Wisdom Throughout the Ages

ACTION • The thing to try, when all else fails, is to try again • Giving something another try is better than an alibi. • Other people may see your deeds, but God sees your motives. • He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes; he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. • Asking saves a lot of guesswork. • Those who wish to move mountains must start by carrying away small stones. • It is often easy identifying a problem, but another matter in taking action to correct it. • Once you believe, you can achieve. • If it can be imagined, it can be accomplished.   ADAPTABILITY & OPPORTUNITY • Most people are willing to adapt, not because they see the light, but because they feel the heat. • The world changes so fast, that you couldn’t stay wrong all the time if you tried. • The trouble with opportunity is that it’s always more recognizable going than coming. • Opportunity may knock, but it never turns the knob and walks in. • He who kills time buries opportunities. • Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. • When opportunity knocks, the pessimist complains about the noise. • Ability, without opportunity, may lead to nowhere.   ADVERSITY & CHALLENGES • He who wants a place in the sun should expect blisters. • It takes both rain and sunshine to make a rainbow. • Sometimes you find you’re up against it, because you back up instead of going ahead. • Prosperity makes friends, while adversity tries them. • Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records. • He who has not met adversity knows not his own strength. • Heaven prepares good men with crosses. • The best way to solve your problem is to help someone else solve theirs. • If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden. • Knowledge is power. • Time heals all wounds. • Everything in life is what you make of it. • Prosperity would not be so welcome, without the taste of adversity. • Springtime would not be so pleasant, without the winter that preceded it. • Laughing is inexpensive medicine.   ADVICE • Guidance means that I can count on God; commitment means that God can count on me. • Advising a fool is like beating the air with a stick. • The way to be successful is to follow the advice that you give others. • Advice is one thing most people would rather give than get. • A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice. • Do not waste time with the negative pessimist; it is better spent on someone who is aware enough to respond with a positive attitude. • Good judgment often comes from experience, and experience usually comes from bad judgment.   AGING • When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice. • He whose night out, is followed by a day in, is growing old. • One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged. • There’s many a good tune in an old fiddle. • Age, in number of years and the ability to procreate, does not determine adulthood; complete self-reliance does. • If the music seems too loud, then you’re probably too old. • The memory of who we were and what we did, will impact and continue in the lives of others.   ALCOHOL • Liquor doesn’t wash away troubles; it only irrigates them a little. • Drinking men commit suicide on installment plans. • Only weak characters lean on strong drinks. • Boozers are losers. • Those who say things drive them to drink should walk. • There is nothing wrong with drinking like a fish, provided you drink what a fish drinks. • No alcoholic is really anonymous. • It is one thing to consume a vice, another to be consumed by a vice.