Some Quotes For A Sunday Evening — Purposeful Planning Works

Posted @ 9:40 pm - Filed under Real Estate Investing, Purposeful Planning, Sez Me, Retirement, Weekend Thoughts, Retirement Income, Goals

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
William Shedd

It’s important to know that words don’t move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
Danilo Docci

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!
Goethe

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.
William James

And one of my all time favorites —

Do, or do not. There is no try.
Yoda

Yoda

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
J.C. Penney

Another favorite –

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo

A magnificently abundant retirement income is the result of your thoughts morphed into your dreams, written as your goals, and finally made real by a Purposeful Plan. Purposeful Planning works.
BawldGuy

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8 comments to “Some Quotes For A Sunday Evening — Purposeful Planning Works”

Robert Coté on April 21st, 2008 at 9:22 am said:

  • “See your future, be your future. Make — make it.” - Ty Webb (Chevy Chase, Caddyshack)

BawldGuy on April 21st, 2008 at 3:43 pm said:

  • “Yer goin’ to find yourself? Look in the mirror, boy. See there you are. Now go live your life.”
    Grandpa

Sean on April 21st, 2008 at 8:18 pm said:

  • Like my grandfather use to always tell me “when life gives you lemons, ask for tequila”.

BawldGuy on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 am said:

  • Sounds like our grandpas may have known each other.

Doug Quance on April 22nd, 2008 at 7:46 am said:

  • >Robert: Wasn’t that “Be the ball, Danny…”

    :lol:

    Nice collection, O Bawld One.

    Add to that:

    It’s easier to get a job when you have a job.

    When you have money, everyone wants to loan you money.

    And when you’re married, there’s more women around than you can shake a stick at.

    - Dear Old Dad

BawldGuy on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 am said:

  • Why do we park on the driveway and drive on the parkway? Anonymous

Brian on April 24th, 2008 at 7:26 am said:

  • “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
    -Andre Gide

    “Pray to God, but hammer away.”
    -Spanish proverb

    “What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”
    -Antoine De Saint-Exupery

BawldGuy on April 24th, 2008 at 12:57 pm said:

  • All three are outstanding, Brian — thanks. I especially like the first one.

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