Quotes and Wisdom

Goals & Purpose

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. – Norman R. Augustine

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. – Unknown

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow. – B.J. Palmer

The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. – Benjamin Mays

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. – Pearl S. Buck
As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. – Paul Shane Spear

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. – Benjamin Franklin

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success. – Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.- Robert Byrne

Success is a journey, not a destination. – Ralph Arbitelle

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. – Roosevelt

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure. – David Ambrose

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: try to please everybody. – Herbert Bayard Swope

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. – Arnold Toynbee

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. – Cecil B. DeMille

The secret of success is consistency of purpose. – Benjamin Disraeli

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. – Anita DeFrantz

A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives. – Jackie Robinson

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Character & Strength

Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value. – Albert Einstein

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. – Henry Ward Beecher

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon

Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. – George Eliot

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. – Italian proverb

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. – Abraham Lincoln

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you. – Wayne Dyer

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. – Cherie Carter-Scott

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts. – Sir Winston Churchill

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. – Sam Ewig

The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. – Captain J.A. Hatfield

Rule your mind or it will rule you. – Horace

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. – Sidney Greenberg

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. – Kim Lyons

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. – Sandra Carey

How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. – David Norris

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened; vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. – Henry Ford

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King Jr.

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline. – H.P. Liddon

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. – Benjamin Franklin

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher

It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. – Roy Disney

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. – John Bunyan

There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty. The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered himself. – Proverbs 11:24,25

Potential & Risk

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. – Henry Drummond

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you make them feel. – Carol Buchner

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. – Arthur Golden

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. – Marie Currie

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? – Robert Schuller

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm Forbes

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man. – R. Duvall

The real contest is always between what you’ve done and what you’re capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else. – Geoffrey Gaberino

It’s never too late to be who you might have been. – George Elliot

The mind is like a parachute – it works only when it is open. – Unknown

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought. My raft was actually a boat. Then, after some time, I rowed my little boat into deeper water. There were great storms, mighty winds, tremendous waves, and sometimes I felt so alone. But I have noticed my little rowboat is now a mighty ship manned by my friends and loved ones; and beautiful calm seas, warm sunny days, and nights filled with comfortable dreams always double after a storm. Now, I could never go back and sit on the bank. In fact, I search for deeper water. Such is life when lived. – B. D. Gulledge

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. – John Maxwell

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. – Ronald E. Osborn

You must do the very thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. – John Wooden

Action & Achievement

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. – Samuel Johnson

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. – Jacob Bronowski

It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it. – Vince Lombardi

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. – Anonymous

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison

Talk does not cook rice. – Chinese Proverb

To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen. – Unknown

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. – Helen Keller

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it. – George B. Shaw

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. – Dale Carnegie

Success is your dreams with work clothes on. – Unknown

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. – Tim Notke

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. – Beverly Sills

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best. – Colin Powell

Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work. – Booker T. Washington

Sometimes our best is simply not enough…. We have to do what is required. – Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. – Samuel Johnson

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do. – Unknown

You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; You ought to keep going and try to find something better to do. – David Packard

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. – Samuel Johnson

Perseverance & Will

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison

Victory belongs to the most persevering. – Napoleon

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. – Ralph Bunche

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. – Christopher Reeves

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lambardi

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Sir Winston Churchill

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – General George Patton

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. – Seneca

According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan.

Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway. – M. Sainte-Lague

It is when the well is dry that we know the price of water. – Benjamin Franklin

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. – George Hala

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. – Richard Nixon

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Anonymous

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster. – Rosabeth Moss Cantor

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. – Charles Lindbergh

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. – Arnold Bennett

Leadership & Greatness

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. – William James

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going. – Kenneth Blanchard

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. – Robert L. Schwart

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. – Colin Powell

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. – Talleyrand

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers – not their minds. – Unknown

If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It’s about them. – Jack Welch

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. – Barbara Johnson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. – Philip Massinger

Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top. – J.C. Penny

If you aren’t making any mistakes, it’s a sure sign you’re playing it too safe. – John Maxwell

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity. – Buck Rodgers

There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children to do it. – Monta Crane

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won’t have time to envy the man above him. – Henrietta Mears

A leader is one who see more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see. – Leroy Eims

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other people the convictions and the will to carry on. – Walter Lippmann

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. – Benjamin Disraeli

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility… in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have… is the ability to take on responsibility. – Michael Korda

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill

Q: How does our appearance factor into the equation of falling in love?
A: This is interesting; we have found that if you are very unattractive, it can hurt you a lot in forming romantic relationships. However, being attractive doesn’t help that much.
Q: How do you explain that?
A: We have found that two important characteristics, kindness and intelligence, are extremely important in the process of falling in love. And attractiveness is not connected to these things. These two attributes are things that people learn about someone from knowing them over time. Intelligence is important in all aspects of life, especially in love. But kindness is the strongest indicator for a successful long-term relationship.
Skrevet av Professor Arthur Aron from State University of New York.

People who know the most know that they know so little, while people who know nothing want to take all day to tell you about that! Big people are always giving someone credit and taking blame; little people are always seeking credit and giving blame.

Ok my main reason with these statements is to be an encouragement and to make you think! So therefor this question:
When Jesus was in the process to gather 12 disciples before He started his ministry, what was He looking for in the lives of these 12? What did these people needed to have or to be in order to fit Jesus gang?

Never measure the height of a mountain untill you have reached the top, thern you will see how low it was.

Things do not happen, things are made to happen.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destiny.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can break out heart.

Have a fantastc day, it all depends how you look at things.

Dare to risk:
* To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
* To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
* To reach for another is to risk involvement.
* To love is to risk not being loved in return.
* To belief is to risk failure.
* To live is to risk dying.

Let us learn by paradox:
* That the way down is the way up.
* That to be low is to be high.
* That to have nothing is to posses all.
* That the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit.
* That the repenting soul is the victorious soul.

Your best friend:
..sees the best in you, even if you don’t show it;
..can tell when you need a hug and doesn’t hesitate to offer one;
..believes you first and rumors second;
..understands you, even when you don’t;
..brings out the best in you, but doesn’t insist on the credit;
..shares with you, even the chocolate;
..makes you laugh when you see little to laugh about.
Want this friendship? Be one!

You will never learn faith in comfortable surroundings
–Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation
–Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the one who is leading
–Faith is to belief what you do not see, the reward for this faith is to see what you belief.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday
–or: I do not fear tomorrow, for I remember yesterday and I love today
–Better than counting your years is to make your years count
–Thanksgiving is good, thanksliving is better
–Every temptation is an oportunity to our getting nearer to God.

The thing which hurt, instruct
–To know how to suggest is the art of teaching
–Good tools do not make an excellent teacher but an excellent teacher makes good use of tools
–Good teachers cost more, but poor teachers cost most
–The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who wish to learn
–To teach something you don’t know is like coming back from somewhere you havent been.

The profit of life is life, not money
–Succes is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the the obstacles one overcomes
–God doesn’t call us to be succesfull. He calls us to be faithfull
–In order to get to the top, you need to go to the bottom of things
–To have suffered much is like knowing many languages: It gives the person acces to many more people.

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those which sang the best
–Tact is a remarkeble human quolity that allows you to know just how far to go to far
–Most of us know when to say nothing, few of us knows when
–You are often sorry for saying a harsh word, but never regret saying a kind one. Have a great day and don’t forget to embrace what makes this day unick.

The rich are not always godly, but the godly are always rich
–The secret of life is not to do what one likes, but to like what one has to do
–We have to make with our limitations
–You can preach a better sermon with your life then with your lips. Have a great day today.

It is better to die for something than it is to live for nothing
–It is not the man with the motive but the man with the purpose who wins.
–Prayer is not an easy way of getting what we want, but the only way of becoming what God wants us to be.
–We may not put a question mark where God puts a period.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten
–One dog barks at something and a hundred bark at the sound
–We can never see the sun rise if we are looking into the west
–God gives every bird food, but He does not throw in into the nest
–The purposes of God are sometimes delayed, but never abandoned!.
Blessings for today, because this day will never come back!

If we don’t have the things we want, lets want the things we have
–The only place we can hide from God’s prersence is in His presence
–Prayer does not need proof, it needs practise
–The man who is not proud of his God seldom makes God proud of him
–Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

If God is your partner, make your plans large
–No man has the right to do as he pleases unless he pleases to do right
–Not what we have, but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance
–Don’t let your possessions possess you
–You cannot stumble if you are on your knees.

People aren’t persecuted for doing wrong but for doeing right
–There is always water if you bore deep enough
–The man who removed the mountain began by carrying away small stones
–Personality has the power to open many doors, but character must keep them open
–A pessimist is a person who blows out the candle to see how dark it is.

A poor man met a millionair, who wanted to get richer each week and said: “I am a richer man then you”. “How do you figure that out” he replied. “Because I have as much as money as I want, and you haven’t”
–People are funny; they spend money they don’t have, to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like
–The peace of God passes all understanding and misunderstanding.

In a discussion the difficulty lies not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it
–People are so anxious to talk about closed doors that they lost sight of the open ones
–To keep in the middle of the road one most be able to see both sides
–The optimist is wrong as often as the pessimist is, but he has a lot more fun.

It is better to have your bank in heaven than to have your heaven in a bank
–He who works for money seldom gets far
–A mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among then children and each child still have all her love
–He that cannot obey cannot command.

The good news is that God meets us where we are, because we cannot rise to where He would have us be
–No man is small who does a small job in a great way
–Go as far as you can see and when you get there you will see farther
–If God has called you, don’t look over your shoulder to see who is following you.

You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink
–Keep God’s love in your heart as well in your mind
–The Lordship of Jesus Christ in my life is the first step in missions
–The man who never makes a mistake probably gets his salary from one who does.

The average man thinks about what he has said; the above average about what he is going to say.
As a man grow older and wiser, he talks less and says more.
If you don’t live it, don’t teach it!.
Much time is spent teaching young people… how to make a living, yet few know how to make a life.

If we don’t have the things we want, let’s want the things we have.

Character is what we do or be when no one is looking.

Hi, another one: Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

How can we/me help others to develope in whom God say you are! Here is one: One of the main developing things for your life is in having an unhurried time with God. Gods blessings for today.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s about thinking about yourself, less.

Wisdom is the ability to interpret a situation through God’s eyes. Wisdom is seeing what God sees.

I am wondering if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult….???

You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving!
-The Lord takes notice, not only of what we give, but of what we have left
-Don’t give till it hurts; give a little more give till it feels good
-May God forbid that we should present our gifts and withhold ourselves.

Forgiveness is man’s deepest need and highest achievement
–Freedom is only a word until you have been close to losing it
–The only way to have a friend is to be one
–The Lord takes notice, not only of what we give, but also of what we have left
–You don’t hit anything unless you aim at it.

“Tell me” said the philosopher, “where is God”? “First tell me” said the other, “where He is not”
–God must first do something for us and in us, before He can do something through us
–The mystery of godliness is God humbling Himself to become man. The mystery of iniquity is man exalting himself to become God.

I shall pass through this world only once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do so. Let me not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

This is an interesting and deep statement: “Most Christians do not have fellowship with God; they have fellowship with each other about God”. This is give the urge to describe fellowship.

A true missionairy is God’s man/woman in God’s place, doing God’s work in God’s way for God’s glory!

Some people find life an empty dream, it is because they put nothing into it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

The happiest life ends before death.

Consider each day of your life to be the best.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy!

The real tragedy in life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use the one talent.

Most of us know how to say nothing. Few of us know when

People who talk much say little.

No one knows what he can do until he tries – There is only one way to improve one’s work and that is loving it – Raise your hat to the past and take your coat off to the furture.

You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you would rather be.

The day you make a decision about your life is the day your world will change.

Intolerance of your present creates your future. “Forget the former things, do not dwell in the past. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs up; do you not percieve it? I am making a way in the wilderness, and streams in the wasteland.

At some point in your life, you will either be forced to live in the potential of your faith, or with the consequences of your doubt.

The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.

When it is definitely settled that a thing can’t be done, watch someone do it.

It is not a matter of scripture being hard to understand, but of our unwillingness to yield to it.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its inability to produce, but its unwiilingness to share.

What we can do for Christ is the test of service. What we can suffer for Him is the test of love.

If your Christianity won’t work where you are, it won’t work anywhere.

Christian growth comes not by pouring in, but by giving out.

The straith and narrow way has the lowest accident rate.

If the church aims to hit sin, it should pull the trigger.

There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.

Jesus lived that he might die and died that we might live!

When Jesus has you for anything, then you have Him for everything.

It is easier and better to build boys than to repair men.

Character is build by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Charm is a womans strenght just as strength is a man’s charm.

Jesus puts a child in the midst, churches puts him in the basement.

Train up a child in the way it should go and go that way yourself.

The public business of the nation is the privat business of every citizen.

Don’t try to think why you can’t. Think how you can.

Your character is what God knows you to be. Your reputation is what men think you are.

What you are tomorrow, you are becoming today.

If people speak ill of you, live so that no one willo belief them.

Belief in what you want and you get it.

What you belief is what you are.

Unbelief is not an act of the intellect but of the will.

A good question for an atheist is to serve him a fine dinner and ask him if he beliefs there is a cook.

Study the bible to be wise, belief it to be safe, practice it to be holy.

To get the blessing we must do the work.

It is your actions and attitude when you are on your own that reflect what you really are.

People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.

Never explain your actions. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t belief you anyway.

Be great believers. Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls.

There is always room at the top because many of those who get there, go to sleep and roll of.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

It is better to appreciate things you don’t have then to have things you don’t appreciate.

Belief is the truth held in the mind, faith is a fire in the heart.

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but all agree that it is old enough to know better.

The people who are worried about adding years to their life should try adding life to their years.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

The longest period in a woman’s life is the 10 years between the time she is 39 and 40. (oops)

Footprints in the sands of time were not made sitting down.

Our heavenly father never takes anything from His children unless He means to give them something better.

Advise is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

You can get anything done if you don’t mind who gets the credit.

The doing of little things makes the life great.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do he will never do all that he can.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Truth not translated into life is dead truth.

Beware of a half truth; you may get hold of the wrong half.

The terrible thing about seeking truth is that you find it.

Any time you find that truth stands in your way, you may be sure thay you are heading in the wrong direction.

Troubles that you borrow, soon become your own.

The most trouble is produced by those who don’t produce anything else.

The shadow of a trouble is mostly blacker than the trouble itself .

In the presence of trouble, some people grow wings, others buy crutches.

- “Well look at that, the bullets go where you point the gun.” – Jonas Blane (Karakter fra TVserien “The Unit”)

- “For’n Solan er det vankelige en baggatell. Det ummulige en utfordring.” – Solan Gundersen

- “Kom arbeidslyst å treng deg på, her skal du motstand finne.” – Solan Gundersen

- “If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents – the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts – i.e., Materialism and Astronomy – are mere accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.” – C. S. Lewis

“Tell me” said the philosopher, “where is God”? “First tell me” said the other, “where He is not” – Ukjent Kilde