1、1 What you have is Gods gift to you; what you make of yourself is your gift to God. 2 There are good ships, and there bad ships, but the best ships are friendships.3 He who gives to me teaches me to give.4 To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your hearts .5 Home is where you hang
2、 your heart.6 A lazy boy and a warm bed are difficult to part.7 As long as you live, keep learning how to live.8 You will never make your dreams come true by oversleeping .9 Dont be unhappy if your dreams never come true- just be thankful your nightmares dont. 10 A house is made of walls and beams;
3、a home is built with love and dream.11 Excellence is to do a common thing in a uncommon way.12. Yesterday is gone; forget it ! Tomorrow never comes; dont wait for it. Today is here; use it!13. To stay youthful, stay useful.14. In youth, the days are short and the days are long; in old age , the year
4、s are short and the days are long.15. Love is blind, and marriage is an eye-opener.16. He who kills time buries opportunity.17. Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.18. Pessimists think the sun sets in the morning.19. A pessimist says the lily belongs to the lily family; an optimi
5、st declares that the onion belongs to the lily family.20. It s not how old you grow but how you grow old.21. The worst pest in the world is a pessimist; he sees only the mist.22. Optimist is the ability to smile at misfortune when fortune doesnt smile at you. 23. When youre thirsty, its too late to
6、think about digging a well.24. Keep your ideas high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you.25. When a man is wrapped up in himself; he makes a pretty small package.26. It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.27. He who wakes up and finds himself successful has not been asle
7、ep.28. The farther of success is work; the mother of achievement is ambition.29. A lot of people are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges .30. If you dont believe in cooperation, look what happens when a car loses one of its wheels.31. When a man loses his temper, his reason goes on va
8、cation.32. One thing you can learn by watching the clock is that it passes the time by keeping its hand busy.33. We may not always see eye to eye, but we should walk hand in hand.34. When I go to bed, I leave my troubles in my clothes.35. I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I underst
9、and.36. Eyes that look are common. Eyes that see are r .37. A fool tells what he will do; A boaster tells what has done; A wise man does it and says nothing.38. Many a bee has been drowned in his own honey.39. A man has three names; the name he inherits, the name his parents give him, and the name h
10、e makes for himself.40. You must speak up to be heard, but sometimes you have to shut up to be appreciated. 41. No man is rich enough to buy back his past.42. Smile-its the second best thing you can do with your lips.43. A smile is the lighting system of the face and the heating system of the heart.
11、44. Youre never fully dressed without a smile.45. All the statistics in the world cant measure the warmth of a smile.46. There are no language barriers when youre smiling.47. Life itself becomes a classroom, and the curriculum is patience.48. You can be a miracle worker.49. Do not speak of your life
12、 only in the future.50. Minds are like parachutes, it they are closed, they wont hold you up.51. Why is it that whenever a piano needs to be moved, everybody volunteers to carry the stool?52. Nature versus science: Nature breeds better mice since builds better mouse traps.53. Its not what they take
13、away from you that counts; its what you choose to do with what you have left.54. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.55. Success is never final; failure is seldom fatal.56. God gives every bird his worm, but he doesnt throw it into the nest.57. To attain knowl
14、edge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things everyday.58. Dont try to hire extraordinary people; Get ordinary people to do extraordinary work.59. My eyesight may be fading, but my vision has never been better.60. Memories are good or bad: which ones are you making?61. My hopes are not
15、always realized, but I always hope.62. We dont remember days. We remember moments.63. I have never met an enthusiastic failure.64. The best things in life arent things.65. A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when quits.66. We often discover what will do by finding out what will
16、 no do.67. True education is training of both the head and the heart. 68. We are born with five senses- touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing. But successful people have a sixth sense-common sense.Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to make a life.69. When people
17、dont know how to recognize opportunities, they complain About the noise when it knocks.71. Just like your bodies need good food everyday, our minds need good thought every day.72. Winners are a part of the team. Losers are apart from the team.73. Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen.74. Winn
18、ers choose what they say; Losers say what they choose.75. Winners use hard arguments but soft words; Losers people dont do great things. They only do small things in a soft way.76. Successful people dont do different things. They only do things in a great way.77. Successful people dont do different
19、things. They only do things differently.78. Our minds, like muscles, stretch or shrink, depending on how much or how little we exercise them.79. Most people go to their graves with music still in them.80. One reason that I dont drink is that I want to know when I can having a good time.81. A rose sm
20、ells better than a cabbage, but you cant eat roses.82. High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.83. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.84. The fly must be break before the bird history.85. Historians may give lif
21、e-but not as a finished product.87. Life is a horse, and either you ride it or it rides you.88. Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.89. Youll never get rid of a bad temper by losing it.90. Many complain of their looks, but none
22、of their brains.91. The tongue is boneless, but it breaks bones.92. A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.93. A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.94. The only golden that women dislike is silence.95. Laughter is the sun that
23、 drives winter from human face.96. We live in this world when we love it.97. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is not young .98.”After you”, as the glass of water said to the pill.99. If you try to kill time, it will eventually kill you.100. Laughter is a brush that sweeps
24、away the cobwebs of the hearts.101. Dont try so hard about your hard luck that you cannot hear opportunity knocking.102. Having passion toward something makes the unimaginable imaginable .103. If you live in the rivers, make friends with the crocodiles.104. Do the right thing at the right time.105.
25、Take advantage of an advantage.106. Our greatest songs are still unsung.107. do not quit trying during trying times.108. I saw the angle in the marble and carved until I set him free.109. Government of the people, for the people, by the people shall not perish from the earth.110. Where there is a ma
26、rriage without love, there will be love without marriage.111. By all means marry if you get a good wife, you will because very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher.112. The proof of good is fire; the proof of woman is pockets; the proof of man is woman.113. Love is a naked chil
27、d: do you think he has pockets for money?114. When “if “and “when” are planted, ”nothing ” grows.115. Life is a coin you can only spend once.116. There is no elevator to success, only stairs .117. Better to feel pity than be pitied.118. If you give more, then you have more to give.119. Inspired peop
28、le inspire people.120. Snowflakes are some of natures most fragile things -but look what they can do when they stick together.121. Learning has a snowball effect.122. Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by friends.123. Long faces make short lives.124. Dont let them push your buttons.125.
29、The brook would lose its songs if you removed the rocks.126. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.127. The door to success is labeled “push“.128. Life is like a bicycle: you do not fall off unless you stop peddling.129. Pass on more than our gens to our children.130. Use, do not abuse.131
30、. The best kind of peace is peace of mind.132. Dont kill a fly with a hatchet.133. Every person must climb out if his own hole.134. In stead of thinking about doing something, do something.135. Bloom where you are planted.136. Learning is like eating food. It is not how much you eat that matters. Wh
31、at counts is how much you digest.137. Life is like a cafeteria. You take your tray, select your food and pay at the end. You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.138. Just like a small fire can not give much heat, a weak desire can not produce great result.139. The h
32、arder a person works, the better he feels; and the better he feels, the harder he works.140. A horse that pulls can not kick. A horse that kicks can not pull.141. It is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years！142. The more one sleeps the less one lives.143. Many lose when
33、 they win, and others win when they lose.(Germany)144. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago; the second-best time is now.145. Talkers are no good doers.146. Seconds are the gold dust of time.(USA)147. When you eat a round cake, do you begin at the centre?(Nigeria)What is done cannot be
34、 undone.(England)148. Peace makes money and money makes war.(France)At birth we cry-at death we see why.(Bulgaria)149. “If I rest, I rust” says the key. (Germany)150. Ideas start with “I ”.151. It is easy to drive a frog into the water.(Serbia)152. Good words make us laugh; good deals make us silent
35、. (France)153. A dog with money is addressed “Mr Dog”. (USA)154. God is never going to come down from a cloud and say, “You now have permission to be successful!”155. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.156. Luck is a very good word if you put a P before i
36、t.157. Insomniacs dont sleep because the worry about it, and they worry about it before they dont sleep.158. Turn our lemons into lemonade.159. Turn our minus into a plus.160. A parrot talks much but flies little.161. If we want more roses, we must plant more trees!162. A long life may not be good e
37、nough, but a good life is long enough.163. The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.164. Being happy requires looking fro good things. One person sees the beautiful view and the others sees the dirty window.165. It is not where you start that counts, but where you choose to f
38、inish.166. Age is a question of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it doesnt matter.167. God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.168. You know you are getting old when the candles cost than the cake.169. After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.170. Time and tide wait fro no
39、man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.171. Age doesnt matter, unless youre a cheese.7. An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.8. The “good old times”: all times, when old, are old.9. I am as old as my tongue and
40、 other than my teeth.10. An old young man will be a young old man.11. In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.12. Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.13. We do not count a mans years until he has nothing else to count.14. I love
41、 everything thats old-old friends, old times, old manners, old looks, old wine.15. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.16. If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.17. You are only young once, but you can be immature all your life.18. Theres nothing worse t
42、han being an aging young person.19. Most people say that you get old, you have to give things up. I think you get old because you give things up.20. The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.21. If you dont learn to laugh at troubles, you wont have anything to laugh at whe
43、n you are old.22. We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.23. There are years that ask questions and years that answer.1. Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.2. Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.3. Every mans life
44、 is a fairy tale written by Gods fingers.4. Folks who never do any more than they are paid for never get paid for more than they do.5. A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.6. The love we give away is the only love we keep. 7. You have two hands. One to help yourself; th
45、e second to help others.8. The door of opportunity wont open unless you do some pushing.9. We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.10. Keep yourself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. I failed my way to success.11. Teaching kids to count is
46、 fine, but teaching them what counts is best.12. Education is the movement from darkness to light.13. Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.14. Seeing is believing-but dont believe all you see.15. Dont be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.16. Wisdom in the
47、mind is better than the money in the hand.17. Its better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.18. Under adverse circumstances, some people break records and others break down.19. Most of us just exist and keep counting our days rather tha
48、n making our days count.20. How a person master his fate is more important than what his fate is.21. Make your life a mission, not an intermission.22. You will never have what you like until you learn to like what you have.23. The chains of a habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong t
49、o be broken.24. Im not happy when Im writing. But Im more unhappy when Im not.25. Laugh to forget, but dont forget to laugh.26. The time is always right to do what is right.27. You can not always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.28. I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.29. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.30. The three immutable facts: You own stuff, you will
