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TACT
Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil
Tact knows how to step on another guy’s toes without messing up his shine
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves – Abraham Lincoln
Never use a tank to kill a mosquito – Mike Murdock
Let’s deal with others using a chisel, not a ball bat
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause - Mark Twain
Tact is powdering your own no's
TALENT
If attitude were everything, then the only thing that would separate me from a successful singing career would be the belief that I can do it. But trust me, there is another factor that stands in my way: talent. If you've watched the reality show American Idol, then you know what I mean - John Maxwell
TAXES
Congress passes the bills, we pay the bills
A government that can give you everything can take from you everything
April 15th is the day we all feel bled, white and blue
With real estate taxes, a man’s home is his hassle
It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890.00 and each can also get an additional $580.00 in social assistance for a total of $2,470.00. This compares very well to a single pensioner who after contributing to the growth and development of America for 40 to 50 years can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012.00 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement
THE and IRS spells THEIRS
The government would have to lose a dollar a second for 32,000 years to lose a trillion dollars
A billion seconds ago was 1959. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. A billion days ago no one walked on two feet on earth. A billion dollars ago for the US Treasury was 8 hours and 20 minutes
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it – Ronald Reagan
Income tax has made more liars out of Americans than has golf – Will Rogers
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation - Rush Limbaugh
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down - Robert Orben
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you've got - Barry Goldwater
Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets - Ronald Reagan
It's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left - Ronald Reagan
Government is like a big baby - an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other - Ronald Reagan
When one man receives without working, another man has to work without receiving…You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it - John Hagee
I'm proud to be a tax paying American, but I could be just as proud for half the money - Arthur Godfrey
TEACHING
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires – William Arthur Ward
TEACHABLENESS
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever – Chinese Proverb
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; at 45 they are caves in which we hide – F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you are teachable you are reachable
TEAMWORK
Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play – Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year at UNC
There is no "I" in "TEAMWORK"
TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More
We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately – Ben Franklin
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it – H.E. Luccock
None of us is as smart as all of us – Ken Blanchard
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit – Harry Truman
WE is stronger than ME
It is the banana that gets separated from the bunch that gets skinned and eaten
The strength of the team is each individual member...the strength of each member is the team – Coach Phil Jackson
To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking" - Hugh Downs
Individuals score points, but teams win games – Zig Ziglar
Relationships need to change from parasitic to symbiotic
Three things I'd say to a team to help hold them together: If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it – Paul "Bear" Bryant
Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference - Jock Sutherland
For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice - Don Hutson
If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it - Jan Paderewski
Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots - Vic Braden
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion - Jean Claude Killy
I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion" - Muhammad Ali
The strength of the team is each individual member; and the strength of the individual is the team - Phil Jackson
Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships - Michael Jordan
Acrostic for TEAM - Together Everybody Achieves More
Where there's a will there's a way; where there's a team there are a lot of ways
TEENAGERS
My teenage son is finally at peace with himself, but he still fights with everyone else
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance – Al Bernstein
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot – Larry Lujack
Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers – William Galvin
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years – Mark Twain
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now – Will Rogers
Curbing your emotions doesn't mean parking by the roadside
At five they have all the questions, at eighteen they have all the answers
TELEVISION
Don’t you wish there was just a knob that could turn up intelligence? There is one that says “brightness” but it doesn’t work – Gallagher
The TV media is like a factory chimney belching black sooty pollution out into the air. We have to wear a gas mask to keep from inhaling the foul social diseases of this wicked age
Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room – Red Skelton
TV characters drink from 3.5 to 4 times per hour. For every time coffee is drank once on TV liquor is drank 10 times. For every time milk is drank once, liquor is drank 44 times. Water once, liquor 48 times
An 18 year-old will have averaged 15,000 hours in front of the TV. Internet is cutting into that figure
TV has moved from comedy to tragedy. It mesmerizes then desensitizes. It starts with Keystone Cops and ends with NYPD Blue. It starts with “Father Knows Best” and ends with Roseanne. It starts with Ward Cleaver and ends with Al Bundy
Back then Israel fought the Midianites, now we fight the Media-nites
TEMPERATURE (Spiritual)
If you want to know the temperature of a church, put a thermometer in the pastor’s mouth. The church won’t raise above his level
We need hot hearts, not hot heads. We need preachers that run a spiritual temperature
As one said, we’ve got lots of degrees in today’s church but not much temperature
The spiritual mercury has dropped to sub-zero readings in many of today’s church thermometers
Who wants to marry a frigid bride. We are the bride of Christ and Jesus said, “I would thou wert hot”
Whatever happened to Spurgeon’s church? It once seated 3,600, then they cut it down to 500. Now it runs around 200
Jesus demands that we be hot or cold or else spit out of His mouth. John Davis preaches that we had better be a fireball or a snowball or else we will be a spitball!
TEMPTATION
Sometimes a good run is better than a bad stand – TD Jakes
The line of least resistance makes crooked rivers and crooked men
The four temptations of Christ were 1) serve thyself, 2) show thyself, 3) spare thyself, 4) save thyself
The devil is having a final going out of business sale and he’s coaxed a lot of Christians to run around shopping for bargains
If you can’t say no to the king’s meat you will never say no to the king’s idol
There is no magnet on earth as strong as peer pressure – Charles Swindoll
The ancient Greeks told a story of a warrior named Achilles. His mother had been warned that he would die of a wound, so she dipped him as an infant in the river Styx. That was supposed to make him invincible. But she held him by one heel which the protective waters didn't cover. And it was through that heel that he received his fatal wound
Satan is a trophy hunter – Saul, Judas, Samson, Demas, etc
The assistant said that he always did his socializing in a group setting and concluded that “there is safety in numbers.” The wise pastor replied, “Yes, that is so, but there is more safety in Exodus!”
It has been a primary strategy of Satan through the ages to tempt man to grasp for himself what the Lord ultimately intends to give him anyway - Rick Joyner
TENACITY
If you can take it, you can make it
The only way around is through – Robert Frost
Face the music and one day you will lead the band
If you want your place in the sun you will have to put up with some blisters – Abigail Van Buren
Don’t walk into barracuda infested waters if you’re not willing to get chewed on
A successful man can build a firm foundation out of the bricks that others throw at him
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting – Christopher Morley
A man who wants to lead the orchestra has got to turn his back on the crowd
It’s not how far you fall but how high you bounce that makes the difference
90% of small businesses fail the first year. 80% of those that remain close within 5 years and 80% of those aren’t open after ten years. It takes guts to hold on to a dream
In the future you’ll either be the one making it happen, the one watching it happen or the one asking, “What happened?”
The road to success is uphill so don’t expect to set any speed records
We’re all like tea bags, not worth much until we find ourselves in some hot water
If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain – Dolly Parton
TEN COMMANDMENTS
James Madison, the 4th President of the United States said this, "We stake the future of this
country on our ability to govern ourselves under the principles of the Ten Commandments."
As you walk up the steps to the Capitol Building which houses the Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view - it is Moses and the Ten Commandments. As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door. As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall right above where the Supreme Court judges sit a display of the Ten Commandments! There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.
In the Stowe v. Graham 1980 KY Supreme Court case on the Ten Commandments posted on a school bulletin board, the verdict was – “they might read, venerate and obey them…”
Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians ... not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ". Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777. Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies. Thomas Jefferson worried about that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law an oligarchy…the rule of few over many.
TESTIMONY
If the grass in your yard is up to your waist don’t tell your neighbors you are a Christian
TESTING
If you are in the pits remember that PIT stands for Prophet In Training!
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it – Sir Winston Churchill
THANKSGIVING
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend – Shakespeare
Unthankfulness is theft – Martin Luther
At the height of his popularity, Rudyard Kipling was one of the most widely read authors of all time. At one point it was estimated that each word he had in print was worth twenty-five shillings. A group of students at Oxford University pooled their change and sent twenty-five shillings to Kipling. The accompanying letter read, "Send us your best word." Before long, the reply came. With great anticipation, the students opened the envelope from Kipling to find a single word printed on the piece of paper. It simply said, "Thanks."
An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; 45 years of misery is enough." "Pop, what are you talking about?" the son screams. "We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man says. "We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her." Then he hangs up. Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. "Like heck they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care of this." She calls Phoenix immediately, and screams at the old man, "You are NOT getting divorced. Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?" The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. "Okay," he says, "They're coming for Thanksgiving and paying their own fares"
If we would stop to think more we would stop to thank more - John Mason
If we get everything we want, we will soon want nothing that we get - Vernon Luchies
Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about - John DeMartini
Every man knows that when his wife is appreciating him for the little things that he does, what does he want to do? He wants to do more. It's always about appreciation. It pulls things in. It attracts support - John Gray
THOUGHT/ THINKING
We are to be spiritual customs agents searching the content of every incoming thought (Phil 4:8)
As nothing is easier than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well – Thomas Traherne
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices – William James
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled – Plutarch
I have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it – Edgar Allan Poe
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty – Bill Ayers
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious – Will Durant
Chance favors the prepared mind – Louis Pasteur
The problems we face today cannot be solved on the same level of thinking we were at when we created them – Albert Einstein
He who laughs last thinks slowest!
We think 50,000 thoughts a day
The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be the boss – John Maxwell
Learning to write is learning to think. You don’t know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing – Senator S. I. Hayakawa
When you hear someone say, “This is just off the top of my head”, expect dandruff – John Maxwell
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of man than ever has been taken from the earth – Napoleon Hill
Good thoughts can never produce bad results; bad thoughts can never produce good results – James Allen
I knew that I could become a collector of thoughts more easily than I could become a creator of thoughts. After all, wasn’t it the great inventor Thomas Edison who stated, “Originality is the art of concealing your source?” – John Maxwell
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration – James Allen
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection – Jules Henri Poincare
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been a deep thinker and stuff – Billy Ray Cyrus
Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought – Henri-Louis Bergson
You have to think anyway, so why not think big? – Donald Trump
You can’t think wrongly and live rightly
Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day – Ralph Emerson
Unsuccessful people focus their thinking in survival. Average people focus their thinking in maintenance. Successful people focus their thinking in progress – John Maxwell
You can’t stop people from thinking, but you can start them – Frank Dusch
You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you – James Allen
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking. Nothing expands possibilities like unleashed thinking – William Ward
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
I can give you a six-word secret for success: Think things through, then follow through – Eddie Rickenbacker
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones – John Maynard Key
You can have a clean heart but an empty head. You can be right, but not bright – Mike Murdock
We eat from the garden of our thoughts so don’t grow anything you are not willing to eat
We should not only use all the brains we have, but all that we can borrow – Woodrow Wilson
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking – General George S. Patton, Jr.
Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going – Albert Einstein
Stinking thinking
When asked what is wrong with modern man Albert Schweitzer said, “He can’t think”
Many need a checkup from the neck up
Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul - Walt Whitman
Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being - Rod Serling
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The right train of thought will take you to a better station in life - John Mason
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice - Albert Einstein
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking - Albert Einstein
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells - Dr. Seuss
Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear - Thomas Jefferson
I repeat, you must lay aside all prejudice on both sides, and neither believe nor reject anything, because any other persons, or description of persons, have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable, not for the rightness, but uprightness of the decision - Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man - Thomas Jefferson
TIME
You can spend your life any way you want to but you can only spend it once – Dwight Thompson
Time can’t be stopped, it can’t be stored and it can’t be stolen – it can only be redeemed
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life – Victor Hugo
Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately emptied – Paul J. Meyer
Time is like money. It can be wasted, spent or invested
Time is the best teacher but it kills all its students
The very notion of time management is a misnomer. For we cannot manage time. We can only manage ourselves in relation to time. We cannot control how much time we have; we can only control how we use it. We cannot choose whether to spend it, but only how – Alec Mackenzie.
I never met a poor man who valued his schedule. I never met a rich man that didn’t – Mike Murdock
If you had a bank that credited your account each morning with $86,000 that carried over no balance from day to day...Allowed you to keep no cash in your account, and every evening cancelled whatever part of the amount you failed to use during the day, what would you do? Draw out every cent every day, of course, and use it to your advantage! Well, you have such a bank, and its name is TIME! Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it rules off as lost whatever of this you failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balances, it allows no overdrafts. Each day it opens a new account with you. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against tomorrow – unknown
More time is wasted not in hours but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon – Susan Ertz
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils – Hector Berlioz
Dr. Herrera asked, “What if you had to pay in advance $100 an hour for the time allotted to you? Would you waste it?”
The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power,
To tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour – anonymous
With some people you waste an evening, with others you spend it, and with others you invest it
Instead of counting the days, make the days count
Bernard Berenson, an internationally famous art critic, had a zest for life. Even when he was in ill health, he cherished every moment. Shortly before he died at age 94, he said to a friend, "I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, asking passersby to drop their unused minutes into it"
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week – Charles Richards
We face two extremes. Either we say, “I have plenty of time, so what’s the hurry?” or else we say, “I don’t have enough time, so why bother?”
People usually overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in five years – Ted Engstrom
In 1965 Andre-Francois Raffray contracted to buy Jeanne Calment’s apartment for $500 a month, agreed that she could live there until her death. She was 90 at the time. How long could she possibly survive? In 1005 Raffray died of cancer. Now his children are still paying the monthly commitment. Calment was 120 at the time of the article. When asked about reaching 125, she countered, “Why be pessimistic?” (she died at 121)
A major difference exists between the poor, the pauper and the prosperous…the management of time – Mike Murdock
The rich do not receive more than 24-hours and the poor do not receive less than 24-hours – Mike Murdock
If you must kill time, work it to death
He who kills time injures eternity
Some projects waste time. 1. Evaluate, 2. Estimate, 3. Eliminate. If you don’t eliminate you will stalemate
Why is there never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over?
The clock passes the time by keeping its hands busy
Something to definitely think about.
To realize the value of twenty years: ask the inmate that has just been released from prison
To realize the value of ten years: Ask a newly divorced couple.
To realize the value of four years: Ask a graduate.
To realize the value of one year: Ask a student who has failed a final exam.
To realize the value of nine months: Ask a mother who gave birth to a still born.
To realize the value of one month: Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week: Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one hour: Ask the lovers that are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute: Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.
To realize the value of one-second: Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond: Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have. And when your time is up: Make sure you've spent it wisely
Unclutter or prune your life from everything that is not directly related to your dream
Westerners are people with gods on their wrists – Filipino saying
Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your day pay – Mark Victor Hansen
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity – Thoreau
Man asked the Lord, “How much is a million years with You?” Answer, “About a minute”. Man asked, “How much is a million dollars to You?” Answer, “About a dollar”. “Lord, could I have a dollar?” Answer, “In a minute”
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour – Emerson
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot – Michael Althsuler
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you – Carl Sandburg
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug – John Lithgow
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week – Charles Richards
Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely – Kim Lyons
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule – Louis Boone
Everyone is given 1440 minutes a day to use. Time can’t be stored, it can’t be stopped and it can’t be stolen – but it can be redeemed. On judgment Day we will be judged for the gap that stands between where we are and where we could have been had we used all the potential and time that we were given
One should count each day a separate life - Seneca
Using one hour each day for a special purpose for an entire year equals 365 hours, or forty-five continuous eight-hour work days, or six weeks
The situation may be desperate, but God isn't. Time is never our enemy when we are dealing with the eternal one - Jack Hayford
It was said of F.B. Meyer "he divided his life into periods of five minutes then endeavored to make each period count for God"
You cannot turn back the clock, but you can wind it again - John Mason
Give time time!
Never be unemployed, and never be triflingly unemployed - John Wesley
History: You can neither rush it nor slow it. All you can do is ride it - Beth Moore
TIMING
The good news is: Liberals' anti-war hysteria seems to have run its course. I base this conclusion on Al Gore's lunatic anti-war speech last week. Gore always comes out swinging just as an issue is about to go south. He's the stereotypical white guy always clapping on the wrong beat. Gore switched from being a pro-defense Democrat to a lefty peacenik – just before the 9-11 attack. He grew a beard – just in time for an attack on the nation by fundamentalist Muslims. He endorsed Howard Dean – just as the orange-capped Deaniacs were punching themselves out. Gore even went out and got really fat – just before America officially gave up carbs. This guy is always leaping into the mosh pit at the precise moment the crowd parts. Mark my words: Now that good old Al has come lunging in, the anti-war movement is dead – Ann Coulter
Just because something is right doesn’t mean that it is right now – Keith Moore
You are coming out of your cocoon. You can't fly yet, but you refuse to crawl - Ronnie Webb
The Wal-Mart door doesn't open until you get to the door - Ronnie Webb
TITHING
Are you giving tithes or giving tokens?
There is an Aaron tithe that is given by command and a Melchizedek tithe that is given by love
Don’t trust someone who doesn’t tithe. If he will steal from God while He’s looking what would he do to you while you’re not looking? – Mike Murdock
Tithe is the circumcision process of your financial life – Mike Murdock
“Pastor, would you pray with me about tithing?” – “No, the Bible says that not tithing is robbing God and I would never close my eyes in the presence of a thief” – John Hagee
According to Barna Research, only 3% of adults in the U.S. tithe. The rate is even lower in other countries
Failing to tithe is “substance abuse”
The latest sign to appear in Baptist churches now says, "Put a tither in your tank!" – Ray Stedman
TOGETHERNESS
In essentials, unity, in doubtful questions, liberty, in all things charity – John Wesley
My biggest thrill came the night that Elgin Baylor and I combined for seventy-three points at the Madison Square Garden. Elgin had seventy-one of them – Rod Hundley
The main ingredient in stardom is the rest of the team – John Wooden
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success – Henry Ford
Though we may not see eye to eye we can still walk hand in hand
"These five fingers," says Lucy. "Individually they're nothing but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold" – Peanuts comic strip
There are two ways of being united -- one is by being frozen together, and the other is by being melted together – D.L. Moody
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together – Vesta Kelly
The Lone Ranger really wasn't alone; Tonto was always riding at his side
If I had it to do all over again, I'd get help
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success - James Hunton
TONGUE
Seal your lip with poly-grip
Don’t be hung by your tongue
You can frame your world with your words (Heb 11:3)
Sam Jones spoke of people with tongues so long that they could sit in the parlor and lick bacon grease from the skillet in the kitchen
The reason dog is man’s best friend is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue
Wisdom has an open mind and a closed mouth
While trying on a pair of shoes the customer said, “They feel a bit tight”. The salesman said, “Well, try pulling the tongue out”. The guy replied, “Theyth thtill feewl a bith tighth”.
In deciding whether something should be said or repeated, ask yourself three things, “Is it true?”, “Is it needful?” and, “Is it kind?”
Nothing is…almost always a clever thing to say – humorist Will Durant
A scratch can lead to an infection, an infection to an amputation. Be allow little words to cause big infections
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt – Abraham Lincoln
In my present position it is hardly proper for me to make speeches. Every word is so closely noted that it will not do to make trivial ones – Abraham Lincoln
The only edged tool that gets sharper with use is the tongue – Washington Irving
Every lawyer knows it is the final speaker not the first speaker that has best chance of winning the case
If you think twice before you speak once, you will speak twice the better for it – William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
The average person speaks around 10,000 words a day yet that same average person does not read one book in a single year? The disparity between our output and input in amazing
Woman said her problem was with her long tongue. Billy Sunday said, “There’s eighteen feet of altar. Lay it down and God will take care of it”
It isn’t the leg muscle that is the strongest muscle in your body; it’s the muscle in your mouth – Charles Swindoll
Philosopher Xanthus talks a meal for guests that was supposed to be the best food available. The host served five courses of tongue cooked in every imaginable way. “Is not the tongue the finest meat, sociability, kindness and encouragement?” Next night the other host served the worst food available, he too selecting tongue. “Is it not the meat of blasphemy, defamation and lying?”
You can say something positive to everybody about everything every time if you want to
Woman said to preacher, “Your tie offends me”. So he took scissors and cut the tie off then turned to her and said, “Woman, your tongue offends me…” She rushed out of the room as he raised the scissors
Just because you’re up in the air harping about something doesn’t make you an angel
There are those with long hair, long dresses, long sleeves and long tongues to match
He had a Mach II mouth and a 20 MPH mind - Keith Moore
A brain is worth little without a tongue - French Proverb
Sign on a mounted largemouth bass - "If I would have kept my mouth shut, I wouldn't be here
Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence - Spanish Proverb
Drawing on my find command of language, I said nothing - Robert Charles Benchley
If your lips would keep from slips; five things observe with care,
To whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how, and when, and where
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it - Earl Wilson
You can always say more but you can never say less, once it is spoken - Keith Moore
Most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
TOTALITARIANISM
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed - Rush Limbaugh
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves - George Orwell, 1984
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed-if all records told the same tale-then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past - George Orwell, 1984
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death - George Orwell, 1984
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship - George Orwell, 1984
Disobedience to tyranny is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson
TRADITION
Tradition is a clock that tells you what time it was – Elbert Hubbard
Tradition is the living faith of those now dead, but traditionalism is the dead faith of those still living – Jeroslav Pelikan
Sacred cows make the best hamburger – Mark Twain.
TRAVAIL
What we hear through the ear canal we must push through the birth canal
TRIALS
T – temptations, R – reproach, I – injury, A – afflictions, L – loneliness, is met by,
F – Fortitude, A – Attitude, I – Integrity, T – Trust, H – Heavenly Hope
The captain had the ship face into the storm to overcome being crushed on the shores. They returned t the shore battered but still afloat only to find al the other ships shattered on the rocks
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you – Wayne Dyer
You meet God up on the mountain. You meet the devil down in the valley. You feast on the mountain. You fast in the valley - Louis Greenup
TROUBLE
The psalm says I will “fear no evil”. It didn’t say I will face no evil
God doesn’t allow trouble into our lives for our destruction but for our instruction
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we will go through it
What does not destroy me makes me stronger – Friedrich Nietzsche
If something can go wrong it will – Murphy's Law. The actual quotation was, If there's any way to do it wrong, he will!
A man named Rudd told what it is like to live at the North Pole during three months of darkness. You never see the sun. He said, "I ached and hungered to see the dawn." Then one morning in February he climbed atop the wind-swept ridge and sat quietly, facing east; the sky was a gray sheet. Then it became a pale blue, which deepened. There was a silent rush of color as the sun
rose. Rudd stood blinking with frozen tears on his cheeks
Do you grumble that the roses have thorns or thank God that the thorns have roses?
When you’re down to nothing God is up to something – John Hagee
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not been discovered – Emerson
He was hung up for your hang up
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened – Mark Twain
Country preacher said “when the Lawd sends us tribulation He ‘spects us to tribulate!”
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones - Don Herold
The person who courts trouble will soon be married to it
What you get the worst of, make the best of
An ad from a former ringleader, "Lion tamer wants tamer lion"
To hatch despair just brood over your troubles
TRUST
In God we trust, all others pay cash
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God – Corrie Ten Boom
When the train goes through a tunnel and the world gets dark, do you jump out? Of course not. You sit still and trust the engineer to get you through – Corrie ten Boom
Whatever Lord!
When I can’t trace Him I can still trust Him
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts – Harold MacMillan
Truth begets trust; trust begets truth
Trust in God, but tie your camel tight – Arab Proverb
There's no such thing as "half-trust". The instructor pilot can't "half" sit next to you during your first solo - Tom Peters
Trust or go bust
TRUTH
If it’s new, it’s not true – if it’s true, it’s not new
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened – Winston Churchill
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are – Malcolm Forbes
We’re like the factory foreman that set his watch each day to the clock in the jeweler’s window. Problem is, the jeweler set his clock to the factory whistle. The dog is chasing his own tail. We need truth
A counterfeit bill can do a lot of good as it passes from hand to hand; but when it gets to the bank, the final place of judgment, it will be rejected – Warren Wiesrbe
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snap back
When at first we practice to deceive we find our kids are not naïve
A man once visited his old friend, a music teacher, and said to him in that casual way people have these days, "Hey, what's the good news today?" Without saying a word, the old man walked across the room, picked up a hammer, and struck a tuning fork. As the note sounded out through the room, he said, "That is 'A.' It is 'A' today, it was 'A' five thousand years ago and it will be 'A' ten thousand years from now. The soprano upstairs sings off-key, the tenor across the hall flats his high notes, and the piano downstairs is out of tune." He struck the note again and said, "That is 'A,' my friend, and that's the good news for today!"
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State - Nazi Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented - George Braque
Two half-truths do not add up to the whole truth
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle…I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors - Thomas Jefferson
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it - Andre Gide
It is easier to believe a lie one has heard a thousand times before, than it is to believe a fact that no one has heard before
If you add to the truth you subtract from it - the Talmud
The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable - Paul Broca
We don't generally eat things we find under a rock; we eat things that grow out in the open sunshine - Andy Stanley
Bending the truth leads to curvature of the spine and God knows we need more backbone today
I seem to have been like a boy playing on the seashore while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me - Isaac Newton
Truth is a whole. There is no plural in Scripture as to truth, that is 'truths', but there are aspects of the truth, and no one of these can stand alone - T. Austin Sparks
(Concerning Holocaust evidence) Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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