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A marriage may be made in heaven, but the maintenance must be done on earth. |
The grass may look greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed.. |
Patience is the ability to keep your motor idling when you feel like stripping your gears. |
He who is waiting for something to turn up might start with his own shirt sleeves. |
Remember the banana-when it left the bunch, it got skinned. |
It is better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. |
Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been. |
If at first you don't succeed, try reading the instructions. |
Your temper is like a fire.It gets very destructive when it gets out of control. |
Your companions are like the buttons on an elevator.
They will either take you up or they will take you down. |
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Patience is a quality you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. |
There is a name for people who are not excited about their work-unemployed. |
A person's true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching. |
It's better to die with a good name than to live with a bad one. |
"No" is one of the few words that can never be misunderstood. |
The cure of crime is not in the electric chair, but in the high chair. |
The bridge you burn now may be the one you later have to cross. |
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is but how great his love is. |
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job. |
Be careful that your marriage doesn't become a duel instead of a duet. |
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The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. |
The secret of achievement is to not let what you're doing get to you before you get to it. |
Conscience is God's built-in warning system. |
Be very happy when it hurts you. Be very worried when it doesn't. |
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything! |
The measure of a man's character is not what he gets from his ancestors, but what he leaves his descendants. |
Although the tongue weighs very little, few people are able to hold it. |
You should never let adversity get you down-except on your knees. |
He who wants milk should not sit on a stool in the middle of the pasture expecting the cow to back up to him.
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The best bridge between hope and despair is often a good night's sleep. |
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It is good to remember that the tea kettle, although up to its neck in hot water, continues to sing. |
Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.
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A man is never in worse company than when he flies into a rage and is beside himself. |
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person. It's becoming the right person. |
Failure in people is cause more by lack of determination than lack in talent. |
A man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. |
Life can only be understood by looking backward, but it must be lived by looking forward. |
Success comes in cans; failure comes in can'ts. |
Sometimes we are so busy adding up our troubles that we forget to count our blessings. |
Falling down doesn't make you a failure, but staying down does. |
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If a task is once begun, Never leave it ‘till it's done.
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Be the labor great or small, Do it well or not at all. |
Time is more valuable than money because time is irreplaceable. |
The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone solve his. |
Authority makes some people grow-and others just swell.
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The trouble with the guy who talks too fast is that he often says something he hasn't thought of yet.
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The best way to get the last word is to apologize.
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The train of failure usually runs on the track of laziness. |
When confronted with a Goliath sized problem, which way do you respond:"He's too big to hit" or like David, "He's too big to miss"? |
Forget yourself for others and others will not forget you! |
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The secret of success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. |
The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift not a right. |
No one ever said on their deathbed: I wish I would have spent more time at work! |
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. |
No man ever really finds out what he believes in until he begins to instruct his children. |
Don't mistake activity for achievement. |
Busyness does not equal productiveness. |
It's the little things in life that determine the big things. |
The doors of opportunity are marked "Push" and "Pull".
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You cannot win if you do not begin.
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The best way to be successful is to follow the advice you give others. |
Contentment isn't getting what we want but being satisfied with what we have. |
Too many people quit looking for work when they find a job. |
You can't take your money with you, but you can send it on ahead. |
Ability will enable a man to go to the top. But it takes character to keep him there. |
Your words are windows to your heart. |
A shut mouth gathers not foot. |
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. |
A drowning man does not complain about the size of a life preserver. |
Blessed is he who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. |
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Luck: a loser's excuse for a winner's position. |
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. |
Whoever gossips to you will be a gossip of you. |
Every person should have a special cemetery lot in which to bury the faults of friends and loved ones. |
Ignorance is always swift to speak. |
Learn from other's mistakes rather than making them all yourself. |
Pick your friends but not to pieces. |
He who throws dirt loses ground. |
You don't have to lie awake nights to succeed-just stay awake days. |
The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening. |
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The greatest possession you have is the 24 hours directly in front of you. |
The most valuable gift you can give another is a good example. |
Don't be afraid of pressure. Remember that pressure is what turns a lump of coal into a diamond. |
A minute of thought is worth more than and hour of talk. |
You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. |
It's not the outlook but the uplook that counts.
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Put others before yourself, and you can become a leader among men. |
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death. |
Never pass up a chance to keep your mouth shut. |
It not hard to make a mountain out of a molehill. Just add a little dirt. |
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What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours. |
Reputation is made in a moment: character is built in a lifetime. |
If you feel "dog tired" at night, maybe it's because you "growled" all day! |
If you don't want the fruits of sin, stay out of the devil's orchard. |
Our children are like mirrors- they reflect our attitudes in life. |
The art of being a good guest is knowing when to leave. |
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. |
Those who deserve love the least need it the most. |
Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. |
The right angle to approach a difficult problem is the "try-angle. |
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The fellow who does things that count doesn't usually stop to count them. |
A critical spirit is like poison ivy-it only takes a little contact to spread its poison. |
Laziness and poverty are cousins. |
Language is the expression of thought. |
Every time you speak, your mind is on parade. |
Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. |
The hardest secret for a man to keep is his opinion of himself. |
He who buries his talent is making a grave mistake. |
If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden. |
Even a woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head. |
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The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent but the man without a dream. |
The only preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today. |
When things go wrong, don't go wrong with them. |
Two things are hard on the heart-running up stairs and running down people. |
The best way to get even is to forget. |
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. |
Humor is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. |
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package. |
It isn't your position that makes you happy or unhappy, it's your disposition. |
It takes more to plow a field than merely turning it over in your mind. |
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Men are like fish. Neither would get into trouble if they kept their mouths shut. |
The heart of a man cannot be determined by the size of his pocketbook. |
Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life. |
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him. |
People know what you are by what they see, not by what they hear. |
People who try to whittle you down are only trying to reduce you to their size. |
Quite often when a man thinks his mind is getting broader, it's only his conscience stretching. |
Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there. |
We make a living by what we get-we make a life by what we give. |
Our days are identical suitcases-all the same size- but some people can pack more into them than others. |
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Living would be easier if men showed as much patience at home as they do when they're fishing. |
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. |
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. |
Swallowing angry words is much better than having to eat them. |
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU. |
The company you keep will determine the trouble you meet. |
Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children. |
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. |
The heart is the happiest when it beats for others. |
One thing you can learn by watching the clock is that it passes time by keeping it's hands busy. |
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He who thinks by the inch and talks by the Yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. |
The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example. |
Wit lies in recognising the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Don't take today into tomorrow. Leave it behind.
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