Quotes
December 23, 2011
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.”
- George Bernard Shaw
December 22, 2011
“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.”
- Harold B Melchart
December 21, 2011
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
- Benjamin Mays
December 20, 2011
“More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn’t take them, than those chances that we took and wished we hadn’t.”
- Anonymous
December 19, 2011
“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
- Pope John Paul I
December 18, 2011
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.”
- Earl Shoaf
December 17, 2011
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
- Kahlil Gibran
December 16, 2011
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
December 15, 2011
God gave man work, not to burden him, but to bless him, and useful work, willingly, cheerfully, effectively done, has always been the finest expression of the human spirit.
-Walter R. Courtenay
December 14, 2011
The first step is to find out what you love - and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
- Barbara Sher
December 13, 2011
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William J. Bennett
December 12, 2011
“To laugh much; to win the respect of people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 11, 2011
“Without forgiveness, there’s no future.”
- Desmond Tutu
December 10, 2011
“He who is thankful for the common things will enjoy many great things. A grateful mind is a great mind.”
- Thomas Secker
December 9, 2011
“When gratitude overflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.”
- George Lillo
December 8, 2011
“Stretch out our hands, and take the world’s wide gift of Joy and Beauty.”
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
December 7, 2011
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
- Albert Einstein
December 6, 2011
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
- Alan Kay
December 5, 2011
“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.”
- Jim Bishop
December 4, 2011
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
- Kierkegaard
December 3, 2011
“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.”
- Norman Vincent Peale
December 2, 2011
“So when it comes to balancing work and romance, I’m not a believer. There should be no balance… These two hungers, for work and for romance, work together in successful people. To me, both are full-out endeavors, endeavors that depend on each other and should never get in the way of one another.. I give both everything I’ve got, and the effort, in the long run, is always worth it.”
- Donald J. Trump
December 1, 2011
If you’re not failing now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe.
-Woody Allen
November 30, 2011
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
- E.W. Howe
November 29, 2011
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who get 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
November 28, 2011
If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?
- Joe Namath
November 27, 2011
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
- Oliver Goldsmith
November 26, 2011
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.
- Marianne Williamson
November 25, 2011
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader’s Digest, June 1995
November 24, 2011
Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?
~Dennis and Wendy Mannering
November 23, 2011
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
November 22, 2011
If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want. ~Oscar Wilde
November 21, 2011
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
~Voltaire
November 20, 2011
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying
November 19, 2011
If you don’t think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
~Cavett Robert
November 18, 2011
It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.
~Annie Gottlier
November 17, 2011
Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.
~Hubert Humphrey
November 16, 2011
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
~Winston Churchill
November 15, 2011
Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.
~Author Unknown
November 14, 2011
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
~Robert Brault,
November 13, 2011
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 12, 2011
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
~Roald Dahl
November 11, 2011
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~George Santayana
November 10, 2011
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
~Francesca Reigler
November 9, 2011
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit
November 8, 2011
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.
~The Eagles, “Already Gone”
November 7, 2011
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
~Samuel Johnson
November 6, 2011
I’ve decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I’m having a party!
~Betsy CañasGarmon
November 5, 2011
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
~Foster’s Law
November 4, 2011
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book
November 3, 2011
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer
November 2, 2011
We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault
November 1, 2011
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde,Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1893
October 31, 2011
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin
October 30, 2011
To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness
October 29, 2011
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
~Joe Clark
October 28, 2011
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
~Scott Hamilton
October 27, 2011
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~Vince Lombardi
October 26, 2011
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
~J. Brotherton
October 25, 2011
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~PubliusTerentiusAfer
October 24, 2011
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
~Abraham Lincoln
October 23, 2011
Just because you’re miserable doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your life.
~Annette Goodheart
October 22, 2011
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
October 21, 2011
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
~Buddha
October 20, 2011
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues
October 19, 2011
I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
~Abraham Lincoln
October 18, 2011
Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.
~Author Unknown
October 17, 2011
To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.
~Ancient Proverb
October 16, 2011
Make your optimism come true.
~Author Unknown
October 15, 2011
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
~Charles Caleb Colton
October 14, 2011
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
~Confucius
October 13, 2011
I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
~Anne Frank
October 12, 2011
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
~Eli Khamarov
October 11, 2011
The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.
~Dennis S. Brown
October 10, 2011
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare
October 9, 2011
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
~English Proverb
October 8, 2011
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
October 7, 2011
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
~Robert Frost
October 6, 2011
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 5, 2011
Staying positive is one of the hardest fights, though I’m happy I’m in it.
~Daniel
October 4, 2011
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
~William James
October 3, 2011
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~Mary Wollstonecraft
October 2, 2011
When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you’ve growled all day long.
~Author Unknown
October 1, 2011
A friend will remind you that assumptions born of malice are better dealt with by gleefully sticking your tongue out.
~Dodinsky
September 30, 2011
What is possible? What you will.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
September 29, 2011
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
~Katherine Mansfield
September 28, 2011
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault,
September 27, 2011
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
~Oswald Avery
September 26, 2011
Success is due less to ability than to zeal.
~Charles Buxton
September 25, 2011
My father’s nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
~Margot Asquith
September 24, 2011
Anywhere is paradise; it’s up to you.
~Author Unknown
September 23, 2011
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Waldo Emerson
September 22, 2011
“Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
- Henry van Dyke
September 21, 2011
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
- Bertrand Russell
September 20th, 2011
“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”
- Po Bronson
September 19th, 2011
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Waldo Emerson
September 18th, 2011
“Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
- Henry van Dyke
September 17th, 2011
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
- Bertrand Russell
September 16th, 2011
“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”
- Jim Rohn
September 15th, 2011
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
September 14th, 2011
“The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.”
- Victor Hugo
September 13th, 2011
“Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.”
- Jim Rohn
September 12th, 2011
“The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.”
- Hubert Humphrey
September 11th, 2011
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down.”
- Oprah Winfrey
September 9th, 2011
“You have to ‘Be’ before you can ‘Do’ and ‘Do’ before you can ‘Have’.
- ZigZiglar
September 8th, 2011
“Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!”
- Donald Gardner
September 7th, 2011
“Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.”
- Peter Drucker
Septmeber 6th, 2011
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
- Stephen Covey
September 5th, 2011
“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
- Christopher Reeve
September 4th, 2011
“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day.And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition.”
- Steven J Ross
September 3rd, 2011
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
- Confucious
September 2nd, 2011
“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas A Edison
September 1st, 2011
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
- Dale Carnegie
August 31th, 2011
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
- Muhammad Ali
August 30th, 2011
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill
August 29th, 2011
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.”
- ZigZiglar
August 28th, 2011
“When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
- Franklin D Roosevelt
August 27th, 2011
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
- B. Olatunji
August 26th, 2011
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
- Elizabeth Bibesco
August 25th, 2011
“Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.”
- Henri L. Bergson
August 24th, 2011
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
– Helen Keller
August 23rd, 2011
“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”
- Josh Billings
August 22nd, 2011
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
August 21st, 2011
“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
- Christopher Columbus
August 19th, 2011
“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”
- St Catherine of Siena
August 18th, 2011
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us”
- Helen Keller
August 17th, 2011
“We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.”
- Talmund
August 16th, 2011
“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.”
- Norman Vincent Peale
August 15th, 2011
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
- Dr Wayne Dyer
August 14th, 2011
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
- Theodore Rubin
