1. . "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." - Vincent T. Lombardi 2. "Each of us was born with wings... (and) has the ability to go farther than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest imaginings." - Barbara Stanny 3. "Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine... [Your] values and goals...Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." - Marsha Sinetar 4. "No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it." - Raymond Holliwell 5. "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII 6. "Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt 7. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke 8. "You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing." - Andrew Jackson 9. . "The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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1. . "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." - Vincent T. Lombardi
2. "Each of us was born with wings... (and) has the ability to go farther than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest imaginings." - Barbara Stanny
3. "Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine... [Your] values and goals...Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." - Marsha Sinetar
4. "No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it." - Raymond Holliwell5. "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to
do." - Pope John XXIII
6. "Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt
7. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke
8. "You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing." - Andrew Jackson
9. . "The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
10.The good we do is never lost, each kindly act takes root, and every bit of love we sow, in time will bear its fruits." - Christine jame
11."You must 'believe it' to 'perceive it' to 'receive it' to 'achieve it'." - Matthew Ashimolowo
12.The best friend of a lazy man is 'Mr. Excuse' who lives at 'Talk Avenue' and is married to 'Lady Sleep'." - Yomi Kasali
13. "Smile and the whole world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone" - Ella Wheeler
14."Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so." - Charles De Gaulle
15.If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again." - Thomas H. Palmer16.It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim
determination, if you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win." - Navy SEAL Masterchief (1/2)
17.. "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!" - Anne Frank
18.The most important thing about goals is having one." - Geoffrey F. Abert19."For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to
find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash20."Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up
the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
21.. "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." - Jeremy Kitson
22."A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." - John Maxwell.
23."I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
24.. "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." - Pamela Vaull Starr
25.. "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." - Harvey Mackay
26."Climb high; climb far. Your goal is the sky; your aim is the star." - Inscription at Williams College
27.. "There's no easy path to glory. There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, is no simple parlor game; but its prizes call for fighting, for endurance and for grit; for a rugged disposition that will not quit." - Navy SEAL Masterchief (2/2)
28."Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." - Jean De La Fontaine
29.. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt
30.. "He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide." - Salvador De Madariaga
31.. "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still
untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." - Dr. Dale Turner
32.When the light has sharply faded and you have lost your way, let another's love guide you. It can turn blackest night into day." - Kevin Meyers
33."Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly." - Dr Ann Faraday
34.. "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - Clive Staples Lewis
35."Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "presses on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - John Calvin Coolidge
36.. "I dream my painting and then paint my dream." - Vincent Van Gogh37."It's the independent American spirit that built this country - hard-working
entrepreneurs who believe in the reality of their dreams." - Robert E. Hughes38.. "Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision, but today well
lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope." - Kalidasa
39.. "It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important." - Francis Ford Coppola
40... "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.
41."Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - Art Linkletter
42.. "Happiness walks on busy feet." - Kittie Turmell43.. "The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire." - Brian Tracy
44.. "Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want." - Hannah Whitall Smith
45."Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your `joie de vivre is crushed under the weight of years." - Zarathushtra
46."You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself." - Ethel Barrymore. "I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy." - Louise Bogan
47.. "Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others... but to get ahead of ourselves." - Thomas L. Monson
48.. "Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening." -
Gertrude Stein49."Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results." - Dennis Waitely50.. "Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it." -
Elaine St. James
51."Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in different directions." - Virginia Casey
52."Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life." - J.E. Buckrose
53.. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expected to give... Which is everything?" - Katherine Hepburn
54."The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo
55.. "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished." - Og Mandingo
56.. "What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." - Doris Lessing
57.He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
58.. "You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the . "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain
59.. "Most smiles are started by another smile." - Mark Twain60.. "I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. It is only a
question of loving them enough." - Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco61.. "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
- Lao-Tzu62.. "We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters
to the world." - Mother Teresa63.. "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, and a poet must write if
he is ultimately to be at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." - Abraham Maslow
64."Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character." - Anthony Robbins
65."Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience
of trial and suffering can the soul is strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
66."Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, and conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnacious ness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top." - D.A. Benton
67."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." - Eleanor Roosevelt
68."When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy
69."Luck is not chance - It's toil - Fortune's expensive smile - Is earned -" - Emily Dickinson
70."Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity." - Earl Nightingale71.Top72."You don't need an explanation for everything. Recognize that there are such
things as miracles, events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily." - Harry Browne
73."Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith
74.. "No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it." - Raymond Holliwell
75."Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt
76.. "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke
77."Saying yes and no clearly builds confidence and rids us of the misconception that we are powerless." - Marsha Sinetar
78."You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing." - Andrew Jackson
79.. "Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be." - W. H. Auden
80.. "Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today." - Og Mandino
81.. "Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is
lacking and nothing is superfluous." - Leonardo DaVinci82.. "I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there can be any
kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now as I shall not pass this way again." - William Penn
83.. "Forgive all who offended you, not for them but for yourself." - Harriet Uts Nelson
84."Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms." - Daniel Boone
85."If I were forced to condense my ideas on morality into a single sentence: 'Live consciously, take responsibility for your choices and actions, respect the rights of others, and follow your own bliss." - Nathaniel Branden
86."It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, if you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win." - Navy SEAL Masterchief (1/2)
87."Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility." - Michael Korda
88."You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." - Galileo
89."He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
90."You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough." - Joe E. Lewis
91."The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as friendly as possible rather than hostile." - Bertrand Russell
92."Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
93.There's no easy path to glory. There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, is no simple parlor game; but its prizes call for fighting, for endurance and for grit; for a rugged disposition that will not quit." - Navy SEAL Masterchief (2/2)
94."Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so." - Robert G. Ingersoll
95."Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes
96."If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton97.. "Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery
and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory." - Ghandi98."Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to
motivate them." - John Maxwell99."What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the
preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind." - Benjamin Franklin
100. "The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." - Vince Lombardi
101. "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
102. "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington
103. "Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers." - Rodan of Alexandria
104. "If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be." - JR Miller
105. "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
106. "If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." - Dale Carnegie
107. "A smile is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and an antidote for trouble." - Unknown
108. "The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility." - Giosué,
Borsi109. "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the
greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." - Henry Miller
110. "The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein
111. "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." - David Brink
112. "Take what you want," said God, "and pay for it." - Spanish proverb113. "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." -
Confucius114. "I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." - Rita
Mae Brown115. . "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I
can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do." - Helen Keller116. "Human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we
cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility." - Arnold J. Toynbee
117. "Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way." - Sophocles118. . "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson119. "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create
the universe." - Carl Sagan120. . "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - Colette121. "Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or
she begins with some wild expectations." - Ralph Charell122. . "Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by
unexpected sparks." - Samuel Johnson123. "The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that
there's only one other choice." - Doug Larson124. "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his
client to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright125. "Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes
you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman
126. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
127. . "It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one
we had." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross128. . "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays
do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell129. "The joy that isn't shared dies young." - Anne Sexton130. "I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas
Jefferson131. . "Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their
own gifts." - Jean Vanier132. "No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever
grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
133. "There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters." - Natalie Clifford Barney
134. "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln
135. "Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach
136. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William James
137. "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." - Kahlil Gibran
138. "Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers." - Rodan of Alexandria
139. . "The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis
140. . "It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, 'What are we busy about?'" - Henry David Thoreau
141. "The most essential factor is persistence, the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come." - James Whitcomb Riley
142. . "Living itself is a risky business. If we spent half as much time learning how to take risks as we spend avoiding them, we wouldn't have nearly so much to fear in life." - E. Paul Torrance
143. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Dr. Denis Waitley
144. "The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." - Robert Fulgham
145. "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." - Bertrand Russell
146. . "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away." - Sir Arthur Helps
147. "Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of others." - Leib Lazarow
148. "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
149. "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." - Robert Hughes
150. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharlal Nehru
151. "When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel."
174. "There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of good things to come."
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175. "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
181. "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 someday in your life you will have been all of these."
187. "If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."
211. "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
247. "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
268. "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 poeple you can. As long as ever you can."
274. "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" - Barry Goldwater
275. "Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be
hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life." - J.E. Buckrose
276. . "You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." - Dale Carnegie
277. "Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano make you a pianist." - Michael Levine
278. . "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
279. "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank
280. "A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." - John Maxwell
281. "All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim; have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." - Orison Swett Marden
282. "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished." - Og Mandingo
283. "The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." - E.M. Gray
284. "No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." - Charles Dudley Warner
285. "Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope." - Kalidasa
286. "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." - Helen Keller
287. When we see problems as opportunities for growth, we tap a source of knowledge within ourselves which carries us through." - Marsha Sinetar
288. "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
289. "I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find
something to laugh about if you try hard enough." - Red Skelton290. "If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with
more?" - Mark Twain291. "When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he
undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success." - Orison Swett Marden
292. . "The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious." - Diane
293. "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for it is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
294. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson
295. . "The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness, will also keep out the joy." - Jim Rohn
296. . "There is no victory at bargain basement prices." - Dwight David Eisenhower
297. "The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression." - Allen J. Boone
298. . "Only the educated are free." - Epictetus299. "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not
reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott
300. . "To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another." - Benjamin Jowett
301. "Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower."
328. "Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such."
329. Author:Confucius
330. . "Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life." - Ann Landers
331. "I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands." - Darius Ogden Mills
332. "O! For a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention." - William Shakespeare
333. "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 Wesley334. "To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." - Mother
Teresa335. "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn
around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." - Michael Jordon
336. . "Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our having only right desires." - Augustine
337. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
338. . "Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
339. "Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason." - Francis Bacon
340. . "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stephenson
341. . "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Alva Edison
342. . "There are two ways to meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them." - Phyllis Bottome
343. . "Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation." - Coleridge
344. . "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
345. "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
346. "Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser347. . "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of
ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." - Stewart B. Johnson
348. "The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give." - Howard Cosell
349. "Confidence is the hinge on the door to success." - Mary O'Hare Dumas
350. . "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
351. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." -
Victor Hugo352. . "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are
sent forth." - Kahlil Gibran353. . "He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every
time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
354. . "The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults." - Peter De Vries
355. . "No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." - Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D.
356. "Parents can only give good advice or put one on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank
357. "When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her." - Marianne Williamson
358. Education is the movement from darkness to light." - Allan Bloom359. . "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your
eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford360. . "The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others." -
Madame de Maintenon361. . "The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours." - Jules Jusserano362. . "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." -
Scottish Proverb363. . "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
- William Connor Magee364. "It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is
mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible." - Thomas Robert Gaines
365. Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues." - John Locke366. . "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for
it." - Henry David Thoreau367. "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - John Mason Brown
368. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
369. "If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." - Paula A. Bendry
370. "This is the true joy of life--the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances." - G. Bernard Shaw
371. Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues." - John Locke372. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for
it." - Henry David Thoreau373. . "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of
life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - John Mason Brown
374. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
375. . "If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." - Paula A. Bendry
376. Knowledge is power." - Francis Bacon377. "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." - Chinese
Proverb378. . "Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the
surface and their toughness in the middle." - G. K. Chesterton379. . "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." -
Abraham Lincoln380. . "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor
Roosevelt381. "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to 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." - John Homer Miller
382. "Life is not a laughing matter - but can you imagine having to live without laughing?" - Leonard Sukhoru Kou
383. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay384. "Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled
by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost385. . "Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way
you take it." - Ellen Glasgow386. . "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." - Harry James387. "Take a second look at what appears to be someone's "good luck."
You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing
thinking...." - David Joseph Schwartz388.389.390.391. "Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for
397. "Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of lovingkindness. Lovingkindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth. "
418. "The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey."
425. "Compassion, kindness, and concern can be found everywhere in America. And if we have learned nothing else from this [Sept. 11th] tragedy, we have learned that our time on earth is short, so there is simply no time for hate."
426. Author:Sandra Dahl, wife of Jason Dahl, pilot of Flight 93
428. "Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness."
460. "Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature’s fragile vessel doth sustain In life’s uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them. "
469. "'Wherever there's a human being, there's an opportunity for kindness.' You don't have to plan some big event. You can be strolling the hall in school and say 'hi' to a stranger. Simplicity is the way, you know?"
472. "The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart."
478. "There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."
484. "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. "
487. "Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations."
488. Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
489. "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." - Rudyard Kipling
490. . "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be
happy." - Cynthia Nelms491. Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man
prolonged his days." - Ecclesiasticus. XXX. 22492. . "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri
Bergson493. "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain
494. . "Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who secure within can say: Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today." - Horace
495. . "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - H. W. Beecher
496. "The happiest man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life." - Goethe
497. "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." - Ruth E. Renkel
498. Would you like me to give you a formula for...success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all...You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure." - Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
499. . "All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve are a direct result of his own thoughts." - James Allen
500. "Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best." - Bulwer
501. "Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life." - Confucius
502. . "Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success." - Burt Lawlor
503. "Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." - Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
504. . "My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and onward." - Dav"
505. We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, &
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" - Thomas Jefferson (This was within his original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence.)
506. . "Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Viktor Frankl
507. . "Freedom is the right to choose; the right to create for you the alternatives of choice. Without the exercise of choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing." - Archibald MacLeish
508. "Human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility." - Arnold J. Toynbee
509. . "Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." - Harriet Rubin
510. . "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater
511. . "The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin
512. "Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
513. "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kirkegaard
514. "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden
515. "No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person." - Willa Cather
516. "Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours." - Orison Swett Marden
517. "The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself." - Publilius Syrus
518. "I wish you all the joy that you can wish yourselves." - William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice
519. "The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck." - Channing Pollock
520. "If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which are difficult, since we think them happier than they are." - Monesquieu
521. "Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight." - Scottish Proverb
522. "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
523. "We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." - Albert Einstein
524. "Every life has its dark and cheerful hours. Happiness comes from choosing which to remember." - Sol Gordon
525. "The mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickinson
526. The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein527. . "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working
24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." - Tom Blandi
528. . "An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality." - John Cage
529. . "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." - Henry David Thoreau
530. "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you." - Frank Tyger
531. "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." - Rabindranath Tagore
532. "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy
533. "Never let yesterday use up today." - Richard H. Nelson534. "Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your
success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold." - Dr. A. B. Mel drum
535. "To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing." - Eva Young
536. "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." - Thomas Alva Edison
537. "Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control." - Unknown
538. "I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor are a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." - Mike Todd
539. "The strength and the happiness of a man consist in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way, too." - H. W. Beecher
540. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein
541. . "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them." - Dion Boucicalt
542. . "You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." - Jimmy Carter
543. . "The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory." - Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
544. . "Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over." - Marie Osmond
545. "Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin." - Robert Collier
546. "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams
547. "There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill
548. "The first step to becoming is to will it." - Mother Teresa549. . "Determination is the wake-up call to the human will." - Anthony
(Tony) Robbins550. "Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be
able to see farther." - Zig Ziglar551. "All who have accomplished great things has had a great aim, have
fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." - Orison Swett Marden
552. "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." - Burton Hills
558. "If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"
582. "I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by...those who...struggle to make one small difference after another."
585. "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
606. "Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used."
619. "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."
622. "When you do a kindness for others with the purest of intentions, you are letting its essence trickle out of you. If you do it enough it becomes a river. And I'm betting that its source is endless. I don't think you have to worry about giving too much of it away."
631. "I've found what's truly sacred in life's small things...Hopefully, the world can be changed through acts of kindness, acts of affection and love--the idea of doing normal, everyday things that actually have an effect down
the line...Be kind. Because the opposite works as well. You can send your hatred to the future. And we all know the end result."
637. "Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!"
682. "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness 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."
694. "Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
695. Author:Pooh's Little Instruction Book (inspired by A.A. Milne)
700. "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
733. "Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ‘Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another’s tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on."
745. "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
763. "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."
767. "Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness--both the ones you have received and the ones you have given--you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter."
800. "Every day I see at least one person who is struggling or having a hard day, and I try to smile or say, 'Hi,' even if I don't know them. Sometimes that simple 'Hi' - that reaching out to them in a friendly way - could change how they're feeling. Someone once wrote, 'Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.' I live by that."
806. "To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
812. "When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel."
837. "There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of good things to come."
840. "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
846. "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 someday in your life you will have been all of these."
852. "If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."
876. "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
912. "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
933. "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 poeple you can. As long as ever you can."
972. "It really is much easier to help people and causes than what most people seem to think. You just go out and take that first step and things start falling in place. If they don't, you change direction, but you never pull over and park!"
973. Author:Jason Crowe, founder (at age 11) of The Cello Cries On, Inc.
975. "If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"
982. "The value of kindness cannot be measured in human terms. An act of kindness enriches the heart of both the giver and the receiver.
983. People who have received a little act of kindness so small as a grain from another, tasted it and then, even if they receive an unkind act or word bigger than a palm tree, when they think of that little grain of kindness, the palm tree of unkindness will disappear.
984. So powerful is the act of kindness. Let us plant it in the centre of our hearts."
1003. "I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by...those who...struggle to make one small difference after another."
1009. "Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most."
1027. "Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used."
1030. "Kind hearts are the gardens,1031. Kind thoughts are the roots,1032. Kind words are the flowers,1033. Kind deeds are the fruits.
1034. Take care of your garden1035. And keep out the weeds,1036. Fill it with sunshine1037. Kind words and kind deeds." 1038. Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1049. "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."
1052. "When you do a kindness for others with the purest of intentions, you are letting its essence trickle out of you. If you do it enough it becomes a river. And I'm betting that its source is endless. I don't think you have to worry about giving too much of it away."
1061. "I've found what's truly sacred in life's small things...Hopefully, the world can be changed through acts of kindness, acts of affection and love--the idea of doing normal, everyday things that actually have an effect down the line...Be kind. Because the opposite works as well. You can send your hatred to the future. And we all know the end result."
1067. "Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!"
1112. "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness 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."
1124. "Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
1125. Author:Pooh's Little Instruction Book (inspired by A.A. Milne)
1130. "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
1163. "Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; ‘Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another’s tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on."
1175. "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
1193. "When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."
1202. "Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of lovingkindness. Lovingkindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth. "
1223. "The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey."
1226. "Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do."
1232. "Compassion, kindness, and concern can be found everywhere in
America. And if we have learned nothing else from this [Sept. 11th] tragedy, we have learned that our time on earth is short, so there is simply no time for hate."
1233. Author:Sandra Dahl, wife of Jason Dahl, pilot of Flight 93
1235. "Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness."
1254. "Kindness has always mattered to our father. He taught us to honor people, and he has encouraged us since before I can remember to empathize with human suffering. When I was a teenage he’d say, 'Ann, go do something that helps people. Do something of service. It will always make you feel good about your life.'"
1269. "Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature’s fragile vessel doth sustain In life’s uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them. "
1278. "'Wherever there's a human being, there's an opportunity for kindness.' You don't have to plan some big event. You can be strolling the hall in school and say 'hi' to a stranger. Simplicity is the way, you know?"
1281. "The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart."
1287. "There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."
1293. "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. "
1335. "To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
1341. "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." - Douglas Jerrold
1342. "There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience had brought it home." - John Stuart Mill
1343. "We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest." - Orison Swett Marden
1344. "A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough." - John Christian Bovee
1345. "He who limps still walks." - Stanislaw Lec1346. "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers1347. "Aim for success not perfection... 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. David Burns
1348. "The true science and study of man is man." - Pierre Charron1349. "It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has
irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting." - Maria Luisa-Bombal
1350. "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt1351. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a
person's determination." - Tommy Lasorda1352. "The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts; and the art
of life is to have as many of them as possible." - Mickel De Montaigne1353. "Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression." - Dodie
Smith1354. "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all
different and yet the same." - Anne Frank1355. "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation,
which give happiness." - Thomas Jefferson1356. "It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has
irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting." - Maria Luisa-Bombal
1357. "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt1358. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a
person's determination." - Tommy Lasorda1359. "The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts; and the art
of life is to have as many of them as possible." - Mickel De Montaigne1360. "Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression." - Dodie
Smith1361. "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all
different and yet the same." - Anne Frank1362. "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation,
which give happiness." - Thomas Jefferson
1363. . "I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph." - John H. Johnson
1364. . "What is given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?" - Catullus
1365. "We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves." - Goldsmith
1366. "No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams
1367. "Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either." - Golda Meir
1368. . "Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest
earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost." - James Thurber
1369. "A positive attitude may "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D. Rockefeller
1370. . "Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get." - Bernard Meltzer
1371. "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortma
1372. "He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." - John Milton
1373. "It's not peace I want, not mere contentment. It's boundless joy and ecstasy for me." - Kugell
1374. . "The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." - Richard David Bach
1375. "To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there." - Amy Van Dyken
1376. Not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright
1377. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." - Roger Bannister
1378. . "Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1379. . "Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." - Mildred Barthel
1380. . "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier
1381. . "A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted." - George Santayana
1382. "A laugh is just like sunshine. It freshens all the day." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1383. "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." - Robert Frost
1384. . "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place." - Mark Twain
1385. "Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks." - Charles Dickens
1386. . "The hours that make us happy make us wise." - John Masefield1387. . "A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the
conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." - John Maxwell
1388. "Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it." - Jim Rohn
1389. "If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence." - Aristotle
1390. "Business is a great teacher: It makes you take risks, go for your dreams, face fears, handle your emotions, deal with difficult people, and learn balance. You don't have to do any weird workshops or sign up for any therapy sessions. Go into business and you'll be enrolled in the greatest seminar of all time. And it happens every day, every where, to every one. You can't avoid it." - Joe Vitale
1391. "In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." - Flora Edwards
1392. . "Often the greatest enemy of present happiness is past happiness too well remembered." - Oscar Hammling
1393. "It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while." - Don Marquis
1394. . "Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing." - Abraham Lincoln
1395. . "If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us ... we would all be millionaires." - Abigail Van Buren
1396. . "Our greatest glory consists in never falling... but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1397. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
1398. . "The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good." - Bertrand Russell
1399. "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." - Chief Seattle
1400. "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'the universe.' Our tasks must be to widen our circle of compassion. To embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein
1401. . "Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." - William H. Sheldon
1402. . "Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." - Anthony J. D'Angelo
1403. . "The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." - E.M. Gray
1404. "Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." - Benjamin Franklin
1405. . "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." - Rabindranath Tagore
1406. . "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck
1407. "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." - Tom Blandi
1408. "Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough is true security to be found." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1409. "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
1410. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens." - Helen Keller1411. "Very little is needed to make life happy. It is all within yourself, in
your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius1412. People with goals succeed because they know where they are going...
It's as simple as that." - Earl Nightingale1413. "One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets
shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways." - Peter McWilliams
1414. "It is not doing the thing we like, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life happy." - Art Linkletter
1415. . "Few of us do as much as we want to for others. But there is always one gift we can bestow - a smile." - Marjorie Holms
1416. . "The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them." - Denis Waitley
1417. . "Happiness is found along the way - not at the end of the road." - Sol
Gordon1418. "Good humor makes all things tolerable." - Henry Ward Beecher1419. "Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals." - Mickel De
Montaigne1420. . "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from
life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible." - Richard M. DeVos
1421. . "The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
1422. . "You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." - Bernard Shaw
1423. . "A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must...be undaunted when the going gets tough." - Ronald Reagan
1424. . "I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work." - Harry S. Truman
1425. . "If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity." - Loretta Staples
1426. . "True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." - Ben Johnson
1427. . "All who have accomplished great things has had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." - Orison Swett Marden
1428. . "No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy." - Thomas Fuller
1429. "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." - Jack and Garry Kinder
1430. . "Take time to be friendly. It is the road to happiness." - Sol Gordon1431. . "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd
never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
1432. "Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." - G. W. F. Hegel
1433. . "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of ones values." - Ayn Rand
1434. . "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." - Vincent T. Lombardi
1435. . "Each of us was born with wings... (and) has the ability to go farther
than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest imaginings." - Barbara Stanny
1436. . "We tend to get what we expect." - Norman Vincent Peale1437. . "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard
work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell1438. . "You must have courage to bet on your ideals, to take calculated
risk, and act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness." - Maxwell Maltz
1439. "Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself." - Katharine Hepburn
1440. "The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it." - Jerry Gillies
1441. . "God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability." - Mary Kay Ash
1442. . "Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills." - Peter Davies
1443. . "Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality, they are also dress rehearsals; plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
1444. . "Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless." - Unknown
1445. . "The obstacles that others put in our path can be pushed aside in any number of ways. The obstacles that you put in your own way can be removed only by the same hands." - Sophia Bedford-Pierce
1446. . "Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary." - Jack H. Goaslind, Jr.
1447. Top1448. . Life's Little Instructions, Part 1/6 - "Sing in the shower. Treat
everyone you meet like you want to be treated. Watch a sunrise at least once a year. Leave the toilet seat in the down position. Never refuse homemade brownies. Strive for excellence, not perfection. Plant a tree on your birthday. Learn 3 clean jokes. Return borrowed vehicles with the gas tank full." - By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1449. . "Don't worry about whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter 1. We have yet to write the book." - Lois Wyse
1450. . "Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an
emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person." - Rumer Godden
1451. . "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles... but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." - Buddha
1452. "Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill
1453. . "We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience." - Gary Zukav
1454. . "When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed,' you find that it simply means to follow through." - F. W. Nichol
1455. Top1456. Life's Little Instructions, Part 2/6 - "Compliment 3 people every day.
Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them. Leave everything a little better than you found it. Keep it simple. Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know. Floss your teeth. Ask for a raise when you think you've earned it." - By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1457. . "Take time to laugh. It is the music of the soul." - Mickel De Montaigne
1458. . "True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand." - Henry James
1459. "Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can." - His Holiness the Dalai Lama
1460. . "What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?" - Richard Owen Cambridge
1461. . "The mere word kindness is grateful to our ears; so much good is implied in it, so much lightening of loads, so much brightening of dark lives. It is compounded of so many warm, noble things: once it is a manifestation of pity, once of sympathy, once of love, once of justice -- it can flow from so many springs in our soul." - Ruhiyyah Rabbani
1462. "Movement without direction will create a hole in the ground." - Sophia Bedford-Pierce
1463. . Life's Little Instructions, Part 3/6 - "Over tip breakfast waitresses. Be
forgiving of yourself and others. Say, "Thank you" a lot. Say, "Please" a lot. Avoid negative people. Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yards. Wear polished shoes. Remember other people's birthdays. Commit yourself to constant improvement." - By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1464. . "A joy that's shared is a joy made double." - John Ray1465. . "If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal
circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give." - Bertrand Russell
1466. . "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1467. "In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you." - Anwar Sadat
1468. . "I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage. What is at the summit of courage, I think is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you." - Paula Giddings
1469. "The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything." - Sol Gordon Life's Little Instructions Part 4/6 - "Carry jumper cables in your truck. Have a firm handshake. Send lots of Valentine cards. Sign them, "Someone who thinks you're terrific." Look people in the eye. Be the first to say hello. Use the good silver. Return all things you borrow. Make new friends, but cherish the old ones. Keep a few secrets." - By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1470. . "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
1471. . "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon
1472. . "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
1473. "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, Winner of 3 Gold Medals in running events 1960 Summer Olympics
1474. . "We will either find a way or make one." - Hannibal1475. . "It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up." -
Vince Lombardi
1476. Life's Little Instructions, Part 5/6 - "Sing in a choir. Plant flowers every spring. Have a dog. Always accept an outstretched hand. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life. Wave at kids on school busses. Be there when people need you. Feed a stranger's expired parking meter. Don't expect life to be fair. Never underestimate the power of love." - By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1477. . "Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience." - Harold Ruopp
1478. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
1479. "Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
1480. . "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
1481. "A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1482. Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop." - Gittel Hudnick (Editor's comment - "Have a Happy Holiday Season!")
1483. . Life's Little Instructions, Part 6/6 - "Drink champagne for no reason at all. Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. Don't be afraid to say, "I made a mistake." Don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." Compliment even small improvements. Keep your promises no matter what. Marry for love. Rekindle old friendships. Count your blessings. Call your mother." - By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1484. "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." - e. e. Cummings
1485. "He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die." - Giacomo Leopardi
1486. "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitments to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Mario Andretti
1487. . "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." - Belva Davis
1488. "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Sidd artha Guatama Buddha
1489. "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
1490. Golden Rule: "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
1491. . "Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?" - Marcus Tullius Cicero
1492. "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates
1493. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison
1494. . "Luck is not chance - It's toil - Fortune's expensive smile - Is earned -" - Emily Dickinson
1495. . "It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." - William Somerset Maugham
1496. . " . . . happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it. . . .” - Aristotle
1497. Enjoy!1498. Life's Little Instructions, Part 1/6 - "Sing in the shower. Treat
everyone you meet like you want to be treated. Watch a sunrise at least once a year. Leave the toilet seat in the down position. Never refuse homemade brownies. Strive for excellence, not perfection. Plant a tree on your birthday. Learn 3 clean jokes. Return borrowed vehicles with the gas tank full." - By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1499. "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
1500. "Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection." - Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motors
1501. "The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
1502. "Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special
occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God." - Mary Manin Morrissey
1503. "Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route." - Charles Caleb Colton
1504. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1505. -"Compliment people every day. Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them. Leave everything a little better than you found it. Keep it simple. Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know. Floss your teeth. Ask for a raise when you think you've earned it." - By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1506. "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune." - William James
1507. "The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth." - Albert Einstein
1508. "If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." - Samuel Johnson
1509. "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want." - Margaret Young
1510. . "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
1511. "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
1512. Be forgiving of yourself and others. Say, "Thank you" a lot. Say, "Please" a lot. Avoid negative people. Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yards. Wear polished shoes. Remember other people's birthdays. Commit yourself to constant improvement." - By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1513. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." - Lucille Ball
1514. "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and
I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before." - Jacob Riis
1515. "If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." - Andy Rooney
1516. . "Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to him who does his work well, followed by a relaxing and refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day." - Lin Yutang
1517. . "Nothing is worth more this day." - Goethe
1518. "Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to him who does his work well, followed by a relaxing and refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day." - Lin Yutang
1519. "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mar
1520. Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused." - Unknown
1521. . "Freedom is the right to choose; the right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice. Without the exercise of choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing." - Archibald MacLeish
1522. "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie
1523. "No emotional crises is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it---the meaning it has in his emotional economy; the way it affects his self-image." - Bonaro Overstreet
1524. . "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
1525. . "Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity." - Joseph Sugarman
1526. Golden Rule: "You can have everything you want in life, if you will just help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
1527. . "Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than
his children?" - Marcus Tullius Cicero1528. "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be
happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates1529. . "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent
perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison1530. . "Luck is not chance - It's toil - Fortune's expensive smile - Is earned
-" - Emily Dickinson1531. "It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but
the best, you very often get it." - William Somerset Maugham1532. . " . . . happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect
practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it. . . . " - Aristotle
1533. . "Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience." - Harold Ruopp
1534. . "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
1535. . "Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
1536. . "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
1537. . "A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1538. . Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop." - Gittel Hudnick
1539. The man who wakes up and find himself a success has not been sleeping(Wilson mizner)
1540. .If you can look carefully around you ,what you have is enough to get what you don’t have - Bishop David oyedepo
1541. . Every discovery in the word of God leads to automatic recovery in life. Bishop David oyedepo
1542. Motivational Inspirational Quotes Of Famous People
1543.1544. 1545.1546.
1547.1548. 1549.1550.
1551. 1552. - 1553.1554.
1555.1556. 1557.1558.
1559.1560. "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."
1561.
1562.
1563. 1564. - Norman Vincent Peale 1565.1566.
1567.1568. 1569.1570.
1571.1572. "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
1573.
1574.
1575. 1576. - Mark Twain 1577.1578.
1579.1580. 1581.1582.
1583.1584. “The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably in thought and act.”
1585.
1586.
1587. 1588. - Orison Swett Marden 1589.1590.
1591.1592. 1593.1594.
1595.1596. "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
1597.1598.
goals."1599. 1600. - Edmund Hillary 1601.1602.
1603.1604. 1605.1606.
1607.1608. "Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion."
1609.1610.
1611. 1612. - B.C. Forbes 1613.1614.
1615.1616. 1617.1618.
1619.1620. "To know and not to do is not yet to know."
1621.1622.
1623. 1624. - Zen saying 1625.1626.
1627.1628. 1629.1630.
1631.1632. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
1633.1634.
1635. 1636. - Eleanor Roosevelt 1637.1638.
1639.1640. 1641.1642.
1643.1644. "Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough."
1645.
1646.
1647. 1648. - Dr George Sheehan 1649.1650.
1651.1652. 1653.1654.
1655.1656. "Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream,
1657.1658.
and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand."
1659. 1660. - Robert Allen 1661.1662.
1663.1664. 1665.1666.
1667.1668. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
1669.1670.
1671. 1672. - Aristotle 1673.1674.
1675.1676. 1677.1678.
1679.1680. "Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."
1681.
1682.
1683. 1684. - W. Clement Stone 1685.1686.
1687.1688. 1689.1690.
1691.1692. "A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."
1693.
1694.
1695. 1696. - Kenneth A. Wells 1697.1698.
1699.1700. 1701.1702.
1703.1704. "Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls
1705.1706.
success so that someone will ask me, "What's the secret of it?" I shall say simply this: "I get up when I fall down."
1707. 1708. - Paul Harvey 1709.1710.
1711.1712. 1713.1714.
1715.1716. "Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don’t like."
1717.1718.
1719. 1720. - Charles Jarvis 1721.1722.
1723.1724. 1725.1726.
1727.1728. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
1729.
1730.
1731. 1732. - Lao Tzu 1733.1734.
1735.1736. 1737.1738.
1739.1740. "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
1741.1742.
1743. 1744. - Henry Ford 1745.1746.
1747.1748. 1749.1750.
1751.1752. "In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons."
1753.
1754.
1755. 1756. - Gary Hamel 1757.1758.
1759.1760. 1761.1762.
1763.1764. "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a
1765.1766.
menace to society." 1767. 1768. - Theodore Roosevelt 1769.1770.
1771.1772. 1773.1774.
1775.1776. "Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."
1777.1778.
1779. 1780. - Samuel Johnson 1781.1782.
1783.1784. 1785.1786.
1787.1788. "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
1789.1790.
1791. 1792. - William Feather 1793.1794.
1795.1796. 1797.1798.
1799.1800. "Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble."
1801.
1802.
1803. 1804. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1805.1806.
1807.1808. 1809.1810.
1811.1812. "The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success."
1813.
1814.
1815. 1816. - B.C. Forbes 1817.1818.
1819.1820. 1821.1822.
1823.1824. "There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you."
1825.
1826.
1827. 1828. - O. Wayne Rollins 1829.1830.
1831.1832. 1833.1834.
1835.1836. "Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value."
1837.1838.
1839. 1840. - Boethe 1841.1842.
1843.1844. 1845.1846.
1847.1848. "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
1849.
1850.
1851. 1852. - Pamela Vaull Starr 1853.1854.
1855.1856. 1857.1858.
1859.1860. "Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."
1861.
1862.
1863. 1864. - James Buckham 1865.1866.
1867.1868. 1869.1870.
1871.1872. "Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently."
1873.
1874.
1875. 1876. - William A. Ward 1877.1878.
1879.1880. 1881.1882.
1883.1884. "Enthusiasm moves the 1885.1886.
world." 1887. 1888. - J. Balfour 1889.1890.
1891.1892. 1893.1894.
1895.1896. "Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish."
1897.
1898.
1899. 1900. - Ovid 1901.1902.
1903.1904. 1905.1906.
1907.1908. "Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
1909.
1910.
1911. 1912. - Danny Thomas 1913.1914.
1915.1916. 1917.1918.
1919.1920. "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
1921.
1922.
1923. 1924. - Henry Ford 1925.1926.
1927.1928. 1929.1930.
1931.1932. "In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity."
1933.1934.
1935. 1936. - Albert Einstein 1937.1938.
1939.1940. 1941.1942.
1943.1944. "People are anxious to improve their circumstances but unwilling to improve themselves, they therefore remain bound."
1945.
1946.
1947. 1948. - James Allen 1949.1950.
1951.1952. 1953.1954.
1955.1956. "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
1957.1958.
1959. 1960. - Sophia Loren 1961.1962.
1963.1964. 1965.1966.
1967.1968. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
1969.1970.
1971. 1972. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 1973.1974.
1975.1976. 1977.1978.
1979.1980. "You see things and say, "Why?" But I dream of things that never were and say "Why not?"
1981.1982.
1983. 1984. - George Bernard Shaw 1985.1986.
1987.1988. 1989.1990.
1991.1992. "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
1993.
1994.
1995. 1996. - Henry Ford 1997.1998.
1999.2000. 2001.2002.
2003.2004. "Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly."
2005.
2006.
2007. 2008. - Napoleon Hill 2009.2010.
2011.2012. 2013.2014.
2015.2016. "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
2017.
2018.
2019.2020. - George Washington Carver 2021.2022.
2023.2024. 2025.2026.
2027.2028. "Spectacular achievements are always preceded by painstaking preparation."
2029.2030.
2031. 2032. - Roger Staubach 2033.2034.
2035.2036. 2037.2038.
2039.2040. "If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves."
2041.2042.
2043. 2044. - Thomas Edison 2045.2046.
2047.2048. 2049.2050.
2051.2052. "The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
2053.2054.
2055. 2056. - Thomas Henry Huxley 2057.2058.
2059.2060. 2061.2062.
2063.2064. "Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
2065.2066.
2067. 2068. - William James 2069.2070.
2071.2072. 2073.2074.
2075.2076. "Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have and should have."
2077.
2078.
2079. 2080. - Louis Boone 2081.2082.
2083.2084. 2085.2086.
2087.2088. "Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or woman with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory."
2089.
2090.
2091. 2092. - James F. Bell 2093.2094.
2095.2096. 2097.2098.
2099.2100. "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
2101.2102.
2103. 2104. - T.S. Eliot 2105.2106.
2107.2108. 2109.2110.
2111.2112. "All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self-determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective."
2113.
2114.
2115. 2116. - William Channing 2117.2118.
2119.2120. 2121.2122.
2123.2124. "No man is free who is not master to himself."
2125.2126.
2127. 2128. - Epictetus 2129.2130.
2131.2132. 2133.2134.
2135.2136. "The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrates their waking
2137.2138.
thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do."
2139. 2140. - Dr Denis Waitley 2141.2142.
2143.2144. 2145.2146.
2147.2148. "Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfection, but instantly see about remedying them — every day begin the task anew."
2149.
2150.
2151. 2152. - St. Francis de Sales 2153.2154.
2155.2156. 2157.2158.
2159.2160. "My life seems like one long obstacle course, with me as the chief obstacle."
2161.2162.
2163. 2164. - Jack Paar 2165.2166.
2167.2168. 2169.2170.
2171.2172. "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice"
2173.
2174.
2175. 2176. - Thomas Paine 2177.2178.
2179.2180. 2181.2182.
2183.2184. "If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."
2185.2186.
2187. 2188. - Henry Kissinger 2189.2190.
2191.2192. 2193.2194.
2195.2196. "One cannot manage 2197.2198.
change, one can only be ahead of it."
2199. 2200. - Peter Drucker 2201.2202.
2203.2204. 2205.2206.
2207.2208. "Concentrated thoughts produce desired results."
2209.2210.
2211. 2212. - Zig Ziglar 2213.2214.
2215.2216. 2217.2218.
2219.2220. "Do what you love, love what you do and deliver more than you promise."
2221.2222.
2223. 2224. - Harvey Mackay 2225.2226.
2227.2228. 2229.2230.
2231.2232. "The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it."
2233.2234.
2235. 2236. - John Ruskin 2237.2238.
2239.2240. 2241.2242.
2243.2244. "Without ambition, no conquests are made, no lands discovered, no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement."
2245.
2246.
2247. 2248. - James Champy 2249.2250.
2251.2252. 2253.2254.
2255.2256. "Don't compete. Create. Find out what everyone else is doing and then don't do it."
2257.2258.
2259. 2260. - Joel Weldon 2261.2262.
2263.2264. 2265.2266.
2267.2268. "Life is either a daring 2269.2270.
adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
2271. 2272. - Helen Keller 2273.2274.
2275.2276. 2277.2278.
2279.2280. "Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
2281.
2282.
2283. 2284. - Dr. Willis R. Whitney 2285.2286.
2287.2288. 2289.2290.
2291.2292. "Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."
2293.
2294.
2295. 2296. - Aristotle 2297.2298.
2299.2300. 2301.2302.
2303.2304. "There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
2305.2306.
2307. 2308. - Douglas MacArthur 2309.2310.
2311.2312. 2313.2314.
2315.2316. "The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life."
2317.
2318.
2319. 2320. - Charles M. Schwab 2321.2322.
2323.2324. 2325.2326.
2327.2328. "Money is an idea." 2329.2330.
2331. 2332. - Robert Kiyosaki 2333.2334.
2335.2336. 2337.2338.
2339.2340. "Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom."
2341.2342.
2343. 2344. - Marilyn Ferguson 2345.2346.
2347.2348. 2349.2350.
2351.2352. "Unjust criticism is usually a disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealousy and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog."
2353.
2354.
2355. 2356. - Dale Carnegie 2357.2358.
2359.2360. 2361.2362.
2363.2364. "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
2365.2366.
2367. 2368. - Albert Einstein 2369.2370.
2371.2372. 2373.2374.
2375.2376. "Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ...to watch what each day brings."
2377.
2378.
2379. 2380. - Albert E. Dunning 2381.2382.
2383.2384. 2385.2386.
2387.2388. "The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it."
2389.2390.
2391. 2392. - Sir William Osler 2393.2394.
2395.2396. 2397.2398.
2399.2400. "If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."
2401.
2402.
2403. 2404. - Will Rogers 2405.2406.
2407.2408. 2409.2410.
2411.2412. "Our real problem is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."
2413.
2414.
2415. 2416. - Calvin Coolidge 2417.2418.
2419.2420. 2421.2422.
2423.2424. "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
2425.2426.
2427. 2428. - John Wooden 2429.2430.
2431.2432. 2433.2434.
2435.2436. "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
2437.
2438.
2439. 2440. - E. Joseph Cossman 2441.2442.
2443.2444. 2445.2446.
2447.2448. "One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success."
2449.2450.
2451. 2452. - Napoleon Hill 2453.2454.
2455.2456. 2457.2458.
2459.2460. "A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspired the power
2461.2462.
and energy to get it done."2463. 2464. - Ralph Lauren 2465.2466.
2467.2468. 2469.2470.
2471.2472. “A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."
2473.2474.
2475. 2476. - Charles Schwab 2477.2478.
2479.2480. 2481.2482.
2483.2484. "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
2485.
2486.
2487. 2488. - Calvin Coolidge 2489.2490.
2491.2492. 2493.2494.
2495.2496. "You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."
2497.
2498.
2499. 2500. - George Lucas 2501.2502.
2503.2504. 2505.2506.
2507.2508. "He who has never failed 2509.2510.
somewhere, that man cannot be great."
2511. 2512. - Herman Melville 2513.2514.
2515.2516. 2517.2518.
2519.2520. "There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it."
2521.
2522.
2523. 2524. - Andrew Carnegie 2525.2526.
2527.2528. 2529.2530.
2531.2532. "Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
2533.2534.
2535. 2536. - Sir Winston Churchill 2537.2538.
2539.2540. 2541.2542.
2543.2544. "The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor."
2545.2546.
2547. 2548. - Christian Bovee 2549.2550.
2551.2552. 2553.2554.
2555.2556. "I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living."
2557.2558.
2559. 2560. - Steven Spielberg 2561.2562.
2563.2564. 2565.2566.
2567.2568. "No man is ever whipped, until he quits -- in his own mind."
2569.2570.
2571. 2572. - Napoleon Hill 2573.2574.
2575.2576. 2577.2578.
2579.2580. "The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success:
2581.2582.
Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication."
2583. 2584. - Michael Gerber 2585.2586.
2587.2588. 2589.2590.
2591.2592. "Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest."
2593.2594.
2595. 2596. - Paul Zane Pilzer 2597.2598.
2599.2600. 2601.2602.
2603.2604. "Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill."
2605.2606.
2607. 2608. - Zig Ziglar 2609.2610.
2611.2612. 2613.2614.
2615.2616. "People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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."
2617.
2618.
2619. 2620. - George Bernard Shaw 2621.2622.
2623.2624. 2625.2626.
2627.2628. "Our power is in our ability to decide."
2629.2630.
2631. 2632. - Buckminster Fuller 2633.2634.
2635.2636. 2637.2638.
2639.2640. “What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” “Enthusiasm is the
2641.2642.
steam that drives the engine.” 2643. 2644. - Napolean Hill 2645.2646.
2647.2648. 2649.2650.
2651.2652. "I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."
2653.2654.
2655. 2656. - Abraham Lincoln 2657.2658.
2659.2660. 2661.2662.
2663.2664. "There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
2665.2666.
2667. 2668. - Douglas MacArthur 2669.2670.
2671.2672. 2673.2674.
2675.2676. "What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
2677.2678.
2679. 2680. - Goethe 2681.2682.
2683.2684. 2685.2686.
2687.2688. "The first secret of success? Self trust."
2689.2690.
2691. 2692. - Emerson 2693.2694.
2695.2696. 2697.2698.
2699.2700. "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step."
2701.2702.
2703. 2704. - Martin Luther King Jr. 2705.2706.
2707.2708. 2709.2710.
2711.2712. “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 lived through this horror. I can take the
2713.2714.
next thing that comes along. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
2715. 2716. - Eleanor Roosevelt 2717.2718.
2719.2720. 2721.2722.
2723.2724. "The greatest risk in life is to risk NOTHING ... The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing ...."
2725.
2726.
2727. 2728. - Norman Vincent Peale 2729.2730.
2731.2732. 2733.2734.
2735.2736. "Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution."
2737.
2738.
2739. 2740. - Dr. David Schwartz 2741.2742.
2743.2744. 2745.2746.
2747.2748. "We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
2749.2750.
2751. 2752. - Lee Iococca 2753.2754.
2755.2756. 2757.2758.
2759.2760. "None will improve your lot, if you yourselves do not."
2761.2762.
2763. 2764. - Bertolt Brecht 2765.2766.
2767.2768. 2769.2770.
2771.2772. "Great minds have purpose, others have wishes."
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