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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON MEN 20
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back.
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Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.
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God bless your Christmas Season with happy days of cheer. God keep His richest favors and all His blessings near. God grant you after Christmas a bright and blessed New Year.
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God cares for people through people.
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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
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Help me to live time, not just to use it; to breathe it in, and return it in acts of love and presence.
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I am what you will be, I was what you are.
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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
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If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.
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If the table moves, move with it.
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If you always do what you've always done, you'll always be what you are now.
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If you argue with a woman and win, you lose.
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If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.
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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.
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In the end, the size of a man's accomplishments can best be measured by the size of their heart.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely.
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Men never remember, but women never forget.
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Men never remember, but women never forget.
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Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love.
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Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams.
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No man flatters the woman he truly loves.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Our costliest expenditure is time.
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People who know the least always argue the most.
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Reality forms around a commitment.
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Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.
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Soft words win hard hearts.
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Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.
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Somebody is always doing what somebody else said couldn't be done.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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Successful Project Management: PLAN, EXECUTE, EVALUATE Sounds simple, but most projects aren't well planned nor are they evaluated well. The tendency is to jump right into execution and as soon as execution is completed (which usually isn't soon), move on to the next project without evaluating what happened on the present project and what could have been improved. Successful project management requires more front and back end resources (and less middle) than are usually allocated.
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Ten rules for getting rid of the blues: Go out and do something nice for someone else, then repeat it nine times.
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The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
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The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
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The body achieves what the mind believes.
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The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.
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The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639, British diplomat, traveler, scholar, and poet)
The longest day soon comes to an end.
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The man who appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely disappointed.
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The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.
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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.
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There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.
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Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
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This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.
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Three things make us happy and content: the seeing eye, the hearing ear, the responsive heart.
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Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.
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To save time is to lengthen life.
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To the right, books; to the left, a teacup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.
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Today is the best preparation for what tomorrow may bring.
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Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.
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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.
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What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.
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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used.
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What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.
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When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
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Who lives content with little possesses everything.
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Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.
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You can change the way you feel by changing the way you think.
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You love what you find time to do.
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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.
Robert R. Updegraff
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike (1932-, American novelist, critic)
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
John Updike (1932-, American novelist, critic)
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
If women were humbler, men would be more honest.
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726, British playwright and baroque architect)
If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.
Samuel Vauclain (1856-1940, American engineer, inventor)
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747, French moralist)
Community partnerships, non-financial investments, and profitable social responsibility can offer companies of all sizes new ways to widen their community relationships. And community involvement is definitely good business.
C. William Verity Jr.
If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
Dick Vermeil (1936-, American football coach, sportscaster)
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.
Marie de Vichy-Chamrond
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
Queen Victoria (1819-1901, British queen)
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
Gore Vidal (1925-, American novelist, critic)
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.
Gore Vidal (1925-, American novelist, critic)
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas, into enthusiasm, into actions.
Thomas J. Vilord
A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers. For every author, let us distinguish the person from his works.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Men argue, nature acts.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
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