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