"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." 
--Lady Bird Johnson 

God's goodness hath been great to thee; 
Let neither day nor night unhallowed pass, 
But remember what the Lord hath done.
William Shakespeare

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." 
--Charles O. Finley 

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions." 
--Confucius 

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." 
--Friedrich Nietzsche 

"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." 
--Earl of Chesterfield 

"Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing." 
--Robert Burton 

"A man Stands Tallest when he stoops to help a child."
Chinese Proverb

Life is an echo
What you send out
You receive back
What you give, you get

Anonymous

Life is Either a Daring Adventure or Nothing at all
Helen Keller

"I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." 
--Lucille Ball 

"Let us, then, be up and doing. / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing. / Learn to labor and to wait." 
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 


"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? 
--Katharine Graham 

"There is always room at the top." 
--Daniel Webster 

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein

Mozart is sweet sunshine.
-- Antonin Dvorak

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
-- Winston Churchill

"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see." 
Winston Churchill 

"Oh! that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come." 
--Shakespeare (Julius Caesar) 

"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful." 
--Jacqueline Bisset 

Beauty is not caused. It is.
-- Emily Dickinson

Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay.
-- Mary F. Butts

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
--Ingrid Bergman

"Lost time is never found again."
--Benjamin Franklin

"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself."
--Axel Munthe

"The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent."
--Edgar Watson Howe

"Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into."
--Josh Billings

"We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior."
--Henry Miller

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
-- John D. Wright

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
-- Mary Tyler Moore

"What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
- W.H. Auden

"Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it!"
--Joseph Conrad

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck."
--Katharine Hepburn

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
--Howard W. Newton

"Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you."
--Madeline Bridges

"There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world."
--Oscar Hammerstein II

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.
-- Anthony Robbins

Give me a lever long enough, a place to stand, and I shall move the world.
-- Archemedes (Greek Math. & inventor)

I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
-- Walt Whitman

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
-- Dale Carnegie

"Crisis creates opportunity."
--Walter Klores

"Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do."
--John Milton

"Somebody's boring me; I think it's me."
--Dylan Thomas

"The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them: a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of 
your years, but on your will."
--Michel de Montaigne

"He is well paid that is well satisfied."
--Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
--Bette Davis, in the film, "Now, Voyager"

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
-- Lloyd Douglas

"What helps me to go forward is that I stay receptive. I feel that anything can happen."
--Anouk Aimee

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
--Bern Williams

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
--George Jean Nathan

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."
--Queen Victoria

"Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything."
--Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

"When you win, nothing hurts."
--Joe Namath

"When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!"
--Rabbi Harold Kushner

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened."
--Lao-Tzu

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

"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
--Liz Smith

"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."
--William Feather

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."
--Errol Flynn

"Money often costs too much."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
-- James Bond (from Tomorrow Never Dies)

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
-- Victor Hugo

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
-- Aesop

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
-- Arthur P. Stanley

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
-- Mark Twain

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
-Steven Wright

Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score.
-- Marianne Espinosa Murphy

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
--Mother Teresa

One of the deep secrets of Life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
--Unknown

"When you can't solve the problem, manage it."
--Dr. Robert H. Schuller

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred  -this is the law Eternal."
--Unknown

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
-- Norman Vincent Peale