"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