You never know how far reaching something you say, think or do today will effect people, things or places in the future.

Every experience God gives us, every person he puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

If you can't have the best of everything, make the best of everything you have.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished sucess.

The man who rows the boat doesn't have time to rock it.

If at first you do succeed, try something harder.

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done; he has to keep delivering.

The grass may be greener on the other but it's just as hard to mow.

A smooth sea never made a skillfull mariner.

It's easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.

Making excusses doesn't change the truth.

Parents who wish to train their children in the way they should go, must go the way which they want their children to go.

Shoot at everything and you'll hit nothing.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worse.

A strong man falls seven times and rises up again.

Think all you speak but don't speak all you think.

If we were faughtless we would not be so annoyed by the faults of others.

Say little, do much.

Nothing is open more by mistake than the mouth.

We first make our habits then our habits make us.

They think too little who talk too much.

Habit, if not resisted soon becomes necessity.

Happiness is not a reward - it's a consequence.

The way we see the problem is often the problem.

This is maturity: To be able to stick with a job until it is finished, to bear an  injustice without wanting to get even, to be able to carry money without spending it, and to do one's duty without being supervised.

Seek first to understand rather than to be understood.

He who surpress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

There are times when nothing a man can say is as powerful as saying nothing.

It isn't our position, but our disposition that makes us happy.

Trumph is umph added to try.

When you walk what you talk people listen.

My joy is to be found in Christ not my circumstances.

Tack is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that the smart man know what to say; a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

Real friends are those who when you've made a fool of yourself,don't feel you've done a permanent job.

It is surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now.

Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

The world judges you not only by what you stand for but what you fall for.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. A lie may be told by silence, by the accent on a syllable or by a glance of the eye.

To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today.

It is not enough to do good. One must do it the right way.

Worship is not part of a Christians life - it is the Christians life.

Where God has put a period, don't put a question mark.

The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it, if you can't ignore it laugh at it, if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.

If your gonna keep doing what your doing your gonna keep gettin' what your gettin'.

The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it don't say it.

Foolish people spend a large part of their short lives doing work they don't like in order to buy things they don't need.

Tack is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

It is better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

Patience is a quality you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead of you.

A person's true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching.

If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.

Be more concerned about what God thinks of you than what people think about you.

Do the thing you fear and the death of the fear is certain.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening.

Never pass up a chance to keep your mouth shut.

What counts is not the numbers of hours you put in but how much you put in the hours.