Good Sayings
Following are some good sayings to ponder and enjoy --- God Bless!
Last updated 03/03/2009.
The Gospel According To You...
There is a wonderful old story
Written in a time long gone:
It is the Gospel according to
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The Gospels were given to show us
This power of God's love divine
May that story be told again
In the writing of your life and mine.
People read and admire the Gospel
With its love so inspiring and true
But what do they say and think of
The gospel according to you?
You are writing each day a gospel
Take care that the writing is true
For the only gospel some will read
Is the gospel according to you.
It's Between You and God
People
are often unreasonable,
Illogical,
and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If
you are kind,
People
may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be
kind anyway.
If
you are successful,
You
will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed
anyway.
If
you are honest and frank,
People
may cheat you;
Be
honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years
building,
Someone could destroy
overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and
happiness,
They may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,
People will often forget
tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you
have,
And it may never be enough;
Give the world the best
you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final
analysis,
It is between you and God;
It never was between you
and them anyway.
Be Blessed,
----- Mother Teresa
Doing The Impossible...
Start by doing what is necessary,
then do what’s possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
----- St. Francis of Assisi
Quality...
Quality is not an act, it's a habit.
----- Aristotle
Waste No Time...
Waste no more time talking about great souls
and how they should be. Become one yourself!
----- Marcus Aurelius
One Nation
Under God 
If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God,
then we will be a nation gone under.
----- Ronald Reagan
This Place Where You Are...
This place where you are....
this place where you stand....
is where you must start.
From here you can go in any direction and to any destination....
and it is
impossible to start from anywhere else.
----- Ron Atchison (Inspiration Peak)
It May Be...
It may be that when we no longer know
what to do,
we have come to our real work,
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
----- Wendell Berry (American Author and Poet)
Our Great Hope...
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil.
Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
----- Calvin Coolidge (30th President of the United States)
We Are The Times...
Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying;
but let us live well, and times shall be good.
We are the times:
Such as we are, such are the times.
----- St. Augustine
Listen, Child...
Listen to the
Mustn'ts, child,
Listen to the Don'ts,
Listen to the Shouldn'ts,
The Impossibles,
The Won'ts,
Listen to the Never Haves;
Then listen close to me --
Anything can happen, child,
Anything can be.
----- Shel Silverstein (Children's Book Writer)
To Be Upset...
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste
what you do have.
----- Ken Keyes Jr.
The Greater Danger...
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high...
and
we miss it. But that it is too low... and we reach it."
----- Michelangelo
Aim Higher
Always aim higher than you believe you can reach.
So often, you'll discover that when your talents are set free
by your imagination, you can achieve any goal.
If people offer their help or wisdom as you go through life,
accept it gratefully.
You can learn much from those who have gone before you.
But never be afraid or hesitant to step off the accepted path
and head off in your own direction,
if your heart tells you that it's the right way for you.
Always believe that you will ultimately succeed at whatever you do,
and never
forget the value of persistence, discipline, and determination.
You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming.
----- Edmund O'Neill
Set Yourself Free
Set yourself free from anything that
might hinder you in becoming the
person you want to be. Free yourself from the uncertainties about your
abilities or the worth of your dreams, from the fears that you may not
be able to achieve them or that they won't be what you wanted.
Set yourself free from the past. The good things from yesterday are
still yours in memory; the things you want to forget you will, for
tomorrow is only a sunrise away. Free yourself from regret or guilt, and
promise to live this day as fully as you can.
Set yourself free from the expectations of others, and never feel guilty
or embarrassed if you do not live up to their standards. You are most
important to yourself; live by what you feel is best and right for you.
Others will come to respect your integrity and honesty.
Set yourself free to simply be yourself, and you will soar higher than
you've ever dreamed.
----- Edmund O'Neill
Steer The World...
God says to me with kind of a smile,
"Hey how would you like to be God awhile
And steer the world?"
"Okay," says I, "I'll give it a try.
Where do I set?
How much do I get?
What time is lunch?
When can I quit?"
"Gimme back that wheel," says God,
"I don't think you're quite ready yet."
----- Shel Silverstein (Writer)
Prayer of St. Francis (of Assisi)
Make me a channel of Your peace.
Where there is hatred let me bring Your love.
Where there is injury, Your pardon, Lord.
And where there's doubt, true faith in you.
Make me a channel of Your peace.
Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, only light.
And where there's sadness, only joy.
Oh, Master, grant that I may never seek,
So much to be consoled as to console,
To be understood, as to understand,
To be loved as to love with all my soul.
Make me a channel of Your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving to all men that we receive,
And in dying that we're born to eternal life.
Patriot...
"In the beginning of a
change, the patriot is a brave and scarce man,
hated and scorned. When the cause succeeds,
however, the timid
join him...for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
----- Mark Twain
Character...
Character is doing the right thing when
no one is looking.
----- J.C. Watts (US Congressman)
Ordinances of Heaven...
Without recognizing the ordinances of
Heaven,
it is impossible to be a superior man.
----- Confucius
Governed by God...
Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
----- William Penn
The Seven "Hole-Some" Habits Of Good Golfers
1. Follow The Best Course.
2. Drive For Success.
3. Play The Fairway.
4. Putt Others First.
5. Get A Good Grip On Things.
6. Think Smart When In The Rough.
7. Celebrate The Links In Your Life!
Special Flavor...
Life has a special flavor to those who
fight for it that the sheltered never know.
----- Anonymous Vietnam Marine
Greatest Deception...
The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the
illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding
moral truths and personal responsibility.
----- John Paul II
Obstacles...
Obstacles are those frightful things you
see when you take your eyes off your goal.
----- Henry Ford
Excellence...
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
----- Aristotle
Life's
Tough...
"Life's tough... It's even tougher if you're stupid
[do stupid
things]."
----- John Wayne
Luck...
I find that the harder I work, the more
luck I seem to have.
----- Thomas Jefferson
True Measure...
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him
absolutely no good.
----- Samuel Johnson
Privileges vs. Principles...
A people that values its privileges
above its principles soon loses both.
----- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Opportunities...
Opportunities multiple as they are
seized.
----- Sun Tzu
Pessimist vs. Optimist...
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
----- Sir Winston Churchill
For Evil To Triumph...
The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing.
----- Edmund Burke