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The challenge before you is great, but greater still are your capacity and determination to meet it.
Pope John Paul II

If your wife can't trust you, who can?
Ross Perot

When it's the other person's turn, it's the other person's turn.
Bronson Pinchot

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

Commitments made under pressure usually last only as long as the pressure.
Rev. Clarence Powell

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Last words of Pancho Villa

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
Dorothy Parker

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale

The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Pope John Paul II

Focusing our attention - daily and hourly - not on what is wrong, but on what we love and value, allows us to participate in the birth of a better future, ushered in by choices we make each and every day.
Carol Pearson, writer

The future is much like the present, only longer.
Don Quisenberry

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
vice-president Dan Quayle

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
Pablo Picasso

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Fritz Perls

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Beryl Pfizer

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
W.T. Purkiser

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Pettibone Poole

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
Edgar Allan Poe, in a letter to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849)

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), speaking of Katharine Hepburn

The best gossip, after all, is gossip somebody doesn't want you to hear.
William Poundstone

If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Dorothy Parker

A life spent chasing other people's approval is a life spent on a pointless roller coaster of emotional highs and lows, without ever knowing yourself.
Rinatta Paries

There is only one group of people who don't have problems and they're all dead.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), clergyman and writer

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige, Hall of Fame baseball player

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away for free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Emo Phillips

Assuming either the left wing or the right wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Pat Paulsen

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise Pascal

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter, "The Peter Principle"

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seems to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always seem them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale

Too much caution is bad for you. By avoiding things you fear, you may let yourself in for unhappy consequences. It is usually wiser to stand up to a scary-seeming experience and walk right into it, risking the bruises as hard knocks. You are likely to find that it is not as tough as you had thought. Or you may find it plenty tough, but also discover you have what it takes to handle it.
Norman Vincent Peale

It's not so much what we know as how well we use what we know.
Ernesta Procope, business executive

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
J.C. Penney (1875-1971)

I don't know anything about music: In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur, chemist

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust, novelist

Before you throw water over the embers of a relationship, be sure you don't need the warmth.
Tom Payne, writer

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, playwright

It is more important to have fun than to be funny.
Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990), educator

If your actions create a legacy that inspires other to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader.
Dolly Parton

If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life.
Robert Pante

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.
Hugh Prather, minister and counselor

The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust

If you can forgive and move on with your life, you can find peace.
You must learn how to forgive, not only other people, but also yourself.
Tyler Perry

I do not seek. I find.
Pablo Picasso

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments: tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Louis Pasteur (1822-95)

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton (1885-1945), U.S. Army general

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell, author

Character is a long-standing habit.
Plutarch (c. 46-120 A.D.), biographer

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), poet

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.
Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer prize-winning author

Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his coat pocket.
Charles Peguy (1873-1914), poet/essayist

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J.B. Priestley

Embrace change. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.
Odette Pollar, speaker/author

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, writer

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