Today's words of wisdom

[Jimbuna]

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Theodore Roosevelt

[Jimbuna]

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor

[Otto Harkaman]

If—
Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

[Jimbuna]

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Honore de Balzac

[Jimbuna]

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Eliot

[mapuc]

Never let your weaknesses stop you from accepting new challenges.
Andy Bruce, ‎Ken Langdon, Do it Now!

Markus

[Jimbuna]

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Torquato Tasso

[Otto Harkaman]

"The wrong war in the wrong place and that's the one you're stuck with."
-RADM George Tarrant (The Bridges at Toko-Ri)

[les green01]

Women will hog the covers on the coldest nights and press their cold feet against the small of your back and if they want a important talk they wait until your asleep

[mapuc]

When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less.
Paul Brown

Markus

[Jimbuna]

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Jimbuna]

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Owen Feltham

[mapuc]

You make a difference everyday!
You are a good person.
And you know what goes around comes around.
So don't you apologize for your blessings, just enjoy them!
It's your time!
Tammy Lynn Robinson, Thoughts of the Heart

Markus

[Jimbuna]

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Mason Cooley

[Otto Harkaman]

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine