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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
Maya Angelou
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Michael Jackson
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Ruth Graham
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
Abu Bakr
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon
People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.
Nelson Mandela
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.
Salma Hayek
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Corrie Ten Boom
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Zig Ziglar
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
Joe Frazier
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Pablo Neruda
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
Arianna Huffington
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Rose Kennedy
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
John Stott
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill Vaughan
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Steve Jobs
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?
Neltje Blanchan
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret Fuller
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Jonathan Edwards
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
Jerry Bridges
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
Dean Karnazes
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Charles Spurgeon
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.
Henry Ford
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
Carol Burnett
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
Eleanor Roosevelt
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Mwai Kibaki
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.
John Wooden
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up
Walt Disney
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Conrad Hall
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Agatha Christie
All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!
T. Harv Eker
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Jim Valvano
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Farrah Gray
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker
All of our dreams can come true.
Walt Disney
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Maya Angelou
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Babe Ruth
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
Donna Karan
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Brooke Shields
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
Johnny Cash
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Mother Teresa
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
No one remembers who came in second.
Walter Hagen
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
Johnny Cash
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Les Brown
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Barbara Sher
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.
Drake
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder
All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
Ken Venturi
Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Drew Houston
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne
To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
Jon Stewart
Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido R Qubein
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Edith Head
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
Satchel Paige
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Jim Rohn
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
Don't dwell on what went wrong.Instead, focus on what to do next.

Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Denis Waitley
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard Branson
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Denis Waitley
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
Robertson Davies
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Tony Robbins
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.  Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
Brian Tracy
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
Barbara Smith
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
Les Brown
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George S. Patton
The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!
John J. Pershing
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Wooden
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Jon Bon Jovi
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Jimi Hendrix
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.
Louis de Montfort
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Leo Buscaglia
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
Denis Leary
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar N. Bradley
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.
Steve Jobs
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.
Julie Isphording
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Michel de Montaigne
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Mark Twain
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
Destiny is no 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
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Abu Bakr
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
Euripides
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
Jean de La Fontaine
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Wayne Dyer
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Charles Kettering
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them
Tom Krause
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Lee Iacocca
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
Corrie Ten Boom
You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Abraham Lincoln
Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
Frederick Buechner
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Fuller
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Albert Einstein
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
Goran Persson
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Sydney J. Harris
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't.Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Rose Kennedy
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.
F. Burton Howard
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
John C. Maxwell
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
William Arthur Ward
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Will Smith
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
William Carey
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Golda Meir
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
Start where you are, use what you have.
Arthur Ashe
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Adrienne Rich
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Joyce Brothers
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe Ruth
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
Princess Diana
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
Dave Barry
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Jim Rohn
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Marian Wright Edelman
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence
It's not your job to like me - it's mine
Byron Katie
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor E. Frankl
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Ken Keyes Jr.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Tony Robbins
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Bono
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Lawrence Block
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Barbara Johnson
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hill
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara De Angelis
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
John Bingham
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day
Deepak Chopra
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
Ruby Dee
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.
Louis de Montfort
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vern Law
Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Wayne Dyer
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
Warren Buffett
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
Albert Camus
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
James Madison
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
Alan Cohen
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony Robbins
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Jim Rohn
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius
You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Buxton
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Robert Collier
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Jim Rohn
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Allen
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Huxley
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.
Jacqueline Gareau
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Peace Pilgrim
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
Les Brown
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Zig Ziglar
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil Gibran
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James A. Baldwin
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams
At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.
Janis Ian
I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
Princess Diana
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
Storm Jameson
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
Ralph Abernathy
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer
Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
Jon Bon Jovi
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
Joe Girard
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Tony Robbins
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer
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
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Billy Graham
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
Ronnie Lott
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
Harvey Fierstein
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
Rumi
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
Kathrine Switzer
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
Billy Graham
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Les Brown
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Don Herold
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Uta Hagen
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Paulo Coelho
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Bernard Baruch
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim Rohn
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Jim Rohn
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton
We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.
James L. Jones
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
James Earl Jones
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Og Mandino
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Rick Warren
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
W. Clement Stone
The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Allen Klein
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne Dyer
Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Richard Bach
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Ben Stein
Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.
Wayne Dyer
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Robert Fulghum
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!
Douglas MacArthur
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
Doris Day
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
Patrick Henry
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.
Victor H. Krulak
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.
Phil McGraw
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Tony Robbins
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
Vernon Howard
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Kristin Chenoweth
Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.
Marsha Petrie Sue
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
Marilyn vos Savant
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.
John Piper
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Samuel Ullman
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
Kobe Bryant
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
John Calvin
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Horace
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
John Bunyan
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Jim Rohn
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
Melinda Gates
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Jim Rohn
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.
Johnny Cash
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats...
Maya Angelou
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
Michael Caine
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim Rohn
As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.
Michael Chang
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.
Richard Harding Davis
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Thomas Merton
They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.
Chesty Puller
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
George Mason
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Mark Twain
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
George A. Sheehan
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll
Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
Voltaire
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
Maya Angelou
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Jim Rohn
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Claude Bernard
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Miles Davis
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Ludwig von Mises
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Rabindranath Tagore
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
Bruce Lee
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
Loretta Young
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Al Neuharth
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.
John Bingham
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
Giorgio Armani
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Nhat Hanh
Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
Leo Buscaglia
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.
Ayn Rand
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
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. Maxwell
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
LL Cool J
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.
Chris Farley
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.
David M. Shoup
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Jim Rohn
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
Joel Osteen
How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
Georges Braque
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden
Only do what your heart tells you.
Princess Diana
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Billy Graham
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Rose Kennedy
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen Covey
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Thucydides
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
George S. Patton
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
Julius Caesar
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart Udall
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Arnold Palmer
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen
Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Martha Scott
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Edward R. Murrow
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Henry Winkler
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter Drucker
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Les Brown
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Leo Buscaglia
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
The key to change... is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Robert Collier
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Elie Wiesel
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
Karl Lagerfeld
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
Patrick Henry
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart
The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.
James Forrestal
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Jim Rohn
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
Anthony de Mello
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman
Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.
Rita Schiano
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Deepak Chopra
You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.
Wayne Dyer
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Virginia Satir
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne
Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.
Etta James
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Swami Vivekananda
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
Deborah Tannen
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Kindness is always fashionable.
Amelia Barr
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford
Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou
While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
Randy Neugebauer
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.
Og Mandino
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
William S. Burroughs
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
Helen Steiner Rice
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Wayne Dyer
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Donald Trump
Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.
George Steinbrenner
Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
Jim Valvano
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Theodore Roethke
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Paulo Coelho
Don't count the days, make the days count.
Muhammad Ali
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil Gibran
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Anthony Hopkins
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
Jennifer Aniston
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
Garth Brooks
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
Paulo Coelho
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Desmond Tutu
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
Deepak Chopra
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
Frank A. Clark
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
John Piper
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson
Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
Jackie Mason
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.
Mother Teresa
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
Francis of Assisi
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Leo Buscaglia
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Thomas Aquinas
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
David Lloyd George
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
Jesse Owens
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Khalil Gibran
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
Ronald Reagan
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Andy Rooney
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
Whoopi Goldberg
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Richard Bach
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Deepak Chopra
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Khalil Gibran
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
Regina Brett
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
John C. Maxwell
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.
Douglas Ivester
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Harmon Killebrew
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
George Washington Carver
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Ernest Holmes
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
Warren Beatty
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.
Niels Bohr
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
James Allen