A collection of quotes I have collected over the last 2 decades:
"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting." - John Green
"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
– Victor Borge
"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb all your interest, energy, and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well." - Sir William Osler
"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley
"laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change. kiss slowly. play hard. forgive quickly. take chances, give everything, and have no regrets. life is too short to be anything but happy."
"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before, she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect - you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.” - Bob Marley
"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life itself." - Queen Christina
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality." - Anwar Al-sadat
"We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets." - Marilyn Monroe
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." – Helen Keller
"The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart." - Mencius
"You may not always know what you've got until you lose it, but you truly never know what you've been missing until it arrives"
"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule." – Samuel Butler
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." - Judy Garland
"Life is about now knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." - Gilda Radner
"Sometimes when you let go of control you find happiness."
"In life it’s all about the flow, find your rhythm and you’ll be unstoppable”
"In the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue" - John Eldredge
"Life is about making mistakes, and death is about wishing you made a whole lot more."
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
– Peter Ustinov
“True love is one’s recognition of their counterpart in another.”
"In my opinion the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you exactly for what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person worth sticking with." - Juno
"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink, and somebody to love you." - Brendan Behan
"I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me."- Zig Ziglar
"True love is when two people know all of each others faults and weaknesses and that love each other all the more"
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." – Iris Murdoch
"To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."
"Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing."
– Buddy Hackett
"Many friends will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints on your heart."
"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it." - Madeleine L'Engle
"Whenever God Closes One Door He Always Opens Another, Even Though Sometimes It's Hell in the Hallway"
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
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg." - C.S. Lewis
"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. "
-Winston Churchill
"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time has come."
- John Ruskin
"When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, chose the bolder." - William Joseph Slim
“Sometimes these women are so easy, sometimes these women are so cold, sometimes these women seem to rip you right in two, only if you let em’ get to you” – Guns n’ Roses
“The power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, but power isn’t happiness.” – Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
“Sometimes man meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”“There is a difference between truth and fiction; fiction has to make sense.”
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." – Lady Dorothy Nevill
"It's the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it's the little differences that make them interesting."
"Don't let other people tell you what you want." – Pat Riley
"Relationships are defined not by the absence of conflict, but by how you resolve those conflicts." - Char
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." – Peter Marshall
"If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best."
" When life gives me lemons I say, ***** that give me a shot of something strong with a lime"
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's." – Billy Wilder
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
"It's OK to loose your pride over someone you love, don't loose someone you love though over your pride"
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." – Theodore Seuss Giesel
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take." – Wayne Gretsky
"When the worse of times with someone are better then the best of times with anyone else, then you know you are really in love"
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.... it's about learning to dance in the rain"
"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success, so give as much care to the end as the beginning" - Lao-Tzu.
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." – Marian Wright Edelman
“Confidence is the food of the wise man but the liquor of the fool”
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Any fool with fast hands can grab a tiger by the balls but it takes a hero to keep on squeezing."
"A lion is strongest among beasts and turneth not away from any."
- Proverbs 31:30 (Lion's Roar Kempo Karate & Jitsu motto)
"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different." – Katherine Mansfield
"Never let life's hardships disturb you…no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages."– Nichiren Daishonin
"There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who wont anymore..and who ALWAYS will. So don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future.."
"Stop trying to figure out where your going and just enjoy where your at"
"Never give up on anyone you can't go a day without thinking about"
"We are made to persist, that is how we find out who we are."
"The paths we choose make us who we are."
"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." - David Starr Jordan
"If you want me to fall for you, you have to give me something worth tripping over."
"If you expect people to disappoint you, eventually they will."
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.... it's about learning to dance in the rain"
"We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do."
"Difficulties in relationships will either push you apart or closer together; it depends on whether you blame each other or turn to each other."
"I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far--I will find you." -Nathaniel to Cora in The Last of the Mohicans
"You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belong somewhere you feel free. "
--Tom Petty, Wildflowers
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."- Martin Luther
"You can disagree without being disagreeable" - Zig Ziglar
"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Ghandi
"Do no go where the path may lead, but go where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Emerson
"Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to."
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes." - Sara Teasdale
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To respond is positive, to react is negative." - Zig Ziglar
"The real oppurtunity for success lies within the person not hte job." - Zig Ziglar
"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." - Ghandi
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"We make our fortunes and call them fate." - Benjamin Disreali
"Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality."- Cardinal Leon Suenens
"Life has no easy transitions, some things your not ready for untill after you do them."
"Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny." - Don Sutton
"Whatever comes our way, whatever battles we have raging inside of us, we always have a choice. We can choose to be the best of ourselves."
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome" - Samuel Johnson
"No man can think when his fists are clenched." - George Jean Nathan
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri-Louis Bergson
"Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night." - Zig Ziglar
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." - Tuli Kupferberg
"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
- Benjamin Mays
"Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more."
- Louis L'Amour
"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses
"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters." - Abigail Van Buren
"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere." - Louis Armstrong
"I'm a great beleiver in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"The best thing about life is that if you don't like your direction, you can always change."
"Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich." - Sir Thomas Browne
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
- William C. Durant
"Worry never robs tomorrow of it's sorrow, but only saps today of it's strength." - A.J. Cronin
"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities." - Vic Braden
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be." - Groucho Marx
"It's the heart that always sees before the head can see." - Thomas Carlyle
"It's the choices that make us who we are, and we can always choose to do what is right."
"Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals." - Zig Ziglar
"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." - Zig Ziglar
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball." - Billie Jean King
"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different." - Katherine Mansfield
"Life is not the way it's suppose to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes a difference." - Virginia Satir
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and acheiving our mark." - Michelangelo Buonarroti
"Never let life's hardships disturb you... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages." - Nichiren Daishonin
"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas A. Edison
"There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy." - Zig Ziglar
"The future belongs to those who beleive in th beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Positive thinking won't let you do anything, but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's" - Billy Wilder
"When thinking won't cure fear, action will." - William Clement Stone
"Real communication is impossible without listening." - Raplh C. Smedley
"Happiness lies in the joy of acheivement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franlin D. Roosevelt
"Do or do not. There is no try." - Master Yoda
"A ship in port is safe but that's not what ships are built for." - Grace Murray Hopper
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein
"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao-Tzu
"Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and it's spines crumble." - Admiral William Halsey
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bears arms against himself." - Alexandre Dumas
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions." - Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr.
"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when people walk on it, the road comes into existence." - Lin Yutang
"Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory." - General Douglas MacArthur
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." - Raplh Waldo Emerson
"It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts." - Oscar Levant
"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend." - Walter Savage Landor
"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your daily duties." - Doug Larson
"Success if the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Sir Winson Churchill
"I just kept doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?" - William Stafford
"We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge
"Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar." - Erica Long
"Only a man who knows what is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." - Muhammad Ali
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Elliot
"Whether you think you can or cannot, either way you are right." - Henry Ford
"In the middle of difficulty, lies oppurtunity."
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance."
"The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time." - Mozart
"SEIZE THE DAY"
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." - Tobias Wolff
"It tales struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion." - Norman Vincent Peale
"To play it safe is not to play." - Robert Altman
"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." - James Russell Lowell
"The future is going to happen whethere you are ready for it or not."
"What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared, to what lies within us."
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamons are made under pressure." - Peter Marshall
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"If people only knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." - Michelangelo
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' " - Muhammad Ali
"Optimism is the faith that leads to acheivement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Hellen Keller
"The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and acheiving a goal can be more valuable than the acheivement of the goal itself." - Bo Bennett
"And it in the end it's not the year's in your life that count, it's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
"Keep away from small people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always can do that but the the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every oppurtunity; an optimist sees the difficulty sees the oppurtunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Oppurtunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Choices are the hinges of destiny." - Pythagoras
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman
"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
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mohandas Ghandi
"Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes." - Washington Irving
"In this age, which beleives there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." - Henry Miller
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of smaller things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh
"If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be he will become what he ought to be and could be." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it." – Abraham Lincoln
"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure." – Jack Lemmon
"Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." – Ovid
"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use." – Ruth Gordon
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." – Benjamin Disraeli
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." – Amelia Earhart
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
– Henry David Thoreau
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." – F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." – Linus Pauling
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." – Beverly Sills
"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
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is." – Aleksei Peshkov
"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work." – John Lubbock
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
– St. Francis of Assisi
"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule." – Samuel Butler
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." – Alfred Adler
"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." – Iris Murdoch
"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." – Marian Wright Edelman
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." – Joseph Addison
"My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency…become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'"
– Rudolph Giuliani
"There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, 'We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.'" – Jim Collins
"Calmness is the cradle of power." – Josiah Gilbert Holland
"If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time." – Chögyam Trungpa
"I am drawn to others for their strengths especially the ones I don’t have."
"A true champion knows how to overcome doubts and manage those doubts and turn them into motivation." - Misty Hyman
"Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive." - C.S. Lewis
"We humans find a level of despair that is tolerable and call that happiness." - Soren Kierkegaard
"Strength is the ability to lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw."
"The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." – Warren Buffett
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." – Carl Jung
"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them." – Elbert Hubbard
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." – Albert Einstein
"It may be those who do most, dream most." – Stephen Leacock
"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
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." – Marcel Proust
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear." – Mark Twain
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." – John Ruskin
"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." – Orison Swett Marden
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." – T.S. Eliot
"The Lord who created you says: "Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine. When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you." - Isaiah 43:1-2
"Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and the use establish the life you experience."
"It's not how you spend your time...its who you spend it with."
"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?" – Dolores Huerta
"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them." – Bernard Baruch
"Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment."
– William Penn
"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." – Peter Drucker
"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do." – Kathleen Winsor
"Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl." – Saadi
"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."
– Channing Pollack
"When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on — for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn." – Harriet Beecher Stowe
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." – Kurt Vonnegut
"Laughter is the closest distance between two people." – Victor Borge
"I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." – Hermann Hesse
"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail."
– Dorothea Brande
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." – e. e. cummings
"Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize." – Henry James
"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
"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it." – Abraham Lincoln
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
– Alexander Graham Bell
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." – Vincent Lombardi
"Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise." – Thomas J. Watson
"If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin." – Ivan Turgenev
"We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived." – Paul Bourget
"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him." – John Steinbeck
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." – Joseph Addison
"Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish." – William Allen White
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
– Marie Curie
"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."
– From Henri Frederic Amiel
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
– Dr. Joyce Brothers
"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear." – Edward Henry Harriman
"Action is the antidote to despair." – Joan Baez
"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." – Henry Ward Beecher
"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
– Charles Caleb Colton
"Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be." – Raymond Charles Barker
"It is wisdom to believe the heart." – George Santayana
"A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." – Albert Einstein
"None will improve your lot if you yourself do not." – Bertolt Brecht
"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
– Sigmund Freud
"Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that." – Harold Kushner
"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
– Swami Sivananda Saraswati
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time." – Anna Freud
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." – Marie Curie
"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart." – Blaise Pascal
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
– Freya Stark
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."
– Josh Billings
"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." – Lucille Ball
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Elanor Roosevelt
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." – Dag Hammarskjöld
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." – Phillips Brooks
"Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
– Jacob Braude
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."– James Bryant Conant
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." – Victoria Holt
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
– Winston Churchill
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
– Anatole France
"The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling... And even more beautiful, is knowing that you are the reason behind it!"
"good is the enemy of great"
"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it." — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
"It's not about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit and still keep moving forward." - Rocky Balboa
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
– Robin Williams
"I've got to say no to the good so I can say yes to the best." - Zig Ziglar
"It is better to make new mistakes than it is to repeat the old ones."
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
– Henry Van Dyke
"We gain a lot of ground because we both give a little. There ain't no road too long when we meet in the middle." - Diamond Rio
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time." – Herbert Bayard Swope
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time."
– Herbert Bayard Swope
"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger." Proverbs 15:1
FRANK SINATRA - Young-at-Heart
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you
If you're young at heart
For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind
If you're young at heart
You can go to extremes with impossible schemes
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams
And life gets more exciting with each passing day
And love is either in your heart or on its way
Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on Earth
To be young at heart
For as rich as you are it's much better by far
To be young at heart
And if you should survive to 105
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive
Then here is the best part
You have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart
And if you should survive to 105
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive
Then here is the best part
You have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.
- Andrew Carnegie
Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together.
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Billy Graham
“our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison
