A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
Unknown
Teach me, my God and King,
In all things thee to see,
And what I do in anything,
To do it as for thee.
George Herbert
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who
have been distinguished in
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult
to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
Cicero
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I
was practicing for this, I was training for this.
Epictetus (55-135 AD)
A friend is one who
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one
is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly
seen and deeply felt good.
Ruth Benedict
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to
contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one
man's life.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
A person shows their true self by how much they need
other people.
Anonymous
Humor is something that thrives
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control
emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes (1904-1990)
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation
excellent. I shall attack.
Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929)
Gratitude is the most exquisite
Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and
does it well.
E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and
noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard
to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master
craftsman.
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every
day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves:
This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have
hitherto done is naught!
Thomas A. Kempis
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
It is
There is nothing so comfortable as money, - but nothing
so defiling if it be come by unworthily; nothing so
comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be
allowed to dwell upon it constantly. If a man have
enough, let him spend it freely. If he wants it,let him earn
it honestly.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren (1934- )
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come
alive...
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an
enemy.
Howard W. Newton
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are
sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
Anotole France
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every
day I
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all
your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and
fears.
Glenn Clark
Wealth amounts in not having great possessions but in
having few wants.
EPICURIS
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window
through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Inches make champions.
Vince Lombardi
The various religions are like different roads converging
on the same point. What difference does it make if
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with
your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and
his limitations.
There is more logic in humor than in anything else.
Because, you see, humor is truth.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to
create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you
must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
A person's abilities are tested best when
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's
superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary (1914-1980) French Writer
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly
fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity;
but which kindles up, and
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be
victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for
wrong ones in the past.
Tyron Edwards
It is important that we plan for the future, imperative that
we accept an outcome
There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to
the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in
doing good.
Tillotson
Remember always that you have not only the right to be
an individual; you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hard things
We come into this world crying while all around us are
smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world
smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
Persian proverb
The journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step.
Lao Tse
Not everything that can be counted
Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to
the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.
John Richelsen
What you can do, or think you can, begin it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's
experience.
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking
risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Paul Valery
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
Ruth McKenney
Independence, like honour, is a rocky island without a
beach.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or
pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a
portrait of
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady
resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal.
Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly
learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the
tragic brevity of time.
W.J. Davison
He has the right to
It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see
it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
Lady Bird Johnson (1912- )
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their
tremendous difficulties.
Spurgeon
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul,
impossibilities vanish.
Jean de la Fontaine
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not
bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that
I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand
with
Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking
for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they
who will reach the top-most height.
Buddha
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll
He can do more for others who has done most
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem
with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is
demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is,
to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
That's what it takes to be a
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are
right.
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Isaac Watts
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule
to read some poetry and listen to some music at
The people with whom you work reflect your own
attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and
condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed
all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you
will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are
going to spend most
The influence of each human being on others in this life
is a kind of immortality.
John Quincy Adams
To err is human; to blame it on the other guy is even more
human.
Bob Goddard
To be brave you must see the danger and feel the fear;
only then will you know what must be
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and
that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
John Farrar (1945-)
The sufferings of love should ennoble, not degrade.
George Sand
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the
great temptation,
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good
intention.
Duguet
Success doesn't happen. It is organized, preempted,
captured, by consecrated common sense.
F.E. Willard
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already
come. 'Tis grace that hath brought me
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching
down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
Thinking, said the little boy, is when your mouth stays
shut and your head keeps talking to itself.
Arkansas Baptist
We each have all the time there is; our mental and
The beginning of wisdom is silence.
The second step is listening.
Anonymous
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady
resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal.
Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly
learned the immense importance of plan in
Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul.
From an old English prayer.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a
good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac B. Singer
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another
person.
Bruce Lee
The
No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him
insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes
was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience,
he fled from no danger through cowardice.
J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte
The most important thing I have
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and
you will help them become what they are capable of
becoming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and
internal peace - a
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English proverb
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn
up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't
turn up at all.
Sam Ewig
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without
it one cannot
It is more important to know where you are going than to
get there quickly.
Mabel Newcomber
Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace during
a storm.
Anonymous
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Italian Proverb
All appears to change when we change.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover
ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
We don't want to live in the past, but we do need to learn
to live comfortably with it.
Anon.
It is easier to live through some one else than to become
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God,
but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
George MacDonald
Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV
set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love,
by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that
Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a
definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man,
and then strive mightily toward that goal.
Harold E. Stassen
One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck
When we do the best we can, we never know
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work.
Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.
Thomas Robert Gaines
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor
the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the
spiritual inspiration
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles.
Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are
battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who
are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Anger is a prelude to courage.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do
and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George S. Patton
For all the sadness of closure, there is a new and joyful
unfolding in the process of becoming.
Mary Casey
Few things are created and
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Terence
In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory:
magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
Sir Winston Churchill
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly
balanced courses of action you should take - choose the
bolder.
W.J. Slim
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to
work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Be true to your work, your
There is nothing so comfortable as money, - but nothing
so defiling if it be come by unworthily; nothing so
comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be allowed
to dwell upon it constantly. If a man have enough, let him
spend it freely. If he wants it, let him earn it honestly.
A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the
view.
Wilma Askinas (1926- )
F.E.A.R. = Frustration, Ego, Anxiety and Resentment.
Anonymous
The content of a man's character, is not where he stands in
times of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we
sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I
think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee (1944- )
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to
repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what
is good.
Calvin Coolidge
Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
Frank J. Giblin, II
The best mask for demoralization is daring.
Lucan
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one
of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and
is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I
found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing,
and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
Anger is a prelude to courage.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch
and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one
of my friends who expects everything of the
Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed.
Virgil
Grief and crisis
. . . accept it as a wise teacher.
Anon
Few things are created and perfected all at the same time.
It takes effort, work, and dedication to achieve your goal.
John Dillow
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more
than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake (1757-1827)
There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows
word and word follows thought.
People call me an optimist, but I'm really an
appreciatorWhen I was six years old and had scarlet
fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved
my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers...I
appreciate where we've come from.
Julian Simon
Nobody has things
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by
what we give.
Norman MacFinan
He has served who now and then
Has helped along his fellowmen.
Edgar A. Guest
The three great essentials to achieving anything
worthwhile are; first, hard work, second,
stick-to-it-iveness,
Attitude determines altitude.
Unknown
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is
everything.
Lee Iococca
Work like you dont need the money!
Dance like no ones watching!
Love like you have never been hurt!
Anon
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the
vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb
... human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their
minds, can change the outer aspect
IF YOU ALWAYS DO
WHAT YOU ALWAYS DID
YOU WILL ALWAYS GET
WHAT YOU ALWAYS GOT.
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We are continually faced with a series of great
opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. Gardner
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
The persistent human cry is, Hold me tight.
Donald Joy
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be
altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle
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Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to
succeed.
David Viscott
When all else fails, read the instructions.
Agnes Alien
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
Age, is a matter of the mind...
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Unknown
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is
keep on walking.
Buddhist Proverb
Progress, Not Perfection.
Alcoholics Anonymous slogan
He slept beneath the moon;
He basked behind the sun;
He lived a life of going-to-do;
And died with nothing done
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there
lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
French Writer
So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man,
regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to
every man his right to live,
The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of
man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man
cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the
hope of favors to be received.
Confucius (551-479 BC)
Life is not life at all without delight.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make
leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by
others.
William Hazlitt
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every
time you meet a human being.
Jane
At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then
inevitable.
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take
the reason of the thing into your mind and then look
forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot
be changed.
Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity
on the inside.
Brian Tracy
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the
whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of
brains.
Dutch Proverb
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but
each one of us can work to change a small portion of
events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the
history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in
our
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I
call can defend against its forceMy love will melt all
hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.
Og Mandino
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil,
but from the temper of the sufferer.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity
grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972
Some days I feel like a tightrope walker.
Jeannette N.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness
than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Information is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Don't listen to anyone who
Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his
virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold
up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do
and win out.
Eleanor Porter (1868-1920)
American Novelist
If you just keep playing,
...have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to
raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is
in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.
Harold E. Stassen
The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.
Ann Landers
Passion is the
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice
how he acts when he loses money.
New England Proverb
One cannot have wisdom without living life.
Dorothy McCall
Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the
great values of life. We can't prove them,
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
Jonathan Winters
I think my peace comes from my good fortune.
Jim Burns
The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner
feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a
dynamic power moving out into the
It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets.
Genoese Proverb
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by
his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.
Blaise Pascal
I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard
slogging. There will be
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in
prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace (65-8 BC)
Roman Poet
In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned
about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost
Human pain does not let go of
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test
first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of
lions led by a sheep.
Arab proverb
Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
There was nobody there.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus 525-456 BC
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are
right.
Henry Ford
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than
raising the voice.
Stanley Horowitz
When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways
are hard and steep.
Kahlil Gibran
If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a
great risk of our compassion
Being defeated is often only a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
You're never too old to grow up.
Shirley Conran
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not
Why should I? When somebody insulted Caruso, did he
sing an aria for them? - Explaining why he did not hit a
motorist after the latter abused him following an accident.
Joe Louis (1914-1981)
American Heavyweight Boxer
We do not have to get caught in the middle of other
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do. But I think
you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no
one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams
US tennis champion
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Genuine security arises from actual, first-hand knowledge
that one is both capable and worthy of achieving
happiness (through conscious, responsible action) and,
once having attained it, that he deserves it.
Michael J. Hurd
American Motivational Speaker
My father taught me
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the
achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course
in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human
race.
Ernest L. Woodward
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right
person, at the right time,
The lover knows much more about absolute good and
universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless
the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
Those who turn good (organizations) into great
(organizations) are motivated by a deep creative urge and
an inner
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth,
and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement
and surely lead the way to usefulness and high
achievement.
Grover Cleveland
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
If you
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere,
wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or
reservation.
William H. Sheldon
I can't handle it, God. You take over.
Anonymous
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man
has many--not on your
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes
us feel fulfilled.
Dr. Benjamin Spock
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control
emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark
I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough
money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little
surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work
each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share
of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and
children to share
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life
in your own way.
Anonymous
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be
miserable.
Anonymous
It is far more impressive when others discover your good
qualities without your help.
Judith Martin
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but
win out in the end because they've stayed true to their
ideals and beliefs and commitments.
Actor Kevin Costner
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book
and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or
Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's
experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that
which we take the least care of all
There is work that is work and there is play that is play;
there is play that is work and work that is play. And in
only one of these lie happiness.
Gelett Burgess
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
John Dryden
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
. . . concern should drive us into action and not into
depression.
Karen Horney
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth
of your convictions.
William F. Scolavino
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects
he pursues.
Marcus Aurelius
I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy
woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares
but has learned how to deal with them.
Beverly Sills (1929-)
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have
but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and
never turn back.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask
any woman.
Peter Mayle (1939-)
British Author and Writer
Give as
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things
when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got
the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
Janet Erskine Stuart
When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the
risk and sometimes you fail. But you only
The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
Ovid
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
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