"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your
thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a
goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement
and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness,
and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to
success."
-- Brian Adams
"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up
again."
-- Bonnie Prudden
"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a
hole."
-- Anonymous
"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine
out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."
-- Madame de Tencin
"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is
the natural consequence of consistently applying the
basic fundamentals."
-- Jim Rohn
"People travel to wonder at the height of the
mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long
course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass
by themselves without wondering."
-- St. Augustine
"Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does
not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
-- Henry Van Dyke
"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and
the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be
honest with ourselves."
-- Walter Anderson
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can
rejoice because thorns have roses."
-- Ziggy
"Don't be afraid of showing your feelings; be afraid of
regretting it when you didn't."
-- Laura Springer
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail
again. Fail better."
-- Samuel Beckett
"If you don't know where you are going, how can you
expect to get there?"
-- Basil S. Walsh
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in
fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit
my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less
afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it
becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my
significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me
as blossom, goes on as fruit."
-- Dawna Markova
"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it
makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst
thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head
high because then you'll start to feel better. If
you're going to get any joy out of being depressed,
you've got to stand like this."
-- Charlie Brown
"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect
leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly
under your belt, that's real power."
-- Clint Eastwood
"There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but
any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be
built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a
commitment to excellence, and a rejection of
mediocrity."
-- Buck Rodgers
"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."
-- James Allen
"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an
unimportant day."
-- Alexander Woollcott
"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy
is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of
looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at
life's realities."
-- Dr. Seuss
"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been
given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or
use it for good. What you do today is important because
you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When
tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its
place is something that you have left behind... let it
be something good."
-- Author Unknown
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries
and you rejoice."
-- Cherokee Expression
"I am not confused, I'm just well mixed."
-- Robert Frost
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the
world."
-- John le Carre
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's
blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering
that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not
die, but long after we are gone be a living thing,
asserting itself with ever-growing insistence."
-- Daniel Hudson Burnham
"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to
cross and which to burn."
-- David Russell
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a
wonderful stroke of luck."
-- Dalai Lama
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and
then doesn't hurt."
-- Charles M. Schulz
"Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am
thankful that the thorns have roses."
-- Alphonse Karr
"There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the
light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it."
-- Edith Wharton
"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got
to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it.
If a day goes by that don't change some of your old
notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to
milk a dead cow."
-- Woody Guthrie
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
Autograph your work with excellence."
-- Jessica Guidobono
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the
right paths, but the final forming of a person's
character lies in their own hands."
-- Anne Frank
"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great
responsibilities."
-- Napoleon Hill
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road...
unless you fail to make the turn."
-- Author Unknown
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful
what we pretend to be."
-- Kurt Vonnegut
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Time sets the stage; fate writes the script; but only
we may choose our character."
-- Liam Thomas Ryder
"This American system of ours, call it Americanism,
call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each
and every one of us a great opportunity if we only
seize it with both hands and make the most of it."
-- Al Capone
"If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no
logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties
which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows
whether any of them will ever return?"
-- Margot Fonteyn
"May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am
looking down."
-- Sara June Parker
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows
old."
-- Franz Kafka
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify,
simplify."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no
common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh."
-- W. H. Auden
"I think of life as a good book. The further you get
into it, the more it begins to make sense."
-- Harold S. Kushner
"He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself
is wise."
-- Lao-tzu
"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And
all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are
fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we
do not take a trip; a trip takes us."
-- John Steinbeck
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
-- C. S. Lewis
"A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else."
-- John Burroughs
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which
can be made, in a narrow field."
-- Niels Bohr
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to
it."
-- Dennis P. Kimbro
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when
someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my
answer."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You
don't have to make your subject and verb agree to
serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul
generated by love."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Women have to harness their power -- it's absolutely
true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And
if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the
corner."
-- Cher
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that
my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it
should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a
superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function
of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my
days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
-- Jack London
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its
original dimensions."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."
-- Jerry Seinfeld
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a
heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
-- John Milton
"All the woulda-coulda-shouldas layin' in the sun,
talkin' 'bout the things they woulda-coulda-shoulda
done... But all those woulda-coulda-shouldas all ran
away and hid from one little did."
-- Shel Silverstein, Author
"A man who limits his interests, limits his life."
-- Vincent Price
"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to
drop back."
-- Chinese Proverb
"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not
your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so
does a hard-boiled egg."
-- Anonymous
"Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people
can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault."
-- David M. Burns
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you
can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will
continue the learning process as long as he lives."
-- Clay P. Bedford
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone
ought to be."
-- Clementine Paddleford
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious,
you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on
to someone else."
-- Mitch Albom
"The human brain is unique in that it is the only
container of which it can be said that the more you put
into it, the more it will hold."
-- Glenn Doman
"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first
and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with
ourselves."
-- Walter Anderson
"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can
get yourself back."
-- Mick Jagger
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest
we take between two deep breaths."
-- Etty Hillesum
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once,
he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice
shots."
-- Charles F. Kettering
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."
-- Abigail Van Buren
"If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be
the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found
again; and what we call time enough always proves little
enough."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must
keep moving."
-- Albert Einstein
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be
greater than your fear of failure."
-- Bill Cosby
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always
beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may
alight upon you."
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is
to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy
the gloom of somebody else."
-- Arnold Bennett
"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more
clearly ourselves."
-- Lynn Hall
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but
wish we didn't."
-- Erica Jong
"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
"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up
where we are headed."
-- Chinese Proverb
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to
displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to
temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
-- William J.H. Boetcker
"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us,
we can control what happens inside us."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad
company."
--George Washington
"So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go.
They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."
-- W. Clement Stone
"What is a great love of books? It is something like a
personal introduction to the great and good men of all past
times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their
shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I
feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put
questions to these books they will answer me with all the
faithfulness and fullness which has been left in them by the
great men who have left the books with us."
-- John Bright
"Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and
healthy is the most important thing."
-- Venus Williams
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills
"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has
to be maintained."
-- Seamus Heaney
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you
fail to make the turn."
-- Author Unknown
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang
on."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected
by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic
fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results."
-- Herman Melville
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The
struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles
inside all of us -- that's where it's at."
-- Jesse Owens
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but
you can't get more time."
-- Jim Rohn
"It's not enough to be busy... the question is: what are we
busy about?"
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there
is no path and leave a trail."
-- Harold R. McAlindon
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first
one."
-- Mark Twain
"May you live all the days of your life."
-- Jonathan Swift
"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then... do
something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."
-- Lee Iacocca
"If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you will be fired
with enthusiasm."
-- Vince Lombardi
"If you ask what is the single most important key to
longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress
and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say
it."
-- George F. Burns
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent
that rubs against it."
-- Bill Bernbach
"What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make
mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other
mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly
can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what
do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same
as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for
there is no other way of learning how to live!"
-- Alfred Adler
"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
"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better
to be wise than to be smart."
-- Alan Alda
"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the
shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with
quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature,
especially your own."
-- Arnold Bennett"
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never
get the urge to throw a snowball."
-- Doug Larson
"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,
the more it begins to make sense."
-- Harold S. Kushner
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live,
remember that."
-- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone
"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work
with. We already have capacities, talents, direction,
missions, callings."
-- Abraham Maslow
"The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing
something that you appreciate, something you believe is
worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at
least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it."
-- Julia Child
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from
giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
-- George Eliot
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people
ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the
philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
-- Epictetus
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must
write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What
one can be, one must be."
-- Abraham Maslow
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of
all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better
than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino
"Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow
their mind."
-- Marva Collins
"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to
live to purpose."
-- Michel de Montaigne
"Do not look to the ground for your next step; greatness lies
with those who look to the horizon."
-- Norwegian Proverb
"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought,
this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which
helps us regain our equilibrium."
-- Norbet Platt
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold
two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain
the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to
see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make
them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your
mind is on parade."
-- Dr Samuel Johnson
"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how
much love we put in that action."
-- Mother Teresa
"Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be
done if we are always doing."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite
apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our
works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest,
continue always the same? Change indeed is painful; yet ever
needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has
Hope."
-- Thomas Carlyle
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who
conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."
-- Aristotle
"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
-- Winston Churchill
"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most
undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make
what amends you can and address yourself to the task of
behaving better next time. On no account brood over your
wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting
clean."
-- Aldous Leonard Huxley
"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."
-- Thomas J. Watson
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of
getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
-- Mark Twain
"As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a
prosperity of kindness and decency."
-- Caroline Kennedy
"Growing old is nothing more than mind over matter; If you
don't mind, it doesn't matter."
-- Anonymous
"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes
us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."
-- Orison Swett Marden
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a
cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a
successful executive."
-- Scott Adams
"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things
are tough, you fight one more round."
-- James Corbett
"It is in many people's best interest for you not to find
yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the
whole world's, to proceed."
-- Anne Lamott
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you
feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the
inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you
have found that attitude, follow it."
-- James Truslow Adams
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is
given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always
been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
-- Robert Frost
"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in
complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for
change is the essence of life."
-- Anatole France
"The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily,
now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing
on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained
nurse, a little later on."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not
only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to
the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have
found that when I silently commune with people they give up
their secrets also -- if you love them enough."
-- George Washington
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way
yourself once in a while."
-- Josh Billings
"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within.
It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us
which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and
do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves."
-- Helen Keller
"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the
thing you do that makes you good."
-- Malcolm Gladwell
"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but
more humble."
-- James M. Barrie
"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the
doctor's book."
-- Irish Proverb
"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore,
they had better aim at something high."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just
watch what they do."
-- Andrew Carnegie
"If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we
would literally astound ourselves."
-- Thomas Edison
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will
be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
-- James Allen
"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
"Do something everyday for no other reason than you would
rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws
nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the
test."
-- William James
"How long should you try? Until."
-- Jim Rohn
"You always pass failure on the way to success."
-- Mickey Rooney
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an
act, but a habit."
-- Aristotle
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream
a new dream."
-- C. S. Lewis
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're
still a rat."
-- Lily Tomlin
"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a
hunger to accomplish your dreams."
-- Les Brown
"That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to
see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from
the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the
terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep
breath and begin climbing again."
-- Michael Johnson
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the
same box."
-- Anonymous
"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and
one's last is to come to terms with everything."
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"We are like tea bags -- we don't know our own strength until
we're in hot water."
-- Sister Busche
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will make one."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-- Mark Twain
"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects
it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."
-- John Maxwell
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition,
there are still untapped possibilities within us and new
beauty waiting to be born."
-- Dr. Dale Turner
"When we all relate to each other as we would like to receive
if our roles are reversed, we move closer to utopia. Every one
of us can bring this closer, starting now. This includes how
we relate to our own family, our neighbors and how we use our
wealth and opportunities to help entire nations that lack our
advantages."
-- Bill Blackman
"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put
some responsibility on their shoulders."
-- Abigail Van Buren
"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense
muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth.
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in
your life."
-- Joan Lunden
"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner
peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and
outer well-being that places harmony in one's life."
-- Peace Pilgrim
"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word
spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the
formation of character."
-- Hosea Ballou
"We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we
are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily,
marvelously who we were born to be."
-- Anne Lamott
"Smooth seas do not make a skillful sailor."
-- African proverb
"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the
simplest things -- not the great occasions-- that in
retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."
-- Bob Hope
"So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to
have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only
time there is."
-- Della Reese
"When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn
back against your future. When you do forgive, you start
walking forward."
-- Tyler Perry
"Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables."
-- Spanish Proverb
"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker."
-- Zig Ziglar
"First we make our habits, then our habits make us."
-- Charles C. Noble
"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish
for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less
challenges, wish for more wisdom."
-- Earl Shoaf
"There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day.
And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to
fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because
there's virtually no competition."
-- Steven J Ross
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today
is a gift. That's why we call it the present."
-- B. Olatunji
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what
you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks
down."
-- Oprah Winfrey
"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
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone
else does and thinking something different."
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well.
What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and
that's better."
-- George Edward Woodberry
"The past does not define you, the present does."
-- Jillian Michaels
"The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot
down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway."
-- Kent M. Keith
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
There are too many people who think that the only thing that's
right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get
caught."
-- J.C. Watts
"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says
to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when
he says, 'I am a failure.'
-- S.I. Hayakawa
"A leader leads by example not by force."
-- Sun Tzu
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must
have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We
must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this
thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
-- Madam Marie Curie
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture,
which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it.
If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its
victim."
-- Richard Bach
"Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual
doing of it... We become just by doing just acts, temperate
by doing temperate ones, brave by doing brave ones."
-- Aristotle
"Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only
in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy
Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander,
and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed."
-- Bertrand Russell
"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that
I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which
neither time nor eternity can bring diminution -- this
everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these
depths."
-- Groucho Marx
"Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do
not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek
in it the ideals of the future."
-- Jose Incenerios
"Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that
appear, wherever they might be."
-- Lakshmi Mittal
"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose
their worth."
-- Chuck Norris
"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm
spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset."
-- Saint Francis de Sales
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your
opinions and content with your knowledge."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not
balanced by sadness."
-- Carl Jung
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing,
doing nothing, and being nothing."
-- Aristotle
"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us
rich."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a
could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be
a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a
might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
-- Milton Berle
"Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one
step at a time."
-- Linda Shalaway
"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single
courageous step would carry us clear through them."
-- Brendan Francis
"Everyone experiences tough times; it is a measure of your
determination and dedication how you deal with them and how
you can come through them."
-- Lakshmi Mittal
"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves
miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is
the same."
-- Carlos Castaneda
"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."
-- Ken Hudgins
"There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be
shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions
you take."
-- Andy Andrews
"I am not a has-been. I am a will be."
-- Lauren Bacall
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I
may learn how to do it."
-- Pablo Picasso
"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is
willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far
from shore."
-- Dale Carnegie
"I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."
-- Paul Harvey
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure
that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
-- Calvin Coolidge
"Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one
likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will
find the motivation to do what you advise others to do."
-- Vince Poscente
"To control and sort young people for the sake of
institutional efficiency is to crush the human spirit."
-- Ron Miller
"Only those who are asleep make no mistakes."
-- Ingvar Kamprad
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun
dial in the shade?"
-- Benjamin Franklin
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself,
you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not
know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and
lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you
will be imperiled in every single battle."
-- Sun Tzu
"It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy;
you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry
is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the
machinery, but friction."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust
out quicker than he'll wear out."
-- Harland Sanders
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
-- E E. Cummings
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now
accepted was once eccentric."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not
following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl
who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is
a kindness."
-- Simon Cowell
"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning
for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime,
educate people."
-- Chinese proverb
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock
long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake
up somebody."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In
weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a
struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of
the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to
struggle is proof of your victory as a human being."
-- Daisaku Ikeda
"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too
serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we
are doing every day, only in a different way."
-- Will Rogers
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies,
just as much to stand up to our friends."
-- Dumbledore
"The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way."
-- African Proverb
"Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human
being living humanely is like. She is a person who
understands, values and develops her body, finding it
beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to
take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change
when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to
accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of
the old that is still useful and discarding what is not."
-- Virginia Satir
"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are
willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try
something new."
-- Brian Tracy
"It is more important to know where you are going than to get
there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement."
-- Mabel Newcomber
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't
adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
-- Confucius
"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all
different in the way we perceive the world and use this
understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
-- Tony Robbins
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of
holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to
an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to
abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been
discovered."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to
notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer
thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."
-- Garrison Keillor
"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything
in, you won't get anything out."
-- W.C. Handy
"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing
flawlessly."
-- Robert H. Schuller
"Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is
created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient
effort is needed to develop good character."
-- Heraclitus
"A dead end street is a good place to turn around."
-- Naomi Judd
"Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the
same way."
-- George Evans
"The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly
lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should
not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion
for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and
humanity of mankind."
-- Li Ka Shing
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done,
it's always your choice."
-- Wayne Dyer
"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
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you
must make it."
-- Charles Buxton
"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most
difficult lesson in the world."
-- Miguel de Cervantes
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves."
-- Carl Jung
"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst
kind of heart trouble."
-- Bob Hope
"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles
than any wonder drug."
-- Patricia Neal
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning
that does the work."
-- Mark Twain
"I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had
somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a
big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became
that person for myself."
-- Unknown
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're
supposed to help you discover who you are."
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
-- Alan Saporta
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being
can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
-- William James
"Whatever acts a good or bad man may do, the fruits thereof
follow him and will never stop pursuing him."
-- Sri Sai Baba
"In order to change the world, you have to get your head
together first."
-- Jimi Hendrix
"I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it
the best you can."
-- John T. Walton
"How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing
what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that
not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a
high morality and true freedom."
-- Karl Rahner
"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself
what you are going to do to get the things you want."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The beginning is always today."
-- Mary Wollstonecraf
"The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation.
Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or
whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what?
After you start doing the thing, that,s when the motivation
comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it."
-- John C. Maxwell
"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has
an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit
capable of kindness and compassion."
-- William Falconer
"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your
heart."
-- Mort Walker
"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of
happiness."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no
matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we
need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to
reach the places we've chosen to go."
-- Richard Bach
"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have
never been in the dark with a mosquito."
-- Betty Reese
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can
start today and make a new ending."
-- Maria Robinson
"If you want to be truly successful, invest in yourself to get
the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you
find it and focus on it and persevere, your success will
blossom."
-- Sydney Madwed
"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you
hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."
-- Desiderius Erasmus
"How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing
what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that
not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a
high morality and true freedom."
-- Karl Rahner
"It's far more impressive when others discover your good
qualities without your help."
-- Judith Martin
"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.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow."
-- Melody Beattie
"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to
win."
-- Carl Lewis
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
-- Grandma Moses
"Live your life as an Exclamation, not an Explanation."
-- Source unknown
"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!"
-- Bob Newhart
"A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last.
The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink
back into the soft ground and become swallowed up by the world
of illusion."
-- Sai Baba
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person
knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to
feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think
that yours is the only path."
-- Paulo Coelho, Brazilian novelist
"It's not the critic that counts, not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could
have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't
lead anywhere."
-- Frank A. Clark
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
-- J. K. Rowling
"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons
from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly
bought experience."
-- George Washington
"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not
to be true to the best one knows."
-- George Eliot
"I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't
have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do
right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what
can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can."
-- Joe Namath
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to
heed the lessons of failure."
-- Bill Gates
"Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see
that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made."
-- Robert H. Schuller
"Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live
entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton."
-- James Cash Penney
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I
can't accept not trying."
-- Michael Jordan
"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be
human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more
productive person."
-- David M. Burns
"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
Autograph your work with excellence."
-- Unknown
"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
"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't
discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we
will live passively and unfulfilled."
-- Bill Watterson
"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry
at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best
account."
-- Euripides
"If you have time to whine and complain about something then
you have the time to do something about it."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo
"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the
point is whether he is growing."
-- George MacDonald
"Smooth seas do not make a skillful sailor."
-- African proverb
"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has
sight but has no vision."
-- Helen Keller
"Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the
man who is not being seen, but can see?"
-- Babe Ruth
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being
can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
-- William James
"Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human
beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's
greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its
greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like
this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future.
With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are
unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
-- Stephen Hawking
"You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His
heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is."
-- Stephen Covey
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver
five minutes longer."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless
gift unless you share it."
-- Esther Williams
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish
the rest."
-- Mark Twain
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to
be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new
things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear
always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and
allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically,
make yourself a happier and more productive person."
-- Dr. David M. Burns
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the
wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the
cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down
on a hot stove lid again -- and that is well; but also she
will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
-- Mark Twain
"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time
for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
-- Confucius
"Responsibility is the one thing people dread most of all. Yet
it is the one thing in the world that develops us."
-- Frank Crane
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if
he knew he never would be found out."
-- Macaulay
"You only live once--but if you work it right, once is
enough."
-- Joe Lewis
"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the
ultimate as knowing what to do next."
-- Herbert Hoover
"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and
then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when
you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you
go forward, you have to jump together."
-- Yo-Yo Ma
"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your
heart."
-- Mort Walker
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night
the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
-- William Shakespeare
"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without
soaking anything up, it will dry up."
-- Ken Hill
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and
surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being
embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think
we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take
the risk."
-- Joyce Brothers
"You are the same today as you'll be in five years except
for two things, the books you read and the people you meet."
-- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
"You don't understand anything until you learn it more than
one way."
-- Marvin Minsky
"I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in
as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them
annoy others."
-- Robert Southey
"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease
worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
-- Epictetus
"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid.
Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear
is to trample it beneath your feet."
-- Nadia Comaneci
"Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one
step at a time."
-- Linda Shalaway
"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect
to get there?"
-- Basil S. Walsh
"I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought
'I'm gone. This is it.' But then you would just keep working.
I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that
you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into
everything and the people around you and everything, you
should come through."
-- Gerry Harvey
"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be
human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more
productive person."
-- David M. Burns
"Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved.
If it is, stop worrying."
-- Amelia Earhart
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation
determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do
it."
-- Raymond Chandler
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of
life, for which the first was made."
-- Robert Browning
"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to
regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either."
-- Mick Jagger
"To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success."
-- Henry John Heinz
"Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be
looking for perfect people."
-- Simon Cowell
"What it comes down to, for me, is that people want to do what
will make them happy, but in order to understand that they
really have to understand their world and what is going on
around them."
-- Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook
"Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will
discover that while public service improves the lives and the
world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and
new meaning it will bring your own life."
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it
crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a
sunny spirit takes their place."
-- Mark Twain
"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world
belongs to you."
-- Lao Tzu
"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts,
ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's
reach."
-- Margaret Cho
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it
away from you."
-- B.B. King
"You can do so much in 10 minutes' time. Ten minutes, once
gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units
and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless
activity."
-- Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock
long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake
up somebody."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The past does not define you, the present does."
-- Jillian Michaels
"We must let go of the life we planned, so as to accept the
one that is waiting for us."
-- Joseph Campbell
