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Flyin6 · « **on:** March 02, 2024, 08:14:32 AM »

"Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing."

- Wilt Chamberlain

Flyin6 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 03, 2024, 10:39:19 AM »

Flyin6 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 12, 2024, 10:29:34 AM »

"You are going to show up every day until you can't get it wrong"

-US Army 75th Rangers

TexasRedNeck · « **Reply #3 on:** June 12, 2024, 06:59:12 PM »

Success is never owned. It is rented, and the rent is due every day.

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Flyin6 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2024, 10:49:04 AM »

Quote from: TexasRedNeck on June 12, 2024, 06:59:12 PM

Success is never owned. It is rented, and the rent is due every day.

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cj7ox · « **Reply #5 on:** June 17, 2024, 01:40:52 PM »

Beer is proof that God loves us!

~Benjamin Franklin

Flyin6 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2024, 08:54:58 AM »

"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
EDMUND HILLARY

Flyin6 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2024, 08:08:32 AM »

"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
CARL SANDBURG

Flyin6 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 23, 2024, 09:33:30 AM »

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."
ARTHUR ASHE

Flyin6 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 30, 2024, 08:52:29 AM »

"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
LORD ACTON

Flyin6 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 01, 2024, 08:57:50 AM »

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."

ROBERT QUILLEN

cj7ox · « **Reply #11 on:** July 01, 2024, 04:19:18 PM »

“The citizens of a free state ought to consist of those only who bear arms.” ~Aristotle

TexasRedNeck · « **Reply #12 on:** July 02, 2024, 07:59:42 PM »

I may not be able to change people’s poor manners, but a well placed ass-whoopin’ is a good place to start…

- TexasRedNeck

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Flyin6 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 03, 2024, 09:26:33 AM »

Quote from: TexasRedNeck on July 02, 2024, 07:59:42 PM

I may not be able to change people’s poor manners, but a well placed ass-whoopin’ is a good place to start…

- TexasRedNeck

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;-)

Flyin6 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 03, 2024, 09:26:56 AM »

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present."

- Lao Tzu

cj7ox · « **Reply #15 on:** July 03, 2024, 09:52:09 AM »

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But the U.S. Armed Forces don't have that problem. ~ Ronald Reagan

Flyin6 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 03, 2024, 09:59:15 AM »

Quote from: cj7ox on July 03, 2024, 09:52:09 AM

Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But the U.S. Armed Forces don't have that problem. ~ Ronald Reagan

;-)
Good one Colonel!

cj7ox · « **Reply #17 on:** July 03, 2024, 11:38:16 AM »

Quote from: Flyin6 on July 03, 2024, 09:59:15 AM

Good one Colonel!

Thanks! That one (and a lot of others from Reagan) always held true in my heart, especially for those of us who have done things for our country that would make the average non-vet civilian's heart quake, knees tremble, and bladder spontaneously release. ;-)

EL TATE · « **Reply #18 on:** July 26, 2024, 10:40:28 AM »

Michael J Fox: “With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.”

Flyin6 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 29, 2024, 11:03:32 AM »

“Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.”

L. M. MONTGOMERY

Flyin6 · « **Reply #20 on:** August 11, 2024, 10:24:54 AM »

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
ANNE FRANK

Flyin6 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 20, 2024, 10:25:47 AM »

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Flyin6 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 25, 2024, 08:47:33 AM »

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”
Cicero

Flyin6 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 26, 2024, 09:21:43 AM »

“When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.”
TACITUS

Flyin6 · « **Reply #24 on:** August 30, 2024, 09:36:23 AM »

Wisdom:

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
ANDREW CARNEGIE

Flyin6 · « **Reply #25 on:** September 02, 2024, 08:51:57 AM »

A simple truth and a grand lesson:

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
PETER DRUCKER

Flyin6 · « **Reply #26 on:** September 07, 2024, 09:12:58 AM »

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
HELEN KELLER

Flyin6 · « **Reply #27 on:** September 10, 2024, 10:06:41 AM »

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
JOHANN GEORG VON ZIMMERMANN

Flyin6 · « **Reply #28 on:** September 10, 2024, 10:59:23 AM »

"People who are not praying are straying
We have many organizers, few agonizers
many singers, few clingers
many fears, few tears
much fashion, little passion
many writers but few fighters
failing here, we fail everywhere
You can't live wrong and pray right"

Lawrence Ravenhill

Flyin6 · « **Reply #29 on:** September 12, 2024, 10:47:47 AM »

“You’re never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.”
FLORA RHETA SCHREIBER

Flyin6 · « **Reply #30 on:** **Today** at 11:15:33 AM »

"Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters."
MARGARET PETERS