Andrew Tallman Show Topics: Non-Biblical Sayings, Proverbs, And Life Mottos

“It’s better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond.” “You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” “If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.” We’ve all heard these and a thousand other pieces of proverbial advice. But which ones really stick with you and motivate you in your daily life?

Bible references: Proverbs

Examples from callers/emailers:
Somehow I managed to delete most of them after spending about 15 minutes compiling them. I'm so sorry. Email me if you want to remind me of yours.
~You may not always get what you paid for, but you will always pay for what you get.
~Jane--"This isn't death. Death is death. This is just an inconvenience."
~When you wake up, get up, and when you get up, do something.
~Half of something is better than all of nothing.
~Larry--"Justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
~Larry--"Things seem to work out the best for the people who make the most out of the way things work out." Art Linkletter

Examples in general
~Six of one, half dozen of the other
~Don’t poop where you eat.
~You’ve got to break some eggs to make an omelet.
~Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
~Never risk anything you can’t afford to lose.
~If you love something, set it free. If it comes back it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.
~The easiest thing to remember is the truth.
~If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.
~Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
~People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
~A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.
~When you can see John Brown through John Brown’s eyes, you will sell John Brown what John Brown buys.
~It’s better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond.
~You always miss a hundred percent of the swings you don’t take.
~It takes one to know one.
~This, too, shall pass.
~You can never step into the same river twice.
~God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the patience to accept the things I can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
~The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.
~Adversity doesn’t form character, it reveals it.
~Carpe diem
~You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince.
~Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
~Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.
~People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
~Laughter is the best medicine.
~If you laugh the world laughs with you. When you cry, you cry alone.
~A pig in lipstick is still very much a pig.
~Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
~Any group that would accept me is for that reason a little suspect. (Groucho Marx said “Any club that would want me as a member, I wouldn’t want to be a part of.”)
~When the lights go out, you can either curse at the darkness or light a candle.
~There’s more regret in the things you don’t do than in the things you do wrong.
~When you find something you love to do, you’ll never work another day in your life.

Examples from Famous people
~“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller
~“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
~“Winning is not the most important thing, it’s the only thing.” Vince Lombardi popularized it, but the quote was originally coined by former Vanderbilt and UCLA football coach Henry “Red” Sanders in the 1930s.
~"For when the One Great Scorer comes, To write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the Game." Grantland Rice
~“The more I practice, the luckier I get.” Jerry Barber
~“You’ll be basically the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you associate with and the books you read.” Charlie T. Jones
~“We didn’t lose the game, we just ran out of time.” Vince Lombardi
~“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” Joe Paterno
~“All evil requires is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
~“It’s better to have a gun and not need one than to need a gun and not have one.” Al Capone

Examples for Andrew
~I’m more worried about someone who agrees with me all the time than I am about someone who never does.
~You can’t become smarter unless you find something you’re wrong about.
~Whoever apologizes first, wins.
~It takes a big man to do nothing at all.
~Always leave everything a little better than you found it.
~Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
~How’s that working for you?
~Amateurs practice until they get it right, professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.
~The human brain cannot decide whether to do a thing and how to do that thing at the same time.
~It’s better to be alive than to have the right of way.
~The difference between a loser and a winner is that the winner does what neither of them wants to do.
~If you spend so much of your time putting out fires that you never take time to plant any trees, you might as well quit because you’re going to lose the whole forest eventually anyway.
~Everyone’s beautiful when they smile.
~Success is harder to endure than failure.
~There are two kinds of people: those who find a way and those who find an excuse.
~The way you behave in the little things is practice for how you’ll behave in the big things.
~The way you think determines the way you act, and the way you act determines your circumstances.
~What’s the most excellent thing to do?
~“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Chinese
~Do something, then do a little more.
~Mediocre minds also think alike.
~We cannot solve the problems we have with the same level of thinking that produced them.
~The pain of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
~"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly until you can learn how to do it well." Zig Ziglar
~You don’t learn anything when things go right.
~Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
~Judge the tree by the fruit it bears.
~Try not to criticize anyone you can’t honestly say you love.
~You don’t know what you don’t know. That’s why you don’t have. Since if you knew what you knew, then you’d have. Because to know and not do is not to know.