"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson

"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past." - Eric Hoffer

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds ... all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have." - Edward Everett Hale

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else." - Mitch Albom

"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." - George Sand

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have." - Ralph Marston

“But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.” - Matthew 2:6

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” - Anthony Robbins

"It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." - Kahil Gibran

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting." - Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." - Helen Keller

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us." - Charles de Gaulle

"Jesus said, 'If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.'" - John 8:31-32

"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price." - Amelia Earhart

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be." - Samuel Johnson

"Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?" - Dennis and Wendy Mannering

"If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?" - Shantideva

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." - Sam Levenson

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison

"God must become an activity in our consciousness." - Joel S. Goldsmith

"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing." - Simone de Beauvoir

"Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness." - Ayn Rand

"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything." - Win Borden

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday." - Brian Tracy

"Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts." - Kjell Magne Bondevik

"Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name." - Psalm 86:11

"Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell." - Psalm 43:3

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us." - Oprah Winfrey

"Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth... Tame the dragon and the gift is yours." - Noela Evans

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." - Leo F. Buscaglia

"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open." - Elmer G. Letterman

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." - Henry Winkler

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power." - Washington Irving

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." - W. T. Purkiser

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." - Julia Sorel

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." - American Indian Proverb

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together." - Yo-Yo Ma

"Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day." - Sanskrit Proverb

"Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life." - Billy Mills

"Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty." - Robert Frost

"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves." - Salma Hayek

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Og Mandino

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." - Brian Adams

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." - Jimmy Carter

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." - Norman Vincent Peale

"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted." - Og Mandino

"Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living." - Mary Tyler Moore

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there." - Eric Hoffer

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge

"We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it." - Michel de Montaigne

"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be." - Joseph Campbell"

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." - Socrates

"Everything will be all right in the end; if it's not all right then it's not the end." - Unknown

"Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds." - Hugh Elliott

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose." - George Lucas

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had." - Erica Jong

"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side." - Scott Westerfeld

"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." - Doug Larson

"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 Ewing

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities." - Oscar Wilde

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish Proverb

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid

"Keep your chin up and you will see the clouds in the sky. Keep your chin down and all you will see is the dirt on the floor." - Shelley L. Young

"You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested." - Robert J. Sawyer

"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing." - Alexander Woollcott

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."- Hyman Rickover

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning." - John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters." - Margaret Peters

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Anonymous

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." - Japanese Proverb

"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs." - Joan Didion

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option." - Nina Potts-Jefferies

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." - Eddie Cantor

"You may delay, but time will not." - Benjamin Franklin

"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success." - Diana Rankin

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalynn Carter

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." - Jonathan Winters

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object." - Milan Kundera

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait." - Ellen Metcalf

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." - Lord Chesterfield

"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day." - Sharon Gold

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great." - Johann Georg von Zimmermann

"When a dog runs at you, whistle for him." - Henry David Thoreau

"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it." - Mark Twain

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Alva Edison

"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity." - William A. Ward

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." - Seneca

"We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief." - Heidi Wills

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." - Charles Dudley Warner

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." - Frank Crane

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." - Oscar Wilde

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." - Benjamin Franklin.

"I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress." - George H.W. Bush

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino

"America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining." - George W. Bush

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You just can't beat the person who won't give up." - Babe Ruth

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary." - Vince Lombardi

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schulz

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." - Victor Hugo

"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along." - Madeleine L'Engle

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." - Sonya Friedman

"Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek & find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." - James Allen

"It's better to be late in this life, than early in the next." - Straight Lines "Runaway Now"

"Happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it but only YOU can feel the warmth." - Ashton Kutcher

"Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead." - Mac McCleary

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby." - Ruth Renkel

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." - William Ellery Channing

"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water." - Miguel de Cervantes

"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition." - Sir William Osler

"Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last." - Greg Evans

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman

"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it." - Salma Hayek

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are." - Malcolm Forbes

"Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal." - Cory Doctorow

"Make your life a mission --- not an intermission." - Arnold Glasgow

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Cicero

"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy." - Jim Rohn

"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me." - John Erskine

"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness." - Sir Robert Hutchinson

"Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." - Josh Billings

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." - Tom Brokaw

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." - Robert Fripp

"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent." - John F. Kennedy

"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." - Dutch Proverb

"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them." - Jim Rohn

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

"Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding." - Proverbs 23:23

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein

"Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do." - Bettina Arndt

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without." - James C. Dobson

"By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation." - Oscar Wilde

"Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about." - Dave Mustaine

"The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence." - Robert J. Shiller

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." - John F. Kennedy

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca, Roman philosopher

"How long should you try? Until." - Jim Rohn

"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind." - Austin O'Malley

"If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction." - Martin Kornfeld

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." - Miguel de Cervantes

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz

"All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Reggie Leach

"Nothing is easy to the unwilling." - Nikki Giovanni

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." - Charlotte Bronte

"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent." - Krishnamurti

"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character." - Grenville Kleiser

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day." - Albert Camus

"My interest is in the future... because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there." - Charles Kettering

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?" - Bernadette Peters

"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need." - Voltaire

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." - Phyllis Diller

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!" - C.S. Lewis

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Louis D. Brandeis

"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." - Thucydides

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen." - Rod McKuen

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it." - Theodore Roosevelt

"You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me." - Scott Adams

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on." - Bob Newhart

"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

"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good." - Malcolm Gladwell

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." - Robert H. Goddard

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." - H. Jackson Browne

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Robert Frost

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." - Henry David Thoreau

"Put up with it and you will get more of it." - Lynne Deal

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Brandi Snyder

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." - Titus Livius

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such." - Henry Miller

"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." - Ann Landers

"To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success." - Henry John Heinz

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!" - Marvin Phillips

"Laughter is much more important than applause.
Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward." - Carol Channing

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

"Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life." - Robert Brault

"Don't be afraid of showing your feelings; be afraid of regretting it when you didn't." - Laura Springer

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be." - Wayne Gretzky

"Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise." - John M. Capozzi

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." - Jim Rohn

Some People

"Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same." - Flavia Weedn

"You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." - Meredith Willson

"Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it." - Dianne Houston

"Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music." - George Bernard Shaw

"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" - Basil S. Walsh

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." - James Allen

"All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago." - Rudyard Kipling

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." - H. G. Wells

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time." - Saint Francis de Sales

"He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it." - Pierre Charron

"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." - Arthur Hays Sulzberger

"You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are." - Anna Quindlen

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." - Cherokee Expression

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." - Abigail Adams

Be mindful what you toss away, be careful what you push away, and think hard before walking away." - Anonymous

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." - Niels Bohr

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." - Clarence Thomas

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." - Henry J. Kaiser

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Dennis P. Kimbro

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time." - Anna Freud

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle

"If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - General George S. Patton

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." - John Adams

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James

"DO NOT make someone a priority in your life if you are ONLY an option in theirs." - Unknown

"All that I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." - George Washington

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." - Chinese Proverb

"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself." - H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities." - Napoleon Hill

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - Colette

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"Time sets the stage; fate writes the script; but only we may choose our character." - Liam Thomas Ryder

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

"We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players." - Doc Searls

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." - Jessica Guidobono

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it." - Edith Wharton

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." - Charles M. Schulz

"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn." - David Russell

"Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down." - Wilson Mizner

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice." - William Shakespeare

"The most profound statements are often said in silence." - Lynn Johnston

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends." - Jacques Delille

"If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague." - Jerry Seinfeld

"Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. This is a process that requires trust and builds trust." - Mary Field Belenky

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin

"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth." - Chuck Norris

"Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive." - Eric A. Burns

"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved." - Michel de Montaigne

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg." - Anonymous

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth." - Friedrich von Schiller

"The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose." - Heda Bejar

"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round." - James Corbett

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair." - Sam Ewing

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” - Dr. Seuss

"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." - Sir Norman Wisdom

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." - Etty Hillesum

"The angel said to the women, 'Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.'..." - Matthew 28:5-6

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." - Abigail Van Buren

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." - Robert H. Schuller

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." - Bill Cosby

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new." - Og Mandino

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Einstein

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong

"The more you know, the less you need." - Aboriginal Saying

"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed." - Chinese Proverb

"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst." - Marcus Valerius Martialis

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." - David Starr Jordan

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington

"So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin." - W. Clement Stone

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor." - Benjamin Franklin

"Determine never to be idle ... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." - Thomas Jefferson

"Little by little, one travels far." - J. R. R. Tolkien

“For each petal on the shamrock this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck and happiness for today and every day.” - Irish Blessing

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... unless you fail to make the turn." - Anonymous

"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have." - Kathleen A. Sutton

"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." - Anonymous

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." - Paul Goodman

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death." - Lyman Beecher

"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can't get more time." - Jim Rohn

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." - J. K. Rowling

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it." - George F. Burns

"Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." - Mother Teresa

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"You always pass failure on the way to success." - Mickey Rooney

"If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." - Vince Lombardi

"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it." - Bill Bernbach

"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne

"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours." - Sam Ewing

"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else." - Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul

"All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that." - Baltasar Gracian

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." - Carrie Fisher

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." - Saint Jerome

"Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there." - David Zucker

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, or even touched; they must be felt with the heart" - Helen Keller

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." - Abraham Maslow

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.” - Emil Ludwig

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." - Bonnie Prudden

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love." - Pearl Buck

"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical." - Trey Parker/Matt Stone

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back." - Abigail Van Buren

"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it." - Elbert Hubbard

Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet. Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along. - J.W. (Joseph Warren) Watson

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light." - Jennie Jerome Churchill

"Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool." - Isaiah 1:18

"Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever." - Author Unknown

"When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure." - Alice Hoffman

"A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go." - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood." - William Penn

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

"It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world." - Al Franken

"Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6

"Snowmen fall from heaven ... unassembled." - Anonymous

“Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.” - Sarah Caldwell

"If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result." - John Abrams

"Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One." - Benjamin Franklin

"The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie" - Ann Landers

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"Believe and receive salvation, or doubt and do without." - Andrew Wommack

"In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend." - Solon

"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." - Anonymous

"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness." - Nicole Kidman

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it." - Alan Saporta

"Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long." - Psalm 25:4-5

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." - Benjamin Disraeli

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." - Albert Schweitzer

"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in." - Katherine Mansfield

"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker." - Zig Ziglar

"God determines who walks into your life ... it's up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go." - Anonymous

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Allen

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C. S. Lewis

"Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee." - Revelation 3:3

"Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for." - Chuck Danes

"We are like tea bags ... we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water." - Sister Busche

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." - Italian Proverb

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." - Samuel Johnson

"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders." - Abigail Van Buren

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves." - Maria Edgeworth

"The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong." - Sir Colin Marshall

"The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered." - Tina Turner

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." - Dr. Dale Turner

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." - Edith Lovejoy Pierce