Every effort has been made to give proper credit to the original author. Many are Chinese proverbs. Some are unknown.

 

1. “A good man produces good deeds: (Jesus)
   
   
2. “What good is it for a blind man to lead another blind man?”  (Jesus)
   
   
3. Life is like a war.  You don’t win unless you stick with it.  (RBM)
   
   
4. And so is God: you don’t win unless you stick with Him. (RBM)
   
   
5. Adversity spurs the able.  (Forbes)
   
   
6. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day (Unknown)
   
   
7. You never know what you have until you don’t have it!  (Unknown)
   
   
8. A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.  (Anglund)
   
   
9. A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. (Jewish Proverb)
   
   
10. A careful foot can step anywhere.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
11. A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.  (Aristotle)
    
    
12. A journey of a 1000 miles starts with the first step.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
13. A man grows most tired while standing still.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
14. A sharp tongue or pen can kill without a knife.  (Ancient Proverb)
    
    
15. Actions speak louder than words.  (Unknown)
    
    
16. Aim for perfection!  Half right is half wrong!  (Unknown)
    
    
17. Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.  (Acheson)
    
    
18. An optimist goes to the window every morning and says, “Good morning God.”  The pessimist goes to the window and says, “Good God, morning!”  (Unknown)
    
    
19. Better a day early than a day late.   (Unknown)
    
    
20. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have to change others!  (Braude)
    
    
21. Courage is fear that has said its prayers!  (Proverb)
    
    
22. Different strokes for different folks.  (Southern saying)
    
    
23. Dig the well before you are thirsty.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
24. Don’t do tomorrow what you can do today.  (Franklin)
    
    
25. Don’t fight BATTLES unless you know you can win the WAR!  (RBM)
    
    
26. Don’t trouble trouble ‘til trouble troubles you! (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
27. Don’t let your heart say things if your heart is not committed.  (Unknown)
    
    
28. Enjoy life – it has an expiration date. (Malik)
    
    
29. Everybody is ignorant - only on different subjects.  (Rogers)
    
    
30. EVERYONE takes there pants off one leg at a time.  (Schmidt)
    
    
31. Forewarned is forearmed.  (Greene)
    
    
32. He knows most who speaks least. (Italian Proverb)
    
    
33. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
34. I may be on a diet but I can still look at the menu!” (e.g. men looking at other women)
    
    
35. If heaven made him, earth can find a use for him.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
36. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it!   (Unknown)
    
    
37. If not for fear, sin would be sweet.  (Jewish Proverb)
    
    
38. If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
39. If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.  (Carroll)
    
    
40. If you don’t mean it, don’t say it.  If you do mean it, be careful when and how you say it. (Unknown)
    
    
41. If you don’t want anyone to know it, don’t do it.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
42. If you have a signed order, STOP talking!  (RBM)
    
    
43. If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.  (Parton)
    
    
44. If you want your dinner, don't insult the cook.  (Unknown)
    
    
45. In life play the cards you have been dealt but play to win!  (Pausch)
    
    
46. In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.  (Norris)
    
    
47. Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.  (Einstein)
    
    
48. It is less expensive to take care of and keep your current customers than it is to get new ones.  (NCR)
    
    
49. Know what you want BEFORE you ask.  (Biblical??)
    
    
50. Learn from mistakes of others - you can never live long enough to make them all yourself. (Many)
    
    
51. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
52. Letter writing:  (RBM)
    - what is the issue : ONE sentence
    - what is the objective: ONE sentence
    
    
53. Life is a compromise.  (Unknown)
    
    
54. Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
55. Most people don’t plan to fail - they fail to plan!  (Beckley+English Proverb)
    
    
56. Never try to prove what nobody doubts.  (Unknown)
    
    
57. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!  (Unknown)
    
    
58. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.  (Lane)
    
    
59. Once the horse is out of the barn, he is tough to catch.  (English Proverb)
    
    
60. Pros are people you do jobs well even when they don’t feel like it.  (Unknown)
    
    
61. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.  (Foster)
    
    
62. Shape up or ship out!  (Unknown)
    
    
63. Simple to open a shop; another thing to keep it open.  (Unknown)
    
    
64. Sometimes you have to fail before you win.  (Unknown)
    
    
65. Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
66. Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. (Franklin)
    
    
67. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.  (Confucius)
    
    
68. The past is always tense, the future perfect.  (Smith)
    
    
69. There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
70. There may be snow on the roof but there is still a fire in the furnace.  (for us older folk)
    
    
71. Think before you leap.  (English Proverb)
    
    
72. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. (Ford)
    
    
73. Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.  (Tennyson)
    
    
74. To err is human.  To blame it on the other guy is even more human. To blame it on the other guy is not!  (Unknown)
    
    
75. To know the road ahead, ask those returning.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
76. To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
77. UNDER commit and OVER deliver!  (Peters)
    
    
78. When we are young, we know nothing; then know something.  When we are older, we know something, and then know nothing!  (Unknown)
    
    
79. When ceasing to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.  (Chinese Proverb)
    
    
80. Why can’t life’s big problems come when we are twenty and know everything?  (Anonymous)
    
    
81. Why does time go so fast?  (RBM)
    - when real young, couldn’t wait for school to get out or for Santa to arrive so time went real slow.
    - as we aged, no concern about that so time really goes fast (faster than we want).
    - in the BIG scheme of things, how old is the universe?  Experts have
    estimated approx. 13.7 BILLION years! So since our average time on this earth may be 80 years we are still so infinitesimal that a blink of an eye is faster than our time on earth!
    
    
82. Work hard and save your money and when you are old you will be able to buy the things that only the young can enjoy!  (Fortune Cookies)
    
    
83. Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.  (Gibran)
    
    
84. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.  (Ford)
    
    
85. You never know how a story ends until you read the last page.  (Susan Fromberg Schaeffer)
    
    
86. If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.  (Melville)
    
    
87. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. (English Proverb)
    
    
88. Thinking “ain’t” knowing. (Unknown)
    
    
89. Right or wrong, make a decision.  The road is paved with flat squirrels who couldn’t make a decision.  (Unknown)
    
    
90. A wise man once said nothing!  (Unknown)
    
    
91. If you think you’re doing your best you can, you are not! (Jessica)
    
    
92. Lazy men are soon poor; hard workers get rich. (Proverbs 10:4)
    
    
93. To learn you must want to be taught. to refuse reproof is stupid.  (Proverbs 12:1)
    
    
94. Treat everyone - especially your mate - like your customers! (RBM)
    
    
95. Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree. (Brancus)
    
    
96. When I discover who I am, I will be free. (Ellison)
    
    
97. Don’t cry because it’s over.  Smile because it happened! (Seuss)
    
    
98. Experiences are simply another rung on the ladder of life! (RBM)
    
    
99. Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.  (Davis)
    
    
100. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary.  (Taleb)
     
     
101. Education is what has survived when what has been learned has been forgotten.  (Skinner)
     
     
102. What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. (Aristotle)
     
     
103. Study without desire spoils the memory and it retains nothing that it takes in.  (DaVinci)
     
     
104. In all things success depends on previous preparation and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure. (Confucius)
     
     
105. All my life I wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more    specific. (Wagner)
     
     
106.  I never retired.  I just changed jobs! (RBM)
     
     
107. The future is what matters, because one never reaches it, but always stays in     the present. (Plath)

108. The road to success is always under construction. (Arnie Palmer)

109. When the student is ready, the teacher arrives.  (Unknown)

110. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
        (Unknown)

111. The possible we do today; the impossible takes a little longer.
        (US Armed Forces - WW11)

112. Success counts if going from failure to failure without loss of
        enthusiasm.  (Churchill)

113. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what
        we give.  (Churchill)

114. Success is not final; failure is not fatal:  it is the courage to
        continue that counts. (Churchill)

115. To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.
        (Churchill)

116. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. (Churchill)

117. Life is a temporary destination.  Finality is up to you!  (RBM)

118. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen
        with the intent to reply.  (Stephen R. Covey)

119. There’s nothing like eavesdropping to show the world outside
        your head is different from the world inside your head.
        (Thornton Wilder)

120. The word “listen” contains the same letters as the work “silent!”
         (Alfred Brendel)

121. You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the
        same time.  (M. Scott Peck)

122. If you don’t listen to you customers, someone else will.
        (Sam Walton)

123. It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind
        of life you have lived.  (Unknown)

124. Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, yet the youngest you’ll
        ever be, so enjoy the day. (Unknown)

125. Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way
        that they ask for directions.  (Churchill)

126. You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones
        at every dog that barks.  (Churchill)   

127. Fear is a reaction.  Courage is a decision. (Churchill)

128. A nation that forgets its past has no future. (Churchill)

129. The POSITIVE thinker sees the INVISIBLE, feels the
         INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. (Churchill)

130. Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a
        way that they ask for directions.  (Churchill)

131. You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw
        stones at every dog that barks.  (Churchill)

132. Fear is a reaction.  Courage is a decision. (Churchill)

133. A nation that forgets its past has no future. (Churchill)

134. The POSITIVE thinker sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE,
        and achieves the  IMPOSSIBLE.  (Churchill)

135. If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a
        conservative at forty, you have no brain. (Churchill)

136. There is nothing government can give you that it hasn’t taken
         from you in the first place.  (Churchill)

137. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute
         conversation with the average voter.  (Churchill)

138. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
        sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Churchill)

139. One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who only have
        opinions. (Churchill)

140. The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution
        of  prosperity.  The main vice of socialism is the even
        distribution of misery.  (Churchill)

141. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at
        the results.  (Churchill)

142. You don’t make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
        (Churchill)

143. I would rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one

        agree  with me.  (Churchill)

144. Life can either be accepted or changed.  If it is not accepted,
        it must be changed.  If it cannot be changed, then it must
        be accepted.  (Churchill)

145. Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
         (Churchill)

146. It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the
        wrong direction.  (Unknown)

147. Don’t do something permanently stupid because you
        are temporarily upset.  (Unknown)

148. Be who you needed when you were younger.  (Unknown)

149. Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge
        the future.  (Unknown)

150. In a world where you can be anything, be kind.  (Unknown)

151. When you make a commitment, you build hope.  When you keep
        it, you build trust.  (Unknown)

152. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.  The second
        best time is now!  (Unknown)

153. Why do we only rest in peace?  Why don’t we live in peace too?
        (Unknown)

154. Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, yet the youngest you’ll
         ever be, so enjoy this day.  (Unknown)

155. It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what
        kind of life you have lived.  Unknown)        

156. Complaining about a problem without a solution is
        called “whining!”  (Teddy Roosevelt)

157. Losing makes winning a lot more fun!  (RBM)

158. No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe
        you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all.  (Unknown)

159. If a man expects a woman to be an angel in his life, he much
        first create heaven for her.  Angels don’t live in hell.  (Unknown)

160. In life, it’s important to know when to stop arguing with
        people and simply let them be wrong.  (Unknown)     

161. Don’t trust everything you see.  Even salt looks like
        sugar.  (Unknown)

162. A smart person knows what to say.  A wise person knows
        whether to say it or not.  (Unknown)

163. Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness.  I think this
        is a mistake.  It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas
        patience is a sign of strength.  (Unknown)

164. Any fool can know.  The point is to understand.  (Albert Einstein)

165. When Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin:

              Einstein: “What I most admire about your art is its
              universality.  You do not say a word and yet the
              world understands you.”

              Chaplin:  “It’s true but your fame is even greater.  The
              world admires you when nobody  understands you.”

166. Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like NASCAR
        drivers, then we’d know who owns them.  (Robin Williams) 

167. Wherever you go, there you are.  (Unknown)

168. Your best may not be the best, but if it is your best, it will be
         God blessed, and always reap a harvest.  (S. D. Gordon)

169. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention
        of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to
        skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally
        worn out, and proudly proclaiming 
        “Wow!  What a ride!”  (Unknown)

170.  KNOWN is a drop; UNKNOWN is an ocean. (Indian proverb)

171.  Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. (Voltaire)

172.  The secret to living well and laugh longer is eat half, walk double,

         laugh triple and love without measure.  (Tibetan proverb)

173. LISTEN more so that you can SAY more! (RBM)

174. Let the wise listen and add to their learning. (Proverbs 1:5)

175. We are where we have been! (RBM)

176. If you don't believe in hell, you will when you get there! (unknown)

177.  We are born to die.  What we do in between is what counts!

         (RBM)

178.  Life is not about how LONG you live but HOW you live it!  (RBM)