“Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.”
Howard Hendricks



“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley



“Be more concerned with your character than you reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
John Wooden



“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
John Wooden



“The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”
Sir Alexander Paterson



“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
General George S. Patton

“No one can you make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt



“You cannot escape the responsibility tomorrow by evading it today.”
Abraham Lincoln



“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Ellen Parr



If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.”
Dennis Roch



“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Seneca



“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw

“The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”
Charles Swindoll



“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.”
Mark Twain



“The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.”
George Will



“Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
Elbert Hubbard



“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
Oscar Wilde



“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
Benjamin Franklin



“I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.”
Cicero

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi



“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
Elbert Green Hubbard



“The superior man is modest in is speech, but excels in his actions.”
Confucius



“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



“There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.”
General Douglas MacArthur



“It’s better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.”
James Thurber



“The average person thinks he isn’t.”
Father Larry Lorenzoni

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”
Harrry S. Truman



“When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learnt in seven years.”
Mark Twain



“My father was frightened of his father, I was frightened of my father, and I’m ****ed well going to see to it that my children are frighten of me.”
King George V



“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.”
Doug Larson



“Any child will tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can use it when he’s really in trouble.”
Dennis Fakes

“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.”
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester’



”Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
Phyllis Diller



“Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.”
Unknown



“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things which cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.”
Reinhold Niebuhr



“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”
Friedrich Nietzsche



“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
Frank Outlaw



“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
Plato

"Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." ~ Anonymous

“Sleep, riches and health; to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.”
Jean Paul Richter


“Decisions determine destiny.”
Frederick Speakman


“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Muriel Strode


“When you can’t have what you want, it’s time to start wanting what you have.”
Kathleen A. Sutton


“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.”
Turkish proverb


“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
Sun Tzu


“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Albert Einstein


“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Friedrich Neitzsche


“He who hesitates is a ****ed fool.”
Mae West


“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
Henry David Thoreau


“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Sir Winston Churchill


“When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there.”
Japanese proverb


“You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.”
James Allen


“Those who await not gifts from chance have conquered fate.”
Mathew Arnold


“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
Yogi Beri


“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
Henry David Thoreau