Inspirational phrases or quotes

[finchaser]

an old time favorite

[vpass]

an old time favorite

That was great.

[dogfish]

Good one finchaser. They say the best form of birth control is wedding cake.
As one who has been married over 20 years I know that well.

[cowherder]

That was funny, finchaser.
Or that a girl is at her sexiest, before she is married - it's all downhill from there.



Here's one- do nice guys always finish last?

"It is just possible that nice guys don't catch the most fish. But they find far more pleasure in those they do get." -- Roderick Haig-Brown

[dogfish]

Fishermans prayer


I pray that I may live to fish.......
Until my dying day.
And when it comes to my last cast,
I then most humbly pray:
When in the Lord's great landing net
And peacefully asleep
That in His mercy I be judged
Big enough to keep

[bababooey]

Pretty deep, thanks.

[DarkSkies]

Even when fishing is great, there are times when the fish aren't feeding, or you can't present well, or there are some reasons beyond what you're seing, why they aren't there.





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But there are other times, when just a little more pushing, or perseverance, will yield success. Your job as a surfcaster is to learn to differentiate between these times, and push just a little more, when the opportunities present themselves....


Some Quotes that have helped me...maybe they can also help some folks here as well.....


1. Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved.
Robert H. Lauer


2. Opportunity... often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

3. That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


4. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude.
W.W. Ziege

5. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churchill

6, Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

8. The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie



9. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson





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