Finland's Ovi

I would like to share with the ovi some nice thoughts I’ve found online. Hope you like them!

It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.

You never miss the water until the well runs dry.

The people who live in the Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

If it is to be, it is up to me.

A bend in the road, is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove… but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed… Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle
…when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward orgaizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.

Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened…

Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you’ll never have to worry about your feet.

Nothing in this world is impossibe to a willing heart.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

He who tries can fail. But he who doesn’t try, already has.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Half the misery in the world is caused by ignorance. The other half is caused by knowledge.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

That which the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Why do you need two coats when you have only one back?

Today is the first day of the rest of your life ==> make it the best day since the beginning of your life and may tomorrow bring sunshine into it.

Learning is weightless treasure you always carry easy.

There are too many sad things in this world. Don’t walk away from the happy ones.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Animals do not smoke, drink nor take drugs - except in laboratories.

Open seven days a week, excluding Sundays!

Either you give me what I demand or I’ll take what you’re offering!

Opinions expressed here are mine and not those of ovi. And if you don’t agree with them, you are racist, sexist, elitist, imperialist, Baptist, and possibly even right.

The only thing you need to know about a country is whether people are trying to get in, or get out.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Always forgive your enemies. That’s what they hate most.

What ‘exists’ is only a small part of what is ‘possible’.

Do not let big ambitions overshadow small successes.

Since I am convinced
That Reality is in no way
Real,
How am I to admit
That dreams are dreams?

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

Yesterday is History, tomorrow is a Mystery, today is a Gift, that’s why it’s called ‘The Present’

A mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

That which is beautiful is not always good. But that which is good is
always beautiful.

Only two kinds of people complain about taxes - men and women.

He who has a thing to sell
And goes and wishes in a well
Will not as likely get the dollars
As he who climbs a tree and hollars.

Sooner or later, everyone stops smoking.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

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