The Thought for Saturday, February 4, 2012 Comes from Shaolin Kung Fu:

On The 12 Lessons: No. 6 – You, yourself, are your only teacher. (I hope this lesson causes you to think. Each lesson is an accepted truth in Taoist, Buddhist and Hindu teaching. Or Norse, or Native American, for that matter. Google Shaolin Kung Fu to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, February 3, 2012 Comes from Shaolin Kung Fu:

On The 12 Lessons: No. 5 – Love, in the pain of its loss, is finally gained, for the first time. (I hope this lesson causes you to think. Each lesson is an accepted truth in Taoist, Buddhist and Hindu teaching. Or Norse, or Native American, for that matter. Google Shaolin Kung Fu to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, February 2, 2012 Comes from Shaolin Kung Fu:

On The 12 Lessons: No. 4 – Death is nothing to one who does not fear death. (Each lesson is an accepted truth in Taoist, Buddhist and Hindu teaching. Or Norse, or Native American, for that matter. Google Shaolin Kung Fu to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Comes from Shaolin Kung Fu:

On The 12 Lessons: No. 3 – Laugh at the cleverness of the beast and the beast will defeat itself. (Each lesson is an accepted truth in Taoist, Buddhist and Hindu teaching. Or Norse, or Native American, for that matter. Google Shaolin Kung Fu to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Comes from Shaolin Kung Fu:

On The12 Lessons: No. 2 – There are no secrets. (Each lesson is an accepted truth in Taoist, Buddhist and Hindu teaching. Or Norse, or Native American, for that matter. Google Shaolin Kung Fu to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, January 30, 2012 Comes from Shaolin Kung Fu:

On The 12 Lessons: No. 1 – Follow the heart. (Lao tzu said "The sage is guided by what he feels, and not by what he sees." Each lesson is an accepted truth in Taoist, Buddhist and Hindu teaching. Or Norse, or Native American, for that matter. Google Shaolin Kung Fu to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, January 29, 2012 Comes from Cicero:

On Goodness: Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, January 28, 2012 Comes from Edwin H. Chapin:

On Goodness: Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be good is the great thing. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, January 27, 2012 Comes from Marcus Cato:

On Goodness: The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, January 26, 2012 Comes from Herbert N. Casson:

On Goodness: Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success, and he will have a worthwhile life. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Comes from Richard Carew:

On Goodness: He cannot long be good that knows not why he is good. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Comes from Robert Burns:

On Goodness: Whatever mitigates the woes and increases the happiness of others—this is my criterion of goodness. And whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it—this is my measure of iniquity. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, January 23, 2012 Comes from Edmund Burke:

On Goodness: Good order is the foundation of all good things. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, January 22, 2012 Comes from Phillips Brooks:

On Goodness: No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle or good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, January 21, 2012 Comes from Judson B. Branch:

On Goodness: There is no limit to the good a man can do if he doesn't care who gets the credit. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, January 20, 2012 Comes from Frances Herbert Bradley:

On Goodness: Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, January 19, 2012 Comes from Frances Bowen:

On Goodness: To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind in a sound body. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Comes from Henry Ward Beecher:

On Goodness: Good nature is often a mere matter of health. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Comes from Gordon H. Baker:

On Goodness: All is not evil in America, nor is the country hopeless. God is greater than Satan. The forces that make for good are greater than the forces that make for evil, but they must have human channels through which they can flow. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, January 16, 2012 Comes from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

On Goodness: You exist as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a 1,000 years before you. The common due (demands that) while you live, and while you may, be good. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, January 15, 2012 Comes from Brooks Atkinson:

On Government: Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, January 14, 2012 Comes from James Baldwin:

On Money: Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, January 13, 2012 Comes from William Arthur Ward:

On Attitude: The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, January 12, 2012 Comes from Benjamin Franklin:

On Jobs and Careers: Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that (has) a trade (has) an estate, and he that (has) a calling (has) an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Comes from Jeff Haden:

On Impressions: You absolutely should try to look good in your photos. It's no surprise that potential customers tend to want to do business with attractive people. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Comes from an Anonymous Source:

On Aging: Today is the oldest you've ever been in your life, and also the youngest you will ever be, so enjoy this day while it lasts.

The Thought for Monday, January 9, 2012 Comes from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

On Careers: Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, January 8, 2012 Comes from Logan Pearsall Smith:

On Careers: The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, January 7, 2012 Comes from David Sarnoff:

On Careers: A career, like a business, must be budgeted. When it is necessary, the budget can be adjusted to meet changing conditions. A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, January 6, 2012 Comes from William MCune:

On Careers: If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, January 5, 2012 Comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

On Careers: Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Comes from Cicero:

On Careers: Let a man practice the profession which he best knows. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Comes from Eden Phillipotts:

On Jobs: Queer thing, but we always think every other man's job is easier than our own. And the better he does it, the easier it looks. (Google the author to learn more.

The Thought for Monday, January 2, 2012 Comes from W. Alton Jones:

On Jobs: Usually there are responsible jobs going begging because not enough men (or women) are willing to sweat enough to master the problems involved. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thoughts for Sunday, January 1, 2012:

From Lao-Tzu on Ignorance: To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge. (Google the author to learn more.)

From Ed Bagley on Resolutions Make it a New Year's resolution to get smarter about your stupidity so you can live a more productive, happier life. After all, thought is free, and so is free will—it's all about the choices you make, and how you choose to live with them. (Google the author to learn more.

The Thought for Saturday, December 31, 2011 Comes from Oprah Winfrey:

On Resolutions: Cheers to the New Year and another chance to get it right. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, December 30, 2011 Comes from Theodore Huggenvik:

On Jobs: I ought to consider my job a blessing—not a curse. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, December 29, 2011 Comes Chester O. Fischer:

On Jobs: Unless we can and do constantly seek and find ways and means to do a better job; unless we accept the challenge of the changing times; we have no right to survive and we shall not survive. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Comes from Peter Drucker:

On Jobs: For it is the willingness of people to give themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate organization. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Comes from Harlow H. Curtice:

On Jobs: Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you the rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, December 26, 2010 Comes from Benjamin Franklin:

On Christianity: He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, December 25, 2010 (Christmas Day) Comes from The Holy Bible, King James Version, Luke, Chapter 2, Verses 10-14:

On Christianity: And the angel said unto (the shepherds), "Fear not, for behold I bring to you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace (and) good will toward men."

The Thought for Saturday, December 24, 2010 (Christmas Eve) Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Christianity: Pause and be thankful tonight for all of the joys and blessings in your life. Bow down and realize your place in the universe. You did not create the environment in which you live, you merely occupy space; therefore, whatever good you are able to do, do it now as a privilege with an open heart and in loving kindness. Many others are here on Earth that will never even sniff your good fortune. (Google the author to learn more.

The Thought for Friday, December 23, 2010 Comes from the Holy Bible, King James Version, Proverbs, Chapter 20, Verse 7:

On Christianity: The just man walketh (walks upright) in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

The Thought for Thursday, December 22, 2011 Comes from The Holy Bible, King James Version, Galatians, Chapter 3, Verses 28-29:

On Christianity: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male or female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

The Thought for Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Comes from William Faulkner:

On Christianity: No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Comes from Brooks Atkinson:

On Church: I have no objection to churches as long as they do not interfere with God's work. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, December 19, 2011 Comes from a Chinese Proverb:

On Children: A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.

The Thought for Sunday, December 18, 2011 Comes from Malcolm Forbes:

On Children: The other evening around 10 p.m. we were finishing dinner at a fine, famed San Francisco restaurant, when a relatively young parental pair came in with youngsters—two girls about 9 and 7, and a boy of about 5 or 6. The boy had on long pants and a bow tie and the girls were dressed like you'd think middle teenagers might be—in high heels and so forth. It always seems to me such a waste, such a missing of the point . . . There's a time—all too brief as it too soon becomes apparent to parents—to be little; a time to be in between; and a time to be old. Let each have its season . . . Let the little be little. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, December 17, 2011 Comes from Oscar Wilde:

On Passions: The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, December 16, 2011 Comes from Bertrand Russell:

On Passions: Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, December 15, 2011 Comes from Francoise de la Rochefoucauld:

On Passions: If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Comes from Francoise de la Rochefoucauld:

On Passions: Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Comes from Francesco Guicciardini:

On Passions: To rule self and subdue our passions is the more praiseworthy because so few know how to do it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, December 12, 2011 Comes from Thomas Fuller:

On Passions: Passion, joined with power, produces thunder and ruin. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, December 11, 2011 Comes from Benjamin Franklin:

On Passions: A man in a passion rides a wild horse. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, December 10, 2011 Comes from Lord Chesterfield:

On Passions: When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, December 9, 2011 Comes from Sam Levenson:

On Imagination: One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, December 8, 2011 Comes from Arthur Koestler:

On Imagination: The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Comes from Leigh Hunt:

On Imagination: There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Comes from Cullen Hightower:

On Imagination: A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion—unless you are a victim of it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, December 5, 2011 Comes from Philip Hamerton:

On Imagination: The one mistake that is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, December 4, 2011 Comes from Stanley Goldstein:

On Imagination: He who has learning without imagination has feet but no wings. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, December 3, 2011 Comes from Howard E. Fritz:

On Imagination: Inspiration is and can only be the product of free men. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, December 2, 2011 Comes from Harry Emerson Fosdick:

On Imagination: The very core of peace and love is imagination. All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, December 1, 2011 Comes from Henry Ford:

On Imagination: Anyone can do anything that he imagines. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Comes from Knute Rockne:

On Football: I've found that prayers work best when you have big players. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Comes from Thomas Jefferson:

On Debt: To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

(Ed's Note: Listen up, President Obama and members of the U. S. Congress—read and learn rather than think you are smarter or more effective than your forefathers. They already knew what you cannot see or appreciate. Shame on you for your self-serving interests—you serve not the citizens who elected you, or the country you represent, you best serve yourselves and will ultimately suffer from your ego, greed and stupidity. (Google the author to learn more, a lot more than you will learn from your present government, its representatives, and its policies.)

The Thought for Monday, November 28, 2011 Comes from Sophocles:

On Decisions: Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, November 27, 2011 Comes from John Henry Patterson:

On Decisions: An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, November 26, 2011 Comes from Charles E. Nielson:

On Decisions: When, against one's will, one is high pressured into making a hurried decision, the best answer is always No, because No is more easily changed to Yes, than Yes is changed to No. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, November 25, 2011 Comes from Anne O'Hare McCormick:

On Decisions: The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24, 2011 Comes from Psalm 100 in The Holy Bible (King James Version):

A Psalm of Thanksgiving: Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord, he is God; it is he who hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations.

The Thought for Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Comes from Harry A. Hoff:

On Decisions: Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself, it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself in others . . . Business is dependent upon action. It cannot go forward by hesitation. Those in executive positions must fortify themselves with facts and accept responsibility for decisions based upon them. Often greater risk is involved in postponement that in making a wrong decision. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Comes from Charles Hole:

On Decisions: Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, November 21, 2011 Comes from William Hazlitt:

On Decisions: There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, November 20, 2011 Comes from Gordan Graham:

On Decisions: Decision is the sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, November 19, 2011 Comes from William B. Given, Jr.:

On Decisions: When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, November 18, 2011 Comes from Frank N. Giampietro:

On Decisions: I have to be wrong a certain number of times in order to be right a certain number of times. However, in order to be either, I must first make a decision. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, November 17, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Committees: Successful people do not make decisions by committee. If they did, the result would most often be lots of ideas, no assignments, no responsibility, no accountability, no action and no results, and then the whole scenario all over again at the next meeting. Successful people become successful by being a committee of one—they have an idea of what to do, develop a plan to succeed, take positive action, and succeed while the committee members are still talking and arguing, and doing nothing to help anyone, not even themselves. When too many people are involved in making a decision, all of them evade responsibility for their actions. This is just one reason why, if you want a committee to get the job done, the result will be a costly, ineffective mess. There are just too many hands in the cookie jar, and not enough cookies to go around, because no one is making cookies, they are just eating them. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Comes from Samuel Johnson:

On Ambition: To be unhappy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Comes from Josiah G. Holland:

On Ambition: God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, November 14, 2011 Comes from Oliver Herford:

On Ambition: What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, November 13, 2011 Comes from a German Proverb:

On Ambition: Ambition and the belly are the two worst counselors.

The Thought for Saturday, November 12, 2011 Comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

On Ambition: Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, November 11, 2011 Comes from Carl Jung:

On Fear: The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, November 10, 2011 Comes from Jan Masaryk:

On Fear: What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Comes from a Moorish Proverb:

On Fear: He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

The Thought for Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

On Reciprocation: Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, November 7, 2011 Comes from Albert Einstein:

On Understanding: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, November 6, 2011 Comes from Christian Bovee:

On Knowledge: What a man knows should find expression in what he does. The chief value of superior knowledge is that it leads to a performing manhood. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, November 5, 2011 Comes from Josh Billings:

On Knowledge: The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, November 4, 2011 Comes from Frank R. Barry:

On Knowledge: Every day increases the sheer weight of knowledge put into our hands . . . Our age is being forcibly reminded that knowledge is no substitute for wisdom. Far and away the most important thing in human life is living it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, November 3, 2011 Comes from Ambrose Bierce:

On Knowledge: Knowledge, n. To the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name knowledge. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Comes from Francis Bacon:

On Knowledge: Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Comes from Samuel Butler:

On Knowledge:  A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, October 31, 2011 Comes from John Adams:

On the Economy: All of the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of t he nature of coin, credit, and circulation. (Ed's Note: John Adams died on July 4, 1826. Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, October 30, 2011 is Anonymous:

On Challenges: Inch by inch, anything is a cinch, yard by yard everything is hard.

The Thought for Saturday, October 29, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Trust: Trust in the Lord in all things, and lean not unto your own understanding, or take your chances with the devil. It's your choice because God has given you a free will to do what you want. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, October 28, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Failure: No one really sets out in life to be a failure, but some people work at it for so long they succeed. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, October 27, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Greed: Money is adverse to greed. If you think you can get ahead by chasing money because of your greed, fate may not only take away your ill-gotten gains, but also bite you in the ass at the same time. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Comes from Jay Leno:

On Second Thoughts: With hurricanes, tornadoes, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance? (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Comes from Martin Luther King, Jr.:

On Work: No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.  (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, October 24, 2011 Comes from Steve Jobs:

On Marketing: You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try and sell it.  (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, October 23, 2011 Comes from Steve Jobs:

On Competitors: Apple does not need to compete. Apple needs to remember who it is. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, October 22, 2011 Comes from The Dalai Lama:

On Humanity: When asked what surprised him most about humanity, The Dalai Lama answered: "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived." (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, October 21, 2011 Comes from a Hebrew Proverb:

On Temper: He who restrains his temper will have all his sins forgiven.

The Thought for Thursday, October 20, 2011 Comes from Oscar Wilde:

On Temper: Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon at to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Comes from Mark Twain:

On Temper: When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Comes from Lord Shaftesbury:

On Temper: Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, October 17, 2011 Comes from Theodore Roosevelt:

On Temper: Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, October 16, 2011 Comes from Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche:

On Temper: The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, October 15, 2011 Comes from Mary Wortley Montagu:

On Temper: Civility costs nothing and buys everything. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, October 14, 2011 Comes from Elie Metchnikoff:

On Temper: The toxin of fatigue has been demonstrated; but the poisons generated by evil temper and emotional excess over non-essentials have not yet been determined, although without a doubt they exist. Explosions of temper, emotional cyclones, and needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize, are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage without being a bromide-taker. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, October 13, 2011 Comes from Samuel Johnson:

On Temper: He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Comes from Washington Irving:

On Temper: A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Comes from George Horn:

On Temper: Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men. (Google the author to learn more.)

On Temper: More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, Octber 9, 2011 Comes from Thomas Dreier:

On Trouble: When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work, and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, October 8, 2011 Comes from Erich Fromm:

On Temper: There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, October 7, 2011 Comes from William Feather:

On Temper: Avoid letting temper block progress—keep cool. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, October 6, 2011 Comes from the Holy Bible, the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 40, Verses 28 to 31:

On God: Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteh not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to those who have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

The Thought for Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On How God Works: Ask and it shall be given; don't, and it won't.  (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Seminal Moments: It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, and an entire lifetime to understand their positive impact on your life. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, October 3, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:

On Thinking: There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, October 2, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:

On Religion: Religion is all bunk. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, October 1, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:]\

On Achievement: The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common Sense. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, September 30, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:

On Your Body: The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, September 29, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:

On Progress: Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:

On Determination: Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, September 27, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:

On Opportunity: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, September 26, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:

On Violence: Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, September 25, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:

On Failure: Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, September 24, 2011 Comes from Thomas A. Edison:

On Being Discouraged: Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, September 23, 2011 Comes from Jose Ortega y Gasset:

On Influence: Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, September 22, 2011 Comes from Ambrose Bierce:

On Politics: A strife of interest masquerading as a contest of principles. (Google the author to learn more.)

Thought for Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Comes from Carter Glass:

On Politics: A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, September 20, 2011 Comes from Robert Frost:

On Politics: A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, September 19, 2011 Comes from Bernard M. Baruch:

On Politics: Vote for the man who promises the least; he'll be the least disappointing. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, September 18, 2011 Comes from Art Buck:

On Politics: More funds, more funds! The spenders cry, our present means won't get us by; nor can we cut the current cost—our re-election might be lost. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, September 17, 2011 Comes from Paul H. Douglas:

On Politics: To be a liberal one doesn't have to be a wastrel. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, September 16, 2011 Comes from Simon Cameron:

On Politics: An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, September 15, 2011 Comes from Art Buck:

On Politics: Politics have changed of late, which leaves me piqued and sad: No longer can I separate the good lies from the bad. (Google the author to learn more.)

On Money:  Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. (Google the author to learn more.)                    

The Thought for Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Comes from Samuel Goldwyn:

On Opportunities: I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, September 12, 2011 Comes from Albert Einstein:

On Communication (a very long time ago): You see, wire telegraph is a kind of very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates the exact same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. (Ed's Note: Each advancement in communication technology has carried with its discovery a sense of wonder. Those of us fortunate enough to have lived 67 years remember when there was no Internet, no email, no cell phones, no pagers, no iPods, no Blackberries, no fax machines, etc. We still relish a good, old-fashioned, eyeball-to-eyeball conversation, and some of us, like me, relish complete silence even more. Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, September 11, 2011 Comes from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:

On Doubt: Doubt can only be removed by action. (Google the author to learn more.

On Politicians: Pity the plentiful politicians whose main concern is the pay, perks and perseverance needed to maintain their prosperity and prominence while pretending to provide productive proposals to solve our predicaments as our protectors.

The Thought for Friday, September 9, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Politicians: The vast majority of politicians speak in a manner of righteousness for whatever self-centered agenda they are trying to promote at the moment, yet they remain lower life forms not worthy of their pseudo stature. Their list could be named here, but there is not enough space to do so. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, September 8, 2011 Comes from an Idaho Statesman Newspaper Editorial:

On Politicians in Congress: Witnessing the Republicans and the Democrats bicker over the U. S. debt is like watching two drunks argue over a bar bill on the Titanic.

The Thought for Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Comes from Walt Whitman:

On Impressions: Be curious, not judgmental. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Comes from Mary Bly:

On Pets and Messages: Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, September 5, 2011 Comes from an English Proverb:

On Temper: Civility costs nothing.

The Thought for Sunday, September 4, 2011 Comes from Lord Chesterfield:

On Temper: A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man of business. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, September 3, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Faith: Ask and it shall be given. Don't, and it won't. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, September 2, 2011 Comes from Benjamin Franklin:

On Reason: They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, September 1, 2011 Comes from Benjamin Franklin:

On Reason: So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Comes from Charles Victor Cherbuliez:

On Temper: Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Comes from Charles Buxton:

On Temper: Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, August 29, 2011 Comes from Alfred Adler:

On Temper: We must interpret a bad temper as the sign of an inferiority complex. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, August 28, 2011 Comes from Henry Fielding:

On Reason: Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, August 27, 2011 Comes from John Dryden:

On Reason: Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is he product of right reason. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, August 26, 2011 Comes from Sir William Drummond:

On Reason: He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, August 25, 2011 Comes from Cicero:

On Reason: He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Comes from Dwight D. Eisenhower:

On Politics: I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Comes from Will Durant:

On Politics: The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, August 22, 2011 Comes from Charles de Gaulle:

On Politics: I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to politicians. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, August 21, 2011 Comes from William Clay:

On Politics: This is quite a game, politics. There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent interests. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, August 20, 2011 Comes from G. K. Chesterton:

On Politics: When (a politician) is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. In short, when he is impotent he proves to us that the thing is easy; and when he is omnipotent he proves that it is impossible. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, August 19, 2011 Comes from Oliver Goldsmith:

On Politeness: Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, August 18, 2011 Comes from Thomas Edison:

On Failure:  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

The Thought for Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Stupidity: Some idiots do not have the good sense God gave a healthy piss ant, and they are proud of it. Having said this, in the interest of fairness, I will not mention politicians from political parties, since their actions speak for them. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Comes from Carl Becker:

On Man: The significance of man is that he is insignificant and aware of it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, August 15, 2011 Comes from Rabbi Ben Azai:

On Man: Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, August 14, 2011 Comes from Francis Bacon:

On Man: A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, August 13, 2011 Comes from an Arabian Proverb:

On Man: All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are moveable, and those that move.

The Thought for Friday, August 12, 2011 Comes from Kenneth Bird:

On Humor: Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, August 11, 2011 Comes from Grenville Kleiser:

On Humor: Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens, It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Character: John Wooden said that adversity does not build character, it only reveals character. So what builds character? That would be overcoming disappointment or discouragement. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, August 9, 2011 Comes from Ed Sabol:

On Impressions: Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me the truth, and I believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, August 8, 2011 Comes from Sir Robert Peel:

On Rulers: In every village there will arise some miscreant, to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, August 7, 2011 Comes from Alexander Hamilton:

On Property: How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, August 6, 2011 Comes from William Graham Sumner:

On Property: The accumulation of property is no guarantee of the development of character, but the development of character, or of any other good whatever, is impossible without property. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, August 5, 2011 Comes from Thomas Nixon Carver:

On Property: People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, August 4, 2011 Comes from Jose Ortegay Gasset:

On Rulers: To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, August 3, 2011 Comes from Miguel de Cervantes:

On Luck: Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his own luck has no right to complain if it passes him by. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, August 2, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Christianity: Marriage is a long time. Life is an even longer time. Being saved is forever. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, August 1, 2011 Comes from Coleman Cox:

On Laws: It we could make a great bonfire of the thousands of laws we have in this country, and start all over again with only the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments, I am sure we would get along much better. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, July 31, 2011 Comes from Baron de Montesquieu:

On Rulers: In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of state who give it special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, July 30, 2011 Comes from Calvin Coolidge:

On Laws: Coolidge's Law: Anytime you don't want anything, you get it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, July 29, 2011 Comes from Charles Caleb Colton:

On Laws: The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect, viz.: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm, than what will do good. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, July 28, 2011 Comes from Winston Churchill:

On Laws: If you have 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Comes from Junis:

On Rulers: All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Comes from Lord Bolingbroke:

On Laws: It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, July 25, 2011 Comes from Henry Ward Beecher:

On Laws: It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes another 100 years to get rid of it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, July 24, 2011 Comes from Francis Bacon:

On Laws: That law may be set down as good which is certain in meaning, just in precept, convenient in execution, agreeable to the form of government, and productive of virtue in those that live under it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, July 23, 2011 Comes from an Italian Proverb:

On Rulers: He who knows should rule, and he who does not know should obey.

The Thought for Friday, July 22, 2011 Comes from Edmund Bruke:

On Laws: Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, July 21, 2011 Comes from Jean Anouilh:

On Laws: Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Comes from Albert Einstein:

On Character: Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Comes from Thomas Hobbes:

On Rulers: The obligation of the subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, but not longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, July 18, 2011 Comes from Thomas Edison:

On Accomplishment: Hell, there are no rules here – we're trying to accomplish something. Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, July 17, 2011 Comes from Charles Baudelaire:

On Cats: Ardent lovers and austere scholars all love cats.

The Thought for Saturday, July 16, 2001 Comes from Robert Byrne:

On Cats:  To err is human, to purr is feline.

The Thought for Friday, July 15, 2011 Comes from Robert Herrick:

On Rulers: Kings ought to sheer, not skin their sheep. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, July 14, 2011 is an original by Ed Bagley:

On Marketing People: Making other people look good is really a thankless job with little recognition, little respect and little reward, yet some of us feel compelled to do it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, July 13, 2011 is an original by Ed Bagley:

On Greatness: You can't quantify greatness, you can only appreciate it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Comes from Robert Collyer:

On Example: Go make thy garden as fair as thou canst, thou workest never alone; and he whose plot is next to thine many see it and mend his own. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, July 11, 2011 Comes from Epictetus:

On Rulers: Nothing more becoming a ruler than to despise no one, nor to be insolent, but to preside over all impartially. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, July 10, 2011 Comes from Edmund Burke:

On Example: Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, July 9, 2011 Comes from Phillips Brooks:

On Example: Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life such as yours, this earth would be God's paradise. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, July 8, 2011 Comes from Confucius:

On Rulers: The character of the ruler is like the wind, the people like the grass. In whatever direction the wind blows, the grass bends. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, July 7, 2011 Comes from Paul H. Douglas:

On Rulers: Men tinged with sovereignty can easily feel that the king can do no wrong. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, July 6, 2011 Comes from Christian Bovee:

On Example: Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. A generous habit of thought and action carries with it an incalculable influence. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Comes from Abraham Lincoln:

On Freedom: Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God, cannot long retain it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, July 4, 2011 Comes from our Pledge of Allegiance:

On Freedom: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The Thought for Sunday, July 3, 2011 Comes from Abraham Lincoln:

On Freedom: Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, July 2, 2011 Comes from Abraham Lincoln:

On Freedom: If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, July 1, 2011 Comes from a Chinese Proverb:

On Rulers: As the bird feels about the net that entangles it, so do men feel about those who rule them. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, June 30, 2011 Comes from a Burmese Proverb:

On Rulers: Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.(Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, June 29, 2011 Comes from Art Buck:

On Rulers: Within the highest echelons of politician—carnivores, a demagogue is one whose lies are more believable than yours. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Comes from Kathleen O'Brien:

On Caring: You need to take care of yourself first. If you don't care for yourself, you can't take care of someone else. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, June 27, 2011 Comes from the Holy Bible, Proverbs, Chapter 3, Verses 5 and 6:

On Trust: In Proverbs: Trust in the Lord with all (your) heart, and lean not unto (your) own understanding. In all (your) ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct (your) path. Ed's Note: Read Proverbs to learn more about wisdom. You can sometimes fool everyone but yourself, and even then, God sees you in the darkness of your moment, and understands the magnitude of your actions for good or evil.

The Thought for Sunday, June 26, 2011 Comes from Herbert Spencer:

On Rules: Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and how makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints. (Google the author to learn more.) Ed's Note: Spend too much on our wishes and desires, and we suffer terribly as we are mired in debt with no escape. Live within our means and we can save for the future, and have a much better sense of well-being. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, June 25, 2011 Comes from Richard Storrs:

On Rules: The rules which experience suggests are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, June 24, 2011 Comes from Bertrand Russell:

On Rules: Rules on conduct, whatever they may be, are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, June 23, 2011 Comes from Thomas Jefferson:

On His 10 Rules: 1) Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 2) Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3) Never spend money before you have earned it. 4) Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap. 5) Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6) We seldom report of having eaten too little. 7) Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8) How much pain evils have cost us that have never happened! 9) Take things always by the smooth handle. 10) When angry, count 10 before you speak, if very angry, count 100. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Comes from Lammot du Pont:

On Rules: "Honesty is the best policy" "A dollar saved is a dollar earned" "Look before you leap" "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" "The laborer is worthy of his hire" may be scoffed at by some intellectuals as trite copybook rules, but nonetheless they sum up the elementary experience of the race in creating and consuming wealth . . . People may change their minds as often as their coats, and new sets of rules of conduct may be written every week, but he fact remains that human nature has not changed and does not change, that inherent human beliefs stay the same; the fundamental rules of human conduct continue to hold. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Comes from Edmund Burke:

On Rules: When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. (Google the author to learn more.) Ed's Note: This is why even rebellious teenagers want boundaries, although they do not recognize it at the time. When the vast majority of teenagers grow up and mature, they begin to see the danger and damage of their actions. A parent must have some authority over their child, otherwise, the child will not be able to survive and achieve success in life.

The Thought for Monday, June 20, 2011 Comes from Bertolt Brecht:

On Self-Reliance: No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, June 19, 2011 Comes from Arnold Glasow:

On Trouble: Some folks think they're being friendly when they tell you their troubles. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, June 18, 2011 Comes from Arnold Glasow:

On Trouble: Most troubles arise from loafing when we should be working or talking when we should be listening. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, June 17, 2011 Comes from Albert Einstein:

On Insanity: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and then expecting different results. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, June 16, 2011 Comes from Albert Einstein:

On Opportunity: In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, June 15, 2011 is anonymous:

On Spirit: Spirit needs matter to become substantial; matter needs spirit to become meaningful.

The Thought for Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Comes from an anonymous spiritual leader:

On Relaxation: Relaxation is the absence of unnecessary effort.

The Thought for Monday, June 13, 2011 Comes from Thomas Fuller:

On Troubles: A danger foreseen is half avoided. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, June 12, 2011 Comes from Thomas Dreier:

On Trouble: When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work, and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, June 11, 2011 Comes from Will Foley:

On Trouble: The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, June 10, 2011 Comes from Calvin Coolidge:

On Trouble: If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you and you have to battle with only one of them. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, June 9, 2011 Comes from Andrew Carnegie:

On Trouble: I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them – nine-tenths of them never happened. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Comes from James Burgh:

On Trouble: If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Comes from Arthur Bryant:

On Trouble: Half of the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, June 6, 2011 Comes from William J. H. Boetcker:

On Trouble: Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment. (Google the author to learn more.) (Ed's Note: When reflecting on this quote, carefully consider your government and its representatives in Washington, DC and how they handle our country's affairs, and the needs of our citizens.)

The Thought for Sunday, June 5, 2011 Comes from Ludwig van Beethoven:

On Trouble: This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Saturday, June 4, 2011 Comes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

On the Mind: If you will stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable opinion of himself. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Friday, June 3, 2011 Comes from Allen E. Claxton, DD:

On the Mind: Today the treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas, they are in the minds and hearts of men. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Thursday, June 2, 2011 Comes from G. K. Chesterton:

On the Mind: There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Wednesday, June 1, 2011 Comes from G. K. Chesterton:

On the Mind: I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Tuesday, May 31, 2011 Comes from Lord Chesterfield:

On the Mind: A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Monday, May 30, 2011 Comes from William Ellery Channing:

On Your Mind: It is the mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished. (Google the author to learn more.)

The Thought for Sunday, May 29, 2011 Comes from Alexander Cannon:

On Your Mind: A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. (Google Alexander Cannon to learn more about the author.)

The Thought for Saturday, May 28, 2011 Comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

On Your Mind: Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. (Google Ralph Waldo Emerson to learn more about the author.)

The Thought for Friday, May 27, 2011 Comes from John Morley:

On Influence: You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. (Google John Morley to learn more about the author.)

The Thought for Thursday, May 26, 2011 Comes from Max Planck:

On Science: A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually, die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Google Max Planck to learn more about the author.)

The Thought for Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Comes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

On Funerals: Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The Thought for Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Comes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

On Fortune: Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

The Thought for Monday, May 23, 2011 Comes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

On Flattery: Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

The Thought for Sunday, May 22, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Job Hunting: We talk about first impressions being important. They certainly are. The first impression just might also happen to be the only impression and the last impression.

The Thought for Saturday, May 21, 2011 Comes from Mildred Louise Baker (my mother's maiden name) among others:

On Taking Action: Time and tide wait for no man.

The Thought for Friday, May 20, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Ignorance: There are none so stupid as the ignorant. Even those people making a poor decision as a result of bad judgment at least have some understanding of the options available. The ignorant have no knowledge, and thus no awareness upon which to act because they are unaware. What you know is your greatest asset; what you do not know is your greatest liability. It's not cool to be ignorant; it is very dangerous, and your lack of knowledge could kill you.

The Thought for Thursday, May 19, 2011 Comes from a Catholic Theologian:

On Humility: Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking less about yourself. (This is indeed a profound statement should you think carefully about what he has to say.)

The Thought for Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Comes from Tennessee Williams:

On Life: Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

The Thought for Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Comes from Charles de Gaulle:

On Leadership: Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

The Thought for Monday, May 16, 2011 Comes from Herbert N. Casson:

On Leadership: Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.

The Thought for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Comes from Herbert N. Casson:

On Leadership: As soon as a man climbs up to a high position, he must train his subordinates and trust them. They must relieve him of all small matters. He must be set free to think, to travel, to plan, to see important customers, to make improvements, to do all the big jobs of leadership.

The Thought for Saturday, May 14, 2011 Comes from Thomas Carlyle:

On Leadership: We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

The Thought for Friday, May 13, 2011 Comes from Napoleon Bonaparte:

On Leadership: A leader is a dealer in hope.

The Thought for Thursday, May 12, 2011 Comes from William J. H. Boetcker:

On Leadership: The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat—that is the final proof of power.

The Thought for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Comes from Thomas D. Bailey:

On Leadership: Conductors of great symphony orchestras do not play every musical instrument; yet through leadership the ultimate production is an expressive and unified combination of tones.

The Thought for Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Comes from Fisher Ames:

On Leadership: The most substantial glory of a country is in its virtuous great men. Its prosperity will depend upon its docility to learn from their example.

The Thought for Monday, May 9, 2011 Comes from C. K. Anderson:

On Leadership: When a fellow thinks he is putting it over on the boss, the boss is not thinking of putting him over others to boss.

The Thought for Sunday, May 8, 2011 Comes from Ralph J. Bunche:

On Leadership: There are no warlike peoples—just warlike leaders.

The Thought for Saturday, May 7, 2011 Comes from Lord Byron:

On Leadership: When we think we lead we most are led.

The Thought for Friday, May 6, 2011 Comes from Ed Bagley:

On Learning: You can learn a lot from your government, and especially what government leaders want you to know; it is a lot more difficult to learn the truth, which, of course, is what those same leaders do not want you to know.

The Thought for Thursday, May 5, 2011 Comes from Elie Wiesel:

On Love: The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

The Thought for Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Comes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

On Judgment: Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

The Thought for Tuesday, May 3, 2011 Comes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

On Recognition: Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

The Thought for Monday, May 2, 2011 Comes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

On Recognition: Everyone speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

The Thought for Sunday, May 1, 2011 Comes from Jean-Paul Sartre:

On Loneliness: If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

The Thought for Saturday, April 30, 2011 Comes from Jean-Paul Sartre:

On Truth: Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

The Thought for Friday, April 29, 2011 Comes from Jean-Paul Sartre:

On Freedom: Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

The Thought for Thursday, April 28, 2011 Comes from Jean-Paul Sartre:

On Judging Others: We do not judge the people we love.

The Thought for Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Comes from an Anonymous Source:

On Love: Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love. Working for God on earth doesn't pay much, but His retirement plan is out of this world.

The Thought for Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Comes from Arthur Schopenhauer:

On Thinking: In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

The Thought for Monday, April 25, 2011 Comes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

On Usefulness: A useless life is only an early death.

The Thought for Sunday, April 24, 2011 Comes from the Holy Bible, the Book of John, Chapter 14, Verses 1-3:

On Jesus: Let not year heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.

The Thought for Saturday, April 23, 2011 Comes from the Holy Bible, the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 40, Verses 28 to 31:

On God: Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteh not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faith; and to those who have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

The Thought for Friday, April 22, 2011 Comes from Daniel Defoe:

On Usefulness: All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

The Thought for Thursday, April 21, 2011 Comes from Henry Ford:

On Usefulness: Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

The Thought for Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Comes from J. T. Mackey:

On Usefulness: Take two workers in an organization. One limits his giving by wages he is paid. He insists on being paid instantly for what he does. That shows he's a man of limited imagination and intelligence. The other is a natural giver. His philosophy of life compels him to make himself useful. He knows that if he takes care of other people's problems they will be forced to take care of him to protect their own interests. The more a man gives of himself to this work, the more he will get out of it, both in wages and satisfaction.

The Thought for Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Comes from Chuang-Tzu:

On Usefulness: Everyone knows the usefulness of the useful, but no one knows the usefulness of the useless.

The Thought for Monday, April 18, 2011 Comes from Nathaniel Emmons:

On Usefulness: One principal reason why men are so often useless is, that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits. (Ed's Note: They oftentimes lack focus and follow-through.)

The Thought for Sunday, April 17, 2011 Comes from Washington Irving:

On Usefulness: A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The Thought for Saturday, April 16, 2011 Comes from Alfred North Whitehead:

On Usefulness: It is not a paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods, we may be nearest to our most practical applications.