we have been; maybe disgusted by others as we have been.

Retired life’s tough, but somebody’s got to do it - Arizona Lou
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be – Abraham Lincoln
Look at the doughnut! (not the hole)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... - Mark Twain
... So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working... then chances are you're not going to be very happy - Andy Rooney
Do what you love. If you love it, you'll be really good at it - Jeffrey Garten
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product - Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not getting what you want, but wanting what you have
Do what you can do...
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there - Will Rogers.
You can't do everything but you can start with one thing, so get going
DON'T GIVE PEOPLE THINGS - GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITY.
When you try to do something and fail you are vastly better off than when you try nothing and succeed, quoted by C. Darrell Guy, President Arizona Education Association 89,90
WEAKNESS INVITES AGGRESSION AND STRENGTH STOPS IT.
JUST FOR TODAY I'LL NOT IMPROVE ANYBODY EXCEPT MYSELF - ABIGAIL VANBUREN
A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR ME BEGINS NOW
If you are on time, you are late. If you are early, you are on time. And if you are late, you are fired - Meshulam Riklis, head of McCrory stores
We have the future in our hands
Give people opportunity - not handouts

Cauipe Lagoon Brazil

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To get things right in the long run - you often have to have a difficult time in the short term - Margaret Thatcher
We don't have the luxury of time - Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx
You must accept the consequences of your own irresponsibility - Margaret Thatcher
You are accountable because you have freedom - Margaret Thatcher
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - Martin Luther King, Jr.
You must always make certain that the terrorist does not think he has gotten your morale - your spirit - Margaret Thatcher
My creed is just to get things done. - Margaret Thatcher
One man can make a difference, and every man can try. - JFK
Imagination is more important than Knowledge... Albert Einstein
It's not the situation that's causing your stress; it's your thoughts - Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.
If you don't have the guts to hold someone accountable for his imprudence, how can he learn to do better? - Economist Walter E. Williams
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. Al Bernstein
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want - Dan Stanford
We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard - J.F. Kennedy, 1961
We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon - Konrad Adenauer
The way someone responds to you is more a function of his style than of you as a person or of your style.
It is a lot easier to change your expectation of another person than it is to change the person.
Lives based upon having, are less free than lives based either on doing or being. - William James
Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you just have to do it right. - Winston Churchill
You can not teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself - Galileo
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment
Democracy does not guarantee equality, only equality of opportunity - Irving Kristol
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose - Lou Holtz
You have greatness inside you, and your job is to figure out what that is, dig it out, and give it to the world - Henry Winkler
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness - Jean Paul via Arthur Conan Doyle
You can get everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want in life - Carl Sewell, author of Customers for Life
I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught. - Winston Churchill
I never know anyone who was good at giving excuses who was good at anything else - Ben Franklin
Any society that would give up liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both - Ben Franklin
It doesn’t always matter what is best, but rather, what is done.
When politicians see the light at the end of the tunnel, they appropriate more money to build some more tunnel.
Serenity Prayer. It goes, "God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the strength to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Listen boys, you can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old - George Burns at 100
You can't make chicken pie out of chicken shit
Find something you are good at and have fun doing it - Amelia Earhart
Vision without action is a day dream; Action without vision is a nightmare - Chinese saying
Indecision is often worse than the wrong decision - Barnum
Money is a wonderful slave but it's a horrible master - P.T. Barnum
Do not mix investing and insurance together because the only winner is the high commission salesman who cons you into buying the trash [insurance] - Clark Howard
Raising a child is a lot like teaching a child to ride a bike. The trick is knowing when to hold on and when to let go - Joan Saxon
The goal when you are raising a child is to have an adult when you're done - Dave Ramsey
Some rich people have the illusion that they can out-earn their stupidity and immaturity
Never say "No" when a client asks for something, even if it's the moon. You can always try. Anyhow, there is plenty of time later to explain why it was not possible. - Caesar Ritz, Switz, cow herder who created the Ritz hotels.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision - Helen Keller
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem as you had last year - Phillip Brooks - (i.e. everybody should expect tough problems)
I've never been poor, I've only been broke. Poor is a state of mind - Mike Tod
There are three types of people in this world: Thos who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened - Mary Kay Ash
What we see depends mainly on what we look for - John Levet (sp?)
He who has the most information in a negotiation wins - Roger Fisher, author of The Harvard Negotiations Project
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill

Failure vs success:
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing - Aristotle
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you - Zig Ziglar
My dad encouraged us to fail - Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx
The only way to find success is to risk failure - Mike Wistubur;
The greatest failure would be not to try at all; Good enough, never is - Debbi Fields (Mrs. Field's Cookies)
Fail a lot!!! But don't fail because you were being lazy - Gary Gulman

Be proud of your failures.

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You never fail as long as you learn.
Two kinds of people do not do well: Those who do not do what they're told and those who do nothing more
Do not persist in folly. It is not a badge of character to continue down the wrong road – Helen Keller
Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do - Henry Ford
One of the nicest things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. - Steve Allen
If you aim at nothing you will hit it every time - Unknown
If you can take the worst then take the risk - Joyce Brothers
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men full of talent -Calvin Coolidge - (persistence & determination needed)
In life you miss 100% of the shots you do not take - Roger Crawford w one leg, no forearms, or real hands.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always stumble, but never fall, attributed to Merlin - Deepak Chopra
I can not give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is, Try to appease everybody
MOTIVATION is greatest when success is neither a certainty nor an impossibility. Just have a sense that you can achieve your goals
You’ll always pass failure on the way to success - Mickey Rooney
The dictionary is the only place where you’ll find SUCCESS before WORK
If you succeed in all you do, it's a sure sign you're not reaching high enough - Richard? Feldman?
You're making progress if each mistake is a new one - Ken Colburn
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently - Henry Ford
Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. - United Technical Corporation
Success consists of going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm - Winston Churchill
When you try to do something and fail you are vastly better off than when you try nothing and succeed - quoted by C. Darrell Guy, Pres AEA 89,90
THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN POSSIBLY FAIL IS TO QUIT - Dennis Van Roekel's parents, '87 AEA & NEA Pres.
As long as you don't quit, you've always got a chance - Bill Clinton after his team and he lost a rugby match
The harder you fall the higher you bounce (American proverb)
We have 40 million reasons for failure, but not one excuse - Rudyard Kipling
We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were. - Natash Jasefowitz
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If you have a pulse, you have a purpose - Paul Newman, via Kathie Lee Gifford
It's not over until it's over
go out with a bang, not a fizzle
YOU MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK
DEPEND ON YOURSELF AND NO ONE ELSE
WE GO BY WHAT WE SEE YOU DO, NOT WHAT YOU SAY YOU'LL DO
It's "fair" if everyone is treated the same
There is no easy way to excellence - Richard Nixon
BE THE FIRST ONE... TO TELL IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM
ORGANIZE FIRST - BREAK DOWN A BIG JOB INTO LITTLE JOBS, USE A CALENDAR
PLAN SUCCESS! Where you are going is more important than how fast you are going.
ACCEPT YOURSELF - DON'T TRY TO BE SOMETHING YOU AREN'T
CONTROL YOUR CURIOSITY: HOOKED ON TV SHOW; GOSSIP; GETTING IN TO THINGS
SAY "NO" AND STAND A LITTLE TALLER
STARTING IS HALF THE JOB
EVERYBODY GETS TEASED
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF - DON'T MISS ONE DAY OF SCHOOL.
WITHOUT GOOD HEALTH HAPPINESS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE.

School and being a student:
Academic Excellence has nothing to do with A's & B's, but with all kids reaching their greatest personal achievement level. - Dick Buscher.
YOU'VE LOST EVERYTHING WHEN YOU'VE LOST YOUR CREDIBILITY
YOUR EDUCATION IS YOUR FUTURE
YOU ARE CHOOSING YOUR FUTURE WHEN YOU CHOSE YOUR FRIENDS
SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THEIR MISTAKES: IBM EXECUTIVE LOST $2 MILLION, WANTED TO RESIGN, BOSS SAID, "NO, WE JUST SPEND $2M EDUCATING YOU."
Nobody gets their own way, so don't expect it.
Everyone has handicaps: yours can make you weaker or stronger
THE WAY TO SUCCEED IS TO DOUBLE YOUR FAILURE RATE - THOMAS J. WATSON, FOUNDER OF IBM
GIVE SOLUTIONS NOT EXCUSES
Winners are losers who got up and gave it just one more try - Kristin Alexander (died of brain cancer at 12)
DREAM A LITTLE EACH DAY (SPEND SOME TIME ALONE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS)
If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all - C. W. Metcalf
YOUR PARENTS ARE ON YOUR SIDE
Trust yourself. You know more that you think you do - Benjamin Spock, M.D.
SOLVE THE LITTLE PROBLEMS, THEY GROW LIKE WEEDS
YOU CAN BE YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY OR YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND
WRITE IT DOWN IF YOU NEED TO REMEMBER IT
Surprise yourself: ACT like a good student: pencil, paper, study time/place, anticipate...
GIVE YOURSELF A TIME LIMIT BEFORE YOU START A JOB
MEMORIZE THE ALPHABET IN REVERSE: Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A
ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER TO BE EXCELLENT (NO PUTDOWNS)
SAY "OK" WHEN CORRECTED (OR "I'LL TRY")
DEVELOP YOUR OWN STANDARDS AND STICK WITH THEM: DECIDE BEFORE YOU'RE ASKED ABOUT
YOUR FRIENDS ARE FRIENDS ONLY IF THEY LIKE YOU AFTER YOU SAY, "NO"
FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION AND LET NOTHING SLIP PAST YOU
YOU LEARN NOTHING WHILE TALKING or YOU LEARN WHILE LISTENING
DO SOMETHING FOR YOUR EDUCATION: NEVER JUST SIT (IN A CLASS) (BRAIN FRICTION)
ENJOY BEING YOUR OWN AGE & SPREAD SMILES (LET OTHERS SEE YOUR PLEASANT SIDE)
Polite persistence pays with parents, teachers and others
ACT ON YOUR OWN DESTINY
IF IN DOUBT, DO IT! (ACADEMICS)
FOCUS ON THE JOB, NOT THE BLAME
YOU CAN MAKE UP THE CREDIT BUT YOU CAN NEVER MAKE UP THE EXPERIENCE IF YOU MISS SCHOOL.
GETTING AN EDUCATION IS LIKE BUILDING A HOUSE. DAILY JOB: FUNNY IF ONE WALL UNDONE. DON'T LIKE THAT PART (NAILS) BUT LOVE ROOFING
ADVICE: WISE MEN DON'T NEED IT & FOOLS WON'T HEED IT.
YOU ARE IN CHARGE OF YOUR OWN GRADE
THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE ASSIGNMENT: TREAT THIS (EACH) ASSIGNMENT AS IF IT IS THE LAST CHANCE TO IMPROVE YOUR GRADE, BECAUSE IT IS THE LAST CHANCE YOU WILL HAVE TO IMPROVE YOUR GRADE WITH THIS ASSIGNMENT.
NOW YOU'RE NOT JUST IN SCHOOL - YOU'RE IN SCIENCE
Following instructions means making yourself do what you don't want to do
We need to make a special effort to help kids feel good about themselves when they fail, rather than prending they are successful when they are not.
Sometimes the results aren't there, but you feel good because you got better - Vince Vaughn
If your output exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.
Hard now and easy later or easy now and realy hard later - Dr. Henry Cloud; True with life, money, relationships and EVERYTHING
FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real - Dave Ramsey
Scientists have discovered three New Elements. Here's a summary of what they found.
- Life is sexually transmitted.
- Good health is simply the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
- Give a person a fish and you can feed them for a day; Teach them to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.
- Some people are like a Slinky; not good for anything, but you still can't help smile when you shove them down a stair - Patricia Briggs
- Health nuts are going to feel stupid some day lying in a hospital dieing of nothing. - Red Fox
What you're willing to DO to hit your goals is not nearly as important as what you're willing to GIVE UP...You WILL pay a price of some kind to hit your goals. - Dave Ramsey
When you get desperate is right before you get stupid. Stupid runs around with Desperate. - Dave Ramsey
The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. (Variant of : Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government…the majority always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy) - Alexander Fraser Tyler (1747-1813)
Compassionate broke people are what are known as liberals. They like to be righteous with other people's money. - Dave Ramsey
I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take [tax] somebody else's money - Thomas Sowell
Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill
I am NOT impressed with what people own. But I AM impressed with what they achieve - Ken's dad in Thomas J. Stanley's The Millionaire Next Door
Money is icing on the cake of life - Thomas J. Stanley
Failure is a better teacher than success - Vinit Desai
Uninterrupted success is less satisfying than success intertwined with failure.
If you're never sad, you'll never be happy; paraphrased from, "To be truly happy you must first be sad" - Winston Churchill
The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it - William James (1842-1910; lived 100 years ahead of Arizona Lou)
You can't fix stupid, but you can vote them out of office - sign at an auto repair shop in LA
Big Hat; No Cattle - Texas expression for those who are showy but have no substance or those who are in debt with lots of stuff but little net worth.
All Flash; No Cash - the way most people look in their new cars
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits - Thomas Edison
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard
Part of the beauty of family is you get to hang out with people that you otherwise wouldn't. - Dave Ramsey
When we filanny learn what most of life is all about, most of it is gone - "Hatteras Jack" Jack Kepler at 81
Try again: fail: fail better - Samuel Becket
A safe flight is no accident - Pat Shaub (Neither is a safe drive; or a safe kite session)
Death is very likely the single best invention of Life... Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. - Steve Jobs; combined quotes; died 10/5/2011 at 56.
People who win the lotto don't usually end up winning at life, because they don't change the habits that caused them to buy [lottery] tickets in the first place - Dave Ramsey
Five years from now you will be making the same amount of money, doing the same job, having the same problems you have, except for the books you read and the people who you meet. - Charlie Tremendous Jones
Some people go through life looking to be offended (or upset), and they're usually successful.
There is nothing as solid as the bottom - Dave Ramsey
Leaders are brokers of hope - Napoleon
80% perfect and published [completed] always changes 100% more lives than 100% perfict and stuck in my head - Jon Acuff
Your life is shaped by the opportunities you turn down as well as by those you seize - Bill Clinton
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work - Thomas Edison
People prosper when they behave decently and honorably toward one another and live among others who conduct themselves similarly. - Danial Lapin
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley
Never stop being a good person because of bad people - unknown
You may not like me, but don't disrespect or take advantage of me - jocky, Rosario Montanez
Government of the duds, by the duds, and for the duds - Winsoon Churchill
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong [politicians and bailed-out corporations] - Thomas Sowell
All men are created equal' says the American Declaration of Independence. 'All men shall be kept equal' say the Socialists.
Work Harder!! Millions On Welfare Are Depending On You - Iron House Helmets
I have worked hard for my money and don't appreciate it when politicians decide someone else should have it - Louis Self
...many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions - Thomas Sowell
If I'm going to enjoy everything, I've got to enjoy being old, don't I? - Phillip Johnson, architect; never retired; died in 2005 at 99.
I sacrificed to get here - is what you tell people who think you should give them some of your stuff when they didn't.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. - Merle Shain (F)
Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas - Japanese proverb [as in Christianity vs. science]
I don't know the secret to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone - Bill Cosby
You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want - Zig Ziglar, died Nov 28, 2012 at 86
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted - Randy Pausch (died at 48 in 2008 of pancreatic cancer)
I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm about to do today? and whenever the answer has been No too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.- Steve Jobs, since he was 17; died 10/5/2011 at 56.
What is it that I want to do today that going to make this a good day? - Jonathan Clements after he was told, in Oct '24, that he had one year to live due to cancer
Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done. - Justice Louis Brandeis 1856 — 1941
As I get older, do more... or do less... But do it with style!
Chance favors only prepared minds. - Louis Pasteur
Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere - Albert Einstein
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through [confronted] or else they remain, forever... M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry - Bill Clinton, My Life pg 7
Fear of uncertainty is one of the chief impediments to taking purposeful action - Damon Zahariades
When people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody that's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right - Bill Clinton
If you can't be right, BE LOUD - John Vorhaus [Don't let loud bullies push you around.]
How many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? Ñ Jean-Baptiste
If you think you would be happier with your life if you were more successful, you have things backward - Dr. Wolf J. Rinke
If I'd asked customers what they wanted they would've said a faster horse - Henry Ford, about designing the first Model T
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy - Heraclitus, Greek philosopher
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work - Calvin Coolidge
You can't do it without doing it - Paul Smith
You're not going to get the butt you want by sitting on the butt you have - unknown
God made man, took one look and said, "I can do better than that" - and made woman. - Mary Crowley (1915-1986)
Success is not money in the bank, or the car you drive, or the clothes that you wear or your status in the community, but success is really the ratio between what you have done and what you can do - Mary Crowley (1915-1986)
Sometimes you have to chop fingers off to start thinking - Richard Van As (3-D printing body parts video)
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk - James Cash Penny Jr
Today's actions create tomorrow's results - Andy Andrews
Every silver lining has a cloud - Mary K Ash?
Don't grumble if you didn't get what you want. Be thankful you didn't get what you deserve - church marquee in Phoenix
Not planning... is planning to fail - Dave Ramsey, at an EntreLeadership conference 11/8/13
Have a plan. Emotion is NOT a plan - Clark Howard
The trick with Warren Buffett is, the stock market is not his master. It is his servant - Robert Hagstrom
We [men] are handicapped when it comes to arguing [with women] because we have a need to make sense - Chris Rock
Academically, I was the part of the class that allowed the top half to be possible - Dave Ramsey
The only people who do not have problems are those in the cemeteries - Norman Vincent Peale
If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it - David Allen
Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing - Lily Tomlin
It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of acting - O H Mowrer
Every human being has the same intrinsic value, but not the same income, because they don't bring the same value into the marketplace.
Luck... is often a euphemism for laziness - Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and author
Your goal as parents is not to raise great kids. It's to raise great adults. - Andy Andrews
If you can't write it down, you haven't thought it through. - Warren Buffett
- "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
- "The future ain't what it used to be."
- "We made too many wrong mistakes."
- "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
- "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."
Rub your nose in your own mistakes. [Don't dwell on them, but learn from them and go on]. - Charlie Munger, partner of Warren Buffett
Good intentions can never take the place of bad judgement - Stephen R Covey
The best way to be smart is to avoid being stupid. - Tren Griffin
Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face - Otto Graham
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right - Henry Ford
The greatest of mankind's criminals are those who delude themselves into thinking they have done 'the right thing.' - Rayna Butler
Creativity is dreaming while you're awake - Robert Mankoff
If you're not offending someone, you're not accomplishing anything - inspired by Mario
We must look a long time before we can see - Henry David Thoreau
Growing old is compulsory; growing up is optional - Bob Monkhouse
A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammad Ali
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them - Louis Armstrong
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - Henry David Thoreau
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure - John Gardner
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done - Lucille Ball
We don't realize that failing is the first step to succeding - Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier Jackie Speier, US representative of California
Ten years from now, what will you be glad you did? - Blaine Lee [Use his 10-year rule when making a difficult choice]
People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures. - F. Matthias Alexander
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill
Life, even when it is good, is not easy - Robert Waldinger
A rich life - a good life - is forged from precisely the things that make it hard
Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. - Golda Meir
Passion only gets you so far. Execution is what really matters. PLAN HOW am I going to do the things I need to do to get where I want to be. - Debbie Meyer
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly - Dalai Lama
If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. - Warren Buffett
When you're a smart-ass, you've got to become good at getiting out of the holes you just dug. - Calr Labove, comedian
You learn nothing from your successes except to think too much of yourself - Dee Hock
I know enough about a lot of things to be interesting, but I'm not interested enough in any one thing to be boring - Art Linkletter
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself - John Dewey
Conflict in life is inevitable, but drama is a choice - Chris brown
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people - Victor Borge
The things that don't exist are the most difficult to get rid of. [God?] - F.M. Alexander
It's very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room... especially when there is no cat - Stuart Firestein, quoting ancient probverb [but kids will find the boogeyman... and adults will find God]
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion - Robert M Pirsig
Fear and superstition overcome knowledge and understanding on a daily basis - army sergent
Our problem is not that we fail to live up to our ideals... [but] too many of them are corrupt and self-serving - George Bernard Shaw
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling - Robert M Pirsig
I like most of the alternatives to being dead - Arizona Lou
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything orriginal - Sir Ken Robinson
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decid - Napoleon Bonaparte
If you don't ask, the answer is always no - Nora Roberts
If you dread saying YES but feel powerless to say NO, you're caught in the rip current of people-pleasing - Lisa Turkhurst?
Unless your goal is in the discomfort zone it is not going to ignite your imagination; it's not ging to compell inovation; it's not going to focus your execution - Michael Hyatt
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care – Tex Earnhardt
When you say YES to one thing, you are saying NO to other things without realizing it.
You'll end up agreeing with me because you're smarter and I'm right - Charlie Munger to Warren Buffett
The trouble with many people is that they are waiting until they can do some great thing... [so] they never do anything - David J Fant
Life isn't what happens to you. Life is about how you think... about what happens to you. - Richard Crislip
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore
Any strength pushed to the extreme becomes a weakness - Stephen M R Covey
You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give - unknown (incorrectly attributed to Winston Churchill)
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less - unknown (falsely attributed to C S Lewis)
It doesn’t matter where you came from but where you are going - Condoleezza Rice
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age - Lucille Ball
You donÕt get older, you get better - Shirley Bassey
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have - Gerald Ford
Don't Steal, The Government Hates Competition - Iron House Helmets
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action - Benjamin Disra
We judge ourself by our intentions... and others by their behaviors - Stephen R Covey
Avoid demonizing your adversaries, but try to understand them - Lou's take on J. William Fulbright's approach to things
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes - Henry Kaiser
Consider everything you do as a draft (Maybe 80% is good enough) - Bre Pettis and Kio Stark
When there are multiple solutions to a problem, choose the simplest one - John "Jack" Bogle, founder of Vanguard
I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent - Dwight D Eisenhower
Depression crowds out rationality with a vengeance - Bill Clinton [Frank Aller & Robin Williams
It's OK to be down [emotionally]... but it is not OK to stay down - John Foppe
...we are paid for our suspicions, by finding what we expected - Henry David Thoreau
The two greatest enemies of the equity fund investor are expenses and emotions. - John C. Bogle
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like - Dwight D Eisenhower
Adjust your goals and priorities according to the season of your life - concept from Rachel Cruze
Don't let plans and expectations become bliinders that keep you from seeing better options - AOPA video, "Accident Case Study: Final Approach"
Take action FIRST. Once we do so, we feel inspired and motivated to continue [most get it reversed] - Damon Zahariades
Don't spend so much time managing, that you fail to fulfill the roll of CEO: looking at the big picture - Barry Moltz
Content people don't always have the best of everything, but they make the best of everything - Rachel Cruze
Superior pilots use their superior judgement to avoid situations in which they have to use their superiou skill - unknown
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts - J. William Fulbright
Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides - unknown
Give the world your best and the best will come back to you - Clark Midleton
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor - Elon Musk
Don't talk about the product you're selling; talk about the problem you're solving when starting a business - Sara Blakely (founder of Spanx)
It's not just exciting to build things but to explore new fields and to recognize what comes with that is a lot of uncertainty - Nathan "Nate" Blecharczyk, cofounder of Airbnb
Most of us, including me, are disorganized unless we organize - Dave Ramsey
If I knew dying would be this fun, I would have done this a long time ago - Johnny Moss, comedian
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity - Seneca (Roman philosopher)
Luck happens to people of action - Judy Carter, comedian and author
80% of the stuff we spend our time on doesn't matter [paraphrased] - Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen - Winston Churchill
Making Money is different than having money - Dianna on the Clark Howard poscast
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about – Wayne Dyer
Don't wait until you make it to make a difference - Judy Croon
The Black family unit that had survived 150 years of slavery was decimated in less than 30 years by welfare payments that stopped if the family structure remained intact. - Larry Burkett
You can't outrun a bad diet - paraphrased from, "You Can't Exercise Your Way Out Of A Bad Diet" - Dr. Mark Hyman
It's vital to take responsibility for [and the communication of] results-not just activities - Steven M R Covey
To die in peace, you first must accept that you're dying. - Corinne O'Kelly in Chasing Daylight by Gene O'Kelly
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but with the expert's mind there are few - Shunryu Suzuki
Your blood pressure actually goes up when you talk and down when you listen - Dr. Henry S Lodge