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Here are a few examples of my favorites:
-"The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree".

-"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."

-"If you want to know your future, look at your present".
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

-"The grass is greener on the other side".

Come on, guys... share some of your known sayings.

2006-11-05 14:54:07 · 12 answers · asked by mgreen868 1 in Education & Reference Quotations

12 answers

"Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you."
-William Arthur Ward

2006-11-05 16:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by sys 2 · 1 1

I have 3 favourites:

"Always aim for the sky for even if you fall, you will still be among the stars" and

"Choices are the hinges of destiny" - Philo

and lastly by Michelle Ventor

" People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you will know exactly what to do".

2006-11-05 15:17:23 · answer #2 · answered by aishah 5 · 0 1

1.I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
2. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.
3. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
4. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can' t have them
6. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
7. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
8. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
9. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
10. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
11. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.
12. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
13. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
1. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
2. Its not whether you get knocked down. Its whether you get up again.
3. Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
4. Never be afraid to try, remember...
Amateurs built the ark
Professionals built the Titanic
5. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
6. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
7. Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
8. What you are is God's gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God.
9. Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
10. If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
11. I do it because I can, I can because I want to, I want to because you said I couldn't.
12. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
13. It is better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for something you are not.
14. Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon
15. It is not wanting to win that makes you a winner; it is refusing to fail.
16. Some men see things as they are and say 'why'? I dream things that never were and say 'why not'?
17. The people who laugh at you probably admire you the most.
18. Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe dedicated.
1. You don't win the silver, you lose the gold
2. Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
3. There is no glory in practice, but without practice, there is no glory...
4. Pain is only temporary but pride is forever.
5. Winners don't wait for chances, they take them
6. Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
7. The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.
8. Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.
9. The important thing is not winning, it's making everyone else lose.
10. Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong
11. You should never want to be perfect; he who is perfect can never get any better.
12. Show me a guy who's afraid to look back, and I'll show you a guy you can beat.
13. The love of the game is in my heart, which spreads to the blood, which I bleed. The passion of playing is in my skin, which is shed when I sweat. Playing isn't something that you do; it's a part of you.
14. If you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail!
1. A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws
2. A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail, but your best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "that was freakin' awesome"
3. A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
4. A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes while everyone else believes the smile on your face
5. Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.
6. If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile... But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.
7. If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them
8. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
9. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
10. Friendship is like standing on wet cement. The longer you stay, the harder it's to leave, and you can never go without leaving your footprints behind.
11. Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest... It's about who came, and never left your side...


and my personal favorite...

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.

...

They must be felt with the heart.

2006-11-05 15:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by wondering!! 1 · 2 0

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." I saw that on a poster in 7th grade and have thought of it often since then.

2006-11-05 15:01:37 · answer #4 · answered by schweetums 5 · 1 0

The best revenge is a successful life on YOUR definition of success, not someone else's.

2006-11-05 18:01:19 · answer #5 · answered by Legandivori 7 · 0 0

Eat a beaver and save a tree

2006-11-05 14:59:22 · answer #6 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 2 0

Save a horse, ride a cowboy!

2006-11-05 15:02:21 · answer #7 · answered by Linda R 7 · 1 1

What comes in is
what goes out

2006-11-05 15:00:03 · answer #8 · answered by come2turkey:) 2 · 0 1

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything."

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."

"There is No right way to do something wrong."

2006-11-05 20:36:00 · answer #9 · answered by .. 3 · 0 0

Come catch the nacar disease....it's fun


well thats more of a slogon but well its me!

2006-11-05 14:57:49 · answer #10 · answered by sillybillyswimmer 2 · 0 1

Why you do something is more important than how you do it. Learn to be the rider.......not the horse. When your dreams turn to dust...vacuum.

2006-11-05 15:03:04 · answer #11 · answered by maww50 2 · 0 1

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