"A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best."--Law of Success
"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition."--William Arthur Ward
"A compliment is verbal sunshine."--Robert Orten
"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."--Peter Marshall
"A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it."--Cool Runnings (movie)
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."--William James
"A kind & compassionate act is often its own reward."--William J. Bennett
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."--Napoleon
"A man's greatest strength develops at the point where he overcomes his greatest weakness."--Elmer G. Letterman
"A mistake is only a mistake if you do not learn from it."--Unknown
“A pint cannot hold a quart. If it is holding the pint, it is doing the best it can.”--The Black Hole
“A set back is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford
"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."--Unknown
"A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; a terrace nine stories high rises from handfuls of earth; a journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet."--Unknown
"A word of encouragement during failure is worth a more than a whole book of praises after a success."--Anonymous
"Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records."--William A. Wardx
“All must fall, & those who stand the highest fall hardest.”---Phyrexian Scriptures
"Always accept good fortune with grace & humility."--Mark L. Mika
"Always do right. This will amaze most people, & astonish the rest."--Mark Twain
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."--Og Mandino
“Always listen to experts. They’ll teach you what can’t be done & why. Then do it.”--Robert Heinlein
"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them--& then you destroy yourself."--Richard Nixon
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts."--John Junor
“And when the night is cloudly, there is still a light that shines on me, shine on until tomorrow, let it be.”--John Lennon/Paul McCartney
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."--Mark Twain
“Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.”-Booth Tarkington
“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”--Joseph Addison
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."--Aesop
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand---& melting like a snowflake."--Marie Beyon Ray
"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious."--B.C. Forbes
"Beware of assumptions! Whatever you 'assume' to be possible--or impossible--will have a tendence to become real to you."--Unknown
"Come to the edge, He said. They said, we are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them...& they flew."--Guillaume Appollinarie
"Diversity: the art of thinking inependently together."--Malcolm Forbes
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go & do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."--Harold Whitman
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."--John Wooden
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road & the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible,it is yours."--Ayn Rand
"Don't play for safety--its the most dangerous thing in the world."--Hugh Walpole
"Don't sweat the small stuff. Make everything small stuff."--Gary Mullins
"Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it."--Unknown
"Do or do not. There is no try."--Yoda
"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."--Mark Twain
"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."--Theodore Roosevelt
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads & empty hearts can do that."--Norman Vincent Peale
"Even if later we are preoccupied with important things, even if we fall into misfortunes, still let us remember how good & kind feeling, which made us, perhaps, better than we were."--Dostoyevsky
"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."--Gallagher
"Even the longest journey begins with a single step."--Unknown
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every moment of light & dark is a miracle."--Walt Whitman
"Everyone has his day & some days last longer than others."--Winston Churchill
"Everything comes to those who hustle while he waits."--Thomas Edison
“Excuses are bridges to nowhere. People who use excuses are monuments to nothing.”--Unknown
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up & see their beauty, believe in them, & try to follow where they lead."--Louisa May Alcott
"Far better it is to dare mighty deeds than to take rank with those poor timid soulds who know neither victory nor defeat."--Roosevelt
"Feelings are everywhere--be gentle.--J. Masai
“Fences are made for those who cannot fly.”--Elbert Hubbard
“Few of us have problems as large as the great people of history.”---Joseph B. Wirthlin
"Finish each day & be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders & absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely & with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fix your eyes on perfection & you make almost everything speed toward it."--W.E.Channing
"For just when ideas begin to fail, a word comes in to save the situation."--Goethe
"Give me a lever long enough & a prop strong enough & I can single-handedly move the world."--Archimedis
"Give to the world the BEST you have, & the BEST will come back to you."--Unknown
“Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees."--J.Willard Marriott
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."--Herodotus
"Great opporunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily."--Sally Koch
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."--Albert Einstein
"Great things happen when men & mountains meet."--William Blake
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”--Coco Chanel
"I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift."--Septima Clark
"I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead & some from behind."--Dr. Seuss
"I used to complain because I had no shoes, then one day I met a man who had no feet."--Unknown
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, & some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, & end."--Gilda Radner
"If someone says 'can't', that shows you what to do."--John Cage.
"If someone tells you that you cannot do it, that is all the more reason to do it."--Unknown
"If something has not been done, it does not mean it cannot be done."--Unknown
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."--Anne Bradstreet
"If you are experiencing resistance, you must exert some persistence in order to improve your existence." --Malcolm X. Trotter
"If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."--Gertrude Stein
"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off & makes you different from every other living creature."--Bruce Barton.
"If you occasionally fall (& we all do) just be sure to fall forward."--Unknown
"If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest."--Pubilus Syrus
"In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."--Cassius Longinus
"In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope."--Henri Matisse
"In the constant confrontation between the rock & the water, the water wins finally, not by strength, but by perseverance."--Unknown
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."--Albert Camus
"In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these."--Paul Harvey
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."--Confucius
"It has been said that service is but the rent we pay for the space we occupy on Earth during our lifetimes."--Sullivan
"It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness."--Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”- Sir Edmund Hillary
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to “jump at de sun.” We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”--Zora Neale Hurston
“Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.” The Midrash
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” Dale Carnegie
“Never, never, never give up.”---Sir Winston S. Churchill
“Never tell me the odds.”--Hans Solo
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake
“Nothing adventured, nothing attained.”--Peter McWilliams
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence & determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved & always will solve the problems of the human race."-Calvin Coolidge
“Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles.”--Arnold H. Glasow
“Often times, the things we run away from are a lot less horrible than the things we run away to.”-Unknown
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”--Andre Gide
“One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.” M Scott Peck
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." -Sun Tzu
“Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.”--James Rogers
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”--M. Kathleen Casey
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”--Walter Elliott
“Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.”--Paul Pilzer
"Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it." --unknown
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”--Les Brown
“Show a brave face. Never let them see how much they’ve hurt you.”--Circle of Friends
“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad & I will show you a guy you can beat everytime.”--Rene Auberjonis
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."--Demosthenes
“Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.”---Boyd K. Packer
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."-- Albert Einstein
“Sometimes you just have to take the leap, & build your wings on the way down.”--Kobi Yamada
“Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”--J. R. Tolkien
"Superman isn't brave. You can't be brave if you are indestructible. It's every day people like me & you that are brave, Knowing we can easily be defeated but still continue forward. That's TRUE Bravery!" --Jesse Downs
“That which was hard to do was sweet to remember”
“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 & binds us irrevocably thought & act.” Orison Swett Marden
“The being that has comparatively no strong passion to overcome ought constantly to walk in the vale of humility, rather than boast of his righteousness over his brother.”---Brigham Young
"The best thing about giving of yourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.” Orison S Marsden
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”--Mahatma Gandhi
“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.”--Roby Tayler
“The breakfast of champions is not cereal, its the opposition.”--Nick Seitz
"The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom & the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams." Sidney Madwed
“The golden rule is of no use to you whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.”--Frank Crane
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”--Moliere
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress & grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, & whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." - Thomas Paine
“The harder you fall, the higher you bounce”
“The harder you work the luckier you get.”--Gary Player
“The impossible is often the untried.”--John Goodwin
“The key to your universe is that you have choice.”--Carl Frederick
“The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.”--Sam Snead
“The mind is its own place, & in itself, can make heaven of hell & a hell of heaven.”--John Milton
“The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do when you lose, you have lost.” George Shultz
“The most dangerous thing in the world is to try & jump a chasm in 2 jumps.”--David L George
“There is no defeat except for those who give up.”--Joseph B. Wirthlin
“There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; theres only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.” Wayne Dyer
"There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle."--Anonymous
“There is one right I would not grant anyone & that is the right to be indifferent.” Elie Wiesel
“There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life”--Thomas Henry Huxley
“There were times when I wanted to run away. Brief moments, yet painful ones, for in one moment a fire can consume, an avalanche can bury, or a life’s decision can be made.” The Loon Feather
“There will be storms, child There will be storms And with each tempest You will seem to stand alone against cruel winds But with time, the rage and fury Shall subside And when the sky clears You will find yourself clinging to someone You would have never known but for storms.” "Storms" by Margie DeMerell
“They talk most who have the least to say.”--Matthew Prior
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”---Benjamin Franklin
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”--Abraham Lincoln
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”--Art Linkletter
“This is not the end. Is isn’t even the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning.”
“Those who expect nothing shall never be disappointed.”--Unknown
“Those who say it cannot be done should get the hell out of the way of those who are doing it.”
“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.”--Alex Hamilton
“Though no one can go back & make a brand new start my friend, anyone can start from now on & make a brand new end.”--Carl Bard
“To be a star, You must shine your own light, follow your own path, & don’t worry about the darkness, For that is when stars shine brightest!”
“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first & call whatever you hit the target.”--Ashleigh Brilliant
“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.”--Unknown
“To conquer oneself is the noblest & greatest triumph.”--Plato
“To every problem under the sun / There is a remedy, or there is none. / If there is one, then hurry & find it. / If there is none, then never mind it.”---Unknown
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”--Socrates
“To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.”--Dennis Weaver
“To stay the course...sometimes you have to make waves.” Unknown
“To whom much is given, much is required.”--Unknown
“Today the treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the minds & hearts of men.”--Allen Caxton
“Too many times we stand aside & let the waters slip away ‘Til what we put off til tomorrow has now becoe today. So don’t you stand upon the shoreline & say you’re satisfied Choose to chance the rapids & dare to dance tide...”--Garth Brooks
“True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Try to eliminate the word ‘should’ from your vocabulary...but try doing so without replacing ‘should’ with ‘ought’ or ‘you’d better’.” Unknown
“Two men look out through the same bars: one sees mud, & the other stars.”--Frederick Langbridge
“Two roads diverged in a wood. I took the one less traveled by & that has made all the difference.”--Robert Frost
“Watch what people are cynical about, & one can discover what they lack.”--George S. Patton
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”--Oscar Wilde
“We are more than what we do...much more than what we accomplish...far more than what we possess.”--William Arthur Ward
“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”--Alan Watts
“We catch on to the truth & technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher & greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force & an intelligence above & beyond those commonly felt. Confident & free, filled with wonder & ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.”--Marcus Bach
“We don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.”--Basil S. Walsh
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”--Anais Nin
“We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.” Peace Pilgrim
“Wealth is something you acquire so you can share it, not keep it.”--LaDonna Harris
“Well done is better than well said.”---Gwen Haymore
“What I spent I had, What I saved I lost, What I gave I have.”--George Moore
“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”---Phillip Dormer Stanhope
"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early & late, in season & out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, & never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now." --P.T. Barnum
“Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”--Gandhi
"What is moral is what you feel good after."--Ernest Hemingway
“What you are makes you rich..not what you have.”--Unknown
"What you have done becomes the judge of what you are going to do. When you are traveling, you are what you are right there & then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."--William Least Heat Moon
“When a man stops trying to prove he is a man, he is a man.”-D. Talmadge Gosnell
“When a man wishes to give anything, let him give the best he has got.”---Brigham Young
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”---Charles A. Beard
“When things go wrong as they sometimes will; When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill; When the funds are low, & the debts are high & you want to cry, but have to smile; When care is pressing you down a bit- Rest is a must- but do not quit. Success is a failure turned inside out; The silver tint of clouds of doubt; And you can never tell how close you are It may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit-Its when things go wrong that you must not quit.”
“When we put things off until some future-probably mythical Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday’s incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don’t carry it.”--Peter McWilliams
"When you get into a tight place & it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place & the time that the tide will turn."--Harriett Beecher Stowe
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot & hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"When you stop getting better, you stop being good."--Unknown
"Whether you think you can or you can't, you are usually right."--Henry Ford
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress." -Frederick Douglass
“Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.”--Henry Fielding
"Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promisory note; today is the only cash you have--so spend it wisely."--Kay Lyons
"You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous & eternal."- Barry Munro
“You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.”--Unknown
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."--Booker T. Washington
“You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.”--Dangerous Minds
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”--Michael Jordan
“You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of pain."--Sally Rafael
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”--Beverly Sills
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."--Margaret Thatcher
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”--Wayne Gretzky