Thoughts of the Day

1. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

2. The secret to great customer service is not smiling. The secret is making the customer smile

3. The person who does things that count doesn't usually stop to count them

4. Do not confine your children to own learning, for they were born in another time

5. Do not value the THINGS you have in your life .. But value WHO you have in your life!

6. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies

7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad

8. All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen

9. Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

10. A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

F - forgiving
R - reassuring
I - interesting
E- empathetic
N - nice
D - devoted
S - sincere

11. I think the most profound expression of education is action--action in the interest of helping to heal what ails our communities, our nation, and our world

12. To deserve success is more important than to achieve it

13. Sadness flies away on the wings of time

14. You could send your customers a nice bunch of flowers. or you could try listening to what they have to say instead

15. Good character is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage, and determination
16. Home is not where you live but where they understand you

17. Every year of my life, I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false

18. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit

19. You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future

20. It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities

21. Life is made up of little things. It is very rare that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things

22. Every failure is a step to success

23. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

24. He who is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else

25. If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Add up what you do have, and you will find you will not sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them

26. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common

27. Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once

28. Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation

29. I love the idea of the future, but the future is not here yet. If you want to make good decisions about what's to come, look behind you

30. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart

31. You can be whatever you want to be...you only have to want it badly enough to succeed

32. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined

33. My experience is that for every problem the Lord has made, He has also made a solution

34. One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary people. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary person

35. You can tell a lot about how a person does everything from watching him or her do just one thing

36. You cannot hold a person down without staying down with them

37. One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary people. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary person

38. Life is made up of little things. It is very rare that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists of being great in little things

39. My future is one I must make for myself

40. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle

41. I think if you have a positive self-image, you can do anything you put your mind to

42. If you think it, ink it

43. Love is an unusual game. There are either two winners or none

44. Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there's plenty of room at both ends

45. There are many more people trying to meet the right person than to become the right person

46. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed

47. Don't sit around and wait for it to be a good day-go out and make it a good day

48. One customer, well taken care of, could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising

49. Once a task has begun, never leave it until it’s done

50. Though the task be great or small, do it well or not at all

51. The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm

52. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one, which has opened for us

53. If you do a favor, forget it; if you receive one, remember it

54. Treat others the way you would like to be treated. And tell the truth. Be good and do good. You will be guaranteed one of the most prized possessions in this turbulent world: peace of mind

55. Be yourself, there is no other like you. Only through the development of your own genius will you acquire self-reliance

56. If you do not know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?

57. You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it

58. Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance

59. The difference between a solo player and a world-class player is the ability to teach others (Noel M Tichy)

60. Yesterday is a cancelled check:
Tomorrow is a promissory note;
Today is the only cash you have
-so spend it wisely (Breck Speed and Mark Dutton)

61. Smile
A smile is quite a funny thing,
It wrinkles up your face,
And when it's gone, you never find
Its secret hiding place.

But far more wonderful it is
To see what smiles can do;
You smile at one, he smiles at you,
And so one smile makes two.

He smiles at someone since you smiled,
And then that one smiles back;
And that one smiles, until in truth
You fail in keeping track.

Now since a smile can do great good
By cheering hearts of care,
Let's smile and smile, and not forget
That smiles go everywhere!+