Thread: A Proverb A Day

"Having courage isn't about not having fear. Its about having fear, but moving forward regardless." - don't know

Originally Posted by ethen

"Having courage isn't about not having fear. Its about having fear, but moving forward regardless." - don't know

That IS a good one.
There is a similar one. I don't know how it exactly goes.
Courage without fear is stupid. Bravery... something that though doooh> I am so tired.


Oneirnaught

"The bearing that squeaks the loudest gets greased." - My co-worker today.

The Buddha quote in my sig is a personal favorite of mine!

Originally Posted by Howie

"The bearing that squeaks the loudest gets greased." - My co-worker today.

That is so true…and aggravating when you happen to be the good bearing who doesn’t squeak, and as a result becomes neglected for a job well done.

An Ode to an Indispensable Man

Sometime, when you're feeling important
Sometime, when your ego's in bloom,
Sometime, when you take it for granted
You're the best qualified in the room;

Sometime when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow this simple instruction
And see how it humbles your soul.

Take a bucket and fill it with water;
Put your hand in it, up to the wrist.
Pull it out, and the hole that's remaining
Is the measure of how you'll be missed.

You may splash all you please when you enter,
You can stir up the water galore,
But stop, and you'll find in a minute
That it looks just the same as before.

The moral is this quaint example
Is to do the best job that you can.
Be proud of yourself, but remember --
There is no indispensable man.

-Anonymous
From the Bill Wagner Collection

Thats a pretty good one!


"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -Aristotle

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
--Michael J. Gelb

Ode to an Indespensible Man... that's really good.
Makes me think. Can you smell the braincells a popping and sizzling as I try to have a deep thought.

Originally Posted by Vex Kitten

Ode to an Indespensible Man... that's really good.
Makes me think. Can you smell the braincells a popping and sizzling as I try to have a deep thought.

Welcome to my world.

In other words, no I can't - not over the smell of my own.

"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals." - anonymous.

I personally could not disagree more.
At some point you have yourself to look in the mirror.

Another one I just thought of that is BS to me.
"Time heals all wounds"
My ass. It may soften them, but a scar remains

Originally Posted by Howie

"Another one I just thought of that is BS to me.
"Time heals all wounds"
My ass. It may soften them, but a scar remains

Yes. But a scar is considered healed.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Yes. But a scar is considered healed.

Thank you for the positive twist Moonbeam.
Yes a physically scar, while healed Unfortunately can't erase that of an emotional scar.

"He loses all who loses the right moment"

Hmmm. If you are IN the moment, then????

Really I was agreeing with you; even tho a scar is considered healed, it is a change, and you will never go back to being the how you were before. Hopefully that can be a positive thing, if the scar reminds you, without continuing to be as painful.

"With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."
--Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. - Confucius

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.- John Donne (1573-1631) English Metaphysical Poet

Joy and temperance and repose slam the door on the doctor's nose. - Longfellow

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. - AfricanProverb

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. - AfricanProverb

Hey. I like that one.

I have a clock in my kitchen. It has a chalk board attached to it to write notes.
I am starting to write the *Proverb a day* each morning. ~ It helps me to remember them too, like dreams!!

"I think that the television is vary educational. When anyone turns it on, I go to the library." - NPR News

Winners practice 'til they get it right. Champions practice 'til they can't get it wrong. - A random t-shirt in a Google image search.

"For every thing you have missed you have gained something else" - Emerson

Wow, I have gained a lot through the years.

"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other." ~ V

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. - African proverb

Originally Posted by R.D.735

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. - African proverb

I thought of the government when I read this.
These proverbs can be taken so many ways. Anyone can relate it to his or her own life as you can take it into your own perspective and situation.

"A house without books is like a room with out windows." -Horace Mann

"Miss a meal if you have to but don't miss a book." - Jim Rohn

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain)

P.S. I like your new sig, Howie. Pretty cool