Thoughts & Quotes Answers	
Thoughts  — Abuse
1. a) Student's 25-word essay.  b) Student's opinion.
2. a) Positive steps everyday.  b) By what others did 	
to you.  c) The healthy, loving response to cruelty 
and abuse is putting ourselves out of harms way.	
Thoughts  — Action
1. Acting on a good idea.
2. By doing.
3. You'll get run over.
4. a) Knowing what to do next.  b) Knowing how to 	
do it.  c) Doing it.	
5. People who try to do something and fail.
6. To the energetic.
7. On what you’re going to do.
8. Knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.
9. Only about inaction.
10. Sweaty players in the game of life.
11. I like to make them happen.
12. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts  — Alcohol Abuse
1. a) Argumentative.  b) Enemies.  c) Health prob	-	
lems.  d) Them (problems) multiply.	
2. It makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
3. A drunken man.
4. Ourselves into beasts.
5. a) Happiness, courage, gaiety, self-satisfaction.  b) 	
Conscience, self-control, normal functioning of 
the body.  c) Crime, disease, degradation.	
6. Voluntary madness.
7. Student's opinion.
Thoughts — Character
1. a) Words.  b) Actions.  c) Habits.  d) Character.  e) 	
Destiny.	
2. In our infancy.
3. If you think about what you ought to do for oth	-	
ers.	
4. Us.
5. You can do what you will with them.
6. a) Character.  b) Shadow.  c) Tree is the real thing.
7. Repeat the habit.
8. a) Those habits that can break him.  b) Those 	
actions that will become habits that help him 
achieve the success he wants.	
9. a) Student's opinion.  b) Student's opinion.	
Thoughts — Cheerfulness
1. a) Cheer somebody else up. b) Where smiles have 	
been.	
2. Something to do, something to love, something to 	
hope for.	
3. For you’re a long time dead.
4. a) In the distance.  b) Under his feet.
5. Cannot keep it from themselves.
6. a) A dry cleaning.  b) Wet wash
7. The power of a smile.
8. Radiate your smile.
9. Here on earth and afterwards in our hearts.
10. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — Conscience
1. The man who has earned millions of dollars at the 	
cost of his conscience.	
2. Doing it.
3. a) Is it popular?   b) Is it right?
4. A clear conscience.
5. His own approval.
6. When he obeys his conscience.
7. Conscience.
8. Man's compass.
9. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason
Thoughts — Decisions
1. How you’re going to live.
2. Opportunities in work clothes.
3. Can’t see the problem.
4. Solve it.
5. Who you allow into your life, mind, and heart.
6. Write down argument in favor and against; weigh 	
the arguments; cancel them out; take course of 
what remains.	
7. Must take many small steps.
8. You spend your life running up and down the 	
field.	
9. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — Diplomacy & Tact
1. a) Keeping good relations between the govern	-	
ments of countries.  b) Skill of dealing with 
people in a sensitive, effective way.	
2. Saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
3. A failure of diplomacy.
4. a) You get even.  b) Diplomacy is best.
5. Making a point without making an enemy.
Thoughts & Quotes Answers

6.	 The	most	difficult	skill	to	achieve;	the	best	skill		
anyone can possess; the most important skill in 
our daily lives.	
7. The nearer you come into relation with a person.
8. Ability to know how far you can go without going 	
too far.	
9. Perseverance and tact.
Thoughts — Dreams
1. You never get there.
2. Talk about a dream.
3. No government, no legislature.
4. What lies within us.
5.	 A 	broken	winged	bird	that	cannot	fly.
6. Those who do most.
7. Art of seeing the invisible.
8. All men of action.
9. a) Put foundation under them.  b) Student's opin	-	
ion.	
10. I dream of things that never were, and ask why 	
not?	
11. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — Education
1. a) I'll forget.  b) I may not remember.  c) I'll un	-	
derstand.	
2. Not to stop questioning.
3.	 Lighting	of	a	fire.
4. Ability to make yourself do the thing you have to 	
do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it 
or not.	
5.	 Temper	or	self-confidence.
6. Exercise of his mind.
7. The wish to learn.
8. Student’s opinion.
9. American’s future.
10. Action.
11. To teach people to educate themselves.
12. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — Education
1. a) Lead a boy to college.  b) Make him think.
2. Upon the education of the people.
3. Education.
4. No swifter than our progress in education.
5. a) You feed him for a day.  b) You feed him for a 	
lifetime.  c) Student's opinion.	
6.  a) Lead.  b) Enslave.
7. Unwilling to learn.
8. Soon you have a dozen.
9. He who opens a school door.	
10. Intelligence plus character.
11. Surround yourself with friends who make you a 	
better person.	
12. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts  — Effort
1. You are.
2. a) A fellow’s will.  b) The man who thinks he can.  	
c) Student’s opinion.   d) Reason for opinion.	
3. If you quit.
4. To follow through.
5. When they're about to achieve success.
6. a) Gave up.  b) Swim.
7. Turned to butter.
8. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Enthusiasm
1. Feelings of energy and interest.
1. To the energetic.
2. Going from failure to failure without loss of en	-	
thusiasm.	
3. Flaming enthusiasm, horse sense, persistence.
4.	 Size	of	the	fight	in	the	dog.
5. To be doing what you've always wanted to do so 	
badly.	
6. a) Knowledge.  b) Enthusiasm.
7. Something to be enthusiastic about.
8. Settled down day after day to the job of writing.
9. Student’s opinion.
10. Energy and persistence.
11. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Entrepreneurship
1. A doer, not a dreamer.
2. Limitations of your own mind.
3. a) To open a business.  b) To keep it open.
4.    a) Money or reputations.  b) Responsibility for 	
success or failure.	
5. Everyone who got where he is had to begin where 	
he was.	
6. Going into business for yourself; becoming an 	
entrepreneur.	
7. Those who serve well will usually end up win	-	
ning.	
8. Dream dreams; ready to pay the price to make 	
them come true.	
9. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Failure
1. If we learn from it.
2. A life spent making mistakes

3. Earlier you make those, the better.
4. Trying to please everybody.
5. You learn what does not work.  Failure gives you 	
the opportunity to try a new way.	
6. Not being afraid to fail.
7. Failure is an event not a person.
8. Accept failure and learn from it.  Consider failure 	
as a blessing in disguise and bounce back.	
9. Slowing up of the engine inside of me.
10. If you enjoyed the process.
11. a) Student's opinion.  b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts —Finding Fault
1. When you’re blaming someone’s meanness; when 	
we think of evils men should lay upon the shelves; 
before you judge another.	
2. Student’s opinion.
3. Until I have walked two weeks in his moccasins.
4. Who has a heart to help.
5. Do nothing say nothing, be nothing.
6. a) Weakness of the thing criticized.  b) Strong.  c) 	
Weak.	
7. Find a remedy.
8. Urge to win.
9. a) Arrogant superiority; views others as unworthy.  	
b)	Which	flower	to	be.		c)	Found	itself	a	week.		d)	
Student’s opinion.	
10.  a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Friends
1. And other will too.
2. Becoming really interested in other people.
3. Place them in the best light.
4. Be one.
5. One who walks in when the rest of the world 	
walks out.	
6. They are not trying to impress other birds and 	
horses.	
7. Sunshine to the shade and shade to the sunshine.
8. That friend shall be down inside of me.
9. a) Student’s choice.  b) Reason.
10. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — Future
1. To those who believe in the beauty of their 	
dreams.	
2. I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
3. Are within yourself.
4. Build a door.
5. Making the most of one’s best.
6. Do not let time pass without accomplishing some	-	
thing.	
7. The rate of sixty minutes an hour.
8. Education.
9. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — Gifts
1. Roots of responsibility and wings of indepen	-	
dence.	
2. People's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own 	
gifts.	
3. Everybody has gifts and talents.
4.	 a)	Forgiveness.		b)	So	you	can	finally	be	free.
5. As we work to create light for others.
6. Make someone smile and laugh.
7. a) Privilege to work.  b) Power to work.  c) Love 	
of work.	
8. a) Meeting place, gathering ground, source of 	
nourishment, festivity, safety, satisfaction.  b) 
Person cooking the meal.  c) Food.	
9. Discipline.
Thoughts — Goals
1. Decide what you want.
2. Because they know where they’re going.
3.	 To	define	their	goal	and	make	it	clear	and	in	view.
4.	 Envies,	jealousies,	unforgiveness,	selfishness,		
fears.	
5. Decide what’s your major aim.
6. A dream with a time limit.
7. You know in advance what you want.
8. Desire.
9. Tug of people against you.
10. Setting goals.
11. a) Don’t adjust the goals.   b) Adjust the action 	
steps.	
12. Always stay true to yourself and never let what 	
somebody else says distract you from your goals.  	
13. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — I’m Only 17
1. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason.
2. Student’s opinion (3 suggestions)
3. Student’s essay of 25 words or more.
Thoughts — Imagination
1. Imagination encircles the world.
2. a) Imagination.  b) The business as a vision. 
3. a) It will return with the bird in its mouth.  b) 	
Student’s opinion.	
4. The world we can measure; world we can feel.
5. He who has learning without imagination.

6. Student’s opinion.
7. The man who uses skill and imagination to see 	
how much he can give for a dollar.	
8. Little voice in your head.
9. a) Belittle your dreams and ambitions.  b) Make 	
you feel that you can become great.	
10. Putting your imagination to work.
11. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — International
1. Money spent on the brain.
2. Garden carried in the pocket.
3. Listen to what they say of others.
4. He who builds to every man’s advice.
5. Joy and courage.
6. Both will escape from you.
7. A contented heart.
8. With a smile.
9. A man who is always crying.
10. He who laughs.
11. A bone which you though into the mouth of an	-	
other but it chokes you.	
12. Pluck the hairs out of a lion’s mustache.
13. A small thing a big shawdow.
14. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — Interview
1-5 Student's opinions.
Thoughts — Jobs
1. S comes before W.
2. Hard work.
3. Do something else.
4. Luck.
5. If you look forward to Mondays more than Fri	-	
days.	
6. Become interested in it.
7. Do a job right.
8. While we are young.
9. Appetite for your meals, lends peace to your 	
slumber, give you appreciation of a holiday.	
10. a) You will dislike it.  b) You will enjoy it.
11. Boredom, vice, and need.
12. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Kindness
1. Student’s opinion.
2. Loving people more than they deserve.
3. a) Cannot do a kindness too soon.  b) For you 	
never know how soon it will be too late.	
4. An attitude, an expression, a look, a touch.	
5. Show that you care for them.
6. a) Tackless as a youth.  b) Diplomatic as a man, 	
skilled at handling people.  c) I will speak ill of no 
man.	
7. Speak words of kindness.
8. Kindness in another’s trouble; Courage in your 	
own.	
9. The shortest distance between two people
10. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — Kindness
1. a) That his family would visit him on his birthday.  	
b) His family did not visit.  c) Student’s opinion.	
2. Do good deeds while the person is living.
3. I shall not pass this way again.
4. Kindness.
5. Student’s opinion.
Thoughts — Leadership
1. Art of getting others to want to do something you 	
are convinced should be done.	
2. Cannot be learned by reading about it.
3. To cope with new problems and new opportunities
4.	 Good	leader	inspires	people	to	have	confidence	in		
the leader.  Great leader inspires people to have 
confidence	in	themselves.	
5. Dealer in hope.
6. Dream more, learn more, do more, and become 	
more.	
7. Solutions.
8. Today's reader.
9. a) Go
 b) Let's go
10. Lives of other people. Sytem they live under.
11. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason for opinion.
12. Student's opinion.
Thoughts — Life
1. We look so long upon the closed door.
2. To be ready when his opportunity comes.
3. Makes every man feel great.
4. Look upon it as an adventure.
5. When one gains the habit of work.
6. Is he who gives himself to his work.
7. Knowing how to get along with people.
8. Student’s choice of 5 things from the Emerson 	
quote.	
9. Backbone.
10. Student’s opinion.
11. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason for opinion.

Thoughts — Life
1. What happens to us while we are making other 	
plans.	
2. As you would climb a mountain.
3. There is something new to learn wherever we may 	
be.	
4. Yesterday is a memory; tomorrow a promise; 	
today is ready cash.	
5. If you don't like the road you are walking on.
6. Wishbone, backbone, funny bone.
7. How you spend your time.
8. Any of your energy, any of your time, any of your 	
space.	
9.	 Day	you	are	born;	day	you	find	out	why.
10. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason.
Thoughts — Life's Advice
1. Student's opinion - 7 things.
2. Students opinion - 7 things.
3. To waste time hating someone.  Life is too short 	
for long pity parties.	
4. So it won't screw up the present.
5. Forgive everyone everything.  Get outside.  Exer	-	
cise.  Explore your world.	
6. Pay off your credit cards.
7. The most reasonable answer to every situation.
8. What other people think.
9.  Life is not fair.  Life is a gift.  
Thoughts — Me
1. a) Is the one staring back at ou from the glass.  b) 	
For he’s with you clear up to the end.  c) Heart	-	
ache and tears.	
2. When we lie to ourselves.
3. Keep hope alive.
4. Serve yourself.
5. Love yourself.
6. a) My life was going nowhere.  b) As you see 	
yourself.  c) And others will too.	
Thoughts — Me
1. Student’s 25 word essay.
2. a) What lies behind us and what lies before us.  b) 	
What lies within us.	
3. a) Miracle of sight.  b) Miracle of smell.  c) Mira	-	
cle of hearing.  d) Miracle of touch.  e) Miracle of 
you.	
Thoughts — Me
1. So ME doesn’t show.
2. You might laugh at ME and say mean things or I 	
might lose you.	
3. I want you to try and understand and love what 	
you see.	
4. Naked, bare, cold.
5. You’re my friend pure as gold.
6. Until I love ME too.
7. Love for others and grow love from others.
8. He is me.
9. Nobody.
10. What others think.
11. How I saw myself was more important than how 	
others saw me.	
12. You.
Thoughts — Money
1. A small leak will sink a great ship.
2. Where a man spends his money.
3. When he plans how to get money without earning 	
it.	
4. The borrower.
5. Whose pleasures are the cheapest.
6. Money will follow.
7. You can use it unwisely and be burned by it.
8. Anyone to love you or to lend you money
9. Yesterday is a memory; tomorrow a promise; 	
today is ready cash.	
10. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Opportunity
1. Right where you are.
2. a) Nothing.  b) Do what you can with that.
3. Looking like hard work.
4. Danger and opportunity.
5. Opportunity.
6. Opportunity.
7. To be ready for opportunity when it comes.
8. a) Student’s opinion.  b) Reason for opinion.
9. a) Trying to control the uncontrollable; trying to 	
solve the unsolvable; thinking about what could 
have been.  b) What can be if you control what 
you can control; solve problems you can solve; 
with wisdom you have gained from victories and 
defeats.	
10. Preparation meeting opportunity.
11. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Optimist or Pessimist
1. a) Trusts that things will be better.  b) Thinks that 	
the worst will happen.	
2. a) With a fellow’s will.  b) The man who thinks he 	
can.

3.	 a)	One	who	makes	difficulties	of	his	opportunities.			
b)	One	who	makes	opportunities	of	his	difficuli	-	
ties.	
4. A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as 	
himself.	
5. a) Because rose bushes have thorns.  b) Because 	
thorn bushes have roses.	
6. a) Complains about the wind. b) Expects the wind 	
to change.  c) Adjusts the sails.	
7. a) What lies behind us and what lies before us.  b) 	
What lies within us.  c) Student’s opinion.  d) Rea	-	
son.	
8. I can do something.
9. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
10. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Perseverance
1. I keep going and going and going.
2. Try, try, try again.
3. Rising every time we fall.
4. a) If only.  b) Next time.
5. Back.
6. Action.
7. Hanging on after others have let go.
8. What direction we are moving.
9. To follow through.
10. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Quitting
1. The unemployment line.
2. We will not give you unemployment.
3. Take time to think and plan.
4. Next job will ask you why.
5. Student's opinion.
6. Student's opinion.
7. Student's opinion.
Thoughts — Reading
1. The more things you will know, learn, and more 	
places you will go.	
2. In books.
3.	 Food	and	fire	for	the	mind	as	well	as	for	the	body.
4. The person who does not read.
5. Readers.
6. Once you learn how to read.
7. A garden carried in the pocket.
8. Castles of ideas and possibilities.
9. Haven't found the right book.
10. The books that make you think the most.
11. King who did not love reading.
12. a) I see what I read.  b) I hear it.  c) I can remem	-	
ber it better.	
13. As a gift.
11. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Risks
1. You.
2. Because of them I’m doing it myself.
3. He’s failed over and over and over in life.
4. a) Looking forward.  b) Looking backwards.  c) 	
Your gut, destiny, life, whatever. 	
5. Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
6. The seeds you plant.
7. Those who never mount the high wire.
8. A persons who risks.
9. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Safety
1. a) Didn’t want to seem the fool; Argue over a 	
safety rule; If I called it wrong he might get sore.  
b) Guilt.  c) Questions asked or things you say.	
2. Rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
3. Student’s choice of 3 safety quotes.
4. Student’s list of 3 things.
Thoughts — Success
1. Upon the one he used most, end to sit on or end to 	
think with.	
2. Become interested in job.
3. a) Those who start businesses.  b) Defeat.
4. If you’ve had a good time playing the game.
5. a) Getting what you want.  b) Wanting what you 	
get.	
6. Talk.
7. Those who make it happen; those who watch it 	
happen; those who wonder what happened.	
8. Superior person.
9. Getting ready.
10. We look so long upon the closed door.
11. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
12. Student’s 3 or 4 sentences.
Thoughts — Success
1. a) Making mistakes.  b) Limitless and it belongs 	
to you.	
2. If you think you can and think you can’t.
3. a) S comes before W.  b) Hard work.
4. Where he was.
5. a) The time will never be just right.  b) Better 	
tools.	
6. At the end of your arm.
7. He had a friend who believed in him.

8. When they have fun in what they are doing.
9. Inside you.
10. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Success
1. Student’s choice of 5 examples.
2. Make yourself more useful.
3. Think things through, then follow through.
4.	 Smooth	and	unruffled	on	top	but	paddling	furi	-	
ously underneath.	
5. Sit himself in the middle of a pasture waiting for a 	
cow to back up to him.	
6. Swim out after it.
7. By the obstacles which he has overcome while 	
trying to succeed.	
8. Know what you are doing, like what you are do	-	
ing, believe in what you are doing.	
9. Printout of your thoughts.
10. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Talk
1. They may become words.
2. Our hearts.
3. a) One who talks to you about others.  b) One who 	
talks to you about himself.  c) One who talks to 
you about yourself.	
4. Everywhere.
5. Purity of your attention.
6. Sandwich it between two layers of praise.
7. Pours out his evil words without a thought.
8. The ability to be both totally honest and totally 	
kind at the same time.	
9. Wisdom.
10. You can be the person who is talking yourself out 	
of the way of your own success.	
11. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Time
1. a) No one.  b) Every moment you have.
2. Today.
3. Lest you let other people spend it for you.
4. Follow your heart.
5. Have your energy, your time, or your space.
6. Thinking about people you don’t like.
7. a) Each human being has exactly the same num	-	
ber of hours and minutes every day.  b) No matter 
how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you 
still have an entire tomorrow.	
8. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.	
Thoughts — Winning at Life
1. Most of us have gears we never use.
2. a) Differentness would be an asset.  b) Early life 	
would have been much easier.	
3. Your consent.
4. The t
5. A single step.
6. Rarely sat back and let things happen to them; 	
they went out and happened to things.	
7. The ones who listen to the truth of their hearts.
8. Not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.
9. To me and not to them.
10. Winning and losing.
11. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Words
1. Build a better you.
2. Student’s own answer.
3. Nothing.
4. Pegs to hand ideas on.
5. a) Slip of the foot.  b) Slip of the tongue.
6. Family parrot to the town gossip.
7. Voice of the heart.
8. Words.
9. a) Unthoughtful word; Word of blame; Slander.  	
b) Thoughtful, kind, helpful speech.	
10. Break our hearts.
11. By thinking.
12. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Work
1.	 They	must	be	fit	for	it;	they	must	not	too	much	of		
it; they must have a sense of success in it.	
2. Choose a job you love.
3. Can be broken down into small jobs.
4. A piece in a jigsaw puzzle.
5. a) Why you are busy.  b) Bee is praised; the mos	-	
quito is swatted.	
6. Idleness.
7. The one that makes a net.
8. a) Man who works with his hands.  b) May who 	
works with his hands and brain.  c) Man who 
works with hands, brain, and heart.	
9. Fold it over and put it in your pocket.
10. Michelangelo, Handel, Beethoven, Shakespeare.
11. Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his 	
job well.	
12. Teach him how to grow his own rice.
13. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.

Thoughts — Worry
1. Circulation, heart, glands, nervous system, health.
2. Yesterday and tomorrow.
3. Today of its strength.
4. a) Where your thoughts have brought you.  b) 	
Where your thoughts take you.	
5. a) Our thoughts.  b) Our thoughts.
6. Thought.
7. Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.
8. Misuse of the imagination.
9. Opposite of power.
10. Worried person sees a problem. Concerned person 	
solves a problem.	
11. Worry.
12. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.
Thoughts — Worry
1. Climbed a hill; paid a bill; dried a tear; calmed a 	
fear;	fixed	a	wheel;	cooked	a	meal;	led	a	horse	to	
water.	
2. a) You can.  b) You can’t (you’re right).
3. Regret, Worry, Guilt, Blame, Gossip, Resentment.
4. Because they’re expecting gold.
5. Trouble troubles you.
6. a) As worries happened, he would write them 	
down and put them in his Worry Box.  b) He 
would open box and read through each worry.  c) 
Most of the things he worried about had already 
been solved or taken care of in some way.  d) That 
there was very little reason to spend his days wor	-	
rying.	
7. We take fear, face it, and replace it.
8. a) Anglo-Saxon word that means to strangle or to 	
choke.  b) Today.	
9. a) Too busy to worry by day.  b) Too sleepy to 	
worry at night.	
10. Gives a small thing a big shadow.
11. You think it will take you somewhere but it never 	
does.	
12. a) Student’s opinion.   b) Reason for opinion.