Words of Wisdom
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Quotes By Unknown Authors A good example is a lesson anyone can read. -Unknown Anger is often more harmful than the injury that caused it. -Unknown An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. -Unknown Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. -Unknown A person can run away from his troubles just as easily as he can run away from his shadow. -Unknown Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. -Unknown A winner is a person who asks questions and listens to the answers; a loser never listens. A person can run away from his troubles just as easily as he can run away from his shadow. -Unknown A wish is a desire without anyattempt to attain its end. -Unknown Being the best means outrunning the rest. -Unknown Better to ask twice than to lose your way once. -Unknown Challenge your own mind --stretch and exercise it like any other part of your body. -Unknown Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. -Unknown Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices. -Unknown Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. -Unknown Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on in spite of it. -Unknown Deciding whom you'll marry is the most important decision you'll make. -Unknown Don't be content with being average. Average is a close to the bottom as it is to the top. -Unknown Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination. -Unknown Duty is a matter of the mind. Commitment is a matter of the heart. -Unknown Eagles we are not, but we can still fly. Our imaginations become our wings. The magnificent eagle is still just an eagle but we can soar as high and as far as our aspirations take us. -Unknown Everyone is allowed an occasional failure --except the skydiver, of course. -Unknown Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. -Unknown Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is very costly. -Unknown Failures are a normal part of life. They are not disasters. -Unknown Few things are created and perfected at the same moment. -Unknown Finding fault is easy. It's improving that's hard. -Unknown Find one thing you do extremely well. -Unknown Follow your dreams. -Unknown Football players are the only people who can go anywhere by playing both ends against the middle. - Unknown Forget mistakes. Organize victory out of mistakes. -Unknown For problems, sweat is a good solvent. -Unknown Golf is a sport that separates the men from the poise. -Unknown Golfers are happiest when they feel below par. -Unknown Good, better, best; never rest till good be better, and better, best. -Unknown Good ideas, like pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make. -Unknown Good sportsmanship means being good losers. But it doesn't have to mean being perfect. -Unknown Great visions often start with small dreams. -Unknown Habit is like a soft bed, easy to get into but hard to get out of. -Unknown Happiness involves working towards meaningful goals. -Unknown Happiness is like perfume: you can't give it away without getting a little on yourself. -Unknown He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. -Unknown High expectations are the key to everything. -Unknown How a person plays the game shows something of his character --how he or she loses shows all of it. - Unknown Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. -Unknown I believe that there's an athlete in all of us. -Unknown Ideas are the great moving forces of history. -Unknown If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. -Unknown If it is to be, it is up to me. -Unknown If there is larceny in a person, golf will bring it out. -Unknown If we have our own "why" of life, we can bear almost any "how." -Unknown If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else. -Unknown If you don't swallow praise, ti can't hurt you. -Unknown If you give me a fish, I'll eat for a day. If you teach me to how to fish, I'll eat for a lifetime. -Unknown If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. -Unknown If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep. -Unknown Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. -Unknown Improvement begins with "I." -Unknown Improvement counts, no matter how small. -Unknown In golf, as in life . . . it's the follow-through that makes the difference. -Unknown In gold, the proof is in the putting. -Unknown In the game of life, someone has to warm the benches. -Unknown Initiative is doing the right thing without being ordered to do it. -Unknown It doesn't matter if you're on the right track, you'll still get run over if you don't keep on moving. -Unknown It is hard to create a great thing suddenly. -Unknown It is misery enough to have once been happy. -Unknown It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy. -Unknown It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring. -Unknown It's not who wins or loses; it is who gets the blame. -Unknown It takes a lot of training to be an engineer, and it takes a lot of boating to be a sailor. -Unknown Knock the T off can't. You can if you think you can. -Unknown Life is like a ladder. Every step we take is either up or down. -Unknown Like a cypress swamp whose trees persist and thrive for centuries, we can build special talents that help us persist and thrive in the an ever changing world. -Unknown Losers let it happen. Winners make it happen. -Unknown Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. -Unknown Love is a great beautifier. -Unknown Luck may sometimes help; work always helps. -Unknown Make an effort everyday to feel good about who you are and what you can be . . . . -Unknown Money changes people just as often as it changes hands. -Unknown Money is a lousy means of keeping score. -Unknown Morale is when your hand and feet keep on working when your head simply says it can't be done. -Unknown Never let a day go by without a dream. -Unknown No one ever excused his way to success. -Unknown Nothing increases the size of fish like fishing all by yourself. -Unknown Nothing is hard if you try. -Unknown Nothing is worth more than this day. -Unknown One loss doesn't make a season. -Unknown One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes. -Unknown Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. -Unknown People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. -Unknown People fail because of lack of discipline. -Unknown Praise should be directed at the performance not the person. -Unknown Pro golfers realize that money can grow on trees. -Unknown Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. -Unknown Remembering is a dream that comes in waves. -Unknown Remember when you were at your best? Now be there again. -Unknown Simple solutions seldom are. -Unknown Skill is stronger than strength. -Unknown Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay. -Unknown Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed and permanently set. -Unknown Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. -Unknown Success can be measured more by obstacles overcome when trying to reach success than plateaus reached. - Unknown Success depends on your backbone not your wishbone. -Unknown Success is getting up one more time than you fall down. -Unknown Success is never final, and failure is never fatal. -Unknown Success is not how high and fast you reach the top, but how high and fast you bounce back when you hit the bottom. -Unknown Temper is what gets most of us into trouble, but pride is what keeps us there. -Unknown The ability to beat the odds lies within us all. -Unknown The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship. -Unknown The best angle from which to approach any problem is the tryangle. -Unknown The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience. -Unknown The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. -Unknown The expert in anything was once a beginner. -Unknown The greatest mistake you can make is to be constantly fearful you will make one. -Unknown The hardest thing in life to learn is which bring to cross and which to burn. -Unknown The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. -Unknown The idea of calm exists in a sitting cat. -Unknown The longer you keep your temper, the more it will improve. -Unknown The miracle is this --the more we share, the more we have. -Unknown The most important six words: "I admit I made a mistake." The most important five words: "I am proud of you." - Unknown The most important word: "We." The least important word: "I." -Unknown The one thing worse than a quitter is the person who is afraid to begin. -Unknown The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. -Unknown The reason golf is so popular is because it is the only game where you keep your own score. -Unknown The secret of action is to begin. -Unknown The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us. -Unknown The two best times to keep your mouth shut are when you're swimming and when you're angry. -Unknown The work will teach you how to do it. -Unknown The wrong way to make your way is to insist on having it. -Unknown There are four ages of man: 1)when you believe in Santa Claus, 2)when you don't believe in Santa Claus, 3)when you are Santa Claus, 4)when you look like Santa Claus. -Unknown There is no failure save in giving up. -Unknown There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs. -Unknown There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him. -Unknown To achieve all that's possible we must attempt the impossible --to be as much as we can be we must dream of being more. -Unknown To belittle is to be little. -Unknown To be successful, you have to keep moving. After all, no one stumbles on something sitting down. - Unknown To succeed --do the best you can, where you are, with what you have. -Unknown Triumph --umph added to try. -Unknown Use it or lose it. -Unknown Use the talents you possess; for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. -Unknown We are the architects of our own fortunes, and our happiness depends, in the end, on ourselves. -Unknown We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough. -Unknown We cannot do everything at once; but we can do something at once. -Unknown We can't all be shining examples, but we can at least twinkle a little. -Unknown We heard of a man who decided not to procrastinate anymore --but he never got around to it. -Unknown We often don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. -Unknown We see possibilities in others, but do we ever dream of the possibilities within ourselves? -Unknown What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion. -Unknown What I truly value --I do. -Unknown When success turns a person's head, he is facing failure. -Unknown When you play golf you are locked in combat with your own worst enemy --yourself. -Unknown Winners believe they can win. -Unknown Winners concentrate on winning. Losers concentrate on getting by. -Unknown You can let bad times make you bitter --or better. -Unknown You can't hug your kids too much. -Unknown You don't have to have the lead if you have the heart to come from behind. -Unknown You have to keep jumping to know when you are jumping at opportunity. -Unknown You need to reach a point of accepting you can't be everything you want ot be. -Unknown You rarely succeed unless you have fun doing it. -Unknown You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits, and don't mind being contradicted. -Unknown
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