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Deep Thoughts

Words of Wisdom, Wit and Inspiration

At Horizon Services, our goal is to be the best plumbing, heating and air conditioning company in the world, and we do everything we can to empower our employees to be the best that they can be in both their careers and in life. We also want our customers to share our passion and enthusiasm for hard work, personal growth and getting the most out of life.

Each month, our Horizon Insider newsletter includes a new selection of positive affirmations and quotations from notable figures that we call Deep Thoughts. These short quotes include words of encouragement, motivation and perseverence; ideas that make you pause and reflect…even the occasional humorous one-liner. We’re glad to share them with you, and hope that you find inspiration from them.

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Things That Make You Say “Hmmm”…

“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” — Ralph Blum

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today.  It is already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles Schulz

“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions and as a result they get better answers.” — Tony Robbins

“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for it’s existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.” — Napoleon Hill

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something you must build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” –- Anonymous

“Duct tape is like the force.  It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.” — Carl Zwanzig

“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.” — Marcel Proust

“Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” — Muhammad Ali

“You can analyze the past, but you have to design the future.” — Edward de Bono

“A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted.” — Anonymous

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” –  Bill Watterson

“There’s always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.” — Pat Riley

“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.” — Lou Holtz

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas A. Edison

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” – Dale Carnegie

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Sir Winston Churchill

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” — John Wooden

“Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” — George Carlin“In a world where the big things have little difference — it’s the little things that make a big difference.” — Peter Thomson

“Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are while pursuing achievable goals.” — Bo Bennett

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.” — Gary Ryan Blair

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.” — Alan Alda

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” — Buddha

“Doing nothing is very hard to do…you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.  It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” — Charles Darwin

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Harold R. McAlindon

“Once can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”– Helen Keller

“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” – James Cook

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today.  It is already tomorrow in Australia.”  – Charles Schulz

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits”. – Albert Einstein

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

“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable and nothing is certain.” – John F. Kennedy

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.” – Dr. Rob Gilbert

“I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.” – Paula Poundstone

“Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’ll still be among the stars.” – Les Brown

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” – Jacob Bronowski

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” – Sally Kempton

“Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.” – Ovid

“I always wanted to be somebody…but I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin

“Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.” – Ivern Ball 

“Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.” – Bernie Siegel, M.D.

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan

“If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.” – Robert Hillyer

“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra

“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
 
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
 
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.” – Peter F. Drucker
 
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” – Groucho Marx
 
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” – Charles Wadsworth
 
“There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”  – Steven Wright

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland
 
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” – Benjamin Franklin
 
“Living in the past is a dull and lonely business. Looking back strains the neck muscles and causes you to bump into people not going your way.” – Edna Ferber
 
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and dedication alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
 
“Try for further.” – Chuck Berry

“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
 
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi
 
“I know the prices of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” – Malcolm Forbes
 
“One person with belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.” – John Stuart Mill 
 
“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath

“Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” – Eddie Rickenbacker

“If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.” – Malcolm Forbes

“Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” – Michael Pritchard

“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well-known…then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” – Fred Allen

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Ghandi

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Ya Gotta Believe!” – Tug McGraw

“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” – Robin Williams

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx

“A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.” – Bill Cosby

“I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen

“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.” – Steven Wright

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” – Woodrow Wilson

“There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” – Henry Ford

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: the potential for greatness lives within each of us.” – Wilma Rudolph

“You can’t have everything… where would you put it?” – Steven Wright

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” – William Shakespeare

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.” – Charles Dickens

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” – Reggie Leach

“I like long walks. Especially when they are taken by people who annoy me!” – Fred Allen

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” – Sydney J. Harris

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” – Charles Kingsley

“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.” – Rodney Dangerfield

“Tough Times Never Last, Tough People Do!” – Dr. Robert Schuller

“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.” – Louis L’Amour

“Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency…become the calmest person in the room and you’ll be able to figure your way out of it.” – Rudolph Giuliani

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” – Morris West

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliott

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” – Guillaume Apollinaire

 

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