Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom
"Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." – Dale Carnegie
"Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open." – Unknown
"The last thing one knows is what to put first." – Blaise Pascal
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." – Albert Einstein
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." – Charles Dederich
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. – General Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army General
"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." – Wayne Gretzky
"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it." – Mark Twain
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better [person]." – Benjamin Franklin

"No one can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." – Unknown

"A man's make [character] can be seen by the way that he treats those who are of absolutely no value to him." – Unknown

"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

"I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail." – Jim Elliot

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." – Cyril Connolly

"Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell." – C.T. Studd

"Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many." – J. Hudson Taylor.
"A person all wrapped up in himself makes a very small package." – Anon
"He who throws mud loses ground." – Anon
"The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others, we will do nothing to benefit ourselves." – Carl Holmes
"People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner of later to find time for illness." – John Wanamaker
"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail." – John Wooden

"Reputation is what you are in the light; character is what you are in the dark." – American Proverb

"Nothing would be done at all if a man or woman waited until they could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." – John Henry Newman

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes" – Emily
Dickinson
"What the vast majority of American children need is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." – Ann Landers
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings." – Hodding Carter
The following are quotes from Billy Graham
"Overcoming Adversity: Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has."
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened."
"Business: Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything."
"Attitude: If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life."
"Belief: We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us."
"Character: When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." – Abraham Lincoln
"Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility greater than themselves. People who, despite their doubts and fears, commit themselves to action. People who go beyond their limits in what they think is possible." – Joan Holmes
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." – Edmund Burke
"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within." – Earl Nightingale
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world." – Dr. Wayne Dyer
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself." – Thomas Paine
"The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things." – Brian Tracy
"When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit. This stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters." – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." – Margaret Mead, anthropologist
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in." – Theodore Roosevelt
"How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to change the world." – Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." – Booker T. Washington
"Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." – Edmund Everett Hale
"Life...it tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations." – Richard M. DeVos
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." – Robert F. Kennedy
"The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true." – Roger von Oech
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting." – Brian Tracy
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." – Norman MacEwan
"Giving is the greatest way to receive." – Rick Beneteau
"It is easy to be wise after the event." – Proverb
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment." – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Religion is not the way to God. Christianity in and of itself is not the way to God. Jesus Christ is the only way to God." – Dick Innes
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." – Peter Drucker
"When you lose, don't lose the lesson." – Anon.

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." – Mark Twain
"It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame." – R.S. Trapp
"The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun." – Napoleon Hill

"I tell them that if you stay committed, your dreams can come true. I'm living proof of it. I left home at 17 and had nothing but rejections for 25 years. I wrote more than 20 screenplays, but I never gave up." – Michael Blake (author of Dances With Wolves)
Sunny Daze Are Here Again: Thank you God for sun and rain | For joy and sorrow, bliss and pain | For battles lost and battles won | For precious glimpses of your Son." – Submitted by Sandra Herron
"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward." – Igor Sikorsky
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." – Mark Twain
"Bob Hope was often asked why he doesn't retire and go fishing. He had one stock answer, 'Fish don't applaud.'" – Unknown
"Remember, life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." – Angela Akers
"Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world." – Archimedes (287 B.C.-212 B.C)
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." – Colin Powell
"Every farmer knows that you can't sow and reap on the same day. There is a timetable for your harvest that requires both working and waiting. Patience is a small price to pay for what you will receive." – Neil Eskelin
A friend is someone who knows the song of your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten the words." – Unknown
"Give light and the people will find their own way." – Motto of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
"Always take a job that is too big for you." [It will help you stretch and grow.] – Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Fear is the imaginary mountain that hides the horizon." – Rick Beneteau
"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house." – Danish Proverb
"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched—they must be felt with the heart" – Helen Keller
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." – William Wordsworth
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." – William Arthur Ward
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." – Elizabeth Bibesco
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." – Cicero, Roman statesman
"If you never learn the language of gratitude you'll never be on speaking terms with happiness." – Proverb
"When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree." – Vietnamese saying
"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." – Thomas Fuller
"Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Fear is." – Verna Dozier
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." – Aldous Huxley
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." – Maori Proverb
"Seek beauty and miss love. But seek love and find both." – Max Lucado
"You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors." – Janusz Korcza
"Reading without reflection is like eating without digesting." – Edmund Burke
"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." – Lillian Dickson
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." – Oprah Winfrey
"What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us." – Jean-Paul Sartre
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving." – Dale Carnegie
"Every failure is a challenge. If taken as a feedback, you are bent to succeed!" – Unknown
"Remember, what we allow we encourage." – Michael Josephson
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." – Bill Gates
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things." – Lawrence Bell
"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything—or nothing." – Lady Astor
"Behind every success is a succession of failures." – Rick Beneteau
"On anniversaries the wise husband always forgets the past ... but never the present." – Unknown
"Trouble in marriage often starts when a man gets so busy earning his salt that he forgets his sugar." – Unknown
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you." – T.S. Eliot
Someone once said to Helen Keller, "What a pity you have no sight!" Helen Keller replied, "Yes, but what a pity so many have sight but cannot see!"
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me!" – Cited by Andy Chap
"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength." – Ralph Sockman
"The seeds of our death are present at the moment of our conception." – Dick Innes
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off your bow-lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain
"We don't have to be sick to get better." – Michael Josephson
"There's no doubt that our character has a profound effect on our future. What we must remember, however, is not merely how powerful character is in influencing our destiny, but how powerful we are in shaping our own character and, therefore, our own destiny. Character may determine our fate, but character is not determined by fate." – Michael Josephson of Character Counts
"Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of Wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation." – Thomas Jefferson
"Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you." – Brian Tracy
"I missed all the shots I never took." – Wayne Gretsky, Ice Hockey star
"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." – Arnold Glasgow
"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwellings. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences." – Norman Cousins
"The best portion of a good man's life—his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." – William Wordsworth
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." – John Wooden
"Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age." – Jeanne Moreau
"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge." – John Wesley
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'" – Erich Fromm
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." – Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
"You don't do drugs; drugs do you." – Unknown
"Where there's a will, there's a way." – Unknown
"There are two things you don't want to be: a user or someone who is used." – Michael Josephson
"If you're going to spend your life climbing the ladder of success, be sure it is leaning against the right wall." – Derived from Stephen Covey
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." – Les Brown
"Necessity is not a fact, it's an interpretation." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs—jolted by every pebble in the road." – Henry Ward Beecher
"If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself." –American Proverb
"Where there's a will there's a way." – Anon
"Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, 'Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep.' Woman says, 'Ain't no sheep!'" – Jim Rohn
"If it is to be, It is up to me." – William H. Johnson
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world." – Dr. Wayne Dyer
The following quotes from Andy Chaps Andychaps@aol.com: "To become a great communicator, live what you say."

"If you're gonna talk the talk, you better walk the walk."

"A person's message cannot be easily separated from their own character and credibility."
"Some people's Actions speak so much louder than their words, that their words are never heard."
"In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY."
Pray towards heaven but row towards the shore." – Unknown
"Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead, tell your storm how big your God is." – Unknown
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off your bow-lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain
"Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth." – Psalm 57:5 (NIV)
"A wise man lays a firm foundation with the bricks others throw at him." – Unknown
"Compassion puts love into action." – Unknown
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." – Maya Angelou
"Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of success."– Denis Waitley
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." – David Starr Jordan
There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family Bible to her brother in another part of the country. "Is there anything breakable in here?" asked the postal clerk. "Only the Ten Commandments," answered the lady.
Children have more need of models than of critics." – Joseph Joubert
Gabby Kennard flew solo around the world and said, "If it's not worth dying for, it's not worth living for!" – Unknown
"Almost all your unhappiness in life comes from your tendency to blame someone else for something." – Brian Tracy
"Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'" – Jim Rohn
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence of but in the mastery of his passions." – Alfred Lord Tennyson
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." – St. Thomas Aquinas
"When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish—it is then that you must not hesitate." – Dag Hammarskjold
"If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today." – Gandhi on Christianity
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." – Chinese Proverb
"A father may know best, but a mother cares best, and children will pick caring over knowing every time." – Eric Fellman
"If humans evolved from apes, why do we still have apes?" – Unknown
"One person with passion is better than forty who are merely interested." – Thomas K. Connellan
"Virtue does not consist so much in abstaining from vice, as in not having an affection for it." – W.T. Eldridge
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips." – Oliver Goldsmith
"One of our greatest strengths is to admit our weaknesses and mistakes. Only then can we ever overcome them. Denial traps us in the web of our own insecurities." – Dick Innes
"Denying our actions when we have done wrong and willfully continuing with these wrong or sinful actions can readily lead to a seared conscience." – Dick Innes
"Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing. Either you have it or you don't." – Peter Scotese
"Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected." – William Safire
Dr. W. A. Criswell, the beloved pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, was once asked, "Will we know each other when we get to heaven?" His answer, "We won't really know each other UNTIL we get to heaven."
If the stars are the wrong side of heaven, just imagine what the right side will be!" – Unknown
"Pray towards heaven but row towards the shore." – Unknown
"Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead, tell your storm how big your God is." – Unknown
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off your bow-lines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." – Mark Twain
"Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the
earth." – Psalm 57:5 (NIV)
"A wise man lays a firm foundation with the bricks others throw at him." – Unknown
"Compassion puts love into action." – Unknown
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." – Maya Angelou
"Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of success." – Denis Waitley
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." – David Starr Jordan
There was a very gracious lady who was mailing an old family Bible to her brother in another part of the country. "Is there anything breakable in here?" asked the postal clerk. "Only the Ten Commandments," answered the lady.
"Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less" – Rabbi Julius Gordon
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven." – Thomas Fuller
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." – Theodore Roosevelt
"Most people spend more time planning a vacation or a party than they spend planning their lives." – Denis Waitley
"Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of." – Agnes Allen
"The best proof of love is trust." – Joyce Brothers, Psychologist
"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse." – Helen Keller
"Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding." – Harvey Mackay
"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
"Those who don't get their feet wet don't catch fish." – Chinese Proverb
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." –William Arthur Ward
"Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb." – D.L. Moody
"It's the little things we do—not the big things—that define who we truly are." – Dick Innes
"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving." – Henry Ford
"Saying 'yes' to God means saying a thousand 'no's' to other things!" – Doug Newton
"Never assume the obvious is true." – William Safire, Journalist
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." – Sally Koch
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." – Benjamin Disraeli
"Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against—not with—the wind." – Hamilton Mabie
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." – William Shakespeare
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." – English Proverb
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." – S. Freud
"The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship." – Barbara DeAngelis
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." – Mario Cuomo (Famous former Italian governor of New York)
"The greatest thing a FATHER can do to his children, is to love their mother." – Anjaneth Garcia Untalan
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father." – Pope John XXIII
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." – Jim Valvano
"My father had his struggles, was misunderstood by many (including myself), but he gave me what I believe was the greatest gift any child could ever receive—he took me to a church where I learned about God and His plan of eternal salvation through Jesus Christ my Lord." – Dick Innes
Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts you are either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."
– Frederick Buechner
"Man's extremity is God's opportunity." – John Flavel
"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting." – Carlos Casteneda
"Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!" – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Complaining about the boss won't make the boss a better boss. It will make you a bitter employee." – Schlesinger
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs—jolted by every pebble in the road." – Henry Ward Beecher
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." – Albert Camus
"Rivers know that there is no hurry. We shall all get there one day." – Winnie the Pooh
"God made time, but man made haste." – Irish Proverb
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." – Winston Churchill
"Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." – Carl W. Buechner
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say." – Martin Luther, Priest, Scholar, Reformer
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." – Michelangelo Buonarroti
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." – Soren Kierkegaard
"Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own." – Charles Scribner Jr., Publisher
"It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness." – Henri-Dominique Lacordaire
"There's a big difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do." — Potter Stewart
"Yet, in the end, the purpose of our work is not just to make a living, but to make a life. And, when it's all over, we will be judged not by what we have, but by what we have become." – Michael Josephson
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents." – Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader. – Dolly Parton Entertainer
"Stop stewing and start doing!" – Denis Waitley
"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." – Victor Hugo
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." – John Quincy Adams
"Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement." – Denis Waitley
"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." – Alfred Mercier
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." – Zig Ziglar
"The imTechnology is like a steamroller. If you're not on the steamroller, then you are destined to become part of the road." – Bits & Pieces
"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere." – Charles Kettering
"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." – Louis Nizer
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." – Jeanne Moreau
"What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." – Paul Boese
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots." – Unknown
"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions." – Unknown
possible is often the untried." – Jim Goodwin

"One of the things my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations." – Tiger Woods, Golfer
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones" (Proverbs 16:24, NIV).
"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." – Michael Landon, former actor
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important." – C.S. Lewis
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." – Demosthenes
"Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint, and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give." – Anthony Norvell
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." – Peter Drucker, Educator, Author
"People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed." – Bob Moawad
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." – Denis Waitley
"He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy." – Bible (Proverbs 28:13 NIV)
"The glad hand is all right in sunshine, but it's the helping hand on a dark day that folks remember to the end of time." – Amadeo P. Giannini
"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayer." – J. Sidlow Baxter
Deacon to minister in church: "We need better communication in this church!" Minister (impatiently): "Yes, but I don't want to talk about it now."
"The wise don't expect to find life worth living ... they make it that way." – Author Unknown
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian." – Dennis Wholey
"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results." – Florence Nightingale

"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself." – Florence Nightingale
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." – John Quincy Adams
"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed." – Jim Rohn
"Absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence." – Unknown
"We can chart the path to the future clearly and wisely only when we know the path that has led to the present." – Adlai Stevenson, US Senator
"Let us make all of our choices, not by default, but by very careful and prayerful planning, for the choices we make will make us—for time and eternity." – Dick Innes
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." – Bill Cosby
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." – Benjamin Disraeli
"My son was frustrated the other day with all the rules he had to follow at school. So he asked me, 'Dad, when will I be old enough to do what I want when I want?' I said, 'I don't know, son. I don't think anybody's ever lived that long!'" – Pcom Pete
"No one has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." – Unknown
"Let perseverance serve as your flashlight to lead you thru the darkest days." – Unknown
"Your ship won't come in until you row out to meet it." – Unknown
"When two egotists meet, it is a case of an I for an I." – Unknown
"It is of no profit to have learned well if you neglect to do well." – Syrus
"It's hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial charges and blamed it on the cost of living." – Unknown
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering." – Theodore Roosevelt
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots." – Charles Kettering, Inventor
"If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different." – Dave Thomas, Wendy's Founder
"Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil." – Chinese Proverb
"The great end of life is not knowledge, but action." – T. H. Huxley
"Tact is the ability to handle porcupines without disturbing the quills." – Unknown
"Success lies up stream. You can't drift there." – Unknown
"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due." – Unknown
"Voting is free but not voting can be very costly." – Unknown
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." – Unknown
We should not think that we have figured love out, because it is not a problem, it's a mystery and always will be." – Garrison Keillor
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way ... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." – Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do." – Aristotle
"Show me a person who is hyper-critical, and I will show you a person who is guilty of far worse sin in his own life." – Greg Laurie
"Go the extra yard—it makes a mile of difference." – Paul M. Melia
"It is not who you know, but who wants to know you." – Patricia Fripp
"Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" – Sai Baba
"The law of any church is, and always will be, evangelize or fossilize." – George E. Sweazy
"If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon." – Alan Loy McGinnis
"There's only one direction you can coast." – Brian Tracy
"Life is lived forward, but understood backward." – Soren Kierkegaard
"I began my education at a very early age—in fact, right after I left college." – Winston Churchill
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'" – Grace Hopper
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." – Benjamin Disraeli
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." – William Blake
"Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want." – Michael Josephson
"With vision comes responsibility." – Cindy A. Whetzel
"Enough is as good as a feast." – Unknown
"One good wish changes nothing. One good decision changes everything." – Unknown
If you're not fired with enthusiasm, you will probably be fired with enthusiasm." – Vince Lombardi
"What we abuse we eventually lose." – Dick Innes
"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." – William James
"A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up." – Unknown
"Emphasize everything and you emphasize nothing." – Herschell Gordon Lewis
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Humble people don't think less of themselves ... they just think about themselves less." – Norman Vincent Peale
"Character is easier kept than recovered." – English Proverb
"It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of person kind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely." – Leo F. Buscaglia
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up." – Unknown
"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." – The Matrix
"America today is running on the momentum of a Godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America." – General Omar Bradley
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." – Norman Vincent Peale
"Anger of the mind is poison to the soul." – Ecuadorian Proverb
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts." – Booker T. Washington
"Every accomplishment large and small begins with the same decision: I'll try." – Ted Key
"Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game." – Harvey B. Mackay
"Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself." – Olga Korbut, Gymnast, Four Time Olympic Gold Medalist
"You are accountable for what you do, and no one else is accountable." – Edith Martin
"Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times." – Barbara Rose
"Real power comes by empowering others." – Denis Waitley
"Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" – Barry Goldwater
"Don't just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough each morning to decide what is really important during the day ahead." – Richard Eyre
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots." – Charles Kettering, Inventor
"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." – W. Clement Stone
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." – Author Unknown
"Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, 'Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep.' Woman says, 'Ain't no sheep!'" – Jim Rohn Cited on Quotes from the Masters http://mailroom.dailyinbox.com/qftm/
"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
"I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining.
I believe in love, even when I do not feel it.
I believe in God, even when He is silent."
These lines were found scrawled on a cellar wall in Cologne which was destroyed by bombing in WWII. Author Unknown
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." – Abraham Lincoln
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." – Mother Teresa
"If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained." – Sir John Heywood
"Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they resolve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live, so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it." – Harold Kushner
This week's quotes were from kids writing essays for "Foundations for Life" Youth Essays for Character Counts.
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." – Maya Angelou
"I complained that I had no shoes until I met someone who had no feet." – Persian proverb
"Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time." – Michael Josephson
"Dreams are what get your started. Discipline is what keeps you going." – Jim Ryun
"Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open." – Unknown
"What is popular is not always right. And what is right is not always popular." – Unknown
"The true measure of people is how they treat others who can do them absolutely no good." – Ann Landers
"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." – Grace Murray Hopper
"Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses." – Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr
"Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's eye." – Michael Josephson
"A well-adjusted person is one who can play bridge or golf as if they were games." – Anonymous
"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." – Abigail Adams, First Lady
"People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives." – Stedman Graham
"The world and its host of inventions, ideas, and marvelous creations are a tribute to man's ability to turn problems into opportunities." – Scott L. Taylor
"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions." – Dag Hammarskjold
"Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more." – Robert Collier
"The Bible gives us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used as examples—do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings—don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning." – Jim Rohn
"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have." – Norman Vincent Peale
"Denying or refusing to deal with some unpleasant fact in your life is the source of most stress and unhappiness." – Brian Tracy
"Only those who knock deserve to find an open door." – Unknown
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." – Dale Carnegie
"Don't blame others for your failure to be fully accountable for your own life. If others are to blame then you have given them control." – Bob Perks
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." – Michael Althsuler
"Some people have all the commitment of a kamikaze pilot on his tenth mission." – Lou Holtz
"It's always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuitor will toss up to me like gifts from the sea." – Jonas Salk, MD (inventor of the vaccine for polio)
"How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?" –
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." – Indira Gandhi
"He that cannot pray, let him go to sea, and there he will learn." – John Trapp
"Thought is creative. You create your entire life with your thoughts, hour by hour and minute by minute." – Brian Tracy
"A great flame follows a little spark." – Dante Alighieri
"Success is never ending, failure is never final." – Dr. Robert Schuller
"We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them." – Josei Toda
"Great love and great achievements involve great risks." – Tenzin Gyatso
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." – Albert Einstein, Scientist
"You mend your automobile on the spot when something breaks. Don't let your life be going on with something crippled in it." – John Wanamaker
"Every artist was first an amateur." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." – Albert Einstein
"Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances." – F.B. Meyer
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict." – Unknown
"Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try." – Dennis DeYoung
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." – Albert Einstein
Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape." – Unknown
"The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished." – Ben Franklin
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." – Benjamin Disraeli
"A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks." – Michael Levine
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts." – F.F. Bosworth.
"Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully." – Frances Moore Lappe
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." – Samuel Johnson
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." – Hannah More
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." – Harry Emerson Fosdick
"With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.'" – Mark Victor Hansen
"If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you will be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life." – Abraham Maslow
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"If at first you do succeed, try something harder." – Ann Landers
"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge." – Benjamin Disraeli
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." – Plutarch
"One person with courage makes a majority." – Andrew Jackson
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." – Thomas Carlyle
"The enemy surrounds us. Don't let one escape." – Vance Havner

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." – Countess of Blessington

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests." – John Stuart Mill

"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." – William James

"A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials." – Chinese Proverb

"By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it." – Joseph Collins
"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." – Wilhelm von Humboldt
"Never test the depth of the water with both feet." – Anonymous
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." – Winston Churchill
"No one was ever lost on a straight road." – Indian Proverb
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." – Carl. W. Buechner
"If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good change you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction." – Sam Walton, Wal-Mart Founder
"Conscience is a man's compass." – Vincent Van Gogh, Painter
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." – Calvin Coolidge
"A word to the wise is sufficient. A word to the unwise is resented." – Anonymous
"A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." – Unknown
"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity." – Albert Einstein
"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning." – Peter de Vries
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he [or she] is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." – Abraham Maslow
"Jesus' message is not to be good boys and girls so that when you die you can go to heaven. The message of Jesus is 'I love you. I love you so deeply it kills me.'" – Rich Mullins, Singer and Song-writer.
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." – William Ward
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." – Peter Marshal
"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning." – Mahatma Gandhi
"Let us so live that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry." – Mark Twain
"Epitaph: Here lies an atheist. All dressed up and no place to go." – Unknown
"Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end." – H.G. Wells
"Courage isn't freedom from fear; it's being afraid but going on." – Unknown
"A great deal of what we see depends on what we are looking for." – Unknown
"We do not attract that which we want; we attract that which we are."– James Allen,
"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires...courage." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation." – Jim Rohn
"The journey you wish to take can only begin from where you are right now this very minute." – Ron Atchison
"A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision." – Nido Qubein
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." – Beverly Sills
"When you're finished changing, you're finished." – Benjamin Franklin
"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart." – Ruth Graham
"A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself." – Ben Okri
"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations." – George Bernard Shaw
"When you judge someone, you don't define them, you define yourself." – Wayne Dyer
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations." – Steve Jobs, Apple Computer founder
"The Bible has a word to describe 'safe' sex: It's called marriage." – Unknown

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." – Henry Ford
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts." – Edward R. Murrow
"It is better to walk in the dark with God, than to run in the light alone." – Dr. Alexander Blackburn
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." – Bobby Unser
"A teacher affects all eternity. You never know where his influence stops." – Henry Adams
"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations." – George Bernard Shaw
"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little." – William Jennings Bryan, politician
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness." – Abraham Maslow
"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do." – James Harvey Robinson
"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen." – Peter Marshall
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father [God] except through Me." – Jesus Christ
"You can't push a river, but you can go with the flow." – Unknown
"You see things as they are and say, 'Why?' But I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" – George Bernard Shaw
"You will know the truth and the truth will set you free." – Jesus Christ
"We get damaged in damaging relationships. We get healed in healing relationships." – Dick Innes
"Failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." – B.F. Skinner
"The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which power is developed." – William Matthews
To the degree that I am not free within, I am into denial." – Dick Innes
"Love is as love does." – Dick Innes
"A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." – Unknown
"True friends are like diamonds, precious but rare." – Unknown
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." – Unknown
"Opportunity comes to pass—not to pause." – James Wallace
"Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." – Unknown
"Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life." – Unknown
"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself." – Norman Schwarzkkopf
"Reformation is putting a new coat on the man. Regeneration is putting a new man in the coat." – Unknown
Index
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." – Unknown
"Wherever you go there you are." – Unknown
"He who grasps loses." – Lao Tzu
"There are two ways to reach the top of an oak tree—you can climb it or you can sit on an acorn and wait." – Unknown
"Nothing changes if nothing changes." – Unknown
"If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got ... and you'll keep feeling what you've always felt." – Unknown
"What we don't resolve we are destined to repeat." – Dick Innes
"It's not the truth that hurts us but letting go of the lies." – Unknown
"We are as sick as our secrets." – Unknown
"Openness is to wholeness as secrets are to sickness." – Unknown
"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves." – Katherine Mansfield
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle, philosopher
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Most men can handle adversity. Few can handle power." – Unknown
"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations." – George Bernard Shaw
"Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures." – James C. Penney, retailer
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself." – Diana Ross
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." – Saint Exupery
"Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed." – Peter F. Drucker
"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations." – Richard M. DeVos
"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing." – Mother Teresa
"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." – Al Batt
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." – Bill Cosby
"One person with passion is better than forty who are merely interested." – Thomas K. Connellan
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We will not know unless we begin." – Howard Zinn
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." – George Bernard Shaw
"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough." – Ronald Reagan
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." – Vince Lombardi
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he [or she] is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." – Abraham Maslow
"The world is full of thorns and thistles. It's all in how you grasp them." – Arnold Glasgow
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." – Dale Carnegie

Three Tests: When I want to speak let me think first. Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If not, let it be left unsaid." – Babcock
"When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy." – Samuel Goldwyn
"Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can." – John Wesley
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." – Thomas Edison, inventor
"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." – Douglas MacArthur
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." – William James
"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." – Martha Washington, First Lady
Depending upon the government for your future financial security is like hiring an accountant who is a compulsive gambler!" – Denis Waitley
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." – William F. Scolavino
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vince Lombardi
"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances." – Bruce Barton
"The godly give wise advice to their friends; the wicked lead them astray." – Proverbs 12:26 (NLT)
"Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways." – Proverbs 20:30 (GN)
"Education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education." – Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God the Creator, made known by Jesus Christ." – Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" – John Wooden, basketball coach
"God's promises are like the stars ... the darker the night ... the brighter they shine." – Barbara Johnson
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." – Samuel Smiles
"Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis." – Denis Waitley
"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss." – Thomas Carlyle, essayist, historian
"Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." – Anonymous
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." – Thomas Carlysle
"The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind." – James A. Ray
"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." – Edward Simmons
"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day." – Booker T. Washington
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." – Charles Kettering
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." – Mary Kay Ash
"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves." – George Matthew Adams
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." – General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer." – Denis Waitley
"If you are not working on your ideas each day, you're working on someone else's." – Marjorie Blanchard
"Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier." – Charles F. Kettering
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" – Anneliese Marie Frank, German Jewish Refugee
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." – Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President
"You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures." – Charles C. Noble
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." – Edmund Burke
"When a church stops doing—it starts dying. The church that doesn't reach out—fades out." – Unknown
"We are the trustees of what funds we are temporarily given on this earth. May we share those with others." – Andrew Carnegie
"People may not always live what they profess, but they will always live what they believe." – Timothy Warner
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it." – Charles Buxton
"It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt." – Suellen Fried
"A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills." – Thomas Aquinas
"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." – Robert Louis Stevenson
"Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness." – William Arthur Ward
"You don't have to see the whole staircase; just the first step." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The church exists by mission as fire exists by burning." – Emil Brunner
"The price of hating other human beings is loving one's own self less." – Eldridge Cleaver
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." – Beverly Sills, Opera Singer
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." – Bruce Barton
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." – Henry Kaiser
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement." – Henry Ford
"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. We always have the choice." – Tenzin Gyatso
"Opportunity knocks but once; temptation leans on the doorbell." – Unknown
"Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior." – Mark Victor Hansen
"Anybody can become angry—that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." – Aristotle
"Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." – John Wooden
"If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time." – Fran Tarkenton
"The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions but by his everyday conduct." – Blaise Pascal
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Erich Fromm
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." – Winston Churchill
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." – Rita Mae Brown
"If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." – Bishop Desmond Tutu
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose." – Lou Holt
"Most battles are won [or lost] before they are ever fought." – George Patton, US Army general
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. The just make the best of everything they have." – Unknown
"Football: A game where a whole group of big, strong players run around like crazy for two hours while millions of people who really need the exercise sit and watch." – Unknown
"We always have time for the things we put first." – Paul Johnson
"The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us." – Unknown
"It is not what you do to live, but what you live to do." – Unknown
"If you don't take a chance you don't have a chance." – Unknown
"Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt." – William Shakespeare
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." – Unknown
We always have time for the things we put first." – Paul Johnson
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." – Robert Louis Stevenson
Of all the things that matter, that really and truly matter, working more efficiently and getting more done, is not one of them." – Mike Dooley
"Being is more important than doing." – Dick Innes
"To be is to be in relationships." – Selwyn Hughes
"The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us." – Unknown
"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable." – Samuel Johnson
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." – Babe Ruth, baseball player
"The greatest thing in the world is not where we stand but in which direction we are going." – Unknown
"You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically." – Brian Tracy
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" – John Wooden, basketball coach
"Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation." – William Arthur Wood, author
"I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days." – Kathleen Andrus
"I count [the one] braver who overcomes his desires than [the one] who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." – Aristotle
"Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Nothing is neutral. Everything counts." – Brian Tracy
"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can." – John Wesley
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more." – Jim Rohn
"Humor is a rubber sword; it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." – Mary Hirsch
"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again." – Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Marriage is not a case of finding the right partner, but being the right partner." – Dick Innes
"Only healthy people attract healthy partners for we are as healthy—or as sick—as the partners we are attracted to." – Dick Innes
"Only happy, mature people have happy, mature marriages." – Dick Innes
"Habits are like submarines; they run silent deep." – Denis Waitley

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." – George E. Woodberry
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." – Henry Ford
"Your work should be a challenge, not a chore; a blessing, not a bore." – Hal Stewins
"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn." – John Wesley
Everyone is ignorant on different subjects." – Will Rogers
"Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do the listening." – Larry King
"If you only know your side of an argument, you didn't learn it very well." – Michael Hodgin
"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness,
beauty and truth." – Albert Einstein
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." – Zig Ziglar
"Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost." – M. Scott Peck
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Humor is a rubber sword; it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." – Mary Hirsch
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." – Michael Althsuler
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." – William F. Scolavino
"A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." – Mahatma Gandhi
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner." – Benjamin Franklin
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." – Mark Twain
"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give everything." – Vince Lombardi, football coach
"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." – Unknown
"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person." – Mother Theresa
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." – Abraham Lincoln

"Don't sacrifice your future on the altar of the immediate." – Bob Jones
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." – Michael Althsuler
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." – William F. Scolavino
"A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." – Mahatma Gandhi
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner." – Benjamin Franklin
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." – Mark Twain, writer
"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give everything." – Vince Lombardi, football coach
"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." – Unknown
"You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair." – Brian Tracy
"Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you." – Warren Buffett
"How you see yourself is the way you'll end up being." – Kenneth Cole
"Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can read." – Mark Twain
"One person with a commitment is worth a hundred who only have an interest." – Mary Crowley
"By loving the unlovable, You [God] made me lovable." – Saint Augustine
"Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion." – Asa Gra
"The Bible is like a lion, it needs no defense; let it out of its cage, and it will defend itself." – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do!" – Unknown
"The Devil is a better theologian than any of us, yet is a Devil still." – A. W. Tozer
"The world is round, and the place which may seem like an end may also be only the beginning." – Ivy Baker Priest
"Don't tell God how big your problems are. Tell your problems how big God is." – Unknown
"Some people say I cannot sing, but no one can say I didn't sing." – Florence Foster Jenkins
"In order to be a leader, a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President
"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision." – Ayn Rand
"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." – Winnie the Pooh
"Use the past as a springboard, not as a sofa." – Unknown
"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 actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adam
"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory." – Ferdinand Foch
"When your dad is mad and asks you, 'Do I look stupid?' don't answer him." – Michael, 14
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The person who never made a mistake never made anything." – Les Smith
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." – Hugh Downs
"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." – Joe Paterno, football coach
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." – James Matthew Barrie
"The church has been likened to a football game in which thousands of spectators desperately in need of exercise are watching a handful of players desperately in need of rest. Are you a spectator or a player?" – Unknown
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
"I know the price of success; dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." – Frank Lloyd Wright
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." – Denis Waitley
"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things—to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals." – Edmund Hillary
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing; that's why we recommend it daily." – Zig Ziglar
"Chance favors only the prepared mind." – Louis Pasteur
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." – Vincent Van Gogh
"We need a twelve-step group for compulsive talkers. They could call it On Anon Anon." – Paula Poundstone
"Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem." – Eric Allenbaugh
"People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed." – Bob Moawad
"Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?" – Unknown
"Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court, when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in a federal building?" – Unknown
"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." – Henry Winkler
"A skeptic won't take KNOW for an answer." – Unknown
"Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism." – Eric Gibson in The Wall Street Journal
"He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life." – Johann K. Lavater (eighteenth century)
One half of our problems come from wanting our own way. The other half come from getting it." – Unknown
"The question for each of us to settle is not what we would do if we had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what we will do with the things we have." – Hamilton Wright Mabee
"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed." – Jim Rohn
"G. K. Chesterton famously said something to this effect: When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing—they believe in anything." – Chuck Colson
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." – Peter Drucker
"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us...how we can take it, what we can do with it...and that is what really counts in the end." – Joseph Fort Newton
"Confession Without Repentance Is a Game." – Unknown
"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it." – Francis Charles Chichester, yachtsman, aviator
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." – Elizabeth Bibesco
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure." – Thomas A. Edison
"We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do." – Oswald Chambers
"We always have time for the things we put first." – Paul Johnson
"The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us." – Unknown
"It is not what you do to live, but what you live to do." – Unknown
"If you don't take a chance you don't have a chance." – Unknown
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." – John F. Kennedy
"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with." – Peter Marshall, US Senate chaplain
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." – Ann Landers
"Fear is the greatest inhibitor to the progress of mankind." – Rick Beneteau
"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst is your own fear." – Rudyard Kipling
"All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." – Edmund Burke
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." – James R. Lowell
"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart." – Ruth Graham
"A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself." – Ben Okri
"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations." – George Bernard Shaw
"When you judge someone, you don't define them, you define yourself." – Wayne Dyer
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations." – Steve Jobs, Apple Computer founder
"The Bible has a word to describe 'safe' sex: It's called marriage." – Unknown

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." – Henry Ford
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts." – Edward R. Murrow
"It is better to walk in the dark with God, than to run in the light alone." – Dr. Alexander Blackburn
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." – Bobby Unser
"A teacher affects all eternity. You never know where his influence stops." – Henry Adams
"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations." – George Bernard Shaw
"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little." – William Jennings Bryan, politician
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness." – Abraham Maslow
"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do." – James Harvey Robinson
"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen." – Peter Marshall
"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves." – Katherine Mansfield
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle, philosopher
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Most men can handle adversity. Few can handle power." – Unknown
"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations." – George Bernard Shaw
"Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures." – James C. Penney, retailer
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself." – Diana Ross
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father [God] except through Me." – Jesus Christ
"You can't push a river, but you can go with the flow." – Unknown
"You see things as they are and say, 'Why?' But I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" – George Bernard Shaw
"You will know the truth and the truth will set you free." – Jesus Christ
"We get damaged in damaging relationships. We get healed in healing relationships." – Dick Innes
"Failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." – B.F. Skinner
"The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which power is developed." – William Matthews
"To the degree that I am not free within, I am into denial." – Dick Innes
"Love is as love does." – Dick Innes
"A friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." – Unknown
"True friends are like diamonds, precious but rare." – Unknown
"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back." – Unknown
"Opportunity comes to pass—not to pause." – James Wallace
"Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." – Unknown
"Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life." – Unknown
"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself." – Norman Schwarzkkopf
"Reformation is putting a new coat on the man. Regeneration is putting a new man in the coat." – Unknown
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." – Unknown
"Wherever you go there you are." – Unknown
"He who grasps loses." – Lao Tzu
"There are two ways to reach the top of an oak tree—you can climb it or you can sit on an acorn and wait." – Unknown
"Nothing changes if nothing changes." – Unknown
"If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got ... and you'll keep feeling what you've always felt." – Unknown
"What we don't resolve we are destined to repeat." – Dick Innes
"It's not the truth that hurts us but letting go of the lies." – Unknown
"We are as sick as our secrets." – Unknown
"Openness is to wholeness as secrets are to sickness." – Unknown
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." – Saint Exupery
"Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed." – Peter F. Drucker
"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations." – Richard M. DeVos
"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing." – Mother Teresa
"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." – Al Batt
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." – Bill Cosby
"One person with passion is better than forty who are merely interested." – Thomas K. Connellan
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We will not know unless we begin." – Howard Zinn
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." – George Bernard Shaw
"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough." – Ronald Reagan
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." – Vince Lombardi
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he [or she] is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." – Abraham Maslow
"The world is full of thorns and thistles. It's all in how you grasp them." – Arnold Glasgow
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." – Dale Carnegie
Three Tests: When I want to speak let me think first. Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If not, let it be left unsaid." – Babcock
"When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy." – Samuel Goldwyn
"Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can." – John Wesley
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." – Thomas Edison, inventor
"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul." – Douglas MacArthur
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." – William James
"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." – Martha Washington, First Lady
Depending upon the government for your future financial security is like hiring an accountant who is a compulsive gambler!" – Denis Waitley
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." – William F. Scolavino
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vince Lombardi
"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances." – Bruce Barton
"The godly give wise advice to their friends; the wicked lead them astray." – Proverbs 12:26 (NLT)
"Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways." – Proverbs 20:30 (GN)
"Education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God the Creator, made known by Jesus Christ." – Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" – John Wooden, basketball coach
"God's promises are like the stars ... the darker the night ... the brighter they shine." – Barbara Johnson
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." – Samuel Smiles
"Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis." – Denis Waitley
"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss." – Thomas Carlyle, essayist, historian
"Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly." – Anonymous
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." – Thomas Carlysle
"The only competition you will ever have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind." – James A. Ray
"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." – Edward Simmons
"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day." – Booker T. Washington
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." – Charles Kettering
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." – Mary Kay Ash
"We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves." – George Matthew Adams
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." – General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer." – Denis Waitley
"If you are not working on your ideas each day, you're working on someone else's." – Marjorie Blanchard
"Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier." – Charles F. Kettering
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" – Anneliese Marie Frank, German Jewish Refugee
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." – Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President
"You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures." – Charles C. Noble
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." – Edmund Burke
"When a church stops doing—it starts dying. The church that doesn't reach out—fades out." – Unknown
"We are the trustees of what funds we are temporarily given on this earth. May we share those with others." – Andrew Carnegie
"People may not always live what they profess, but they will always live what they believe." – Timothy Warner
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it." – Charles Buxton
"It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt." – Suellen Fried
"A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills." – Thomas Aquinas
"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." – Robert Louis Stevenson
"Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness." – William Arthur Ward
"You don't have to see the whole staircase; just the first step." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The church exists by mission as fire exists by burning." – Emil Brunner
"The price of hating other human beings is loving one's own self less." – Eldridge Cleaver
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." – Beverly Sills, Opera Singer
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." – Bruce Barton
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." – Henry Kaiser
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement." – Henry Ford
"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. We always have the choice." – Tenzin Gyatso
"Opportunity knocks but once; temptation leans on the doorbell." – Unknown
"Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior." – Mark Victor Hansen
"Anybody can become angry—that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." – Aristotle
"Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." – John Wooden
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time." – Fran Tarkenton
"The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions but by his everyday conduct." – Blaise Pascal
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Erich Fromm
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." – Winston Churchill
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." – Rita Mae Brown
"If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." – Bishop Desmond Tutu
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose." – Lou Holt
Most battles are won [or lost] before they are ever fought." – George Patton, US Army general
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. The just make the best of everything they have." – Unknown
"Football: A game where a whole group of big, strong players run around like crazy for two hours while millions of people who really need the exercise sit and watch." – Unknown
"We always have time for the things we put first." – Paul Johnson
"The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us." – Unknown
"It is not what you do to live, but what you live to do." – Unknown
"If you don't take a chance you don't have a chance." – Unknown
"Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt." – William Shakespeare
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." – Unknown
"We always have time for the things we put first." – Paul Johnson
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." – Robert Louis Stevenson
Of all the things that matter, that really and truly matter, working more efficiently and getting more done, is not one of them." – Mike Dooley
"Being is more important than doing." – Dick Innes
"To be is to be in relationships." – Selwyn Hughes
"The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us." – Unknown
"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable." – Samuel Johnson
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." – Babe Ruth, baseball player
"The greatest thing in the world is not where we stand but in which direction we are going." – Unknown
"You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically." – Brian Tracy
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" – John Wooden, basketball coach
"Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation." – William Arthur Wood, author
"I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days." – Kathleen Andrus
I count [the one] braver who overcomes his desires than [the one] who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." – Aristotle
"Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Nothing is neutral. Everything counts." – Brian Tracy
"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can." – John Wesley
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more." – Jim Rohn
"Humor is a rubber sword; it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." – Mary Hirsch
"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again." – Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Marriage is not a case of finding the right partner, but being the right partner." – Dick Innes
"Only healthy people attract healthy partners for we are as healthy—or as sick—as the partners we are attracted to." – Dick Innes
"Only happy, mature people have happy, mature marriages." – Dick Innes
"Habits are like submarines; they run silent deep." – Denis Waitley

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." – George E. Woodberry
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." – Henry Ford
"Your work should be a challenge, not a chore; a blessing, not a bore." – Hal Stewins
"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn." – John Wesley
"Everyone is ignorant on different subjects." – Will Rogers
"Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do the listening." – Larry King
"If you only know your side of an argument, you didn't learn it very well." – Michael Hodgin
"The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness,
beauty and truth." – Albert Einstein
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." – Zig Ziglar
"Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost." – M. Scott Peck
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Humor is a rubber sword; it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." – Mary Hirsch
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." – Michael Althsuler
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." – William F. Scolavino
"A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." – Mahatma Gandhi
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner." – Benjamin Franklin
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." – Mark Twain
"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give everything." – Vince Lombardi, football coach
"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." – Unknown
Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person." – Mother Theresa
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." – Abraham Lincoln

"Don't sacrifice your future on the altar of the immediate." – Bob Jones
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." – Michael Althsuler
"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." – William F. Scolavino
"A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." – Mahatma Gandhi
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner." – Benjamin Franklin
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." – Mark Twain, writer
"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give everything." – Vince Lombardi, football coach
"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." – Unknown
"You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair." – Brian Tracy
"Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you." – Warren Buffett
"How you see yourself is the way you'll end up being." – Kenneth Cole
"Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can read." – Mark Twain
"One person with a commitment is worth a hundred who only have an interest." – Mary Crowley
"By loving the unlovable, You [God] made me lovable." – Saint Augustine
"Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion." – Asa Gra
"The Bible is like a lion, it needs no defense; let it out of its cage, and it will defend itself." – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do!" – Unknown
"The Devil is a better theologian than any of us, yet is a Devil still." – A. W. Tozer
"The world is round, and the place which may seem like an end may also be only the beginning." – Ivy Baker Priest
"Don't tell God how big your problems are. Tell your problems how big God is." – Unknown
"Some people say I cannot sing, but no one can say I didn't sing." – Florence Foster Jenkins
"In order to be a leader, a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US President
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision." – Ayn Rand
"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." – Winnie the Pooh
"Use the past as a springboard, not as a sofa." – Unknown
"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 actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adam
"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory." – Ferdinand Foch
"When your dad is mad and asks you, 'Do I look stupid?' don't answer him." – Michael, 14
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The person who never made a mistake never made anything." – Les Smith
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." – Hugh Downs
"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." – Joe Paterno, football coach
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." – James Matthew Barrie
"The church has been likened to a football game in which thousands of spectators desperately in need of exercise are watching a handful of players desperately in need of rest. Are you a spectator or a player?" – Unknown
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
"I know the price of success; dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." – Frank Lloyd Wright
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." – Denis Waitley
"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things—to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals." – Edmund Hillary
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing; that's why we recommend it daily." – Zig Ziglar
"Chance favors only the prepared mind." – Louis Pasteur
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." – Vincent Van Gogh
"We need a twelve-step group for compulsive talkers. They could call it On Anon Anon." – Paula Poundstone
"Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem." – Eric Allenbaugh
"People are in greater need of your praise when they try and fail, than when they try and succeed." – Bob Moawad
"Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?" – Unknown
"Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court, when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in a federal building?" – Unknown
"Assumptions are the termites of relationships." – Henry Winkler
"A skeptic won't take KNOW for an answer." – Unknown
"Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism." – Eric Gibson in The Wall Street Journal
"He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life." – Johann K. Lavater (eighteenth century)
One half of our problems come from wanting our own way. The other half come from getting it." – Unknown
"The question for each of us to settle is not what we would do if we had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what we will do with the things we have." – Hamilton Wright Mabee
"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed." – Jim Rohn
"G. K. Chesterton famously said something to this effect: When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing—they believe in anything." – Chuck Colson
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." – Peter Drucker
"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us...how we can take it, what we can do with it...and that is what really counts in the end." – Joseph Fort Newton
"Confession Without Repentance Is a Game." – Unknown
"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it." – Francis Charles Chichester, yachtsman, aviator
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." – Elizabeth Bibesco
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure." – Thomas A. Edison
"We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do." – Oswald Chambers
"We always have time for the things we put first." – Paul Johnson
"The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us." – Unknown
"It is not what you do to live, but what you live to do." – Unknown
"If you don't take a chance you don't have a chance." – Unknown
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." – John F. Kennedy
"Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with." – Peter Marshall, US Senate chaplain
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." – Ann Landers
"Fear is the greatest inhibitor to the progress of mankind." – Rick Beneteau
"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst is your own fear." – Rudyard Kipling
"All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." – Edmund Burke
"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." – James R. Lowell
A school is a building with four walls and tomorrow inside." – Barbara Knight
"Tell me and I forget; teach me and I may remember; involve me and I learn." – Ben Franklin
"A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." – Unknown
"When light confronts darkness, light always wins." – Michael Josephson
"Do all the good you can / By all the means you can / In all the ways you can / In all the places you can / At all the times you can / To all the people you can / As long as ever you can." – John Wesley
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." – Oprah Winfrey
"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment." – St. Bernard (1090-1153)
"A good place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm." – Unknown
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." – Albert Einstein
"Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars—they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours." – Mark Victor Hansen
"Difficulties are things that show what men are." – Epictetus
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won." – Winston Churchill
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." – John F. Kennedy,
"Dig your well before you're thirsty." – Chinese Proverb
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself." – Robert Louis Stevenson
"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive!" – Eleonora Duse
"A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." – Robert Quillen
"What would you do, how would you change your life, if you learned today that you only had six months to live?" – Brian Tracy
"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." – Mary Kay Ash
"There is nothing we can do to make God love us more. There is nothing we can do to make God love us less." – Philip Yancey
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." – William James, psychologist
"The bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you forget to make the turn." – Submitted by Kathy Savage
"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult ... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking." – Og Mandino
"Every intersection in the road of life is an opportunity to make a decision." – Duke Ellington
The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep need meet." – Frederick Buechner
"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward." – Igor Sikorsky
"Someone once asked Wayne Gretsky, the great hockey player, how he managed to become the best goal-scorer in the history of the game. He simply replied, 'While everyone else is chasing the puck, I go where the puck is going to be.'" – Unknown
"Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling." – Author unknown
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." – Henry Ford
"If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it." – Pam Shaw
"Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an 'I-can-solve-it' new attitude." – Mark Victor Hansen
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer." – Denis Waitley
"Nice guys finish best!" – Denis Waitley
"The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel." – Thomas Watson
"There are no great victories at discount prices." – Dwight Eisenhower
"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." – William H. Walton
"Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your God is!" – Unknown
"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it." – Earl Wilson
"My dad always says, 'Biekie, biekie maak baie.' Translated: Little bit, by little bit makes a lot. If we continuously change the small things in our lives, with time we will realize that we have changed a vast number of things." – Eric Abdoll, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Food For Thought: "Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the apples in a seed." - Unknown
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change."- Jim Rohn
"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness." - Abraham Maslow
"Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left."- Fulton J. Sheen
"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then ... do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen." - Lee Iacocca
"Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf." - Native American Proverb
"No one can teach you that which they have not done. Beware of who you choose to learn from." - Tom Hopkins
"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety." – Abraham Maslow
"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier." – Roy Disney
"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things." – Channing Pollock
"Self-esteem—an estimation of who I am apart from what I do." – Nathaniel Brandon
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." – Dwight Eisenhower
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, but knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." – Samuel Johnson
"What you allow, you encourage." – Unknown
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." – Norman
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'" – John Greenleaf Whittier
"The person who pursues revenge should dig two graves." – English Proverb
[Oh God] "Grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins." – Native American proverb
"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering." – Theodore Roosevelt
"Achievement requires more than a vision—it takes courage, resolve and tenacity." – Neil Eskelin
"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin." – Henry Ward Beecher
"The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights." – Oswald Chambers
Do not wait; the time will never be just right." – Napoleon Hill
"If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done. Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow—perhaps it all will." – Ecclesiastes 11: 4, 6 (The Living Bible)
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." – Phillips Brooks
"The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." – Lily Tomlin
"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service." – Earl Nightingale
"We are all missionaries. Wherever we go, we either bring people nearer to Christ, or we repel them from Christ." – Eric Liddell
"Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much." – William Dempster Hoard
Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and many accomplishments, owes the fact of his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains." – Unknown
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." – Leonardo da Vinci
"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise—begin!" – Horace
"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas." – Albert Einstein
"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs ... one step at a time." – Joe Girard
"Light tomorrow with today!" – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." – Vince Lombard
A wise man will hear and will increase learning; and a man of understanding will listen to wise counsel." – King Solomon (Proverbs 1:5)
"Well done is better than well said." – Benjamin Franklin
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. In other words, the harder I work, the luckier I get!" – Thomas Jefferson
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." – Albert Einstein
"Leaders are like eagles; they don't flock ... you find them one at a time." – Anonymous
"Worrying is like driving a car with one foot on the accelerator and the other foot on the brake." – Unknown
"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous—not just to some people in some circumstances, but to everyone all the time." – Thomas J. Watson
"The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears." – Unknown
"Hell has no exits. Heaven needs none." – Unknown
"You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself." – Zig Ziglar
"My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline." – John Irving
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." – Albert Einstein
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." – Aldous Huxley
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect." – Leonardo da Vinci
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life." – Lewis Mumford
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for. Perfection is God's business." – Michael J. Fox
"I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end." – Abraham Lincoln
"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." – Samuel Ullman
"Not what I have but what I do is my kingdom." – Thomas Carlyle
"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal." – Sallust
"Example moves the world more than doctrine." – Henry Miller
When we refuse to hear criticism, we might miss a chance to learn something." – Author Unknown
"Today's problems cannot be solved if we still think the way we thought when we created them." – Unknown
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box." – Unknown
"Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and there's a world of difference between those two." – John C. Maxwell
"If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time." – Brian Tracy
"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary." – Sarah Ban Breathnach
"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again." – Benjamin Franklin
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." – Joseph Addison
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." – Lewis L. Dunnington
"Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle. The people you rub shoulders with everyday need that kind of challenge. Not prudish. Not preachy. Just cracker jack clean living. Just honest to goodness, bone-deep, non-hypocritical integrity." – Charles Swindoll
"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt
"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces." – Wilma Rudolph 1940-1994, Olympic Gold Medallist
"We cannot live with bitterness because it will first manifest itself in our spirit, then in our emotions, and finally in our bodies." – Tom Drout
"He who truly knows has no occasion to shout." – Leonardo da Vinci
"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated—it is finished when it surrenders." – Ben Stein
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear." – Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudices." – Clint Eastwood
"Who you are speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you say." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they're always watching you." – Robert Fulghum
"Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow." – August B. Black
I never did repent for doing good." – Shakespeare
"A man that knoweth not himself, is not known." – Unknown
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." – John Wooden
"If it wasn't for the optimist, the pessimist would never know how happy he wasn't." – Unknown
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." – William Wordsworth
"Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind, the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind." – Henry James
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself." – Josh Billings
If there is no wind, row." – Latin Proverb
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." – John Quincy Adams
"A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." – Author Unknown
"Your attitude determines your altitude!" – Denis Waitley
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." – Albert Einstein
"The church exists by mission, as fire exists by burning." – Emil Brunner
"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand." – Madeleine L'Engle
A great attitude does much more than turn on the light in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed." – Earl Nightingale
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." – Benjamin Franklin
"The price of greatness is responsibility." – Sir. Winston Churchill
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks." – Indian Proverb
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." – Mohandas Gandhi
"The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." – Winston Churchill
"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." – Harriett Beecher Stowe
"It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on." – Author Unknown
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take" – Wayne Gretzky
"Every generation of Americans [and others] needs to know that freedom exists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." – Pope John Paul II
"We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God." – Dwight L. Moody
"If it is desirable that our children be kind, responsible, pleasant and honest, then those qualities must be taught—not hoped for." – James Dobson
"When your only tool is a hammer, you see every problem as a nail." – A. Maslow
"You can wash your hands but not your conscience." – Yiddish Proverb
"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." – An Wang
"There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking." – William James
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things I am tempted to think there are no little things." – Bruce Barton
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." – Winston Churchill
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." – Henry Ford
"In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. But if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you." – Warren Buffet
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprise? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." – Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts." – Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, Educator and Reformer
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." – Roger Bannister, runner
"If the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail." – Unknown
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela
"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." – Jean De La Fontaine
"Kindness is the oil that takes friction out of life." – Author Unknown
"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep." – Denis Waitley
Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it." – Hank Aaron
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." – Sir Winston Churchill
"No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you." – Althea Gibson
"Faith is a bird that feels the dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark." – Scandinavian proverb. Submitted by Cath Filmer-Davies.
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." – Samuel Johnson
"A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good." – Thomas Watson Jr.
"How come you never see this headline: 'Psychic wins lottery'?" – Jay Leno
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength." – Corrie Ten Boom
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to keep." – Scott Adams
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude." – Colin Powell, statesman
"Courage means to keep working on a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods." – Denis Waitley
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." – Albert Schweitzer
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." – Author Unknown
"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer." – Mother Teresa
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun." – Pablo Picasso
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." – Billy Graham
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." – Marilyn vos Savant
"It is not length of life, but depth of life." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise." – Sophia Bedford-Pierce
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." – G. C. Lichtenberg
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." – Eleanor RooseveltYou have not converted a man because you have silenced him." – Unknown
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." – William James
"The highest reward for your toil is not what you get for it, but what you become by it." – John Ruskin
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." – Albert Einstein
"Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important." – Stephen Covey
"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again." – Abraham Maslow
"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." – George Washington Carver
"To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart." – Unknown
"Anger is only one letter short of danger." – Unknown
"Kind words are like honey—enjoyable and healthful." – King Solomon (Proverbs 16:24)
"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water." -- Franklin P. Jones
"Remember: Flattery is like perfume. Sniff it, don't drink it!" – Unknown
"The end never justifies the meanness." – Cited in Bits & Pieces
"No matter what your past may have been, everyone can have a clean future. Talk to God about it. He has the answer." – Anonymous
"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our Lord said, 'Feed my sheep.' He did not say, 'Count them.'" – Martin Buber
"Failure is the greatest opportunity to know who I really am." – John Killinger
"You will never know how high you can jump until you reach a failure point." – Robert Schuller
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." – Michael McGriff, M.D.
"There are two kinds of people who don't say much: Those who are quiet and those who talk a lot." – Ideas for Better Living
"Have you ever noticed that common sense is not very common?" – Source Unknown
Ideals are like stars. We never reach them, but like the mariners on the sea, we chart our course by them." – Carl Schurz in a speech in Boston in 1859
"Never doubt in the darkness what God has shown you in the light." – Source Unknown
"Samson killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass; everyday friendships are killed with the same weapon." – Ann Landers
"I believe in order to understand." – Augustine
"There is enough light for those who only wish to see, and enough darkness for those who are oppositely inclined." – From Pensees, by Pascal
"In all cases, the church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the church." – John Wesley
"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, then it isn't." – Richard Bach
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you would not have in your home." – David Frost, The Chicago Tribune
"Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks; and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks." – Phillips Brooks
"Solemn prayers, rapturous devotions, are but repeated hypocrisies unless the heart and mind be conformed to them." – William Law
"A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine." – Dwight L. Moody
"The gospel is neither a discussion nor a debate. It is an announcement." – Paul S. Rees
"If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done... Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow—perhaps it all will." – Solomon, Ecclesiastes 11:4, 6 (TLB).
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." – Unknown
"Anger is only one letter short of danger." – Unknown
"Kind words are like honey—enjoyable and healthful." – King Solomon (Proverbs 16:24)
"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water." – Franklin P. Jones
"Remember: Flattery is like perfume. Sniff it, don't drink it!" – Unknown
"The end never justifies the meanness." – Cited in Bits & Pieces
"No matter what your past may have been, everyone can have a clean future. Talk to God about it. He has the answer." – Anonymous
"You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." – Albert Szent-Gyorgi
"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves." – Benjamin Whichcote
"Each one of us can work for a small change in the world around us." – Lamar S. Smith, Politician
"The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes." – Amy Grant
"Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams." – Robert K. Greenleaf
"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person." – Anon
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." – Anon
"When the going gets tough the tough get going." – Joseph P. Kennedy
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up." – Vince Lombardi
Foolish are the generals who ignore the daily intelligence from the trenches." – Author Unknown
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." – Sidney J. Harris
"A lack of Bible study leads to 'truth' decay." – Unknown
"Your integrity will affect your destiny, don't leave home without it." – Clarence E. Hodges
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." – Lou Holtz
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mohandas Gandhi
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." – Napoleon Hill
"Alexander, Caesar, and Hannibal conquered the world but had no friends.... Jesus founded his empire upon love, and at this hour millions would die for him.... He has won the hearts of men, a task a conqueror cannot do." – Napoleon
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures." – Charles C. Noble
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found a way to serve." – Albert Schweitzer
"He who truly knows has no occasion to shout." – Leonardo da Vinci
"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference." – Ellen Goodman
"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person." – Mother Theresa
"You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great." – Les Brown
"Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay." – Author Unknown
"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." – Robert Schuller
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." – Babe Ruth
"When we fail to follow truth, instead of living fully, we end up dying slowly." – Dick Innes
"Symptoms are often a smoke screen to avoid facing reality." – Dick Innes
"God is merciful. When we have unresolved problems, he gives us symptoms." – Henry Cloud and John Townsend
"He who constantly looks back loses sight in one eye. He who never looks back loses sight in both eyes." – Russian Proverb
"Too soon old. Too late 'schmartz.'" – German Proverb
"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child." – Forest Witcraft
"Don't let your worries get the best of you, remember, Moses started out as a basket case" – Anonymous
"Our lives improve only when we take chances... and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." – Walter Anderson
"One is a Christian 7/24/365 or he is but a tinkling cymbal." – Richard H. Jett
"It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post." – Cicero, Roman orator
"It does not matter if we have material wealth. What really matters is—what do we do with it?" – John Wood
"If you've done big things in life you must expect to have excited some criticism. It's only people who've done precious little who get no criticism at all." – Margaret Thatcher
"Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high." – Jim Rohn
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." – Ronald Reagan
To educate a person in the mind but not the morals is to educate a menace to society." – Teddy Roosevelt
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests." – John Stuart Mill
"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world." – Michael Josephson
"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it." – Abraham Lincoln
"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before going to bed." – Bernard Baruch
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." – Maya Angelou
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides." – Henri-Frederic Amie
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." – Frank A. Clark
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home." – John Stuart Mill
"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere." – Ovid, Roman poet
"A man may learn wisdom even from a foe." – Aristophanes
"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward." – Igor Sikorsky
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." – Albert Einstein
"The person rowing the boat seldom has time to rock it." – Author Unknown
"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used." – Richard Byrd

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." – C.S. Lewis
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." – W. Somerset Maugham
"Do not blame anybody [else]for your mistakes and failures." – Bernard Baruch
"You life is a gift from God. What you make of it is your presentation back to God." – Unknown
"Kind words can be short, but their echoes are endless." – Mother Teresa
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." – Oscar Wilde
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." – C.S. Lewis
"The further backward you look, the further forward you can see." – Winston Churchill
"If you want to know how to live your life, think about what you want people to say about you after you die—and live backward." – Author Unknown
"Pain is inevitable but misery is optional." – Barbara Johnson
"Good people are found, not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut." – Jim Rohn
"If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it." – Chinese Proverb
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving." – Unknown
"Don't blame others for your failure to be fully accountable for your own life. If others are to blame, then you have given them control." – Bob Perks
"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." – Theodore White
To be upset over what you don't have, is to waste what you do have. – Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are." – Thomas Dreier
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it's on ... a football field, in an army or in an office." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved." – Helen Keller
"Without personal growth the best we can achieve is infantile relationships." – Terry George
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it." – Edith Wharton
"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 Buscaglia
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." – Alexander Graham Bell
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." – Leonardo da Vinci
"Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the absence of inner conflict." – Unknown
"There are none so blind as those who refuse to see." – Helen Keller
"It is difficult to know what counts in the world. Most of us count credits, honor and dollars. But at the bulging center of mid-life, I am beginning to see that the things that really matter take place not in the boardrooms, but in the kitchens of the world." – Gary Allen Sledge
"It isn't what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart." – Unknown
"Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time." – Mia Hamm, soccer champion
"Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength." – Eric Hoffer
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." – Carl Jung
"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret." – Mary Kay Ash,
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." – Phillips Brooks
"It matters not what a person is born, but (whom) they choose to be." – J. K. Rowling
"Don't blame others for your failure to be fully accountable for your own life. If others are to blame, then you have given them control." – Bob Perks
"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." – Theodore White
To be upset over what you don't have, is to waste what you do have. – Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are." – Thomas Dreier
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it's on ... a football field, in an army or in an office." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved." – Helen Keller
"Without personal growth the best we can achieve is infantile relationships." – Terry George
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it." – Edith Wharton
"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 Buscaglia
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." – Alexander Graham Bell
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." – Leonardo da Vinci
"Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the absence of inner conflict." – Unknown
"There are none so blind as those who refuse to see." – Helen Keller
"It is difficult to know what counts in the world. Most of us count credits, honor and dollars. But at the bulging center of mid-life, I am beginning to see that the things that really matter take place not in the boardrooms, but in the kitchens of the world." – Gary Allen Sledge
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." – C.S. Lewis
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." – W. Somerset Maugham
"Do not blame anybody [else]for your mistakes and failures." – Bernard Baruch
"You life is a gift from God. What you make of it is your presentation back to God." – Unknown
"Kind words can be short, but their echoes are endless." – Mother Teresa
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." – Oscar Wilde
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams

"It isn't what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart." – Unknown
"Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time." – Mia Hamm, soccer champion
"Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength." – Eric Hoffer
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." – Carl Jung
"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret." – Mary Kay Ash,
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." – Phillips Brooks
"It matters not what a person is born, but (whom) they choose to be." – J. K. Rowling"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." – Holmes
"If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders" – Abigail Van Buren
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today." – Chinese proverb
"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." – Anais Nin
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." – Les Brown
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge." – Daniel J. Boorstin
"The easiest thing in the world is to be you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position." – Dr. Leo Buscaglia
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post." – L. Thomas Holdcroft

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing." – Martin Luther
"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things—to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals." – Sir Edmund Hillary
"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudices." – Clint Eastwood
"It matters not what a person is born, but (whom) they choose to be." – J. K. Rowling,
"A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction." – Benjamin Spock
"The person all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty little package." – Unknown
"He who throws mud loses ground." – Unknown
"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
"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes." – Louis Pasteur
"God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability." – Mary Kay Ashe
"The human race is divided into two classes—those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'" – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." – Robert M. Pirsig
"To fly we have to have resistance." – Maya Lin, architect
"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." – Orison Swett Marden
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." – Napoleon Hill
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." – Colin Powell
"People seldom get dizzy from doing good turns." – Unknown
"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret." – Mary Kay Ash
"Better to be prepared and not called than to be called and not prepared." – Jim Wallace
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names may break my heart" – Linda McCartney
"When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us." – Alexander Graham Bell
"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By perseverance the snail reached the ark." – Charles Spurgeon
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties." – Charles Spurgeon
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou
"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves ... Self-discipline with all of them came first." – Harry Truman
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." – Steve Jobs
"If you think you're too small to make a difference, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." – Unknown
"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." – Napoleon Hill
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." – Gerald Rudolph Ford
"The person who upsets you the most is your best teacher, because they bring you face to face with who you are." – Lynn Andrews
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"Character, in the long-run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike." – Theodore Roosevelt
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were." – John F. Kennedy
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." – Warren Buffett
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." – John Ruskin
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." – Thomas Carlyle
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." – W. Somerset Maugham
"Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision for the future." – Chris Widener
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it's on ... a football field, in an army, or in an office." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"That best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." – William Wordsworth
"I didn't get to where I am by thinking about it or dreaming about it. I got there by doing it." – Estee Lauder
"You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way." – Stephen C. Paul

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much." – Jim Rohn
"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person." – Dave Barry
"The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship." – Brian Tracy
"I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than 500 who can't see the point." – Patrick Dixon
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit." – D. Elton Trueblood
"When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish—it is then that you must not hesitate." – Dag Hammarskjol
"There is no traffic jam on the extra mile." – Unknown
"That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." – William Wordsworth
"The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves." – Brian Tracy
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." – Mary Pickford
"Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly." – Tom Hopkins
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." – Anais Nin
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark." – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough." – Garrison Keillor
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us" – William Morrow
"Opportunity never knocks; it is within you." – Denis Waitley
"There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what happened!" – An old American military saying
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse." – Florence Nightingale
"Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic." – Alan Simpson
An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led by a deer." – Attributed to Philip II of Macedon
"The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success, but significance —and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning." – Oprah Winfrey
"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service." – Earl Nightingale
"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world." – Archimedes
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." – Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." – Maya Angelou
"Fix the problem, not the blame." – Japanese proverb
The ruin of a nation begins in the home of its people." – Ashanti Proverb
"Peace, like charity, begins at home." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
"When looking for faults, use a mirror, not a telescope." – Author Unknown
"Emotional illness is avoiding reality at any cost. Mental health is accepting reality at any cost." – M. Scott Peck
"I saw the angel in the marble and I chiseled until I set it free." – Michelangelo
"Every unshed tear is a prism through which all of life's hurts are distorted." – Cecil Osborne
"You will know the"Since you usually get what you expect in life, expect the best for yourself." – Denis Waitley
"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." – Thomas Edison, inventor
"Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow. When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I fail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft." – Marie Stilkind
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." – C. S. Lewis
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." – Warren Buffet
"If you want to see God's power at work, you must get out of the church and into the world. Watch the extravagant lengths which God will go to reveal Himself to people who don't know Him. Then you will learn how truly awesome our God is." – Author Unknown
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." – Marie Curie
truth and the truth will make you free." – Jesus Christ

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives." – Sue Murphy
"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble." – English proverb
"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." – Unknown
"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow." – Theodore Epp
"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." – Charles M. Schulz
"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument." – Samuel Johnson
"Be bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for." – Ruth Boorstin
"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." – Ted Williams
"Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets." – Paul Tournier
"We are as sick as our secrets." – Unknown
"Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven." – Samuel Rutherford
"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." – Charles Dickens
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." – John Shedd
"The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for opportunity when it comes." – Benjamin Disraeli
"Egotist: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation." – Unknown
Fix the problem, not the blame." – Japanese proverb
"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them." – Charles West
"Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures." – Bernard Baruch
"Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race." – Andrew Carnegie
"If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions." – Chinese Proverb
"The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God." – Max Lucado
"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you." – Arnold Palmer
Children need models rather than critics." – Joseph Joubert
"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." – John Locke
"The question for the child is not 'Do I want to be good?' but 'Whom do I want to be like?'" – Bruno Bettelheim
"The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large." – Henry Wheeler Shaw
"If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street." – Ben Nicholas
"Chance favors those in motion." – James H. Austin
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these." – George Washington Carver
"Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." – John Paul II, pope
"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret." – Mary Kay Ash
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." – Mark Caine
"We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel." – Unknown
"When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us." – Alexander Graham Bell
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." – Leo Aikman
"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." – Jim Rohn
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." – John Paul II, pope
"Everyone wants to be appreciated. So if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret." – Mary Kay Ash
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." – Mark Caine
"We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel." – Unknown
"When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us." – Alexander Graham Bell
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." – Leo Aikman
"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." – Jim Rohn
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.'" – William Penn
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." – Albert Einstein
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." – John F. Kennedy
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." – Winston Churchill,
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." – Aldous Huxley
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that a flower leaves upon the heel that crushes it." – Author Unknown
"Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become." – Unknown
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." – Marcel Proust, Author
"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed." – Earl Nightingale
"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." – Will Rogers
"It's nice to be important; but it's more important to be nice." – Unknown
"Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty." – Denis Waitley
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another." – Helen Keller
"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things." – Lawrence Bell
"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." – Babe Ruth
"Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." – Dale Carnegie
"Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open." – Unknown
"He who throws mud loses ground." – Anon
"The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others, we will do nothing to benefit ourselves." – Carl Holmes
"Peace if possible, but truth at any rate." – Martin Luther
God doesn't always still the storm, but he can calm the sailor." – Anon
"When I was a pastor of a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, 'Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.' I said, 'That's where I got my information about hell.'" – Vance Havner
"It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing of the little things, the common duties, a little better and better." – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
"None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments. The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them." – Bernard Baruch
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose." – Lou Holt
"Kierkegaard said that most of us read the Bible the way a mouse tries to remove the cheese from the trap without getting caught. Some of us have mastered that. We read the story as though it were about someone else a long time ago; that way we don't get caught." – Maxie Dunnam
"The good that men do lives after them." – Ruth Gordon
"If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone." – Ross Parmenter
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." – Joaquin Setanti
"People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for." – Author Unknown
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best." – Bob Talbert
"You fall the way you lean." – Author Unknown
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"There is never a wrong time to do the right thing." – Author Unknown
"The good that men do lives after them." – Ruth Gordon
"If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we all must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone." – Ross Parmenter
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." – Joaquin Setanti
"People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for." – Author Unknown
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best." – Bob Talbert
"You fall the way you lean." – Author Unknown
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"There is never a wrong time to do the right thing." – Author Unknown
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God." – Author Unknown
"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." – Wayne Gretzky, Hockey Player
"No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him." – D. L. Moody
"Money which comes to the young with but little effort on their part will not be valued." – Author Unknown
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." – Edmund Burke
"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass." – George Herbert
"A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the gray areas." – G. Alan Bernard
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it." – Lou Holtz, football coach
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time." – Thomas Edison
"The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it." – Aristotle
"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions." – Earl Gray Stevens
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." – Galileo Galilei
"The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand as long as you will not live according to the things you do understand." – Unknown
You were born an original. Don't die a copy." – John Mason
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." – Napoleon Hill
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." – Abraham Lincoln
"If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you're under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back." – Rubel Shelly
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve." – Leonardo da Vinci
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success." – Albert Schweitzer
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." – Edmund Burke, Irish statesman
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Some Christians end up as backsliders because they are conquered by a sinful habit that is inconsistent with their Christian discipleship. Instead of giving up the habit, they give up their church and faith." – W. Werning
"The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer." – F. B. Meyer
"Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed." – Peter Drucker
"Catch a passion for helping others and a richer life will come back to you!" – William H. Danforth
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." – Dale Carnegie
"Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they [the so-called mad ones] who will save many and be saved themselves." – Sadhu Sundar Singh
"The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none." – A. W. Tozer
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln
"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes." – William Bennett
"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful." – Edward R. Murrow
"The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money." – John Henry Jowett
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." – Benjamin Disraeli
Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure and pays with pain; he promises profit and pays with loss; he promises life and pays with death." – Thomas Brooks
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." – H.G. Wells
"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down." – Arianna Huffington
"Who you are speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you say." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus" – Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The time is always right to do what is right." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones." -- John W. De Forest

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." -- Lillian Dickson

"Justifying a fault doubles it." -- French Proverb

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
-- Warren Buffett

"One may have good eyes and yet see nothing." -- Italian Proverb
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." -- William James

"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

"The thoughtless are rarely wordless."
-- Howard W. Newton

"You can't help a person uphill without getting closer to the top yourself." -- Unknown

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem." -- G. K. Chesterton

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." -- George Washington Carver
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps--we must step up the stairs."
-- Vance Havner

"Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow." -- Henry Haskins

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling." -- Lucretius

"Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come." -- Janet E. Stuart

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you. -- William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -- Joseph Addison (To which I would add, "something to live for that is bigger than yourself." DI).
"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
-- Rita Mae Brown

"Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory."
-- Douglas McArthur

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things--to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."
-- Edmund Hillary

"A great oak is only a little nut that held its ground!"
-- Unknown

"From the time an infant first struggles to get his toes into his mouth, life is one continuous struggle to make both ends meet!" -- Unknown

"There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet."
-- William F. Halsey
A minister once asked a person he was counseling if he had any trouble making decisions, and he answered, "Well, yes and no." -- Anonymous

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

-- Dante Gabriel Rosetti

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you." -- "God's Little Instruction Book for Women"

"If You Think We Think Alike, Think Again" -- Title of a book by Diane Hales (about the difference between men and women)

"A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality." -- Jill Briscoe.

"Use our easy credit plan--l00% down, nothing to pay each month." -- Sign in Martins Creek (PA) Pioneer Store

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." -- Og Mandino
"Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity." -- William Arthur Ward

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
-- Marcus Aurelius

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." -- Art Linkletter

"The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no 'top.'" -- Nancy Barcus

"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final." -- Anonymous
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Proverb

"You never miss the water till the well has run dry."
-- Irish Proverb

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

"He that cannot pray, let him go to sea, and there he will learn." -- John Trapp

"God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity." --Augustine

"Miracles are not a contradiction of nature. They are only in contradiction to what we know of nature."
-- St. Augustine

"Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances."
-- F.B. Meyer
"Those who wish to sing always find a song." -- Swedish Proverb

"He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast." -- The Bible (Proverbs 15:15)

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -- John Lubbock

"In a material world we easily forget that life is lived from within, not from without." -- Susan Taylor

"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right." -- Henry Ford

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances." -- Julia Soul
"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue." -- Eugene O'Neill

"Don't grieve that your roses have thorns. Rejoice instead that your thorns have roses." -- Unknown

"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." -- Roy Disney

"Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to." -- Arnold H. Glasow

"The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it." -- D. L. Moody

"Our focus should not be centered on the observance of news events or date settings. Preparation work should be our ultimate goal. God didn't tell Noah to construct a weather observation station; He told him to build a boat."
"Some people dream of success...while others wake up and work hard at it." -- Unknown

"Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither." -- C. S. Lewis

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow." -- Helen Keller

"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead." -- Anna Cummins

"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open." -- Sir James Dewar

"The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door."
-- African Proverb
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box." -- Italian Proverb

Man: "I have a problem, it's me!"
God: "I have an answer, it's Me!"
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." -- R. Buckminster Fuller

"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
-- Edward Stanley

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." -- Lewis Cass

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something." -- Henry David Thoreau

"When the horse is dead, get off." -- Author Unknown

"Find a need and fill it. Find a hurt and heal it."
-- Ruth S. Peale and Robert H. Schuller
"Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go." -- Sylvia Robinson

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." -- Mark Twain

Life is like a bicycle--stop peddling and you fall off."
-- Unknown

"When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick." -- Bill Lemley

"To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable."
-- Barry Goldwater

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." -- Harriet Braiker

When you're in your 90s and looking back, it's not going
to be how much money you made or how many awards
you've won. It's really "What did you stand for? Did you
make a positive difference for people?" -- Elizabeth Dole, Politician

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks
of changing himself." -- Count Leo Tolstoy

"Your heart is the power core of all your success . . . no
matter what you are desiring, if your heart isn't in it . . .
then you will be without it." -- Doug Firebaugh

"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." -- English Proverb

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort and convenience, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the
distance but to do what lies clearly at hand." -- Thomas Carlyle

"A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice
with it." -- Anon.
A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." -- Anon.

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." -- Jimmy Johnson

"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own." -- Harold Coffin

"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why."
-- Bernard Baruch

"Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped."
-- African Proverb

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests." -- John Stuart Mill

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Tell me what you say you want, show me one week of your life and I will tell you if you will get it."
-- Patricia Fripp

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." -- Raymond Hull

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
-- Sydney J. Harris

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
-- Lao Tzu

"The law of any church is, and always will be, evangelize or fossilize." -- George E. Sweazy, Let's March Abreast

"The world is my parish." -- John Wesley

"All there is of God is available to the man or woman who is available to all there is of God." -- Major Ian Thomas

"Keep your knees down and your eyes up."
-- Billy Graham
Time gives good advice." -- Maltese Proverb

"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open." -- Sir James Dewar

"If you can dream it, you can do it." -- Walt Disney

"What is easy is seldom excellent." -- Samuel Johnson

"Universal laws are always in force whether you believe in them or not." -- Brian Tracy

"It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live."
-- Golda Meir (1898-1978) Israeli Prime Minister

Stages: Children go through four fascinating stages. First they call you Da-Da. Then they call you Daddy. As they mature they call you Dad. Finally they call you collect.
-- King Duncan
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -- Aesop, ancient Greek moralist

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
-- Newt Gingrich

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
-- Wayne Gretzky

"Reflections of spring: Life is sunshine and snow, sometimes on the same day." -- Mirth Mauvais

"Praise works with only three types of people; men, women, and children." -- Anonymous

"Reinforce what you want to see repeated: What gets rewarded gets done." -- Brian Tracy

"When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy." -- Samuel Goldwyn

"The Bible gives us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used as examples --do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings--don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning." -- Jim Rohn

"Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm." -- Malayan Proverb

"We have met the enemy and they are us!" -- Walt Kelley

"Plan every day in advance, preferably the night before.
Plan every week in advance, as well." -- Brian Tracy

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." -- Richard Bach

"There's always free cheese in a mousetrap." -- Unknown

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You will NEVER get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." -- Jeff Valdez

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -- William Faulkner

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." -- Confucius

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home." -- David Frost

"I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called 'brightness,' but that doesn't work." -- Anonymous

The above quotes were cited on Mailbits.com

"None are so empty as those who are full of themselves."
-- Benjamin Whichcote

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places." -- Anonymous
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing." -- Nancy Astor

"Gossip needs no carriage." -- Russian Proverb

"When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow-creature." -- Sydney Smith (1771-1845)

"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm." -- Calvin Coolidge

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." -- Sally Field

"What you think of me is none of my business." -- Unknown
"An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest."
-- Spanish proverb

"No man is poor who has had a godly mother."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules
the world." -- William Ross Wallace

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
-- Latin proverb

"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute,
day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring
ways." -- Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)

"An invincible determination can accomplish almost
anything and in this lies the great distinction between
great men and little men." -- Thomas Fuller

"When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears." -- Czechoslovakian Proverb

"The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life."
-- Jim Rohn

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." -- Richard Bach

"Yesterday's endings are seeds for today's beginnings."
-- Lewis Losoncy, Psychologist

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you . . . please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."

 .J. O'Rourke


"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
-- Stephen Covey

"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember.
Involve me, and I'll learn." -- Marla Jones

"Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety,' the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us." -- Nido Qubein

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." -- Phillips Brooks

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold." -- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a 'necessary evil,' it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil." -- Sidney J. Harris

"Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is--that we are taught by God's word." -- H.C. Trumbull

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." -- E. Joseph Cossman.

"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember.
Involve me, and I'll learn." - Marla Jones

"Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them." -- Washington Irving


"Pray for a good harvest, but keep on hoeing." -- From a sign posted off a rural road

"Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal." -- Les Brown, Motivational Speaker

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."-- Helen Rowland (1875-1950), Journalist

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1811-1896) Writer

"Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end." -- H. Jackson Browne

"The Cross is My Statue of Liberty." – Unknown



"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." -- Marilyn vos Savant

"Joy is not in things, it is in us." -- Richard Wagner (1813-
1883) Composer

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein

"The great thing in life is not so much what we are doing at the moment as the direction in which we are headed."
-- Unknown

"Problems tend to growl at us like cowardly dogs. If we face them and challenge them, they back away. If we run from them, they run after us, snapping at our heels."
-- Freddie Mitman

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." -- Victor Hugo

"After all, it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life." -- Evelyn Underhill

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." -- Norman Peale

"Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind." -- Seneca

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
-- Francis Bacon

"[With God] the power within you is greater than the fear before you." -- Unknown

"When the mind is stressed, the body cries out."
 The Godfather
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right." -- Henry Ford

"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." -- John Steinbeck

"To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others."
-- Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
-- African Proverb

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity." -- Ben Jonson

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), U.S. First Lady
and Humanitarian

"To be is to do." -- Plato
"To do is to be." -- Socrates
"Do be do be do." -- Sinatra

The discontented man finds no easy chair."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain character- istics of a vigorous mind." -- Samuel Johnson

"When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he didn't start by trying to improve the candle. He decided that he wanted better light and went from there." -- Wendy Kopp, Founder and President, Teach for America

When the world seems large and complex, we need to remember that great world ideals all begin in some home neighborhood. -- Konrad Adenauer, German politician

"Who, being loved, is poor?" -- Oscar Wilde

"Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you." -- Dame Flora Robson

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
-- Maya Angelou in Bits & Pieces

"And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom."
-- Anais Nin

"To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself." -- Senator Orrin G. Hatch

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
-- Richard M. DeVos

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." William Shakespeare

"It is choice, not chance, that determines our destiny."
 Brian Tracy

People are not yo-yos. Drop them, and they may not
return.

"When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always." -- Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) Cited on Bits & Pieces

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." -- Barbara J. Winter

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are a gift from God?" -- Inscription on a wall of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

"Money is a good servant but a bad master." -- French Proverb

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

"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." -- Christopher Reeve, Actor Cited on Bits & Pieces

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." -- Saint Augustine



"Silence is safer than speech." (Epictetus)
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." (Walter Bagehot)
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." (Albert Einstein)

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."
(Giambattista Vico)


"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended." (Nelson Mandela)


"All truth is profound." (Herman Melville)


"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy." (Bertrand Russell)

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious?. the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." (Albert Einstein)


"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
(Charles Baudelaire)


"Idealist: a cynic in the making." (Irving Layton)




















An old man and his dog were walking along a country road, enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to the man that he had died. He remembered dying, and realized, too, that the dog had been dead for many years. He wondered where the road would lead them, and continued onward.
After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall, white arch that gleamed in the sunlight. When he was standing before it, he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother of pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. When he was close enough, he called out, "Excuse me, but is this heaven?"
"Yes, it is, sir," the man answered. "Wow! Would you happen to have some water?" the man asked. "Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought right up." The gatekeeper gestured to his rear, and the huge gate began to open.
"I assume my friend can come in..." the man said, gesturing toward his dog. But the reply was, "I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets." The man thought about it, then thanked the gatekeeper, turned back toward the road, and continued in the direction he had been going.
After another long walk, he reached the top of another long hill, and he came to a dirt road which led through a farm gate. There was no fence, and it looked as if the gate had never been closed, as grass had grown up around it. As he approached the gate, he saw a man just inside, sitting in the shade of a tree in a rickety old chair, reading a book. "Excuse me!" he called to the reader. "Do you have any water?"
"Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there," the man said, pointing to a place that couldn't be seen from outside the gate. "Come on in and make yourself at home." "How about my friend here?" the traveler gestured to the dog. "He's welcome too, and there's a bowl by the pump," he said. They walked through the gate and, sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a dipper hanging on it and a bowl next to it on the ground. The man filled the bowl for his dog, and then took a long drink himself.
When both were satisfied, he and the dog walked back toward the man, who was sitting under the tree waiting for them, and asked, "What do you call this place?" the traveler asked. "This is heaven," was the answer.
"Well, that's confusing," the traveler said. "It certainly doesn't look like heaven, and there's another man down the road who said that place was heaven."
"Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates?"
"Yes, it was beautiful."
"Nope. That's hell."
"Doesn't it offend you for them to use the name of heaven like that?"
"No. I can see how you might think so, but it actually saves us a lot of time. They screen out the people who are willing to leave their best friends behind."
This is Rex Barker reminding you of the value of integrity. If it smells bad…
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
- Edgar W. Howe

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
- Sydney J. Harris

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
- Lily Tomlin

The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
- Author Unknown

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
- W.H. Auden

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
- Elbert Hubbard

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

You can get all A's and still flunk life.
- Walker Percy

Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
- Bill Dodds