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"To look up and not down, /To look forward and not back, / To look out and not in, and / To lend a hand."--Edward Everett Hale
"Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right."--Anthony J. D'Angelo
"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."--Henry Boye
"You are all you will ever have for certain."--June Havoc
"One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something."--James A. Worsham
"Perfectionism is slow death."--Hugh Prather
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."--Auguste Rodin
"To lose is to learn."--Anonymous
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."--John Dewey
"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself."--Harriet Nelson
"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states."--Carol Welch
"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."--Edward Stanley
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible--and even the impossible may only be so as of now."--Pearl S. Buck
"Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success."--Burt Lawlor
"The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment."--Henry Miller
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either."--Leo Burnett
"Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither."--C. S. Lewis
"Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries."--Jose Ortega y Gasset
"The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, sidestepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!"--Anonymous
"Life is enthusiasm, zest."--Sir Laurence Olivier
"Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty."--Martha Friedman
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."--Malcolm S. Forbes
"If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm."--Frank Lane
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."--Anonymous
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."--Henry Ward Beecher
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"--Adam Smith
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."--Christopher Morely
"If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life."--Josephine Rathbone
"Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.'"--Tony Robbins
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."--Booker T. Washington
"I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live."--Louis D. Brandies
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."--Samuel Johnson
"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important."--Janet Lane
"Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul."--Mark Twain
"It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it."--Albert Einstein
"It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life."--Tony Robbins
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."--Kenji Miyazawa
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."--Steven Wright
"The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions."--Ellen Glasgow
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."--W. Edwards Denning
"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."--Anonymous
"God has entrusted me with myself."--Epictetus
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."--M. Scott Peck
"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."--Raymond Hull
"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."--Hanna Rion
"More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows."--Spanish Proverb
"There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."--Marcelene Cox
"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."--Charles DeLint
"He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints."--Joan Brannon
"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."--Winston Churchill
"The only things you regret are the things you didn't do."--Michael Curtiz
"One thought driven home is better than three left on base."--James Liter
"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river."--Chinese proverb
"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."--Ann Landers
"Hatred is one long wait."--Ren' Maran
"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."--Epictetus
"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."--Golo Mann
"Out of the strain of Doing, into the peace of the Done."--Julia Louise Woodruff
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."--Peter Marshall
"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves."--Garth Henrichs
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."--Carl Jung
"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."--Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."--Mark Twain
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them."--William F. Halsey
"Well done is better than well said."--Benjamin Franklin
"Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped."--African proverb
"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."--Sudie Back
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why."--Bernard Baruch
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."--Samuel Johnson
"The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it."--Leo Aikman
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."--Jimmy Johnson
"If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you didn't want."--Anonymous
"Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has."--Elizabeth O'Connor
"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own."--Harold Coffin
"Envy is a waste of time."--Anonymous
"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."--Chinese proverb
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."--Sara Teasdale
"Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even."--Franklin P. Jones
"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."--Angus Grossart
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."--Roy Disney
"The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle."--Anonymous
"Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to."--Arnold H. Glasow
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road."--Henry Ward Beecher
"Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood."--Mary Hirsch
"Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations."--Ron Dentinger
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."--Tom Robbins
"One of these days is none of these days."--H. G. Bohn
"The man who has done his level best is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."--B. C. Forbes
"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."--Jacqueline Schiff
"I have two doctors, my left leg and my right."--G. M. Trevelyan
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."--Paul Dudley White
"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."--Tertullian
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."--Arthur Conan Doyle
"Every survival kit should include a sense of humor."--Anonymous
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say `I lost it.'"--Sidney J. Harris
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."--Erica Jong
"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else."--Ivern Ball
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."--Charles Buxton
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."--T. S. Eliot
"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."--Daniel Auber
"The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."--Sigmund Z. Engel
"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."--Brigitte Bardot
"You may delay, but time will not."--Benjamin Franklin
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."--Marcus Seneca
"Always aim for achievement, and forget about success."--Helen Hayes
"Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say."--William W. Watt
"Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable."--Bobby Bragan, baseball manager
"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."--Aaron Levenstein
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."--Leonardo DaVinci
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."--Nelson Mandela
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."--Buddha
"Get mad, then get over it."--Colin Powell
"He who angers you conquers you."--Elizabeth Kenny
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."--Confucius
"To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable."--Barry Goldwater
"Why not learn to enjoy the little things--there are so many of them."--Anonymous
"No one is perfect--that's why pencils have erasers."--Anonymous
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."--Elbert Hubbard
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."--Harriet Braiker
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."--Ben Williams
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."--Cicero
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."--Kurt Vonnegut
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."--James Dean
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."--Benjamin Spock
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."--Art Linkletter
"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."--Arthur P. Stanley
"There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'"--Carrie Fisher
"The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no top."--Nancy Barcus
"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final."--Anonymous
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."--Bertrand Russell
"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."--Henry David Thoreau
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."--Bertold Brecht
"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."--Ruth Benedict
"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."--William Feather
"Courage mounteth with occasion."--William Shakespeare
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."--Agnes Repplier
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."--Alan Alda
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."--Ben Stein
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."--Mary Engelbreit
"The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it."--W. Somerset Maugham
"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart."--Ruth Graham
"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."--J. M. Power
"A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective."--Andre Gide
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."--Peter Drucker
"If things go wrong, don't go with them."--Roger Babson
"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal--and soon they'll forget my number."--Edith Armstrong
"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist."--Edgar Watson Howe
"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."--Samuel Johnson
"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort."--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing."--Adolph Monod
"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views."--Abraham Lincoln
"You had better be ready to change your mind when needed."--Henry B. Wilson
"It's never too late--in fiction or in life--to revise."--Nancy Thayer
"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory."--Marshall Ferdinand Foch
"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."--Palmer Sondreal
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."--Malcolm S. Forbes
"God gave us two ends--one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose."--author unknown
"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."--Andre Maurois
"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."--Rita Mae Brown
"Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.--Anonymous
"If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns."--Anonymous
"If you add to the truth, you subtract from it."--Talmud
"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way."--John Tudor
"Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big."--Audrey Snead
"No one wants advice--only corroboration."--John Steinbeck
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."--Erica Jong
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."--Gordon R. Dickson
"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery."--Matthew Arnold
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."--Robert F. Kennedy
"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails."--Robert Half
"He that fears not the future may enjoy the present."--Thomas Fuller
"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence."--Johann Kaspar Lavater
"Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment."--Pearl Bailey
"He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life."--Henry David Thoreau
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."--John Ruskin
"You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand."--Irene C. Kassorla
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."--Harvey Fierstein
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."--Oscar Wilde
"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.
"The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend."--Marsha Mason
"You will forgive people more easily when you end your need to make them wrong."--Brian Koslow
"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."--Sigmund Freud
"Good is not good, where better is expected."--Thomas Fuller
"It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different."--Frank Crane
"Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know."--George Boas
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target."--Patrick Toche
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."--Andr' Gide
"The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."--Ivy Baker Priest
"Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?"--Anonymous
"Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction."--Oliver Prince Smith
"Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution."--Edward Somers
"If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning."--Griff Niblack
"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things."--William J. Lock
"The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser--in case you thought optimism was dead."--Robert Brault
"Optimism is the foundation of courage."--Nicholas Murray Butler
"An optimist is the human personification of spring."--Susan J. Bissonette
"Opportunity is a bird that never perches."--Claude McDonald
"Only a few things are really important."--Marie Dressler
"The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match."--Todd Ruthman
"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform."--Edward Young
"Someday is not a day of the week."--Anonymous
"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin."--Victor Kiam
"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."--Eva Young
"Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health."--Michel de Montaigne
"An apology is a good way to have the last word."--Anonymous
"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."--Daniel Webster
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."--Mark Twain
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."--George S. Patton
"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings."--C.D. Jackson
"If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over."--Anonymous
"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right."--Henry Ford
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."--Norman Vincent Peale
"The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us."--Arlene Raven
"The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else."--Roy Smith
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing."--Chuang-Tzu
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."--John Lubbock
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."--Chinese proverb
"The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it."--Anonymous
"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency."--Natalie Goldberg
"What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all."--Anonymous
"It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money."--Greek proverb
"One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach."--Knute Rockne
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.--Santayana, Essays
"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats and one always secretes too much jelly."--Virginia Woolf
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."--Thomas B. Macaulay
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."--Theodore Roosevelt
"To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid."--John Cage
"There are no rules. Just follow your heart."--Robin Williams
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."--Plutarch
"A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out."--Grace Pulpit
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities."--William Boetcker
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."--Lyndon B. Johnson
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."--Oscar Wilde
"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."--John Gay
"If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself."--Benjamin Franklin
"I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life."--Meryl Streep
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."--Sydney J, Harris
"To know just what has to be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life."--Sir William Osler
"All fear is bondage."--Anonymous
"Anything done for another is done for oneself."--Pope Boniface VIII
"Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore."--Hindu proverb
"When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems."--Suzanne Massie
"Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost."--Paul Bowles
"Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it."--Ovid
"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."--Samuel Johnson
"I know well that happiness is in little things."--John Ruskin
"A multitude of small delights constitute happiness."--Charles Baudelaire
"The mere sense of living is joy enough."--Emily Dickinson
"There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking."--Mary Lowry
"All success comes from a combination of implementation and knowledge. Knowledge alone is meaningless without action."--Brian Koslow
"The future is a great land."--Anonymous
"He that fears not the future may enjoy the present."--Thomas Fuller
"Those who lose today may win tomorrow."--Miguel de Cervantes
"The important thing is somehow to begin."--Henry Moore
"The proper function of man is to live--not to exist."--Jack London
"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."--Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is."--John L. Spalding
"We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves."--Andre Gide
"It is possible to be different and still be all right."--Anne W. Schaef
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."--Mark Twain
"Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests."--George Adams
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."--Louisa May Alcott
"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."--Ugo Betti
"Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is."--Angelo Patri
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."--Mark Twain
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are."--Saint Francis de Sales
"It is sometime expedient to forget who we are."--Publius Syrus
"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."--Plutarch
"Adversity introduces a man to himself."--Anonymous
"It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of pacific station that great characters are formed."--Abigail Adams
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."--Albert Camus
"A closed mouth gathers no feet."--Anonymous
"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live."--Elbert Hubbard
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear the Lord shall find him."--Ecclesiasticus 6:16
"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence."--William Blake
"It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them."--Joanna Field
"You will never do anything in this world without courage."--James Lane Allen
"If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job."--Malcolm Forbes
"Ultimately, love is self-approval."--Sondra Ray
"This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity."--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."--Samuel Johnson
"Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown."--Thomas F. Woodlock
"Is there no end to this escalation of desire?"--Marya Mannes
"If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get."--Vernon Luchies
"One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties."--William Matthews
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."--Sallust
"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."--Blaise Pascal
"Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend it!"--John W. Newbern
"One realm we have never conquered: the pure present."--D. H. Lawrence
"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings."--Mary Baker Eddy
"He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea."--Anonymous
"Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle."--J. E. B. Stuart
"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up."--Mark Twain
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality."--Anwar Sadat
"My opinion is a view I hold until . . . well, until I find something that changes it."--Luigi Pirandello
"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."--Mignon McLaughlin
"LUCK = laboring under controlled knowledge."--Anonymous
"You make your own luck."--Anonymous
"Choose your battles."--Anonymous
"Success is due less to ability than to zeal."--Charles Buxton
"Luck is good planning, carefully executed."--Anonymous
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling."--Lucretius
"Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come."--Janet E. Stuart
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?"--Arab proverb
"If you aren't going all the way, why go at all."--Joe Namath
"There is no man so low that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself."--Thomas L. Masson
"Fatigue is the best pillow."--Benjamin Franklin
"The pessimist is half-licked before he starts."--Thomas Buckner
"Optimism is an intellectual choice."--Diana Schneider
"You can't be pessimistic, because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic, you'd go out of business."--John DePasquale
"To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration."--Anonymous
"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for."--Joseph Addison
"My future is one I must make myself."--Louis L'Amour
"It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it."--Wally "Famous" Amos
"The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence."--Kathleen Turner
"Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor."--John Milton
"Hope is grief's best music."--Anonymous
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them and every day begin the task anew."--Saint Francis de Sales
"What isn't tried won't work."--Claude McDonald
"Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend."--Helen Keller
"A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemy."--William Wrigley, Jr.
"Doubt breeds doubt."--Franz Grillparzer
"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."--J. C. F. Schiller
"If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities."--John B. Gough
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."--Cicero
"If you think too long, you think wrong."--Jim Kaat
"The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence."--Anne O'Hare McCormick
"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."--Publilius Syrus
"He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker."--Anonymous
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."--Benjamin Mays
"Calculation never made a hero."--Cardinal Newman
"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."--Robert Pirsig
"Just do your best today and tomorrow will come. Tomorrow's going to be a busy day, a happy day."--Helen Boehm
"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."--Elbert Hubbard
"The time to hesitate is through."--Jim Morrison
"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 question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."--Ayn Rand
"If the dogs are barking at your heels, you know you're leading the pack."--Anonymous
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."--Benjamin Disraeli
"Whatever it takes."--Anonymous
"Keep on keeping on."--Anonymous
"Stick with it."--Anonymous
"Endure till the end."--Bible
"The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice."--Robert Benchley
"If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it."--Lord Brabizon
"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."--G. K. Chesterton
"In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely."--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike."--Lydia Maria Child
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."--Herman Melville
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."--Abraham Lincoln
"When you lose, don't lose the lesson."--Anonymous
"Each moment is a place you've never been."--Mark Strand
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade."--Rabindranath Tagore
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."--Mark Twain
"Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life."--Simone Weil
"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."--Lillian Dickson
"Justifying a fault doubles it."--French proverb
"I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday."--Anonymous
"Your stomach shouldn't be a waist basket."--Anonymous
"Gluttony is not a secret vice."--Orson Welles
"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."--Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."--Will Rogers
"The time is always right to do what is right."--Martin Luther King Jr.
"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."--Norman Podhoretz
"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."--Rebecca P. Sinkler
"A grownup is a child with layers on."--Woody Harrelson
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."--Vince Lombardi
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps--we must step up the stairs."--Vance Havner
"When I can look Life in the eyes, / Grown calm and very coldly wise, / Life will have given me the Truth, / And taken in exchange - my youth."--Sara Teasdale
"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study."--Chinese proverb
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."--William James
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."--Thomas Edison
"My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes--most of which never happened."--Mark Twain
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."--Benjamin Franklin
"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground."--Anonymous
"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time."--Anonymous
"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."--Anonymous
"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."--Lady Stella Reading
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."--Thomas A. Bennett
"New day--new destiny."--Bulgarian proverb
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."--T. S. Eliot
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."--Satchel Paige
"Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."--Harper Lee
"Against change of fortune set a brave heart."--French proverb
"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow."--Dan Rather
"The beginning is the half of every action."--Greek proverb
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?"--Rwandan proverb
"I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun."--Kirstie Alley
"Our only security is our ability to change."--John Lilly
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."--Francis Bacon
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."--Margaret Fuller
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."--Confucius
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"--General George S. Patton
"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing, and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"--Football coach Lou Holtz
"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."--Stevie Wonder
"The most precious things in speech are pauses."--Ralph Richardson
"Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push."--Joann Thomas
"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."--Mario Cuomo
"Tain't what a man don't know that hurts him; it's what he knows that just ain't so."--Kin Hubbard
"It is better to be un-informed than ill-informed."--Keith Duckworth
"It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."--Josh Billings
"It isn't hard to be good from time to time. What's tough is being good every day."--Willie Mays
"The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket."--Andrew Carnegie
"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works."--Miguel de Cervantes
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."--Dean Acheson
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."--Northcote Parkinson
"I don't put anything in writing. If it's important enough, you shouldn't, and if it is not important enough, why bother?"--Ditta Beard
"Life is full of obstacle illusions."--Grant Frazier
"Fear is the highest fence."--Dudley Nichols
"The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way."--Virgil
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."--Drew `Bundini' Brown
"You can't think and hit at the same time."--Yogi Berra
"The bigger they come, the harder they fall."--Bob Fitzsimmons
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."--Peter Drucker
"All things come round to him who will but wait."--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment."--George E. Woodberry
"Jealousy is the greatest of all sufferings, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it."--Paul De Gondi
"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone among smiling enemies."--Elizabeth Bowen
"O! Beware my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on."--Shakespeare (Othello)
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