Mottoes

In this world of ordinary people, thank heavens there’s me!

Keep smiling! It makes people wonder what you’ve been up to.

Keep smiling! It gives your face something to do.

Attitudes are contagious, are yours worth catching?

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~Charles A. Beard

Enthusiasm moves the world. ~J. Balfour

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. ~Lauren Bacall

Worldwide communication—People smile in the same language.

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes.  That way if he gets angry, he’ll be a mile away--and barefoot.

Experience is a wonderful thing.  It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

I’m lost.  I’ve gone to look for myself.  If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait.

Fear is the prison of the heart.

Hope is a waking dream. ~Aristotle

Hand over the chocolate and no one will get hurt.

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. 

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

A good archer is not known by his arrows, but by his aim.  What is your aim in life?

Work is the yeast that raises the dough.

As long as America blesses God, God will bless America.

The best ability is dependability.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

One is judged by what he finishes, not by what he starts.

Changing your mind won’t keep it clean.

Mistakes will happen, but why do you give them so much help?

So what if I ain’t good looking—I’m faithful!!

You don’t have to crazy to work here, but it helps!

The hurrider I go, the behinder I get.

Do it tomorrow—you made enough mistakes today.

What can you possibly expect from a day that begins with going to work.

Be reasonable—do it my way!

I’ve got plenty of ambition—I just hate to waste it on work.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

Patience unlocks the door to achievement.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Laughter by definition is healthy.

Beauty without virtue is like a flower without perfume.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Your attitude determines your altitude.

Never lose a chance at saying a kind word.

If you keep your nose to the grindstone rough

And hold it down there long enough,

In time you’ll say there’s no such thing

As brooks that babble and birds that sing.

These three things will your world compose:

Just you, the stone, and your bloody nose.

If found by person, return by mail; if found by male, return by person.

Hash isn’t made, it accumulates.

Imitate the sundial’s ways; count only the pleasant days.

A compliment is a vitamin in words.

Doing what you like is freedom; liking what you do is happiness.

A test of good manners is being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

People are beautiful if you love them.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year.

The future comes one day at a time.

On two occasions you should be careful to keep your mouth shut: when swimming and when angry.

What I will be I am now becoming.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. ~Moody

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