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- A Laurence Lowell: "Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way."
- A. L. Kitselman: "The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."
- A. Sachs: "Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
- Aaron Allston: “Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start going your way.”
- Aaron Douglas Trimble: "Nothings better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you."
- Abigail Adams:
- "I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
- "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
- Abraham Lincoln:
- "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
- "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."
- "If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend."
- "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- "Whatever you are, be a good one."
- "When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
- "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
- Adele Brookman: "Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life."
- Adelle Davis: "As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself."
- Agnes de Mille: "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
- Agnus Repplier: "It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
- Alan Moore: "Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore."
- Alan Saporta: "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
- Alanis Morissette: "I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."
- Alban Goodler: "Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment."
- Albert Camus: "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
- Albert Einstein:
* “Life is a lot like riding a bicycle: To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
- Albert Schweitzer: "Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity."
- Alexander A. Bogomoletz: "One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life."
- Alexander Humboldt: "I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson: "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
- Alfred North Whitehead: "The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
- Alice Walker: "Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week."
- Allard Lowenstein: "The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done."
- Amber Deckers: "Never regret something that once made you smile."
- Ambrose Redmoon: "Courage is not the absences of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you will be traveling the road of who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey."
- Amby Burfoot: “Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.”
- Amos Bronson Alcott: "One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
- Amy Bloom: "Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are."
- Ann Radcliffe: "Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult."
- Anais Nin:
- "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
- "When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
- Anatole France: "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
- Ancient Proverb: "Good habits result from resisting temptation."
- Andre Agassi: "What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose."
- Andre Gide:
- "Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable."
- "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
- Anita Roddick: "The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you."
- Ann Landers: "Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"
- Ann Richards: "If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities."
- Anna Quindien:
- "Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first."
- "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
- "You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are."
- Anne Bradstreet: "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
- Anne Frank: "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Lamott:
- "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up."
- “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.”
- Anne Taylor: "People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."
- Annie Dillard: "A schedule defends from chaos and whim."
- Anonymous:
- "Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it."
- "If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."
- "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
- “Because we don’t know what is really important to us, everything seems important. Because everything seems important, we have to do everything. Other people, unfortunately, see us as doing everything, so they expect us to do everything. Doing everything keeps us so busy, we don’t have time to think about what is really important to us.”
- “H.O.P.E.: Hold on, pain ends”
- “We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how.”
- “Whatever the season of life, attitude makes all the difference.”
- Anthony Starr: "Sport is imposing order on what was chaos."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery: "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."
- Aristotle:
- "Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Arthur Ashe: "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."
- Arthur C. Clarke: "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur Golden: "A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory."
- Audrey Giorgi: "Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself."
- Baltasar Gracian:
- "Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
- "Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
- "The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good."
- Barack Obama: "Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs."
- Barbara Hall: "The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
- Barbara Streisand: "You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."
- Bear Bryant: “It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
- Ben Stein: "The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."
- Benjamin Disraeli:
- "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
- "Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
- "You may delay, but time will not."
- “Energy and persistence alter all things.”
- "Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
- "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
- "Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
- "Well done is better than well said."
- "Wish not so much to live long as to live well."
- “The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing.”
- Bernard M. Baruch: "Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see."
- Bertha Calloway: "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
- Berthold Auerbach: "Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt."
- Bertolt Brecht: "Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."
- Bertrand Russell:
- "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
- "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
- "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
- Bessie A. Stanley: "He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much."
- Betroit Brecht: "Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."
- Betty Frieden: "It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."
- Beverly Sills: "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
- Bill Bowerman: "The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently."
- Bill Gates: "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
- Bill Kelly: "Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them."
- Bishop Richard Cumberland: "It is better to wear out than to rust out."
- Blaise Pascal: "We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."
- Bob Newhart: "Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
- Brennan Manning: "Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself"
- Brian Tracy: “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
- Bruce Lee: "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
- Burnadette Devlin: "To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
- C. S. Lewis:
- "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
- "A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to ... pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble,"
- Cardinal de Retz: "A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else."
- Carl Jung: "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Sandburg: "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
- Carol Burnett: "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
- Caroline K Simon: "Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog."
- Cecil B. DeMille: "The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication."
- Charles Churchill: "The best things carried to excess are wrong."
- Charles de Gaulle: "We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us."
- Charles Dickens: "Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
- Charles Du Bos: "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
- Charles Dudley Warner: "The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
- Charles F. Kettering: "Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon: “Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.”
- Charles Kettering: "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
- Charlie Chaplin: "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."
- Charlotte Bronte: "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
- Charlotte Cushman: "To try to be better is to be better."
- Chinese proverb: "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
- Chris Dingess: "This life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes you just need to cling to the person that you can claw your way out of the dark with."
- Christian Larson: "Take pride in how far you have come, and have faith in how far you can go!"
- Christopher Columbus: “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Christopher Morley: "Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age."
- Christopher Reeve: "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
- Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh: "Promise me you will always remember: You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- Chuck Palahniuk:
- "Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."
- "No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide."
- Cicero:
- "Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
- "Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
- Clare Booth Luce: "Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
- Clarence Thomas: "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
- Claude Bernard: "We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
- Claude M. Bristol: "Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage."
- Colby Dor Dam: "Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement."
- Colin Powell: "Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."
- Colleen Lawrence: “Giving up doesn't mean your a quitter it means your tired of fighting for something that isn't gonna change”
- Comte de Buffon: "Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."
- Conan O'Brien: "Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and youre kind, amazing things will happen."
- Confucius:
- "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
- "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
- "To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."
- "When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
- "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."
- "The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his State and all his clans are preserved.”
- Corra Harris: "The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."
- Corrie Ten Boom: "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
- Cullen Hightower: "People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done."
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- D. H. Lawrence: "It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
- Dag Hammarskjold: "Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
- Dale Carnegie:
- "First ask yourself, what is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
- "Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
- “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
- Dan Zadra: "Worry is a misuse of imagination."
- Danah Boyd: "The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves."
- Daniel Considine: "To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him."
- David Assael: "After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar."
- David Lloyd George: "Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
- David McCullough: "Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love."
- David Shore: "Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't."
- Democritus: "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."
- Demosthenes: "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
- Denis Diderot: “Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
- Denis Waitley: “You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.”
- Dentzel Washington: "I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it."
- Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider: "One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world."
- Doc Searls: "We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players."
- Doris Lessing: "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
- Doris Mortman: "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
- Dorothea Brande: "Act as if it were impossible to fail."
- Dorothy Allison: "Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
- Dorothy Bernard: "Courage is fear that has said its prayers."
- Dr. David M. Burns: "Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
- Dr. Robert Schuller: "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
- Dr. Smiley Blanton: "The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower: "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- E. B. White: "I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't no where else to go."
- E. E. Cummings: "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
- Earl Nightingale: “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
- Eda LeShan: “When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be toward others.”
- Eddie Canton: "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
- Eddie Rickenbacker: "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
- Edmund Burke:
- "Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security."
- "Good order is the foundation of all things."
- "Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair."
- Edmund Spenser: "What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty."
- Edna Buchanan: "True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway."
- Edna Ferber: "Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little."
- Edward Gibbon: "We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win."
- Elbert Hubbard:
- "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive."
- "Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."
- "How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"
- "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
- Eleanor Roosevelt:
- "Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
- "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
- "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
- “Do one thing everyday that scares you.”
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
- You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."
- Elizabeth Aston: "Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of mere mortals.”
- Elizabeth Bowen: "If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton:
- "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
- "The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flows into our souls.”
- "Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon."
- Elizabeth David: "Every day holds the possibility of a miracle."
- Elizabeth Goudge: "Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing."
- Elizabeth Montagu: "I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress."
- Elizabeth Moon: "No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic."
- Ellen DeGeneres:
- "Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most."
- "Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others."
- Ellen Metcalf: "You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait."
- Elmer G. Letterman: "Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open."
- Else Maxwell: "Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."
- Emil Zaptopek: “When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical.”
- Emily Dickinson:
- "Forever is composed of nows."
- "I dwell in possibility..."
- English Proverb: "Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
- Epictetus:
- "If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
- "Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent."
- "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
- "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
- "The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."
- Eric A. Burns: "Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive"
- Eric Hoffer:
- "It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream."
- "Our greatest weariness comes from work not done."
- "We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves."
- “It is our talents rusting unused within us that secretes the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.”
- Eric Schmidt: "In a networked world, trust is the most important currency."
- Ernest Hemingway:
- "I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."
- "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
- “The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are stronger at the broken places.”
- Ethel Barrett: "We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."
- Eugene Delacroix: “We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.”
- Euripides:
- "Do not consider painful what is good for you."
- "The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."
- Evan Esar: "You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."
- Farrah Gray: "In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection."
- Frances Moore Lappe: "Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully."
- Francis Cardinal Spellman: "Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man."
- Francis Thompson: "In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld:
- "To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established."
- "When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
- "We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity."
- Francoise Sagan: "It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones."
- Frank Crane: "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."
- Frank Herbert: "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty."
- Frank Scully: "Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"
- Franklin D. Roosevelt:
- "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
- "If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time."
- "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
- Franz Stompfl: "With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for doing it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity."
- Freya Madeline Stark: "There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
- Fritz Kunkel: "To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes."
- Fulton Oursler: "We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear for tomorrow."
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- Gary Earl: “Lord, don't let me get trapped in the woe; rather may I be consumed in the wow!”
- General Douglas MacArthur: "There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: "The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things."
- George Bernard Shaw:
- "I don't believe in circumstance. 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."
- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- “Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, pass no criticism.”
- George Burns:
- "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
- "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."
- George Claude Lorimer: "Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."
- George Eliot:
- "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
- "It's never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Herbert:
- "Storms make oaks take deeper root."
- "Every mile is two in winter."
- George Lucas: "Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."
- George McDonald: "Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."
- George Melton: "Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure."
- George S. Patton: "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
- George Sand:
- "Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness."
- "It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides."
- George Santayana:
- "Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."
- "The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
- George Sheehan: “Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”
- George Washington: "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
- Gerry Spence: "To freely bloom - that is my definition of success."
- Gloria Pitzer: "About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."
- Golda Meir: "Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either."
- Graham Greene: "It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
- Grenville Kleiser: "By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr: "Strive for excellence, not perfection."
- H. Somerset Maugham: "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late."
- Han Suyin: "Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures."
- Hannah Whitall Smith: "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."
- Harold B. Lee: "The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes."
- Harold Taylor: "The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick: "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."
- Heidi Willis: "We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief."
- Helen Keller:
- "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
- "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content"
- "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
- "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
- "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
- Henri Frederic Amiel: "Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty."
- Henry C. Link: “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”
- Henry David Thoreau:
- "Every man is the builder of a temple called his body."
- "Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
- "It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around."
- "Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."
- "Men are born to succeed, not fail."
- “To enhance the quality of the day… that is the highest of the arts.”
- Henry Drummond: "Unless a man undertakes more than he can possibly do, he will never do all that he can."
- Henry Ford: “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal”
- Henry Miller:
- "Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
- "One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
- Henry Moore: "One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it."
- Henry Van Dyke: "Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
- "Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."
- "The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
- "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
- "Let us, then be up and doing,/ With a heart for any fate;/ Still achieving, still pursuing,/ Learn to labour and to wait."
- "Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."
- Henry Winkley: "Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
- Herodotus: "If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."
- Hesiod: "It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."
- Holly Lisle: "If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense."
- Horace:
- "He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
- "Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment."
- Howard Thurman: "Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard W. Newton: “People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.”
- Hugh Elliott:
- "All people want is someone to listen."
- "Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds."
- Hugh MacLeod:
- "Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is."
- "The best way to get approval is not to need it."
- "The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does."
- Hugh Prather: "Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues."
- Hyman Rickover: "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
- Hyrum Smith: “When your daily activities are in convert with your highest priorities, you have a credible claim to inner peace.”
- Immanuel Kant: "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
- Indian Proverb: "Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured."
- Indira Gandhi: "We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."
- Iris Murdoch: "We can only learn to love by loving."
- Irving Wallace: "To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."
- Izaak Walton: "Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."
- J Arthur Thomson: "The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will."
- J Campbell: “You have to be willing to give up the life you've planned for in order to live the life that's waiting for you.”
- J Petit-Senn: "Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it."
- J. K. Rowling:
- "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
- "It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- "You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve."
- "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
- J. R. R. Tolkien: "Little by little, one travels far."
- Jacob Braude: "Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
- Jacob Braude: "Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
- Jacques Maritain: "Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."
- James A. Froude: "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
- James A. Garfield: "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
- James Cook: "Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."
- James Gordon: "It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."
- James Joyce: "Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
- James Lane Allen: "You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
- James Oppenheim: "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
- Jane E. Brody: "Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline."
- Jane E. Shaw: “You need to believe that what you’re doing is right, and you need to stay focused. Without a clear course in mind, it’s very easy to be swayed by everybody’s opinion.”
- Jane Fonda: "It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."
- Jane Goodall: "Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change."
- Japanese proverb:
- "Fall seven times, stand up eight."
- "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."
- Jean De La Fontaine: "By the work one knows the workmen."
- Jean Paul Richter: "Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower."
- Jean-Luc Picard: "Things are only impossible until they're not."
- Jeff Galloway: “A lifestyle change begins with a vision and a single step.”
- Jennie Jerome Churchill: "We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand."
- Jennifer Louden: "I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others."
- Jenny Bicks: "The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun."
- Jeph Jacques: "You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are."
- Jerry Chin: "And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
- Jesse Owens: “The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
- Jewish Proverb: "He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good."
- Jimi Hendrix: "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Joan McIntosh: "Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'"
- Johann Goethe: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
- Johann Wolfgang van Goethe: "Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."
- John Atkinson: "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
- John Davis:
- “We finish this race of faithfulness to Christ only through an enduring faith nurtured by the past, present, and future work of Jesus Christ.”
- “We need to be reminded that God never looks with despair at messed up lives. We may and do. But He doesn’t.”
- “Your successes and failures are only temporary. Don't make too much of them. Only what you have in Christ is eternal. Love and Serve Him.”
- John Dryden: "Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace."
- John F. Kennedy:
- "The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- "We need men who can dream of things that never were."
- “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”
- John Le Carre: "Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers."
- John Locke:
- "A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
- "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
- John Lubbock: “If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.”
- John Mankiewicz: "Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable." (yet it is only an illusion...)
- John Muir:
- "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike."
- "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
- John Ruskin: "The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
- John Updike: "Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
- John Wayne: "Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."
- Jonathan Kozol: "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
- Joseph Addison:
- "Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station."
- "If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."
- Joseph Campbell: "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Joubert:
- "Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."
- "Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people."
- Josh Billings: "Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on what he is made of."
- Judy Grahn: "What you will do matters. All you need is to do it."
- Jules Renard: "Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend."
- Julia Sorel: "If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."
- Julie Ackerman Link: "God makes miracles out of what seems insignificant: fragile faith, a little kindness, and ordinary people."
- Julie Morgenstern: "If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do."
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- Kahlil Gibran: "The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."
- Karl von Bonstetten: "To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love."
- Katherine Mansfield: "Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."
- Kathleen A. Sutton: "When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have."
- Kathleen Casey Theisen: "Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it."
- Kathleen Norris: "Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future."
- Kathryn L. Nelson:
- "I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself."
- "Sometimes it is the quiet observer who see the most."
- Kevin Smith: "More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself."
- Kirby Larson: "It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal."
- Kurt Lewin: "A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: "You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself."
- Laura Moncur: "Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure."
- Lawrence Kaplow: "Perseverance does not equal worthiness."
- Leo Burnett: "When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
- Leo Tolstoy:
- "Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
- "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
- Leonardo da Vinci:
- "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
- "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
- Lilian Hellman:
- "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
- "Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did."
- "The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."
- Lin Yutang: “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble are of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.”
- Linda Shalaway: “Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time.”
- Lisa Williams: "It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good."
- Liz Smith: "Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
- Lois McMaster Bujold:
- "If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back."
- "Adversity does teach who your real friends are."
- Lord Byron: "Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
- Lord Chesterfield:
- "Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so."
- "Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."
- "Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
- "Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
- Lord Jeffery: "A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one."
- Lorraine Anderson: "Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."
- Lou Holtz: "It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
- Louis Pasteur: "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
- Louisa May Alcott: "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
- Lucille Ball: "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
- Lydia M. Child: "Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame."
- Lyndon B. Johnson:
- "We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it."
- "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
- Madeleine L'Engle:
- "That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
- "When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
- Mahatma Gandhi:
- "Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."
- "One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
- “A ‘no’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.”
- Malcolm Forbes:
- "Diamonds are nothing more than lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs."
- "Failure is success if we learn from it."
- “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of cool that stick to their jobs.”
- Malcolm Gladwell: "Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
- Marcel Proust: "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
- Margaret Cho:
- "If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach."
- "People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."
- Margaret Fuller: "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
- Margaret Lee Runbeck: "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
- Margaret Thatcher: “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lunge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.”
- Marian Evans: "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
- Marianne Williamson: "And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
- Marie Curie: "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."
- Marilyn Ferguson: "Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them."
- Marilyn vos Savant: "Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
- Mark Steven Johnson: "Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you."
- Mark Twain:
- "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
- "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. "
- "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
- "How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it."
- "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
- "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- "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."
- "The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
- "Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
- "When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one."
- Martha Beck:
- "Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis."
- "Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want."
- "The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine."
- Martha Graham: "The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted."
- Martha Grimes: "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
- Martha Stewart: "Life is too complicated not to be orderly."
- Martin Luther King Jr:
- "Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
- “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.”
- "Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
- Mary Anne Radmacher: "Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow'."
- Mary Field Belenky: "Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust."
- Mary Key Ash: "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."
- Mary Pickford: "If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down."
- Mary Tyler Moore: "Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living."
- Matthew Trump: "Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say."
- Matthias: "Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God’s love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.”
- Max Frisch: "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
- Maya Angelou:
- "A woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her."
- "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
- "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
- McCallister Dodds: "Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit."
- Meg Cabot: "In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt."
- Menander: "He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."
- Meredith Wilson: "Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today."
- Michael J. Fox: "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
- Michael Jordan: "I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success."
- Michael Korda: "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."
- Michael Patrick King: "Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away."
- Michael Rooney: “You always face failure on the way to success.”
- Michel de Montaigne: "I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself."
- Mickey Rooney: "You always pass failure on the way to success."
- Miguel de Cervantes: "Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long."
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: "It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.”
- Mildred Norman Ryder: “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”
- Minna Thomas Antrim: "Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills."
- Mitch Albom: "But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
- Moliere: "The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
- Morrie Schwartz: "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
- Mother Theresa:
- "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
- "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
- Napolean Bonaparte:
- "[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
- "Victory belongs to the most persevering."
- Natalie Goldberg: "Anything you fully do is an alone journey."
- Nathaniel Branden: "Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."
- Nicole Kidman: "When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
- Norman Maller: "Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less."
- Norman Vincent Peale:
- "Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- “Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.”
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- Og Mandino:
- "Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
- "Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."
- "I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted."
- "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."
- "Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success."
- "Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
- "To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."
- Okakura Kakuzo: "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:
- "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience."
- "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."
- "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
- "The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
- Ophrah Winfrey:
- "Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us."
- "Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up."
- "Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
- "I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."
- "I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."
- "If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't."
- "In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself."
- "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
- "The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."
- "We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be."
- "With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."
- "You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another."
- "I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it."
- Oscar Arias Sanchez: "The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves."
- Oscar Wilde: "We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities." (sad but true!)
- Ovid:
- "Make the workmanship surpass the supplies."
- "Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
- Patricia Russell-McCloud: "Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still."
- Paul "Bear" Bryant:
- "It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."
- "When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it."
- Paul Dudley White: "A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
- Paul Reese: “Believe you can do it. Think no other way but ‘Yes you can.’ The human body is capable of considerably more physical endurance than most of us realize.”
- Paul Tillich: "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
- Pearly Balley: "You never find yourself until you face the truth."
- Pearly Buck: "Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
- Pete Seeger: "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."
- Peter Block: “The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.”
- Peter McWilliams:
- "Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth.""
- "Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"
- Peter Minard: "Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary."
- Peter Ustinov: "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Williams: "Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.""
- Philip Elmer DeWitt: "Some people make headlines while others make history."
- Philip Gold: "A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving."
- Phillip Adams: "It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever."
- Phillip C. McGraw: "At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."
- Phillips Brooks: "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle."
- Pierre Corneille: "To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
- Piet Hein: "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back."
- Plato: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Plutarch:
- "Rest is the sweet sauce of labor."
- "To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
- Po Bronson: "As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things."
- Prince Charles: "Be neither too remote nor too familiar."
- Publilius Syrus: "It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
- R. Collier: “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
- R. D. Hitchcock: "The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
- "Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."
- "If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
- "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air"
- "None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
- "Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."
- "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
- "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Randy K. Milholland:
- "In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side."
- "Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives."
- Ray Bradbury: "Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down."
- Raymond Lindquist: "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
- Real Live Preacher: "Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect."
- Rene Descartes:
- "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."
- Rex Hudler: "Be a fountain, not a drain."
- Rita Mae Brown: "Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides."
- Robert Braut: “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”
- Robert Bresson: "Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."
- Robert de Castella: “Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we tired and not expecting instant results.”
- Robert F. Kennedy: “Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.”
- Robert Fripp: "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
- Robert H. Goddard: "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
- Robert Heinlein: "In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. "
- Robert Henri: "Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them."
- Robert J. Sawyer:
- "Honor does not have to be defended."
- "Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace."
- Robert J. Shiller: "The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."
- Robert Louis Stevenson:
- "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."
- "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
- "The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
- "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
- "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
- "You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
- Robert Rodriguez: "Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves."
- Robert Service: "Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
- Robert Veninga: "Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope."
- Robin Norwood: "Make your own recovery the first priority in your life."
- Ronald Reagan: “There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
- Rosalynn Carter: "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
- Ruben Studdard: "You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay."
- Ruby Dee: "The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."
- Saint Francis de Sales: "Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew"
- Saint Francis of Assissi: "Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith."
- Saint Jerome: "The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
- Salman Rushdie: "Our lives teach us who we are."
- Salvador Dali: "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
- Sam Ewing:
- "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
- "It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours."
- Samuel Beckett: "Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better."
- Samuel Butler: "If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
- Samuel Johnson:
- "Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."
- "Hope is necessary in every condition."
- "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair."
- "It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."
- "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
- "What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach: "You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you."
- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas: "If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor."
- Seneca:
- "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
- "Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony."
- "We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?"
- "While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned."
- Shakti Gawain:
- "We need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly."
- "We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
- Sharon Salzberg: "If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again."
- Shimon Peres: "If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."
- Sidney J. Harris:
- "Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble."
- "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
- Simon Bolivar: “To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.”
- Sir Edmund Hillary: "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
- Sir Francis Bacon:
- "Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
- "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider."
- "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
- Sir Henry Taylor: "The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means."
- Sir Joshua Reynolds: "If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."
- Sir Richard Steele: "Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools."
- Sir Thomas Browne: "Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous."
- Sir Wilfred Grenfell: "Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."
- Sir William Osler: "Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition."
- Sir William Osler: "Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition."
- Sir Winston Churchill:
- "For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
- "It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
- "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- "The price of greatness is responsibility."
- Socrates:
- "Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."
- “The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”
- Sophia Loren: "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
- Spanish Proverb:
- "A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."
- "If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself."
- St Francis of Assissi: “Start by doing what is necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
- Stephanie Barron: "Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing."
- Stephen Covey:
- "One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present."
- “Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.”
- Steve Jobs:
- "It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much."
- "Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."
- Steven Tyler: “In order to get to the other side of the shore, you have to lose sight of this one!”
- Storm Jameson:
- "For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."
- "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
- Sue Patton Thoele: "Abundance is, in large part, an attitude."
- Susan Jeffers: "Feel the fear and do it anyway."
- Sydney J. Harris: "An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
- Sydney Smith:
- "There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all."
- "To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner: "Truth has beauty, power and necessity."
- Sylvia Robinson: "Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go."
T-Z
- T. S. Eliot:
- "The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason."
- "Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel."
- Terri Lynn Taylor: "Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. "
- The Road Less Traveled: "Problems call forth our courage and wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually...It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems."
- The Velveteen Rabbit: "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
- Theodore Roosevelt:
- "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
- Theophrastus: "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."
- Thich Nhat Hanh: "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."
- Thomas A Edison:
- "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
- "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
- "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas A. Kempis: "First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich: "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."
- Thomas Dekker: "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
- Thomas Fuller: "Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."
- Thomas H. Huxley: "Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
- Thomas Hobbes: "Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair."
- Thomas J. Watson: "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."
- Thomas Jefferson:
- "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
- "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- "If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
- "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."
- “If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise.”
- Thomas Moore:
- "In a culture that frowns on idleness, give yourself some completely unproductive time. Excessive productivity is incompatible with an erotically interesting life because the senses get distracted by busyness. Not spending your time profitably might be the best thing you can do for your sex life."
- "The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
- "To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship."
- Thomas Paine: "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."
- Tony Blair: "The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."
- Tory Baucum: “We all need goals. Life is hard to live without one.”
- Truman Capote: “All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.”
- Tryon Edwards: "If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."
- Unknown:
- "Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance."
- “Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
- “Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.”
- “May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.”
- Vernon Howard: "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
- Vernon Sander Law: "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
- Victor Borge: "A smile is the shortest distance between two people."
- Victor Hugo: "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."
- Vidal Sassoon: "The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary."
- Vince Lombardi: "It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up again."
- Vincent van Gogh:
- "Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
- “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
- Virgil Thomson: “Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
- Virgil:
- "They can conquer who believe they can."
- "Trust one who has gone through it."
- Virginia Woolf: "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
- Voltaire:
- "...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
- "Regimen is superior to medicine."
- "The secret of being boring is to say everything."
- "Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."
- "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."
- W. Clement Stone: “Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.”
- W. N. Taylor: "Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred."
- W. Somerset Maugham:
- "The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth."
- "You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences."
- "You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you."
- Walker Percy: "To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something."
- Walter Anderson: "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 Rant: "Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready."
- Washington Irving: "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power."
- Wayne Dyer: "Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
- Welse Proverb: "Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people."
- Wendy Wasserstein: "No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone."
- White Eagle: "Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good."
- Whitney Young: "The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."
- Will Rogers:
- "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
- Willa Cather: "Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
- William Arthur Ward:
- “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
- “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
- William Barley: “Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
- William Blake:
- "Great things happen when men and mountains meet."
- "I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's."
- William Butler Yates: "Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
- William Congreve: "Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."
- William Ellery Channing: "Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
- William Faulkner:
- "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
- "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
- William Henry Hudson: "You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren."
- William James:
- "Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction."
- "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."
- William Penn: "True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
- William Shakespeare:
- "Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."
- "Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest."
- "Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
- "Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners."
- William van Horne: "Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt."
- William Wordsworth: "That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
- Willie Shoemaker: "Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete."
- Wilson Mizner: "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
- Winston Churchill: "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
- Woodrow Wilson:
- "Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."
- "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world”