Words of Wisdom
A short saying for the day; a pick me up when you are down; a different perspective; knowledge handed down through the ages; lessons of life; motivation; direction and hope.
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“It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.” Henry David Thoreau
“One sees great things from the valley but only small things from the peak.” G.K. Chesterton
“Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to exceed.” Corita Kent
“Life has only the meaning and value that we give it.” Unknown
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Martin Luther
“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.” Goethe
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“My mind is a tool I can choose to use any way I wish.” Unknown
“Remember when life’s path is steep, keep your mind even.” Horace
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; heroes are made by believing.” Disraeli
“Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.” Unknown
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” Babe Ruth
“To worry about what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.” Unknown
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.” Charles M. Schwab
“We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible – response-able – for our choices.” Stephen R. Covey
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Frustration is essentially a function of expectation.” Unknown
“It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.” Unknown
“Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don’t like.” Charles Jarvis
“As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” James Allem – As a Man Thinketh
“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so, indirectly yet surely, shape is circumstances.” James Allem – As a Man Thinketh
“As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.” James Allem – As a Man Thinketh
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” Bertha Calloway
“Everyone is a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers, don’t let their appearance fool you.” Unknown
“The mind is like a fertile garden. It will grow anything you wish to plant – beautiful flowers or weeds… Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.” Bruce Lee
“Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” Dale Carnegie
“Learn to accept in silence minor aggravations.” Sir William Osler
“There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare
“Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Mental attitude plays a far more important role in a person’s success than mental capacity.” Kemmons Wilson
“Those of you who say miracles are coincidence, who say that this-or-that can’t be done, should get out of the way of those of us who are doing it.” Anne Lamott
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a Gift. That is why they call it the Present.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“God chooses what we go through. We choose how we go through it. The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
Robert Oppenheimer
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one does.” Kemmons Wilson
“Don’t worry. You can’t change the past, but you sure can ruin the present by worrying over the future. Remember that half the things we worry about never happen and the other half are going to happen anyway. So why worry?” Kemmons Wilson
“Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one.” Benjamin Franklin
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.” Dr. Dennis Waitley
“The mind is everything. What we think, we become.” Buddha
“You become what you think you are.” Unknown
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” Abraham Lincoln
“Attitudes determine actions. You are not what you think you are. What you think, you are.” Unknown
“I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.” Benjamin Franklin
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.” Abraham Lincoln
“The greatest hurdle is convincing yourself that what you want is possible.” Unknown
“You must act as if it is impossible to fail.” Ashanti Proverb
“The rotten apple spoils his companion.” Benjamin Franklin
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.” Anatole France
“Successful people aren’t those without problems, they’re those who’ve learned to solve their problems.” Unknown
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill
“Attitudes are more important than facts.” Karl Menninger
“Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of your venture.” William James
“Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow. You must wholeheartedly believe in yourself.” Unknown
“… only that comes out of the mind which originally you put into the mind.” Norman Vincent Peale
“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” Leo Tolstoy
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can altar their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” William James
“A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” Marcus Aurelius
“A man is what he thinks about all day.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is a deep tendency in human nature to become precisely like that which you habitually imagine yourself to be.” Unknown
“To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Hold that picture, develop it firmly in all details, believe in it, pray about it, work at it, and you can actualize it according to that mental image emphasized in your positive thinking. Believe and succeed. “ Norman Vincent Peale
“Human beings can altar their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” William James
“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.” Charles De Gaulle
“Projecting your mind into a successful situation is the most powerful means to achieve goals.” Estee Lauder
“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” Henry David Thoreau
“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, learn them or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable.”
Denis Waitley
“You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish, if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” Robert Collier
“I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.” Charles Chaplin
“If you have faith in yourself you can do anything.” Spanish Proverb
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Huxley
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa
“It is a sheer waste of time to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.” Dr. Frank Crane
“Our aspirations are our possibilities.” Robert Browning
“The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy – I mean that if you are happy you will be good.” Bertrand Russell
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.” Lester Louis Brown
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self.” Aldous Juxley
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
“It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.” Benjamin Whichcote
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Accomplishment influences confidence, and confidence influences accomplishment.” Harold S. Hook
“You are not born a winner or a loser, you are born a chooser.” Steve Grant
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
“How you view yourself will determine how far you will go in life.” Unknown
“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.” Plutarch
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside awakes.” Carl Gustav Jung
“I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes.” Sara Teasdale
“I forgive myself and love who I am right now.” Unknown
“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Anger and vengeance eat away at the body, as they do the soul. Lay them down and move on.” Dr. Phil
“I promise you that at this precise moment next year, your life will be better or worse that it is right now. It will not be the same: the choice to improve it or let it decay is wholly and undeniably yours. “ Dr. Phil
“You can’t change your history. But you can change your responses to those external factors. You can change what you do in response to that history.” Dr. Phil
“You respond not to what happens in the world, but instead to your interpretations of it.” Dr. Phil
“The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent but the man without a dream.” Unknown
“You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him.” Unknown
“Success comes in can; failure comes in can’ts.” Unknown
“Luck: a loser’s excuse for a winner’s position.” Unknown
“Don’t be afraid of pressure. Remember that pressure is what turns a lump of coal into a diamond. Unknown
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” Christopher Robin to Pooh
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” M. Kathleen Casey
“Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.” Unknown
“The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.” Unknown
“On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” William R. Inge
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” John N. Mitchell
“Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.” Richard M. DeVos
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” Sophia
“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” J. Brotherto
“You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.” Lavetta Sue Wegman
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” Voltaire
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” Richard Bach
“It isn’t our position but our disposition which makes us happy.” Unknown
“Those who wish to sing always find a song.” – Proverb
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.” C.P. Snow
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln
“On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” William R. Inge
“There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.” Tom Krause
“When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Will Rogers
“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.” Joseph Joubert
“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
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ” Oscar Wilde
“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.” Martha Washington
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” Voltaire
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.” Helen Keller
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.” Helen Keller
“Dream as if you’ll life forever, live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean
“Pretty is something you’re born with. But beautiful, that’s an equal opportunity adjective.” Author Unknown
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” Unknown
“All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” Bruce Barton
“I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” Martha Washington
“All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton
“We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.” Unknown
“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” Konrad Adenauer
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare
“Much of your pain is self-chosen.” Kahlil Gibran
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” Mildred Barthel
“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” Mary Kay Ash
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” Theodore Rubin
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” Art Linkletter
“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.” Brian Tracy
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.” Mark Twain
“A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.” Seneca
“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.” Anon
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” Wayne Dyer
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” Jewish Proverb
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering”. Colette
“Maybe this year… walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws but potential.” Ellen Goodman
“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.” Katherine Mansfield
“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.” Dale Carnegie
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.” William Shakespeare
“That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.” James K. Feibleman
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” Voltaire
“How can something bother you if you won’t let it?” Terri Guillemets
“We tend to live up to our expectations.” Earl Nightingale
“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.” Oscar Wilde
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” Hugh Downs
“I had the blues because I had not shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had not feet.” Ancient Persian Saying
‘The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” Sven Goran
“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” Francesca Reigler
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” Ralph Marston
“It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.” Annie Gottlier
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Colette
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” Robert Anthony
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit
It’s not what you are that holds you back, It’s what you think you’re not.” Denis Waitley
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” Scott Hamilton
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” Michael Jordan
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.” Confucius
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” Anne Frank
“If you want to be happy, be.” Leo Tolstoy
“Joy is not in things, it is in us.” Richard Wagner
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” William James
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.” Epictetus
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” Arthur Rubinstein
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.” Unknown
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” Louise L. Hay
“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.” Nathaniel Branden
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” Emory Austin
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.” Mother Teresa
“Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.” Joe Paterno
“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” Jimi Hendrix
“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” Maori Proverb
“When the power of love is greater than the love of power, the world will know true peace.” Jimi Hendrix
“A man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Unknown
“You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far.” Uncle Remus
“Truth fears no questions.” Unknown
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” Albert Einstein
“It isn’t hard to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Just add a little dirt.” Unknown
“The key to joy is unconditional kindness to all life… including your own!” Unknown
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.” William Shakespeare
“You can make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you blame others for those mistakes.” John Wooden
“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snap back.” Bill Copeland
“The best way to get the last word is to apologize.” Unknown
“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.” Publilius Syrus
“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.” George Washington
“When life gives you lemons, please, just don’t squirt them in other people’s eyes.” J. Andrew Helt
“Good actions give strength to our selves and inspire good actions in others.” Plato
” God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.” Reggie White
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Gandhi
“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched … but are felt in the heart.” Helen Keller
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” Buddha
“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.” Benjamin Disraeli
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” Freya Stark
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.” Winston Churchill
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” Phillips Brooks
“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” W.C. Fields
“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” Oscar Wilde
“Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.” L. Ron Hubbard
“What a pity human beings can’t exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s.” Olin Miller
“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” E. E. Cummings
“When in doubt, tell the truth.” Mark Twain
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” Alexander Hamilton
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” William Arthur Ward
“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.” Benjamin Whichcot
“People don’t ever seem to relate that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.” William McFee
“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” John E. Southard
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.” Henrik Ibsen
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” Lao Tzu
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” Phillips Brooks
“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.” Marian Anderson
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.” Helen Keller
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” Unknown
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People don’t ever seem to relate that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.” William McFee
“If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.” Nelson DeMille
“It is curious – curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and more courage so rare.” Mark Twain
“The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don’t let it use you.” Terri Guillemets
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Confucius
“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.” Confucius
“Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.” Bob Marley
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Hellen Keller
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” Thomas Jefferson
“Character is a victory, not a Gift.” Unknown
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” Aristotle
“Who has deceived thee so oft is thy self.” Benjamin Franklin
“Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.” Benjamin Franklin
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.” Elbert Hubbard
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing it the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” Johann von Goethe
“Self-respect is a product of doing difficult things, and doing them well.” George Bernard Shaw
“Big people monopolize the listening, small people monopolize the talking.” David Schwartz
“Every many stamps his value on himself… man is made great or small by his own will.” J.C.F. von Schiller
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Waldo Emerson
“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.” Charles de Gaulle
“There is no greater man than the one that has filled his own shoes completely.” Unknown philosopher
“Who you would seem to be, be really.” Benjamin Franklin
“An empty bag cannot stand upright.” Benjamin Franklin
“Pursue truth and people will be true to you.” Arthur Twining Hadley
“No man can climb beyond the limitations of his own character.” John Morley
“The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.” Unknown
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” Gandhi
“One man cannot do right in one department of life while he is occupied doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.” Gandhi
“Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.” Elbert Hubbard
“Wisdom is learning all we can, but having the humility to realize that we don’t know it all.” Unknown
“Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.” Benjamin Franklin
“A lie stands on one leg, the truth on two.” Benjamin Franklin
“Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop physical muscles through overcoming opposition, we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.” Unknown
“Try not to become men of success, rather, become men of value.” Albert Einstein
“Take a minute, look at yourself, look at your actions. See if your behavior matched your goals.” Unknown
“Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.” Benjamin Franklin
“What you want to be eventually, you must be every day. With practice, the quality of your deeds gets down to your soul.” Frank Crane
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.” Booker T. Washington
“Don’t throw stones at your neighbor, if you own windows are glass.” Benjamin Franklin
“Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.” Colin Powell
“Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moments.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whatever you are, act well your part.” Scottish Proverb
“Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.” Mark Twain
“Keep away from people that try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too can become great.” Mark Twain
“The most important thing we do is the legacy we leave behind.” Unknown
“It is not what he has which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.” Henry Frederic Amiel
“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness.” Thomas Jefferson
“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.” Benjamin Franklin
“What is the right thing to do? Nothing will be right if it is wrong. Nothing that is wrong will ever come out right.” Unknown
“Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” Albert Schweitzer
“He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not.” Benjamin Franklin
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” John Wooden
“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.
“In the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.” Lyndon B. Johnson
“A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.” William Barclay
“A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim.” Thomas Fuller
“A man’s reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man’s character.” David McKay
“One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.” Chinese Proverb
“I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes.” Sara Teasdale
“I forgive myself and love who I am right now.” Unknown
“When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences.” Dr. Phil
“Ask yourself: Am I spending my time doing what I would write into the script of my life?” Dr. Phil
“Humility gives us the ability to deny ourselves, not think too highly of ourselves, and put others above ourselves. Humility is all about understanding that we are not leaders who serve, but rather we are servants who have been given the opportunity to lead…” Pastor Stovall Weems
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” Unknown
“Man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Unknown
“Ability will enable a man to go to the top, but it takes character to keep him there.” Unknown
“He who throws dirt loses ground.” Unknown
“Don’t be afraid of pressure. Remember that pressure is what turns a lump of coal into a diamond.” Unknown
“Humility gives us the ability to deny ourselves, not think too highly of ourselves, and put others above ourselves. Humility is all about understanding that we are not leaders who serve, but rather we are servants who have been given the opportunity to lead…” Unknown
“Reputation is made in a moment: character is built in a lifetime.” Unknown
“The fellow that does things that count doesn’t usually stop to count them.” Unknown
“A critical spirit is like poison ivy, it only takes a little contact to spread its poison.” Unknown
“Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself.” Unknown
“The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.” Unknown
“Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where is backbone should have been.” Unknown
“People know what you are by what they see, not by what they hear.” Unknown
“You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him.” Unknown
“Two things are hard on the heart – running up stairs and running down people.” Unknown
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” Oprah Winfrey
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” C.C. Scott
“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.” Author Unknown
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.” Sophocles
“Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.” Les Brown
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.” Margaret Bonnano
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” Mohandas Gandhi
“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” St. Clement of Alexandra
“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” Elbert Hubbard
“May you wake to the day when life feels worth living, when joy comes back, hope shows up, love returns.” – Unknown
“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.” Albert Einstein
“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” Helen Keller
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” — Martin Luther
“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.” Unknown
“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.” Max Lucado
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. ” Unknown
“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” Author Unknown
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible” Christopher Reeve
“You won’t realize the distance you’ve walked until you take a look around and realize how far you’ve been.” Unknown
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” Anne Frank
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson
“Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.” Albert Smith
“It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.” Danny Boyle
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” Helen Keller
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.” Princess Diana
“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” Edwin Elliot
“If I can laugh, I can live.” Christopher Reeve
“Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” Charles Dickens
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” Bill Cosby
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” Frederick Keonig
“In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.” Oprah Winfrey
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” Malcolm S. Forbes
“Once I knew only darkness and stillness. My life was without past or future. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. – Hope” Helen Keller
“Just remember – when you think all is lost, the future remains.” Robert H. Goddard
“Have you hugged yourself today?” Anonymous
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope!” – Bern Williams
Dum spiro, spero, “While I breathe, I hope.” Latin Proverb
“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Allan K. Chalmers
“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
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” Helen Keller
“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” George Iles
“Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up.” Author Unknown
“Breathe in the life that surrounds you. Let it fill your soul with light and hope.” — Carol Schelling
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.” Josephine Hart
“Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out. “ Christopher Reeve
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” Steven Kloves
“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.” Bill Cosby
“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.” Author Unknown
“May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.” Unknown
“So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.” The Eagles
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.” Samuel Johnson
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus
“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.” Author Unknown
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ” Oscar Wilde
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore
“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” Maori Proverb
“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” Ralph Blum
“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.” John Maxwell
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” Emory Austin
“When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.” Unknown
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ” Albert Einstein
“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” Jean de La Fontaine
“A laugh at another person’s expense really isn’t funny, especially to the person who just paid the price for it.” Unknown
“Unjust criticism is usually a disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealousy and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.” Dale Carnegie
“Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them… and they flew.” Guillaume Apollinaire
“Build up as many people as you can. Do it unselfishly. Do it because you like them… Build people up and love them genuinely. Do them good and their self esteem and affection will flow back toward you.” Norman Vincent Peale
“The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.” Charles Schwab
“Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.” George M. Adams
“Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.” James 3:5
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.” Dr. Willis R. Whitney
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” Mother Theresa
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, has strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
Walt Disney
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” Vince Lombardi
“I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes.” Sara Teasdale
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Effort is a commitment to seeing a task through to the end, not just until you get tired of it.” Howard Cate
“Decide on what “You” want to do and go for it.” Unknown
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” Eleanor Roosevelt
”I’m going to live by “I Will”, not “I Wish.”” Cameron Kreider
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.” Jesse Jackson
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” Margaret Mead
“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.” Mabel Newcomber
“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” Leon J. Suenes
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” Bill Cosby
“Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams.” Stuart Wilde
“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” Karen Ravn
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” Christopher Reeve
“Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.” François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
“Start by doing what’s necessary: then do what’s possible: suddenly you are doing the impossible.” St. Francis of Assissi
“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
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill
“To achieve, you must believe and want something with all your might. Then, you must be willing to commit yourself to a course.” Unknown
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its’ pants on.” Winston Churchill
“The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him – and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.” Jean Paul Getty
“Humility gives us the ability to deny ourselves, not think too highly of ourselves, and put others above ourselves. Humility is all about understanding that we are not leaders who serve, but rather we are servants who have been given the opportunity to lead…” Pastor Stovall Weems
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” Unknown
”Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.” Earl Wilson
“The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.” Rona Barrett
“Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.” Unknown
“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” Eddie Rickenbacker
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” J. K. Rowling
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, un forgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” Glenn Clark
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” Seneca
“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. ” Christopher Reeve
“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.” Dr. Robert Anthony
“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” Aristotle
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” Laozi
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing points.” C.S. Lewis
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” Unknown
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map our a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” Mary Anne Radmacher
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” Tom Krause
“Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.” Dan Rather
“Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.” Author Unknown
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” W. Clement Stone
“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How few there are who have enough courage to own their faults or resolution enough to own them.” Benjamin Franklin
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” Robert Green Ingersoll
“Nothing noble is done without risk.” Andre Gide
“Courage is not simply, one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point.” C.S. Lewis
“Press on: Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance.” Calvin Coolidge
“Satisfaction lies in effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.” Unknown
“We know what happens to people that stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.” Aneurin Bevan
“The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.” Elbert Hubbard
“Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
“Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” Frederick B. Wilcox
“One man with courage makes a majority.” Andrew Jackson
“Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” Winston Churchill
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” Emerson
“They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.” Sir Philip S. Sidney
“The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr
“The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.” Unknown
“Don’t be afraid of pressure. Remember that pressure is what turns a lump of coal into a diamond.” Unknown
“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.” Bill Cosby
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” Stephen Kaggwa
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” Gandhi
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” Latin Proverb
“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.” Win Borden
“If you only do what you know can do – you never do very much.” Tom Krause”Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” Stephen Kaggwa”The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” Walter Bagehot
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” Vince Lombardi
“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” Wendy Wasserstein
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” Bill Cosby
“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.” Washington Irving
“Lord, grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.” Michelangelo
“If there is no wind, row.” Latin proverb
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.” Basho
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” Jonathan Winters
“I give to life exactly what I want life to give to me.” Unknown
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you will have to take it.” Antoine de St. Exupery
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.” Disraeli
“Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it never has a beginning.” Cardinal Newman
“You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do.” Henry Ford
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt
“There is no try, only do or do not.” Yoda
“What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.” John Ruskin
“Knowledge might be power, but only when we take action.” Richard Keeves
“You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.” Haddon Robinson
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Unknown
“To know and not to do is not yet to know.” Zen saying
“Work is the master key that opens the door to all opportunities.” Kemmons Wilson
“There are two ways to climb an oak tree, one way is to sit on an acorn and wait; the other is to climb it.” Kemmons Wilson
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.” Reggie Leach
“Everyday you waste is one you can never make up.” George Allen
“You may delay. But time will not.” Ben Franklin
“I will find a way or make one.” Hannibal
“Opportunity – Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.” Unknown
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work – one finished nothing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Problems are opportunities in work clothes.” Henry J Kaiser
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” Stephen Leacock
“What is now proved was once only imagined.” William Blake
“Find your passion and follow it. That is all the career advice you will ever need.” John C. Maxwell
“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Einstein
“First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do.” Epictetus
“If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” William Arthur Ward
“Look and you will find it, what is unsought will go undetected.” Sophacles
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” David Lloyd George
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” Dennis Waitley
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Our task… is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.” John F. Kennedy
“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.” Parkes Robinson
“If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking him if there’s anything you can do. Think of something appropriate, and do it.” E.W. Howe
“Well done is better than well said.” Benjamin Franklin
“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.” David S. Jordan
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” Peter Marshall
“What have you done that has made your life better?” Unknown
“The greatest failure is the failure to try.” William Arthur Ward
“Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult chance we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” Walter Anderson
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over eventually if you just sit there. “ Will Rodgers
“It is better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“The time is always right to do what is right. “ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.” James Freeman Clarke
“If you’re coasting, you’re either losing momentum or else you’re headed downhill.” Joan Welsh
“What if you discovered that you had settled for what life has served up instead of what you really wanted and needed.” Dr. Phil
“The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent but the man without a dream.” Unknown
“Luck: a loser’s excuse for a winner’s position.” Unknown
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” C.C. Scott
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. ” Unknown
“Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.” Hubert Humphrey
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” Charles F. Kettering
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” John F. Kennedy
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” Julie Andrews
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” Confucius
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.” Confucius
“All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.” Henry David Thoreau
“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.” Helen Keller
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” Lin Yutang
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” Longfellow
“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua J. Marine
“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
“Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie
‘I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson
“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” Winston Churchill
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” Oscar Wilde
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.” Orison Swett Marden
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.” Author Unknown
“Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!” Hector Crawford
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.” Josephine Hart
“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” Author Unknown
“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.” Garth Brooks
“There will become a time when you think everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” Louis L’amour
“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.” Unknown
“Fall seven times, stand up eight. ” Japanese Proverb
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” Flavia Weedn
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” Frank A. Clark
“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” John A. Simone, Sr.
“Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.” Marilyn vos Savant
“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.” Christopher Morley
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.” John Vance Cheney
“Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.” William Faulkner
“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” Christopher Reeve
“There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.” Nicolas Chamfort
“God gave burdens, also shoulders.” Yiddish Proverb
“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.” Morris Mandel
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” Louis Pasteur
“Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.” Hubert Humphrey
“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.” Joe Clark
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” Alex Karras
“When you are going through hell – keep going.” Winston Churchill
“… there are only a few human stories and they have all been enacted previously. This is a fact that you must never forget- there are people who have overcome every conceivable difficult situation, even the one which you now find yourself and which to you seems utterly hopeless. So did it seem to some others, but they found an out, a way up, a path over, a pass through.” Norman Vincent Peale
“Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that someone will ask me, “What’s the secret of it?” I shall say simply this: “I get up when I fall down.” Paul Harvey
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” William Feather
“To follow, without halt, one aim; that’s the secret of success.” Anna Pavlova
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try, just one more time.” Thomas Edison
“Victory belongs to the most persevering.” Napoleon Bonaparte
“Never, never, never, never, give up.” Winston Churchill
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” Abraham Lincoln
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” Calvin Coolidge
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, has strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” Walt Disney
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” Vince Lombardi
“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Nelson Mandela
“Failure in people is caused more by lack of determination than lack of talent.” Unknown
“Success comes in can; failure comes in can’ts.” Unknown
“Don’t be afraid of pressure. Remember that pressure is what turns a lump of coal into a diamond.” Unknown
”A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” Walter Winchell
“The most important things in life aren’t things.” Anthony J. D’Angelo
“He who angers you conquers you.” Elizabeth Kenny
“Pick your friends but not to pieces.” Unknown
“If we really want love, we must learn how to forgive.” Mother Teresa
“Let no one who loves be unhappy… even love unreturned has its rainbow.” James Matthew Barrie
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” George Sand
“Success in marriage is more than finding the right person. It’s becoming the right person.” Unknown
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.” Sophocles
“You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth.” Unknown
“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you my be the world.” Unknown
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each others’ little failings.” Jean de La Bruyere
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“True friendship isn’t about being there when it’s convenient; it’s about being there when it’s not.” Unknown
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.” William Shakespeare
“Take time today to appreciate someone who does something you take for granted.” — Sean McCabe
“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
“Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.” Unknown
“You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.” Unknown
“The best time to make friends is before you need them.” Ethel Barrymore
“Whoever gossips to you will be a gossip of you.” Unknown
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” John Lennon
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” Epictetus
“We are rarely proud when we are alone.” Voltaire
“We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.” Ants Marching
“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.” Unknown
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Buddha
“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.” Frances Ward Weller
“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.” Unknown
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” C.S. Lewis
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.” Sasha Azevado
“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” Unknown
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.” Lucy Larcom
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.” Barbara DeAngelis
“A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.” Author Unknown
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” Brian H. McGill
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Helen Keller
“Relationships are like crystals, you don’t realize how much you love it until it breaks.” Unknown
“We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.” Lauryn Hill
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.” Winston Churchill
“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.” Barbara Kingsolver
‘Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.” Benjamin Franklin
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” Benjamin Disraeli
“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” Alice Duer Miller
“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 don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” Plutarch
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.” David Storey
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.” Elbert Hubbard
“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.” Christian Nevell Bovee
“Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” Antoine Rivarol
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” William Shakespeare
“If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.” Walter Anderson
“It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.” Ovid
“You can’t wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug.” Author Unknown
“For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.” Robert Brault
“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.” Henry Winkler
“Present your family and friends with their eulogies now – they won’t be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.” Anonymous
“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.” Dinah Shore
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” Oprah Winfrey
“People change and forget to tell each other.” Lillian Hellman
“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
“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” Mary Tyler Moore
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.” Jesse Jackson
“The most important thing in life is to give out love, and to let it come in.” Morrie Schwartz
“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.” Sicilian Proverb
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu
“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.” Aristotle
“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” Elbert Hubbard,
“If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” Edgar Watson Howe
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” Epictetus
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” Henry David Thoreau
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” Arnold Glasow
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” Foe Ancis
“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” Laurence J. Peter
“Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.” Unknown
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.” Grace Pulpit
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” C.S. Lewis
“A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.” Unknown
“Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don’t understand.” Robert Brault
“We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true friends when they don’t hesitate to be a lighthouse.” Dodinsky
“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.” Golda Meir
“Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.” Albert Smith
“Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.” Mignon McLaughlin
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.” David Storey
“What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.” Unknown
“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found, While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound, Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“The aim of an argument or discussion should be progress, not victory.” Joseph Joubert
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.” Seneca
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” Joseph Fort Newton
“Two things are hard on the heart – running up stairs and running down people.” Unknown
“It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.” Unknown
“Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading.” Kevin Eikenberry
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Helen Keller
“The better part of one’s life consists of friendships his friendships.” Abraham Lincoln
“Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.” Swedish Proverb
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” Indira Gandhi
“I have found the paradox that if I Love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt, but only more love.” Mother Teresa
“The kindest word in the world is the unkind word unsaid.” Unknown
“Love is not something you feel. It’s something you do.” David Wilkerson
“One of the best ways to demonstrate God’s love is to listen to people.” Bruce Larsen
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.” Benard Meltzer
“A man wrapped up in him self, makes a very small package.” Unknown
“People who try to whittle you down are only trying to reduce you to their size.” Unknown
“The grass may look greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed.” Unknown
“Your companions are like buttons on an elevator. They will either take you up or they will take you down.” Unknown
“The bridge you burn now may be the one you later have to cross.” Unknown
“Forget yourself for others and others will not forget you.” Unknown
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” Unknown
“Every person should have a special cemetery lot in which to bury the faults of friends and loved ones.” Unknown
“He who throws dirt loses ground.” Unknown
“A critical spirit is like poison ivy, it only takes a little contact to spread its poison.” Unknown
“Much of your pain is self-chosen.” Kahlil Gibran
“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are…it is our choices.” Dumbledore
“Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” Marsha Petrie Sue
“People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” Will Rogers
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” Bob Moawad
“We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.” Elbert Hubbard
“Who I am today is a reflection of the decisions I made yesterday, so if I want to be different tomorrow, I have to make up my mind to do things differently today.” Joyce Meyer.
“Language is the expression of thought. Every time you speak, your mind is on parade.” Unknown
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserves your love & affection.” Buddha
“None but ourselves can free our minds.” Bob Marley
“Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” Chinese Proverb
“What’s done can’t be undone.” William Shakespeare
“There’s only us, There’s only this, Forget regret, Or life is your to miss” Mimi, Rent
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” Denis Waitley
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” Buddha
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.” Joan Didion
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Buddha
“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.” Earl Nightingale
“Pain accompanies change. One way or another it’s going to hurt to make adjustments in our lives. That’s the bad news. The good news is that we can choose the pain we endure. We have two options: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” John Maxwell
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.” Samuel Johnson
“Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world.” Helen Keller
“You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.” Stevie Wonder
“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” St. Augustine
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” William James
“Some pursue happiness, others create it.” Unknown
“When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.” Jake Steinfeld
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” John Adams
“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
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” Sally Field
“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” Brian Tracy
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decision that can change your life forever.” Keri Russell
“If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.” Nelson DeMille
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live now. ” Joan Baez
“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.” Unknown
“If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” Korean Proverb
“Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.” Denis Waitley
“Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” Chinese Proverb
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” Albert Einstein
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” George Jean Nathan
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” Tennessee Williams
“Anger is short-lived madness.” Horace
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” Mildred Barthel
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” Floria Whittemore
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” Samuel Johnson
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” Robert G. Ingersoll
“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.” Edward de Bono
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” Buddha
“Hanging on to resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” Ann Landers
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?” Bob Marley
“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.” Baltasar Gracian
“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.” Gandhi
“Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.” Author Unknown
“Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.” Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” Sonya Friedman
“Anyone who angers you, conquers you.” Elizabeth Kenney
“Anger is one letter short of danger. “ Author Unknown
“The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don’t let it use you.” Terri Guillemets
“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
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.” Benjamin Franklin
“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
“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Unknown
“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.” William Howard Stein
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” Thich Nhat Hanh
“Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.” Paul Vixie
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” James Openheim
“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” Sydney J. Harris
“When life gives you lemons, please, just don’t squirt them in other people’s eyes.” J. Andrew Helt
“Anger is one letter short of danger.” Author Unknown
“If you don’t control your mind, someone else will.” John Allston
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” George Jean Nathan
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” Mike Murdock
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” Shaquille O’Neal
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.” Abraham J. Heschel
“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” W. Somerset Maugham
“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” Louis L’Amour
“If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” Korean Proverb
“Responsibility looks forward, blame looks backward.” Brian Tracy
“The choices you have made and will make in you life are 100 percent your responsibility.” Unknown
“In the long run, we shape our lives and shape ourselves. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” Winston Churchill
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Abraham Lincoln
“As long as you have the power to choose, you have the power to change things.” Dr. Phil
“When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences.” Dr. Phil
“From whom much is given, much is expected. I promise you that you have been given much. So guess what? From you, much is expected.” Dr. Phil
“You can’t change your history. But you can change your responses to those external factors. You can change what you do in response to that history.” Dr. Phil
“No matter how fast you run or how much you try to hide you cannot not choose. Choosing not to act is, in itself, a choice.” Dr. Phil
“What if you discovered that you had settled for what life has served up instead of what you really wanted and needed.” Dr. Phil
“The company you keep will determine the trouble you meet.” Unknown
“Tempers what gets most of us in to trouble, pride is what keeps us there.” Unknown
“Your temper is like a fire. It gets very destructive when it gets out of control.” Unknown
“Although the tongue weighs very little, few people are able to hold it.” Unknown
“Man is never in worse company that when he flies in to a rage and is beside himself.” Unknown
“The trouble with the guy who talks too fast is that he often says something he hasn’t thought of yet.” Unknown
“The hardest victory is victory over self.” Aristotle
“No man is free who is not master of himself.” Epictetus
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it.” Emerson
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” Lady Dorothy Nevill
“Remember that someone, somewhere, is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.” Edward Macauley
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” Henry Ward Beecher
“The only thing in the world you can change is yourself, and that makes all the difference in the world.” Cher
“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Goals are as essential to success as air is to life.” David Schwartz
“Winners make goals; others make excuses.” Unknown
“My life seems like one long obstacle course, with me as the chief obstacle.” Jack Paar
“Listen to the whispers and you won’t have to hear the screams.” Cherokee Saying
“The harder I work the more I live.” George Bernard Shaw
“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.” Benjamin Franklin
“It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary
“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.” James Allem – As a Man Thinketh
“For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace, and for the un-peaceful how can there be happiness?” Bhagavad Gita
“… when you unleash your aggression or hostility on another person, it inspires aggression and hostility in return. The result then is conflict, … when you act in anger, you lose self control.” Jim Lau
“Control you emotion or it will control you.” Chinese Adage
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” Benjamin Franklin
“Remember that we all climb the ladder of success one step at a time.” Kemmons Wilson
“Smooth seas do not require skillful sailors.” African Proverb
“Failure to prepare, is preparing to fail.” Unknown
“The foundation of excellence lies in self control.” H.L. Baugher
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.” Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Success is no mystery, it’s simply a matter of discipline. Discipline means we don’t let go of the things we know we should be doing, we do them!” Jim Rohn
“In all things, success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” Confucius
“He who possesses patience possesses himself.” Raymond Lull
“The first and best victory is to conquer self.” Plato
“Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.” Roy L. Smith
“Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.” Julie Andrews
“The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him – and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.” Jean Paul Getty
“Swallowing angry words is much better than having to eat them.” Unknown
“Men are like fish. Neither would get in to trouble in they kept their mouths shut.” Unknown
“The only preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.” Unknown
“Tempers what gets most of us in to trouble, pride is what keeps us there.” Unknown
“The grass may look greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed.” Unknown
“Your temper is like a fire. It gets very destructive when it gets out of control.” Unknown
“Although the tongue weighs very little, few people are able to hold it.” Unknown
“Man is never in worse company that when he flies in to a rage and is beside himself.” Unknown
“The trouble with the guy who talks too fast is that he often says something he hasn’t thought of yet.” Unknown
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” Norman Vincent Peale
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” Galileo Galilei
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.” Patricia Neal
“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” Sir Winston Churchill
“If you see good, learn something. If you see bad, learn what not to be.” Unknown
“If you believe everything you read, you better not read.” Japanese Proverb
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” Will Rogers
“Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.” Madame Guizot
“In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer
“It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning.” Claude Bernard
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” William Shakespeare
“Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.” Glen Beaman
“Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.” Raymond E. Feist
”We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead; it can only serve” Albert Einstein
“You want to always be open, creative and fluid as possible, and never become rigid, old or tight.” Russell Simmons
“The hardest secret for a man to keep is his opinion of himself.” Unknown
“We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.” Frank A. Clark
“A “Normal” person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, “Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.” Alan Sherman
“All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.” — Rodney Collin
“Before you can break out of prison, you must first realize you’re locked up.” Author Unknown
“It’s when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.” Mike Huckabee
“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” John A. Simone, Sr.
“What a pity human beings can’t exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s.” Olin Miller
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” Anatole France
“At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” Norman Vincent Peale
“If you want to look like the people next door, you’re probably smothering yourself and your dreams.” Clive Barker
“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” Lady Blessington
“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” Hindu Proverb
“The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.” Eli Khamarov
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.” Michael J. Fox
“Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.” Anon
“When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” John F. Kennedy
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” Bernard M. Baruch
“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Doug Floyd
“When we are no longer able to change a situation… We are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” Oscar Wilde
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.” William Shakespeare
“Only dead fish swim with the stream.” Malcolm Muggeridge
“Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” John F. Kennedy
“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.” Lucy Larcom
“Ain’t no man can avoid being average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.” Satchel Paige
“Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.” Author Unknown
“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien
“If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.” George S. Patton
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” Joseph Campbell
“At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” Marshall B. Rosenberg
“A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.” Brian H. McGill
“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” Arthur Christopher Benson
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” Aldous Huxley
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.” Brian H. McGill
“Don’t think you’re on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.” Unknown
“The past does not define you, the present does.” Unknown
“Success is to be measured not as much by the position that one has reached as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed.” Booker T. Washington
“Whatever comes, this too shall pass away.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” Chinese Proverb
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.” Basho
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” Henry Ford
“Observe all men, thyself most.” Benjamin Franklin
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.” Larry King
“If at first you don’t succeed, find out why.” Unknown
“The key is to constantly do whatever builds your strength and increases your capacity to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy.” Unknown
“Strength can only be developed by effort and practice.” James Allem – As a Man Thinketh
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” James Allem – As a Man Thinketh
“He that won’t be counsel’d, can’t be helped.” Benjamin Franklin
“… when a problem arises, don’t fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.” Jim Lau
“You have got to continue to grow or you’re just like last night’s corn bread. Stale and dry.” Loretta Lynn
“Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” Henry Ford
“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser than he was yesterday.” Abraham Lincoln
“The more you do of what you’ve done, the more you’ll have of what you’ve got.” Anon
“What you become, you are already.” Freidrich Hebbel
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Lao Tzu
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” John D. Rockefeller
“Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.” Henry Ford
“When you make a mistake, admit it; learn from it and don’t repeat it.” Bear Bryant
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” John Ruskin
“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.” Harold J. Smith
“Seek the wisdom of the ages but look at the world through the eyes of a child.” Ron Wile
“Who is the wise man? He who learns from all men.” William Gladstone
“Anger and vengeance eat away at the body, as they do the soul. Lay them down and move on.” Dr. Phil
“From whom much is given, much is expected. I promise you that you have been given much. So guess what? From you, much is expected.” Dr. Phil
“I promise you that at this precise moment next year, your life will be better or worse than it is right now. It will not be the same: the choice to improve it or let it decay is wholly and undeniably yours.” Dr. Phil
“You can’t change your history. But you can change your responses to those external factors. You can change what you do in response to that history.” Dr. Phil
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Nelson Mandela
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Gustav Jung
“We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.” James Freeman Clarke
“If you’re coasting, you’re either losing momentum or else you’re headed downhill.” Joan Welsh
“A man wrapped up in him self, makes a very small package.” Unknown
“The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.” Unknown
“Man is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Unknown
“We know too much, and are convinced of too little.” T.S. Elliot
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” Chinese Proverb
“I am surrounded by perfect teachers. I learn something constructive from every teacher in my life, even if it is learning how not to live.” Unknown
“Learn from others’ mistakes rather than making them all yourself.” Unknown
“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.” Gandhi
“Do things you love. Do things that you have faith will make other people happy and that will give back what you give them.” Russell Simmons
“Because your existence in time and space is unique, there are lives that only you can touch.” Harry Palmer
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.” Robert Murray McCheyne
“One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you.” Unknown
“You’ve got to give more than you take.” Christopher Reeve
“Wake up in the morning and find out what you want to give as opposed to what you want to get. Through this practice of becoming a good giver you become a good getter.” Russell Simmons
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” Margaret Fuller
“We are here to love each other, serve each other and uplift each other.” Unknown
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” Mark Twain
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.” Peyton Conway March
“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” Helen Keller
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
“Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” Gretta Brooker Palmer
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?” John Adams
“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.” Jim Rohn
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.” Charles de Montesquieu
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. ” Lao Tzu
“Every time a man stands up to improve the lot of others, he sends forth a ripple of hope.” Robert Kennedy
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.” Harold Kushner
“If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” Bob Hope
“We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.” Unknown
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank
“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.” Albert Einstein
“If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart. Then in living – I have made my mark.” Thomas L. Odem Jr.
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” Mother Teresa
“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” Helen Keller
“We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.” Earl Nightingale
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” Muhammad Ali
“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.” Unknown
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. ” Mother Teresa
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop
“What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.” Cleveland Amory
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama
“A kind deed a day, like little drops of rain, makes a mighty ocean and a gracious nation.” Lin Hsiu Nei
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.” Samuel Johnson
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ” Frank A. Clark
“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” John Wooden
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Plato
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” Edward Everett Hale
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.” Sydney Smith
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.” Edmund Burke
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” Lao Tzu
“Whatever you spend is gone. What you keep, someone else gets. What you give is yours forever. ” Dr. Wil Rose
“Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.” Albert Schweitzer
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
“He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.” Sunshine Magazine
“Charity sees the need, not the cause.” German Proverb
“If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.” Ashleigh Brilliant
“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” Norman B. Rice
“If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.” Arabian Proverb
“I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.” Tracy Chapman
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” Saint Augustine
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” Mother Teresa
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.” Anatole France
“Well done is better than well said.” Benjamin Franklin
“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.” Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“You can get everything in life that you want… if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.” Zig Ziglar
“There is a destiny that makes us brothers; None goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.” Edwin Markham
“Everyone 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 your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.” Danny Thomas
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” Unknown
“The rewards you receive in life are determined by the value of what you give.” Unknown
“The best way to cheer your self up is to cheer everybody else up.” Mark Twain
“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.” Albert Einstein
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.” Elbert Hubbard
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.” Helen Keller
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” Henry Adams
“If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.” Robert South
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop
“No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.” Charles Dickens
“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” Robert G. Ingersoll
“The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a larger part of oneself to others.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight Eisenhower
“Humility gives us the ability to deny ourselves, not think too highly of ourselves, and put others above ourselves. Humility is all about understanding that we are not leaders who serve, but rather we are servants who have been given the opportunity to lead…” Pastor Stovall Weems
“The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone solve his.” Unknown
“Forget yourself for others and others will not forget you.” Unknown
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” Unknown
“Put others before yourself and you can become a leader among men.” Unknown
“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” Don Wilder and Bill Rechin
“He who excuses himself accuses himself.” Gabriel Meurier
“No one ever excused his way to success.” Dave Del Dotto
“Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.” Steven Grayhm
“Bad excuses are worse than none.” Thomas Fuller
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” Henry Ward Beecher
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.” Edward R. Murrow
“We are all manufacturers – some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses.” Author Unknown
“Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.” Robert Brault
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people, to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.” William Arthur Ward
“The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other person finds an excuse.” Author Unknown
“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?” Rose F. Kennedy
“Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.” Palmer Sondreal
“I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.” Buddha
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” Michael Jordan
“Don’t let what you are being get in the way of what you might become.” Harry Palmer
“Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.” Ralph Marson
“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” Wendy Wasserstein
“What I am looking for is not out there; it is in me.” Helen Keller
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” Mark Twain
“Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.” Ryunosuke Satoro
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.” James Oppenheim
My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on. Forrest Gump
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.” Fulton Oursler
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” Kurt Cobain
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