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A Bit of Wisdom from Fred Rogers

Posted by: thepinetree on 03/21/2024 04:00 PM
Pittsburg, PA...Fred McFeely Rogers March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003. Mister Rogers, Presbyterian minister. Host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran from 1968 to 2001.


"I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving."

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people."

"To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."

"Deep and simple are far, far more important than shallow and complicated and fancy."

"Love isn't a perfect state of caring. It's an active noun, like 'struggle."
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A Bit of Wisdom from Dr. David Livingstone

Posted by: thepinetree on 03/21/2024 09:16 AM
Blantyre, Scotland...David Livingstone 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873. Scottish Physician, Congregationalist, Pioneer Christian Missionary



"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all."

"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."

"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.'

"I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward."

"Fear God and work hard."
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A Bit of Wisdom from Wyatt Earp

Posted by: thepinetree on 03/19/2024 11:38 AM
Los Angeles, CA...Wyatt Earp March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929. American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, Tombstone & Alaska.


"The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip."

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry.”

“Are you going to do something or just stand there and bleed?”

“The less you bet, the more you lose when you win.”

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”
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A Bit of Wisdom from St. Patrick

Posted by: thepinetree on 03/17/2024 09:30 PM
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland...March 17, St. Patrick's Day is traditionally recognized as the day of his death. He was a fifth century missionary, bishop & Patron Saint of Ireland.



"Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me."

"I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many."

"I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child."

"He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken."

"The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins."

"The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough."
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A Bit of Wisdom from Oliver Wendell Holmes

Posted by: thepinetree on 03/08/2024 03:45 PM
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935. Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.


"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing."

"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."

"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
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A Bit of Wisdom from Knute Rockne

Posted by: thepinetree on 03/05/2024 07:48 PM
Notre Dame, IN...Knute Kenneth Rockne March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931. Football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.



"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven."

"We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose."

"Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."

"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."

"Win or lose, do it fairly."

"Let's win one for the Gipper."
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A Bit of Wisdom from Dinah Shore

Posted by: thepinetree on 02/29/2024 08:21 PM
Beverly Hills, CA...Dinah Shore, February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994.



"The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to."

"Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."

"Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not."
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A Bit of Wisdom from E. H. Harriman

Posted by: thepinetree on 02/21/2024 02:45 PM
Harriman, NY....Edward Henry Harriman, February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909. American financier and railroad executive.



"Every man should make up his own mind that if he expect to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar."

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."
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A Bit of Wisdom from Enzo Ferrari

Posted by: thepinetree on 02/20/2024 01:25 PM
Maranello, Italy...Enzo Ferrari, 20 February 1898 – 14 August 1988. Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, founder Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team & Ferrari automobile marque.



"I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars."

"I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation."

"Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation."

"One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"The client is not always right."
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A Bit of Wisdom from George Washington

Posted by: thepinetree on 02/19/2024 10:50 AM
Mount Vernon, VA...George Washington February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799. The first president of the United States and founding father of our country.



"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."

"It is better to be alone than in bad company."
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