Golden Lines … Nine

 
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.  —Thomas Fuller
 
It’s all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.  —French Management saying
 
To do two things at once is to do neither.  —Publilius Syrus
 
If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.  —Robert S. Hillyer
 
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.  —Spanish Proverb
 
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.  —Jim Bishop
 
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken  —winged bird, that cannot fly.  —Langston Hughes
 
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.  —Charles F. Kettering
 
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.  —Lao  —Tzu
 
You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.  —Charles Lynch
 
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.  —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn’t particularly feel like it.  —Alistair Cooke
 
There wouldn’t be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.  —Sufi Proverb
 
A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.  —Wilma Askinas
 
Each of us has a spark in life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.  —Kenny Ausubel
 
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.  —Orison Swett Marden
 
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.  —Plutarch
 
I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.  —Anthony Robbins
 
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.  —Whitney Young, JR.
 
Dreams have as much influences as actions.  —Stephane Mallarme
 
It’s easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.
 
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra miles.  —Anonymous
 
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.  —Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.  —Samuel Smiles
 
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.  —Louis E.Boone
 
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.  —George Bernard Shaw
 
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.  —Dag Hammarskjold
 
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.  —Denis Waitley
 
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.  —Denis Waitley
 
All things are possible until they are proved impossible  —and even the impossible may only be so as of now.  —Pearl S. Buck
 
Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.  —Mark Twain
 
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.  —Bible
 
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.  —Christian N. Bovee
 
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.  —Miguel De Cervantes
 
Thought is the blossom; language is the bud; action the fruit behind.  —Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.  —Scott Adams
 
Convincing yourself does not win an argument.  —Robert Half
 
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.  —Sanskrit Proverb
 
The more you use your brain, the more brain you’ll have to use.  —George A. Dorsey
 
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.  —Jennie Jerome Churchill
 
As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.  —Akhenaton
 
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.  —Napoleon Bonaparte
 
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.  —Ray Bradbury
 
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.  —Charles Caleb Colton
 
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.  —Peace Pilgrim

Golden Lines … Eight

 
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three rights make a left.  —Anonymous
 
When the going seems easy, you may be going downhill.  —Anonymous
 
Worry takes as much time as work and pays less.  —Anonymous
 
You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.  —Anonymous
 
You don’t have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.  —Anonymous
 
Truth will be truth regardless of a closed mind, ignorance, or refusal to believe.
 
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.  —Aeschylus
 
Money can’t buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.  —Anonymous
 
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupil.  —Hector Berlioz
 
Drifting through life without aim or purpose is the first cause of failure.
 
Few minds wear out; more rust out.  —Christian nestell Bovee
 
The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.  —Harold Coffin
 
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair whether and ask for it back when it rains.  —Robert Frost
 
Don’t cry about loss  —God never takes anything away without replacing it. Think positive, especially in times of difficulty
 
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up and does not stop until you get into the office.  —Robert Frost
 
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.  —Serge Gainsbourg
 
Children are a great comfort in your old age  —and they help you reach it faster too.  —Lionel Kauffman
 
A smile costs you nothing. It’s a little thing, but will always produce big results.
 
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.  —Nikita Krushchev
 
If you drink like a fish, don’t drive. Swim.  —Joe E. Lewis
 
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.  —Henry Wadsworth Longfeloow
 
A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light  —Henry Morgan
 
The world is divided into people who do things  —and people who get the credit.  —Dwight Morrow
 
I never thought much of the courage of a lion  —tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.  —George Bernard Shaw
 
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.  —George Bernard Shaw
 
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.  —Lilly Tomlin
 
The trouble with a rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.  —Lilly Tomlin
 
Be yourself" is the worst advice you can give to people.  —Mark Twain
 
Ah! Don’t say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.  —Oscar Wilde
 
Twixt the optimist and pessimist, the difference is droll: The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist sees the hold.  —McLandburg Wilson
 
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.  —Dale Carnegie
 
The depression era taught us that there is something worse than begin forced to work. It is being forced not to work.
 
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.  —Sir Winston Churchill
 
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.  —Sir Winston Churchill
 
Anyone who has never made mistake has never tried anything new.  —Albert Einstein
 
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.  —Henry Ford
 
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.  —Henry Ford
 
Whether you think you can or think you can’t  —you’re right.  —Henry Ford
 
Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.  —Ben Franklin
 
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.  —Ben Franklin
 
Success is that old ABC  —ability, breaks, and courage.  —Charles Luckman Good questions outrank easy answers.  —Paul A. Samuelson
 
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.  —Lord Chesterfield
 
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.  —Ferdinand Foch
 
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.  —William E. Gladstone
 
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.  —Napoleon Hill

Golden Lines … Seven

 
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.  —Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Whatever comes, this too shall pass away.  —Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 
Joy is not in things; it is in us.  —Richard Wagner
 
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.  —Sir James M. Barrie
 
Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more.  —Thomas Parnell
 
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privelege to be free.  —Charles Evans Hughes
 
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to share it with.  —Mark Twain
 
Kindness is to be a friend No matter if you lose or win.  —Dante D.
 
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.  —Phyllis Diller
 
I know what happiness is for I have done good work.  —Robert Louis Stevenson
 
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.  —Kahih Gibran
 
Money often costs too much.  —Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
One learns to itch where one can scratch.  —Ernest Bramah
 
In prosperity our friend know us; in adversity we know our friends.  —John Churton Collins
 
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.  —Wally "Famous" Amos
 
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.  —Hasidic Saying
 
Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything.  —Herbert Gardner
 
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.  —Bill Cosby
 
Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution  —focused rather than problem  —focused.  —Brian Tracy
 
Do not follow where the path may lead…go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.  —Anonymous
 
Your ego can be an asset or a liability depending on how you relate to it.
 
Footprints on the sands of time are never made by sitting down.  —Anonymous
 
Remember that the door to opportunity swings two ways  —in and out!
 
Free advice generally cost more than the other kind.  —Anonymous
 
You only learn how to succeed by failing, and no success is possible without it.  —Brian Tracy
 
When you see a problem or an obstacle, always look upon it as a challenge.  —Brian Tracy
 
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  —Anonymous
 
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.  —Anonymous
 
Given a choice of two theories, take the one which is funnier.  —Anonymous
 
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience  —well, that comes from poor judgment.  —Anonymous
 
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another’s mishap.  —Anonymous
 
If you learn to develop a success  —consciousness, your subconscious will work positively for you 24  —hours a day  —even when you’re asleep!
 
If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy people?Anonymous
 
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50  —50 it will.  —Anonymous
 
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.  —Anonymous
 
You will never get to where you want to be on dead hopes or hopeful wishing.
 
It makes no difference whether you win or lose until you lose.
 
Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.  —Anonymous
 
Knock, Knock. Who’s there? Opportunity. Don’t be silly  —opportunity doesn’t knock twice!"Anonymous
 
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
 
The most effective answer to an insult is silence.  —Anonymous
 
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely.  —Anonymous
 
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.  —Anonymous
 
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.  —Anonymous
 
Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.  —Anonymous

Golden Lines … Six

 
The ladder of success may now be an elevator, but it’s still self  —service. When you are looking into your future, it’s important to know which questions to ask. You don’t need to ask, "Do I have what it takes to be successful?" The answer to that is a resounding "YES!" The key question is, "Am I willing to pay the price for the success I desire?  —Kathy R. Caulton Writer and publisher
 
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.  —Lou Holtz
 
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.  —Elbert Hubbard
 
Anger is one letter away from danger.  —Eleanor Roosevelt
 
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.  —Buckminster Fuller
 
We are not retreating  —we are advancing in another direction.  —General Douglas MacArthur
 
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.  —Elizabeth Kubler  —Ross
 
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.  —Tzu  —Sun
 
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.  —Socrates (470  —399 B.C.)
 
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.  —Edward R. Murrow
 
Do you live in tomorrow when you must face today? At times, I forget to live in the moment, but what do I miss? The setting sun, the sound of birds’ singing and, most importantly, I miss meeting myself. I am constantly changing, and if I don’t spend time with myself in the here and now, I will never get to appreciate who I truly am because I am too busy focusing on who I want to be.  —Gary Barnes
 
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.  —Les Brown
 
We create the situations & then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place & no thing has any power over us for "WE" are the only thinkers in our mind.  —Louise Hay "You Can Heal Your Life
 
Success is not a doorway, it’s a staircase.  —Dottie Walters
 
It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do=20 anything else, read all that you can.  —Jane Hamilton
 
I’ve never learned anything while I was talking.  —Larry King (Television talk show host)
 
There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. Death is nature’s expert advice to get plenty of life. Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.  —Oscar Wilde
 
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.  —Anthony Robbins
 
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.  —Mark Twain (1835  —1910)
 
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.  —Greg Anderson
 
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.  —Maureen Dowd
 
You can’t tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.  —Antisthenes
 
Set your goals high and don’t stop until you get there.  —Bo Jackson
 
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.  —Dr. Jonas Salk, Developer of the first polio vaccine
 
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.  —Sir Isaac Newton
 
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.  —William Cowper
 
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.  —Albert Einstein
 
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.  —Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
If you want to know your past. look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future. look into your present actions.  —Buddhist Saying
 
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.  —Emily P. Bissell
 
It isn’t the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.  —Charles Sorenson
 
If you believe everything you read, you better not read.  —Japanese Proverb
 
It’s better to be hated for what you are then loved for what you are not.  —Andre Gide
 
We must love them both  —those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it.  —St. Thomas Aquinas (1225  —1274) Theologian and philosopher
 
Self  —distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.  —Christian Bovee
 
Spend less time deciding "who" is right and more time deciding "what" is right. Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.  —Arthur Schopenhauer
 
Fault finding is like window washing. All the dirt seems to be on the other side. Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, don’t think you can go wrong.  —Ella Fitzgerald
 
Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it will turn out that this was good, so I shant worry about it too much.  —William Gaines
 
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.  —Louis E. Boone
 
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.  —Earl Wilson
 
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.  —Winston Churchill
 
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.  —Edmund Burke(1729  —1797)
 
A deadline has a marvelous ability to concentrate the mind. If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.  —Thomas Edison
 
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.  —Edward S. Martin
 
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.  —Thomas Carlyle

Golden Lines … Five

 
But how should we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.  —Thomas Browne
 
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.  —Alice Meynell
 
Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!  —Napoleon Hill
 
Few people blame themselves until they have exhausted all other possibilities. Live each day as if it were your last … someday it will be. A person with a tidy desk is not doing much work. Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.  —Chinese Proverb
 
Life is fortified by many friendships  —To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.  —Sydney Smith
 
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.  —Samuel Johnson
 
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.  —Sir Philip Sidney
 
Nine  —tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody’s hand and squeeze it, while there’s time.  —Dale Dauten
 
Success is never ending, failure is never final.  —Dr Robert Schuller
 
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.  —Samuel Johnson
 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.  —Nelson Mandela
 
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take OFF! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.  —Amelia Earhart
 
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.  —Andrew Carnegie
 
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.  —Joubert (1754  —1824)
 
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; great minds rise above them.  —Washington Irving
 
The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.  —Wayne Dyer
 
If you had a friend who talked to you, like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?  —Rob Bremer
 
If I want circumstances in my life to change for the better, I must change for the better. Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.
 
I’ll sleep when I’m dead.  —Warren Zevon
 
Expecting the world to be fair to you because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one’s duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one’s lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is.  —Horace Walpole
 
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.  —Earl Nightingale
 
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.  —George Bernard Shaw
 
Happiness can’t buy money.  —Bob Hope
 
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.  —Lowell
 
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.  —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
 
Don’t be afraid to ask dumb questions. Better a dumb question than a dumb mistake. To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.  —Elbert Hubbard
 
You can’t always control the wind, but you can control your sails.  —Anthony Robbins
 
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.  —Kahlil Gibran
 
He that lives upon hope, dies fasting.  —Benjamin Franklin
 
The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.  —Ray Kroc
 
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become fact.  —Norman Vincent Peale
 
In the long run the pessimist may be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
 
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.  —Lee Iacocca
 
Great ideas come to us in the shower because it’s often the only time in the day when we’re completely alone. No TV, no movies, no traffic, no family, no talkative pets  —nothing to distract our mind from conversing with itself.  —Steve Chandler, author, in"100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
 
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.  —Tom Landry
 
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.  —Galileo Galilei (1564  —1642)
 
Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.  —Horotio W. Dresser
 
The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.  —Ulysses. S. Grant
 
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.  —Henri L. Bergson
 
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.  —Orison Swett Marden
 
Fear is an asset which is pumped into one’s atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.  —Horace Fletcher
 
Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.  —Frank Zappa
 
All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.  —Blaise Pascal
 
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.  —Ross Perot
 
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.  —Morarji Desai, 1896  —1995. Prime Minister of India