Inspirational Thoughts

Forever

After the divorce, her teenage daughter became increasingly rebellious. It culminated late one night when the police arrested her daughter for drunk driving. Mom had to go to the police station to pick her up.

They didn't speak until the next afternoon. Mom broke the tension by giving her a small gift-wrapped box. Her daughter nonchalantly opened it and found a little rock inside. She rolled her eyes and said, "Cute, Mom, what's this for?" "Read the card," Mom instructed.

Her daughter took the card out of the envelope and read it. Tears started to trickle down her cheeks. She got up and lovingly hugged her mom as the card fell to the floor.

On the card were these words: "This rock is more than 200,000,000 years old. That's how long it will take before I give up on you."

- Rob Gilbert
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Wisdom

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.
- Unknown

Goals

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
- Anita DeFrantz

Honor

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach;
once we have left it, we can never return.
- Nicholas Boileau

Direction

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happiness

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Energy

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do
as of doing the things they do not want to do.
- Eric Hoffer

Obstacles

As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership

Management works in the system;
Leadership works on the system.
- Stephen R. Covey

Worry

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow;
it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom

Anger

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
- Thomas Carlyle

Example

You train people how to treat you
by how you treat yourself.
- Martin Rutte

Cooperation

A hundred times every day I remind myself
that my inner and outer life
depend on the labors of other men, living and dead,
and that I must exert myself
in order to give in the same measure
as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein

Peace

Peace is joy in slow motion.
- Nathaniel Kirby

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