Sayings, quotes and anecdotes

[East Bay Rider]

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

[East Bay Rider]

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

[jatco]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Thats a good one..

[cop414]

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

[cop414]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Nice Bill...

[cop414]

The pessimist may be right in the long run, but the optimist has a better time during the trip.

[airchitect]

Its funny. Many of these sayings seem at odds with one another......some tell us to work arduously, religiously even to achieve in life. The others, to find whats truly important in life, to open your eyes, and love.

One of my silly sayings at work goes something like this......"Work hard while your here, but unless your task will help someone make it through the night who otherwise wouldn't, go home. Make love to your wife, take care of yourself, and partake in the lives of the little gifts God gave you, for it is these moments that will shape the rest of their lives. The next deal can wait."

[East Bay Rider]

Originally Posted by airchitect

Its funny. Many of these sayings seem at odds with one another......some tell us to work arduously, religiously even to achieve in life. The others, to find whats truly important in life, to open your eyes, and love. ..

Good observation. These conflicts are best contemplated and decided while leaning against a tree, fishing pole in hand, with a line in the water waiting for a fish to strike, or not.

[cop414]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

Good observation. These conflicts are best contemplated and decided while leaning against a tree, fishing pole in hand, with a line in the water waiting for a fish to strike, or not.

... and an ice cold beer.

[Gagebuilder]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

Good observation. These conflicts are best contemplated and decided while leaning against a tree, fishing pole in hand, with a line in the water waiting for a fish to strike, or not.

someone once said "it's called fishin' not catchin'."

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by airchitect

Its funny. Many of these sayings seem at odds with one another....

"Talk is cheap," but "money talks."

[East Bay Rider]

Originally Posted by Gagebuilder

someone once said "it's called fishin' not catchin'."

That's the way I do it too.

[jatco]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

"Talk is cheap," but "money talks."

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

That's the way I do it too.

...couldve been Mark Twain

[cop414]

If your ship doesn't come in... swim out to it.

[GradyPhilpott]

Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.--Anthony Trollope

[East Bay Rider]

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

― Benjamin Franklin

[cop414]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

― Benjamin Franklin

Sounds like a great New Years resolution.

[subtona]

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple.

But, if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."

[subtona]

M: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"
W: "My goodness, Mr... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "
M: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"
W: "Mr, what kind of woman do you think I am?!"
M: "Madam, we've already established what kind of woman you are, now we are negotiating the price”

[cop414]

Originally Posted by subtona

M: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"
W: "My goodness, Mr... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "
M: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"
W: "Mr, what kind of woman do you think I am?!"
M: "Madam, we've already established what kind of woman you are, now we are negotiating the price”

Hahaha, love it Gus!

[East Bay Rider]

There is no such thing as a self made man. We only reach our goals with the help of others.
George Shinn

[cop414]

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

[cop414]

The road leading you to a goal does not seperate you from your destination, it is essentially a part of it.

[jatco]

^...thats a good one ...

[GradyPhilpott]

If—
By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

[East Bay Rider]

Some folks are like goldfish. Pretty to look at, but they only have enough brain power to fuel about 10 seconds of memory.

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

Some folks are like goldfish. Pretty to look at, but they only have enough brain power to fuel about 10 seconds of memory.

Okay, now. That's hitting a little close to home.

[cop414]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

Okay, now. That's hitting a little close to home.

Hehe, I'm not even pretty to look at...

[cop414]

Dance as though no one is watching
Sing as though no one can hear
Work as though you don't need the money
Love as though you've never been hurt before
Live as though heaven is here on earth

[East Bay Rider]

“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
Sartre