To my students.
You have heard me and my quotations, have read the quotes on my web page and seen quotes on the board for the past school year. They become famous sayings and quotations and live on because of the truth and wisdom they contain. Keep these in mind as you go through life and you will be served well.
The following quotations are from the famous such as Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy, as well as the not so famous.
Good luck to all of you in your future endeavors. Come back and let me know how you are doing. I will always be interested!
Mr. Deal
Words and Quotes to Live By
Compiled by Mr. Deal – School Year 14/15
You never get a second chance to make a first impression
Unknown
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them
Mark Twain
There is no such thing as a free lunch
Milton Freedman
Honesty’s the best policy
Ben Franklin
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it
Daniel J. Bernstein
Talk is cheap
Cullen Hightower
Actions speak louder than words ….
Ben Franklin
What you do speaks so loudly I can not hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do-so is more important than say-so
Ben Franklin
Men are not judged by their words…but by their actions
Unknown
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not and act but a habit.
Aristotle
Say Please and Thank You
Anonymous
Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it
Jules Renard
The search for someone to blame is always successful
Robert Half
In the long run, a short cut seldom is
Malcolm Forbes
You get more flies with honey than you do with vinegar
Unknown
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody
Cullen Hightower
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right
Henry Ford
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today
Abraham Lincoln
Successful people have the discipline to do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do
Jeff Olsen
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar
Convincing yourself does not win an argument
Vijali Hamilton
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but, let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
Virtually everything is negotiable
Earl Nightengale
To go along, you must get along
Sam Rayburn
To error is human. To forgive, divine
Alexander Pope
It is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.
Winston Churchill
The only thing constant in life is change
Heraclitus
There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
Difficulties exist to be surmounted
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble
Unknown
Self pity and resentment are the most toxic of drugs
John W. Gardner
Most people are neither for you or against you; they are thinking of themselves
John W. Gardner
No matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you
John W. Gardner
I find the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace
Silence is golden
Unknown
Crime does not pay
Alfred E. Newman
Everybody wants to be somebody
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time is money
Ben Franklin
Procrastination is a form of poor time management.
Ben Franklin
America is a great county, but, you can’t live in it for nothing.
Will Rodgers
Thinking is the best way to travel
Moody Blues
The skill to do comes of doing
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talent alone is never enough. The world is full of unsuccessful people with talent
David N. Abdulai
The world loves talent but pays off on character
John Gardner
Financial rewards follow accomplishments, they don’t precede it.
Harry F. Banks
Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.
Elbert Hubbard
Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.
Lloyd Jones
You can’t soar with Eagles if you hang with turkeys
Unknown
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body
Joseph Addison
The things I want to know are in books
Abraham Lincoln
A penny saved is a penny earned
Ben Franklin
What goes around comes around
Buddhist belief in Karma
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it.
Sophocles
Everything in moderation
Aristotle
Character is what you do when we think no one is looking
H. Jackson Browne
A trip of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Chinese Proverb
Procrastination is like a credit card, it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.
Christopher Parker
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there
Cheshire Cat
Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and ask “why not?”
Robert F. Kennedy
A man with ability and desire to accomplish something can do anything
Donald Kirchner
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English Proverb
A wise man makes more opportunities than he finds.
Sir Francis Bacon
Ability is useless unless it is used.
Robert Half
Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
In every triumph there is a lot of try.
Frank Tyger
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.
Mary Beard
Investment must be rational. If you can’t understand it, don’t do it.
Warren Buffett
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet
Aristotle
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
Ben Franklin
Try to buy good businesses at fair prices rather than fair businesses at good prices
Warren Buffett
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
William Feather
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits
Charles A. Jaffe
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing
John Powell
Power corrupts andabsolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Action
You can’t hold a man down without staying down there with him
Booker T. Washington
If youth knew; if age could.
Henri Estienne,
Too soon old. Too late smart
German Proverb
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
Growing old isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative
Maurice Chevalier
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
William Boetcker
You can not keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
William Boetcker
If your friends do drugs and alcohol, it’s time for new friends.
Charles Deal
If you define fun as drinking or drugs you need help in redefining the word fun.
Charles Deal
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
William Boetcker
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn
Alvin Toffler
Eighty percent of success is showing up
Woody Allen
An insincere smile is better than a sincere frown
Zig Zigler
The only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I get by with a little help from my friends
Ringo Starr
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams
John Barrymore
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
May Lamberton Becker
Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed
Woody Allen
If you fail to plan then plan to fail
Alexander the Great
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of
Ben Franklin
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?
Roy H. Williams
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but, no one thinks of changing himself.
Leon Tolstoy
When you are green you are growing, when you are ripe you are rotting
Ray Kroc
Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Sir Thomas Aquinas
Life is what happens to you when you are busy making plans
John Lennon
Our lives are a sum of the choices we have made.
Albert Camus
Be a fountain, not a drain.
Rex Hudler
When your future arrives, will you blame your past?
Robert Half
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time
Albert Einstein
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
H. Jackson Brown
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Thomas Edison
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Elliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Be the change that you wish to see in the world
Mahatma Gandi
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover
Mark Twain
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Friedrich von Schiller
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you love, love what you do
Jeff Mallett
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get
what they want.
Zig Zigler
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get
Dale Carnegie
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned in life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years
Abraham Lincoln
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss
May you all find the success you want and the happiness you deserve.
Good Luck
Till we meet again!
Mr. Chuck Deal