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No amount of Guilt can change the past, and no amount of Worrying can change the futur

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

The best labor saving device is doing it tomorrow

Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.

Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.

I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago.

No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown.

The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

Nothing is worth making that does not make the man.

Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as ''Lover's Lane.''

A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.

Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one's lips.

The ladder of success can not be climb with your hands in your pocket.

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t.

If the world despises you because you do not follow its ways, pay no heed to it. But be sure your way is right.

If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all...

If you continually give, you will continually have.

I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.

I just graduated and already I'm way behind.

Invest in the future; have a child and teach her well.

In times of stress and strain, people will vote.

If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want !

If your heart beats with truth, your soul will not fear judgement

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it.

Children smile on the average 400 times/day; Adults: 15 times/day. Ever wonder why?

Children are always the only future the human race has; teach them well.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

Hope is a good thing but not if you depend on it solely.

How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

If I thought that a smile of mine, might linger the whole day through and lighten some heart with a heavier part, I'd not withhold it -- Would you?

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for; he said one that would make me his wife.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

I am not a role model. People need to be their own role models. Do not look up to me.

Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

You can say no and smile only when there's a bigger yes burning inside you

The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him.

The man with vision always goes ahead of the man with visions.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

This is no longer a slum neighborhood. I haven't heard of a Cubs fan being shot in a long time.- Anonymous Wrigley Field Neighbor, Chicago, IL

A job worth doing is worth doing together.

The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.

The eternal summer of our love will not fade...

The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.

The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

The door of opportunity is wide open if you are prepared.

The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. The neurotic builds castles in the sky, the psychotic lives in them and the psychiatrist collects the rent.

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

A minister asked a little boy how to get to the Post Office. After the little boy told him, the minister said, Why don't you come to church tonight? I'm giving instructions on how to get to heaven. After thinking a minute, the boy replied, I don't think so. You don't even know how to get to the Post Office.