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* They don’t pay off on effort … they pay off on results.
* No one ever choked swallowing his or her pride.
* Don’t just mark time; use time to make your mark.
* People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.
* Technology should improve your life, not become your life.
* The best way to be somebody is just to be yourself.
* The best vitamin for making friends is B1.
* It is not a question as to who is right but what is right.
* The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
* Many people hear … but few people listen.
* There is no free tuition in the school of experience.
* The person who has no goal does not fear failure.
* The best way to get even is to forget.
* It is better to forgive and forget than to resent and remember.
* Make decisions with your heart and you’ll wind up with heart disease.
* People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be—not what you nag them to be.
* You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth.
* When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.
* Education is an investment and never an expense.
* Ideas won’t work unless I do.
* It’s never right to do wrong, and it’s never wrong to do right.
* Your smile is more important than anything else you wear.
* Gratitude shouldn’t be an occasional incident but a continuous attitude.
* Helping someone up won’t pull you down.
* Those that have the most to say usually say it with fewest words.
* If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there’s no sense in making them.
* People wrapped up in themselves make pretty small packages.
* When is the last time you did something for the first time?

I also wanted to share these gems from unknown authors whose wisdom is timeless.

* Smart is believing half of what you hear; brilliant is knowing which half to believe.
* One thing I can give and still keep is my word.
* Those who beef too much often land in the stew.
* Compromise is always wrong when it means sacrificing principle.
* Most people say they are willing to meet each other halfway; trouble is most people are pretty poor judges of distance.
* If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
* Most people aim to do right; they just fail to pull the trigger.
* Most people fail in life because the wishbone is where the backbone should be.
* Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the mastery of it.
* Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
* Happiness can be thought, taught and caught—but not bought.
* Burying your talents is a grave mistake.
* Praise, like sunlight, helps all things to grow.
* Life just gives you time and space—it’s up to you to fill it.
* The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.
* A stumble may prevent a fall.
* Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

Mackay’s Moral: Not just words to live by, words to live better. Happy 2010!