Future

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse." - John Quincy Adams

"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words." - Apocrypha

Fear

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." - Aung San Suu Kyi

What's money?

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan

Beating on a wall

"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." - Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Feeling gratitude

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

Because we have to

"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable." - Sir Francis Bacon

FAMILY

"Ur parents helped 2 bring u in2 this world. FAMILY= (F)ather (A)nd (M)other (I) (L)ove (Y)ou" - RevRunWisdom

There is only one...

"There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it." -Chinese proverb

You won't help...

"You won't help shoots grow by pulling them up higher." - Chinese proverb

Rather than...

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Henry David Thoreau

Education

"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance." - Will Durant

Crown

"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in." - Frederick The Great of Prussia

Opportunities and difficulties

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." -
Reginald B Mansell

Hatred and contempt

"Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control." - Arnold Schopenhauer

Coming events

"Coming events cast their shadows before." - Unknown

Everything I say

"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan

The company of peasants

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly." - Michel de Montaigne

Men must

"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears." - Albert Camus

Women

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." - Timothy Leary

Lightning

"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time." - Willie Tyler

Conquer fear

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." - Dale Carnegie

If you

"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

Age does not...

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." - Jeanne Moreau

The secret

"The secret of being boring is to say everything." - Voltaire

Level with your child

"Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child." - Mary MacCracken

Victory attained

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." - Mahatma Gandhi

No great genius...

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." - Aristotle

The journey of a thousand miles

"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -Chinese proverb

If the wind will...

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin proverb

Govern a family...

"Govern a family as you would cook a small fish, very gently." - Chinese proverb

I ask not

"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders." - Jewish proverb

I

"I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand." -Chinese proverb

He who fears...

"He who fears something gives it power over him." - Moorish proverb

Idleness

"Idleness is the mother of all vices." - Russian proverb

However long the night

"However long the night, the dawn will break." - African proverb

Where you're going

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra

It'll all work out...

"It'll all work out in the end. If its not worked out, IT'S NOT THE END."

We do not act...

"We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly." - Aristotle

My advice to you...

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates

Giving your son a...

"Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold." - Chinese Proverb

Mind and hope

When your mind says give up, hope whispers one more try.

Once the game is over

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." - Italian proverb

Conquer

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." -Plato

I understand

I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. -Chinese proverb

Happily ever after

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." - Margaret Bonnano

Better than

"Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold." - Chinese proverb

Moral excellence

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts." - Aristotle

Diamond or pebble?

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one." - Chinese proverb

Habits

"Habits are first cobwebs, then cables." - Spanish proverb

Trust yourself

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. -Golda Meir

Good ruler

"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled." - Aristotle

Accomplishments

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. -Althea Gibson

Once or twice

"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me." - Chinese proverb

Strongest

When your light is strongest, don't stand in the shadows.

Life

"Life is consciousness." - Emmet Fox

"It's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth." - Hugh Macleod

Consequence

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." - John Ruskin

Language

"Language is the source of misunderstandings." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Humor

"Humor is also a way of saying something serious." - T. S. Eliot

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. - Aristotle

If a man fools me...

If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me. - Chinese proverb

Faults

If you are willing to admit your faults, you have one less fault to admit.

What do you see?

Me & my wife lookin in the mirror. Justine says what do you see? Revs reply...The rest of my life :) - Rev. Run

Do not confine...

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. - Chinese Proverb

Marriage

Marriage is one way to prove you've mastered being a team.. #selfless instead selfish. - Rev. Run

Raising children

1 rule on raising children.. Don't worrying if they're listening to you.. THEY'RE WATCHING YOU #believethat. - Rev. Run

A positive attitude...

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - RevRun

You can't tell

You can't tell a book by looking at its cover. - English proverb

Be kind

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato

Happened to things

People of accomplishment rarely sat back & let things happen to them. They went out & happened to things. - Leonardo Da Vinci

A thousandfold

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. -Aristotle

Good loser

"To be a good loser is to learn how to win." - Carl Sandburg

One warm thought

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money." - Thomas Jefferson

Today...tomorrows

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." - Ralph Marston

Ship lights

"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights." - Giotto di Bondone

Glory

"It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors." - Plutarch

Argument

"If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself." - Joseph Farrell

I grow

"I grow more intense as I age." - Florida Scott-Maxwell

We need

"We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy

An elephant

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." - Abraham Lincoln

The power

"The power to bring me out of solitude--or to push me back into it--had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine." - Martha Beck

Believe

"People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often believe what their friends tell them.
They always believe what they tell themselves." - Seth Godin