"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