Here are some of Rick's Favorite Quotes & SayingsQuotes & Proverbs are time-honored truths which often condense the collected wisdom & experience of a people & their culture. So, "if you want to know a people", the saying goes, "know their proverbs." Perhaps, some of my favorites will help you get to know who I am a little better.
In the words of Dr. Bob Moorehead .... "I am part of the "Fellowship of the Unashamed". The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won't look back, let up. slow down. back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure. I am finished and done with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, chintzy giving, and dwarfted goals. I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I now live by presence, lean by faith, love by patience, lift by prayer, labor by power. My pace is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few, my God reliable, my mission clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, deterred, lured away, turned back, diluted or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity. Negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I must go until Heaven returns, give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes. And when He comes to get His own, He will have no problem recognizing me. My colors will be clear." ________________________________________________________________ "Better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you're not." - Van Zant (Get Right With The Man) Country Music Artist ________________________________________________________________ "If you don't move, - then you're always going to be just where you are now." - anomymous ________________________________________________________________ "Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying." - Tim McGraw ________________________________________________________________ "Even your silence holds a sort of prayer." - Apache Indian ________________________________________________________________ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain ________________________________________________________________ "Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone." - Zig Ziglar ________________________________________________________________ "All men die. Few men ever really live." - Braveheart ________________________________________________________________ "Life is not tried, it is merely survived when you're standing outside the fire." - Garth Brooks ________________________________________________________________ "Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions - their easier to handle than dumb mistakes." - Anonymous ________________________________________________________________ "Where there is true hospitality, not many words are needed." - Arapaho Indian ________________________________________________________________ "Great things happen whenever we stop seeing ourselves as God's gift to others and begin seeing others as God's gifts to us!" - J.S.Vuocolo ________________________________________________________________ "Don't let yesterday use up much of today." - Cherokee Indian ________________________________________________________________ "If you want me to believe in your Redeemer, you're going to have to look a lot more redeemed." - Friedrich Nietzche ________________________________________________________________ "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana ________________________________________________________________ "We have seen the enemy, and they is us." - Pogo ________________________________________________________________ "If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there." - Ancient Chinese Proverb ________________________________________________________________ "Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you." - Hopi Indian ________________________________________________________________ "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Ancient Chinese Proverb ________________________________________________________________ "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."- M.K.Gandhi ________________________________________________________________ "Life is too short not to be lived with intention."- J.S.Vuocolo ________________________________________________________________ "You see things, and say 'Why'? But I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw ________________________________________________________________ "God gives us each a song." - Ute Indian ________________________________________________________________ "Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." -John F. Kennedy ________________________________________________________________ "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep." - Cinderalla ________________________________________________________________ "Doing the same things exactly the same way each time and expecting a different result!" - definition of "Insanity" from AA ________________________________________________________________ "The most successful people are those who are good at plan B." - James Yorke ________________________________________________________________ "It's not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt ________________________________________________________________ "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln ________________________________________________________________ "A hungry stomach makes a short prayer." - Paiute Indian ________________________________________________________________ "It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot 1819 ________________________________________________________________ "There is no finish line." - Nike ________________________________________________________________ "The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes ________________________________________________________________ "Let him who is without sin cast the 1st stone." - Jesus ________________________________________________________________ "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mohandas K. Gandhi ________________________________________________________________ "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." - M. Scott Peck ________________________________________________________________ "Wherever you go, there you are." - Ram Dass ________________________________________________________________ "The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream." - author unknown ________________________________________________________________ "Coaching is not telling people what to do; it's giving them a chance to examine what they are doing in the light of their intentions." - James Flaherty ________________________________________________________________ "Growth without purpose is the disease we call cancer." - Julio Oialla ________________________________________________________________ "When shall we live, if not now." - M.F.K. Fischer ________________________________________________________________ "Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth." - William Purkey ________________________________________________________________ "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey ________________________________________________________________ "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt ________________________________________________________________ "Your past cannot be changed, but you can change tomorrow by your actions today." - David McNally ________________________________________________________________ "Courage is what it takes to stand up & speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down & listen." - Anonymous ________________________________________________________________ "You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust your sails." - Anonymous ________________________________________________________________ "Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand." - Author Unknown ________________________________________________________________ "If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price." - Author Unknown ________________________________________________________________ "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt ________________________________________________________________ COURAGE - "that which keeps a man coming on, even when all the odds seem otherwise. You may be able to slow a man like that, but you can't defeat him - the man who keeps on coming is either going to get there himself or make it possible for a later man to reach the goal." - L.B.J. ________________________________________________________________ togwotee(pronounced toe-ga-tee) "from here you can go anywhere." - Mountain Crowheart Indians or Shoshoney ________________________________________________________________ "Life is not measured by the breaths we take.... but by the moments that take our breath away." - author unknown ________________________________________________________________ "Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those things bring almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning and for our life to matter. To live our lives in such a way that the world would have been a little bit different for our having passed through it." - Rabbi Harold Kushner ________________________________________________________________ "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Emund Burke ________________________________________________________________ "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford ________________________________________________________________ "God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one". - Max Lucado ________________________________________________________________ "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms; the great devotion, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat". - Theodore Roosevelt ________________________________________________________________
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires." - Nelson Mandela ________________________________________________________________
"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach for. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is a sin." - Benjamin Mays ________________________________________________________________
"When you were born, you were crying and others were smiling. When you die, you are smiling and others are crying." - unknown ________________________________________________________________
"What's great about going the extra mile is that there is very little traffic." - unknown ________________________________________________________________ "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John Ruskin ________________________________________________________________ "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers ________________________________________________________________ "When you stumble, make it part of the dance." - unknown ________________________________________________________________ "Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ________________________________________________________________ "Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything." Wyatt Earp ________________________________________________________________ "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliott, missionary to the Auca Indians
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