QUOTE |
AUTHOR |
TOPIC |
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. |
William James |
Values |
| Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. |
William Thackeray |
Values |
| 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 |
Values |
| Do what you can with what you have where you are. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Values |
| A sound body is a first-class thing; a sound mind is an even better thing; but the thing that counts for most in the individual as in the nation, is character, the sum of those qualities which make a man a good man and a woman a good woman. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Values |
| Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. |
T. S. Elliot |
Values |
| All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
Values |
| You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. |
Shira Tehrani |
Values |
| He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequences, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well doing is, in itself, ample reward. |
Seneca |
Values |
| What is beautiful is good and who is good will also be beautiful. |
Sappho |
Values |
| Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. |
Sandra Carey |
Values |
| It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. |
Rene Descartes |
Values |
| I think, therefore I am. |
Rene Descartes |
Values |
| That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Values |
| Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Values |
| We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. |
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Values |
| I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. |
Patrick Henry |
Values |
| I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Values |
| If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. |
Nora Roberts |
Values |
| There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away; to act with courage and dignity and to stick to ideals that have given meaning to life. |
Nehru |
Values |
| Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. |
Mary Pickford |
Values |
| The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. |
Mark Twain |
Values |
| Diamonds are only chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. |
Malcolm Forbes |
Values |
| You must be the change you wish to see in the world. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Values |
| True beauty consists in purity of heart. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Values |
| One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Values |
| A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Values |
| Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully. |
Littlefoot's mother, Land Before Time |
Values |
| Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. |
Lee Holz |
Values |
| When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. |
Lao-Tzu |
Values |
| By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path |
Julia Cameron |
Values |
| Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess. |
John W. Gardner |
Values |
| New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. |
John Locke |
Values |
| We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Values |
| We see things as we are not as they are. |
Jennifer Stone |
Values |
| All men should strive to learn before they die- what they are running from, to, and why. |
James Thurber |
Values |
| Mistakes are the portals of discovery. |
James Joyce |
Values |
| For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? |
James Allen |
Values |
| The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it. |
Henry J. M. Nouwen |
Values |
| Things do not change; we change. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Values |
| Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Values |
| We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. |
Helen Adams Keller |
Values |
| Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. |
Georgia O'Keeffe |
Values |
| The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. |
Norman Schwarzkopf |
Values |
| Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. |
Friedrich von Schiller |
Values |
| Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. |
Foster C. McClellan |
Values |
| Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. |
Elmer G. Letterman |
Values |
| People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Values |
| You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the things which you think you cannot do. |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Values |
| Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Values |
| Find your place and hold it: find your work and do it. And put everything you’ve got into it. |
Edward William Bok |
Values |
| Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong. |
Edward Tenner |
Values |
| A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. |
Edgar J. Mohn |
Values |
| Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
Values |
| It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. |
e.e. cummings |
Values |
| We seek victory - not over any nation or people - but over ignorance, poverty, disease, and human degradation wherever they may be found. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Values |
| Vanity asks the question – is it popular? Conscience asks the question – is it right? |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Values |
| The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Values |
| I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Values |
| Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Values |
| To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. |
Confucius |
Values |
| The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. |
Confucius |
Values |
| Respect yourself and others will respect you. |
Confucius |
Values |
| Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. |
Confucius |
Values |
| Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. |
Confucius |
Values |
| A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool. |
Confucius |
Values |
| When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. |
Billy Graham |
Values |
| The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. |
Amelia Earhart |
Values |
| Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. |
Aldous Huxley |
Values |
| Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. |
Albert Einstein |
Values |
| If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. |
Abraham Maslow |
Values |
| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Values |
| It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal. |
Helen Keller |
Values |
| The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any. |
Confucius |
Values |
| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. |
Aristotle |
Values |
| A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there. |
H. Stanley Judd |
Values |
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. |
Vincent van Gogh |
Service |
| It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness. |
Thomas Jefferson |
Service |
| We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
Service |
| We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
Service |
| The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. |
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell |
Service |
| Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each 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 a generation. |
Robert F. Kennedy |
Service |
| Here is a test to find out if your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't. |
Richard Bach |
Service |
| It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Service |
| Service without humility is selfishness and egotism. |
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi |
Service |
| It is my firm conviction that all good action is bound to bear fruit in the end. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Service |
| There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. |
Louis L'Amour |
Service |
| 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 Wesley |
Service |
| The human mind is our fundamental resource |
John F. Kennedy |
Service |
| As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. |
Joan Baez |
Service |
| It would be more honorable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. |
Horace Mann |
Service |
| Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. |
Confucius |
Service |
| Choose your job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. |
Confucius |
Service |
| Energy and persistence conquer all things. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Service |
| Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. |
Aristotle |
Service |
| Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. |
Anna Quindlen |
Service |
| Some people think that all the world should share their misfortunes, though they do not share in the sufferings of any one else. |
Achille Poincelot |
Service |
| The service-learning experience is good for the health, of body and spirit, of both servers and receivers. |
Robert Johns |
Service |
All human beings are also dream beings. Dream ties all humankind together. |
Jack Kerouac |
Self-Care |
| The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. |
Woodrow Wilson |
Self-Care |
| Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners. |
Williams Shakespeare |
Self-Care |
| As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. |
Vincent van Gogh |
Self-Care |
| Never spend your money before you have it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
Self-Care |
| He lives long that lives well, and time misspent is not lived, but lost. |
Thomas Fuller |
Self-Care |
| Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Self-Care |
| Your breathing is your greatest friend. Return to it in all your troubles and you will find comfort and guidance. |
The Teaching of Buddhist Master |
Self-Care |
| There is time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go. |
Tennessee Williams |
Self-Care |
| If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. |
Stephen King |
Self-Care |
| Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. |
Sophia Loren |
Self-Care |
| Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise. |
Sigmund Freud |
Self-Care |
| Enjoy life – there are no re-runs. |
Shirl Lowery |
Self-Care |
| What may be done at any time will be done at no time. |
Scottish Proverb |
Self-Care |
| Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. |
Samuel Johnson |
Self-Care |
| By your thoughts you are daily, even hourly, building your life; you are carving your destiny. |
Ruth Barrick Golden |
Self-Care |
| Beauty comes in all sizes - not just size 5. |
Roseanne |
Self-Care |
| When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them. |
Plato |
Self-Care |
| You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost. |
Martha Graham |
Self-Care |
| The body says what words cannot. |
Martha Graham |
Self-Care |
| The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. |
Mark Twain |
Self-Care |
| It is only possible to live happily everafter on a day to day basis. |
Margaret Bonnano |
Self-Care |
| Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Self-Care |
| Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. |
Lucille Ball |
Self-Care |
| Learn as much by writing as by reading. |
Lord Acton |
Self-Care |
| There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own..for you are unique and more wondrous than you know. |
Linda Staten |
Self-Care |
| Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. |
Leonardo DaVinci |
Self-Care |
| The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. |
Kim Hubbard |
Self-Care |
| Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. |
Judy Garland |
Self-Care |
| What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. |
Joseph Addison |
Self-Care |
| Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. |
John Updike |
Self-Care |
| Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. |
John Lennon |
Self-Care |
| We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. |
John F. Kennedy |
Self-Care |
| Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent. |
Jean Kerr |
Self-Care |
| The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. |
James Beattie |
Self-Care |
| A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. |
Hippocrates |
Self-Care |
| How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Self-Care |
| [Water is] the only drink for a wise man. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Self-Care |
| Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. |
Helen Keller |
Self-Care |
| Security is a superstition--it does not exist in nature. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. |
Helen Keller |
Self-Care |
| Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. |
Helen Keller |
Self-Care |
| The delights of self-discovery are always available. |
Gail Sheehy |
Self-Care |
| The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. |
Frank Herbert |
Self-Care |
| Remembering the past gives power to the present. |
Faye Myenne Og |
Self-Care |
| There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. |
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
Self-Care |
| The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. |
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
Self-Care |
| The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Self-Care |
| The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. |
Edwin Schlossberg |
Self-Care |
| Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. |
Edward Stanley |
Self-Care |
| Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. |
Dale Turner |
Self-Care |
| The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. |
Dolly Parton |
Self-Care |
| If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. |
Derek Bok |
Self-Care |
| If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. |
Dale Carnegie |
Self-Care |
| If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. |
Charles Schulz |
Self-Care |
| Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. |
Carol Welch |
Self-Care |
| All that we are is the result of what we have thought. |
Buddha |
Self-Care |
| I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. |
Bob Hope |
Self-Care |
| When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Self-Care |
| Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Self-Care |
| Lost time is never found again. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Self-Care |
| Eat to live, and not live to eat. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Self-Care |
| An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Self-Care |
| We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. |
Aristotle |
Self-Care |
| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
Aristotle |
Self-Care |
| He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. |
Arabian Proverb |
Self-Care |
| If you want to know what your experiences were like in the past, examine your body now. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future examine your experiences now. |
Ancient Proverb |
Self-Care |
| There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. |
Aldous Huxley |
Self-Care |
| The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. |
Albert Einstein |
Self-Care |
| I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. |
Alanis Morissette |
Self-Care |
| The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. |
Aiden Nowlan |
Self-Care |
| The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Self-Care |
| The two most engaging powers of an author are to make things familiar, and familiar things new. |
Samuel Johnson |
Self-Care |
| In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. |
Rene Descartes |
Self-Care |
| You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say. |
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald |
Self-Care |
| Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know. |
Muhammad |
Self-Care |
| It is health which is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. |
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi |
Self-Care |
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. |
Francis Bacon |
Relationship Health |
| Never lose a chance to say a kind word. |
William Thackeray |
Relationship Health |
| A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. |
William Hazlitt |
Relationship Health |
| Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. |
Thomas Sowell |
Relationship Health |
| Treat yourself at least as well as you treat other people. |
Theodore Rubin |
Relationship Health |
| Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. |
Socrates |
Relationship Health |
| There are plenty of men to say good things, but very few to listen. That requires strength of mind. |
Sir Rabindranath Tagore |
Relationship Health |
| A friend is a present you give yourself. |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
Relationship Health |
| The only way to have a friend is to be one. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Relationship Health |
| Love and you shall be loved. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Relationship Health |
| Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength. |
Ralph W. Sockman |
Relationship Health |
| Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. |
Plutarch |
Relationship Health |
| You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. |
Plato |
Relationship Health |
| Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. |
Oprah Winfrey |
Relationship Health |
| Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. |
Mother Theresa |
Relationship Health |
| If you judge people, you have no time to love them. |
Mother Theresa |
Relationship Health |
| People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you'll know exactly what to do. |
Michelle Ventor |
Relationship Health |
| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. |
Mark Twain |
Relationship Health |
| Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Relationship Health |
| Too often we underestimate the power of 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. |
Leo Buscaglia |
Relationship Health |
| Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. |
Judith Martin |
Relationship Health |
| Of those to whom much is given, much is required. |
John F. Kennedy |
Relationship Health |
| If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity. |
John F. Kennedy |
Relationship Health |
| When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. |
Japanese Proverb |
Relationship Health |
| The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. |
Helen Keller |
Relationship Health |
| What do we live for; is it not to make life less difficult for each other? |
George Eliot |
Relationship Health |
| Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. |
Eric Hoffer |
Relationship Health |
| The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. |
e.e. cummings |
Relationship Health |
| The smallest good deed is better than the greatest good intention |
Duguet |
Relationship Health |
| Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible languages of the heart. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Relationship Health |
| Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Relationship Health |
| When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. |
Dale Carnegie |
Relationship Health |
| When anger arises, think of the consequences. |
Confucius |
Relationship Health |
| What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. |
Confucius |
Relationship Health |
| The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it. |
Confucius |
Relationship Health |
| Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. |
Clarence Thomas |
Relationship Health |
| The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him. |
Chinese Proverb |
Relationship Health |
| Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. |
Cherie Carter-Scott |
Relationship Health |
| The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. |
Carl Jung |
Relationship Health |
| The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. |
Blaise Pascal |
Relationship Health |
| Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. |
Bill Cosby |
Relationship Health |
| A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. |
Arnold Glasgow |
Relationship Health |
| Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. |
Albert Camus |
Relationship Health |
| Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. |
Alber Schweitzer |
Relationship Health |
| I destroy my enemies when I make them my friend. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Relationship Health |
| The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. |
Euripides |
Relationship Health |
| Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. |
Albert Schweitzer |
Relationship Health |
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. |
Henri Matisse |
Optimism |
| Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Optimism |
| Hope is a waking dream. |
Aristotle |
Optimism |
| Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
Optimism |
| You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. |
Ziggy |
Optimism |
| Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
Woody Allen |
Optimism |
| If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it. |
William Arthur Ward |
Optimism |
| You miss 100% of the shots you never take. |
Wayne Gretsky |
Optimism |
| It's kind of fun to do the impossible. |
Walt Disney |
Optimism |
| If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. |
Walt Disney |
Optimism |
| To ask the hard question is simple. |
W.H. Auden |
Optimism |
| Learn to cultivate your own garden. |
Voltaire |
Optimism |
| In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. |
Thomas Jefferson |
Optimism |
| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Optimism |
| If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Optimism |
| I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Optimism |
| Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it. |
T. S. Eliot |
Optimism |
| There is no such thing as expecting too much. |
Susan Cheever |
Optimism |
| Begin with the end in mind. |
Stephen Covey |
Optimism |
| Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected. |
Sophocles |
Optimism |
| The price of greatness is responsibility. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
Optimism |
| The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
Optimism |
| Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
Optimism |
| Take the time to come home to yourself every day. |
Robin Casarjean |
Optimism |
| The only way around is through. |
Robert Frost |
Optimism |
| Some men see things as they are and say 'why.' I dream things that never were and say, 'why not?' |
Robert F. Kennedy |
Optimism |
| Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. |
Richard L. Evans |
Optimism |
| Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Optimism |
| This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better. |
R.A. Campbell |
Optimism |
| Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potentials. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. |
Pope John XXIII |
Optimism |
| This above all: to thine own self be true. |
William Shakespeare |
Optimism |
| The beginning is the most important part of the work. |
Plato |
Optimism |
| I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. |
Pablo Picasso |
Optimism |
| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. |
Pablo Picasso |
Optimism |
| The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. |
Oscar Wilde |
Optimism |
| The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
Optimism |
| Change your thoughts and you change your world. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
Optimism |
| Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
Optimism |
| All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. |
Michael Carr |
Optimism |
| Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. |
Mary Kay Ash |
Optimism |
| Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching. |
Mark Twain |
Optimism |
| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. . . . . . Explore. Dream. Discover. |
Mark Twain |
Optimism |
| We are the hero of our own story. |
Mark McCarthy |
Optimism |
| Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. |
Maori Proverb |
Optimism |
| Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. |
Louis Mann |
Optimism |
| Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it, than those who give up as unattainable. |
Lord Chesterfield |
Optimism |
| The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat. |
Lilly Tomlin |
Optimism |
| When it gets dark enough you can see the stars. |
Lee Salk |
Optimism |
| If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way. |
Lance Armstrong |
Optimism |
| To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. |
Joseph Chilton Pearce |
Optimism |
| May you live all the days of your life. |
Jonathon Swift |
Optimism |
| We need men who can dream of things that never were. |
John F. Kennedy |
Optimism |
| The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers. |
Jean Piaget |
Optimism |
| Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
Optimism |
| A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? |
Jane Wagner |
Optimism |
| Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. |
James Stephens |
Optimism |
| Dream as if you'll live forever…live as if you'll die today. |
James Dean |
Optimism |
| If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. |
Jack Dixon |
Optimism |
| The aim of education should be to teach the child to think, not what to think. |
Indira Gandhi |
Optimism |
| Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. |
Henry Ford |
Optimism |
| If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Optimism |
| No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. |
Helen Keller |
Optimism |
| Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. |
Helen Keller |
Optimism |
| Never give up, for that is just the place and time the tide will turn. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Optimism |
| Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. |
Grace Hansen |
Optimism |
| It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. |
George Eliot |
Optimism |
| It is never too late to be what you might have been. |
George Eliot |
Optimism |
| Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. |
George S. Patton |
Optimism |
| Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars. |
Frederick Langbridge |
Optimism |
| A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. |
Francis Bacon |
Optimism |
| Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. |
Laura Schlessinger |
Optimism |
| Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic. |
Don Ward |
Optimism |
| Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success |
Denis Waitley |
Optimism |
| Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. |
David McCullough |
Optimism |
| The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
Optimism |
| 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 |
Optimism |
| It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. |
Confucius |
Optimism |
| The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. |
Chinese Proverb |
Optimism |
| Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns. |
Chinese Proverb |
Optimism |
| Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. |
Carol Burnett |
Optimism |
| You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. |
Beverly Sills |
Optimism |
| There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. |
Beverly Sills |
Optimism |
| The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. |
Ayn Rand |
Optimism |
| An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red light…But the truly wise person is color-blind. |
Albert Schweitzer |
Optimism |
| There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. |
Albert Einstein |
Optimism |
| The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has found liberation from the self. |
Albert Einstein |
Optimism |
| He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. |
Albert Einstein |
Optimism |
| I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Optimism |
| I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Optimism |
| Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. |
James Freeman Clarke |
Optimism |
| Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
Optimism |
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. |
Zeno |
Natural World |
| I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. |
Willa Sibert Cather |
Natural World |
| When you live on a round planet, you can’t afford to take sides. |
Wayne Dyer |
Natural World |
| What is love? . . . . It is the morning and the evening star. |
Sinclair Lewis |
Natural World |
| Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Natural World |
| Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Natural World |
| A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. |
Maya Angelou |
Natural World |
Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, or a wild river, or a gleaming seashore. But we can keep those we have. |
Lyndon Baines Johnson |
Natural World |
| All art is but imitation of nature. |
Lucius Annaceus Seneca |
Natural World |
| Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. |
Leo Buscaglia |
Natural World |
| We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge. |
John Naisbilt |
Natural World |
| Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. |
John F. Kennedy |
Natural World |
| We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. |
Helen Keller |
Natural World |
| The Milky Way contains some 400 billion stars of all sorts moving with a complex and orderly grace. Of all the stars, the inhabitants of Earth know close-up, so far, but one. |
Carl Sagan |
Natural World |
| Nature does nothing uselessly. |
Aristotle |
Natural World |
| In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. |
Aristotle |
Natural World |
| How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! |
Anne Frank |
Natural World |
| Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. |
Alfred Billings Street |
Natural World |
| What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. |
Albert Pike |
Natural World |
| Enable us to perfect the way of our living by completely submitting to the Laws of Nature. |
A prayer from the modern Japanese religion |
Natural World |
| An optimist is the human personification of spring. |
Susan J. Bissonette |
Natural World |
| All men by nature desire knowledge. |
Aristotle |
Natural World |
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. |
Thomas Henry Huxley |
Community |
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. |
Thomas Alva Edison |
Community |
| The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is the knack of getting along with people. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Community |
| I always expect everything I do to change the world, not just because there's something special about me but because everything in the world was changed by one person, if you think about it. You'd be hard pressed to think of an example of anything that didn't start with one person. |
Scott Adams |
Community |
| Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves; some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. |
Sam Ewing |
Community |
| Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. |
Sally Koch |
Community |
| What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Community |
| The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. |
Quintus Curtius Rufus |
Community |
| It is not what you say that matters, but what you do. |
Nehru |
Community |
| Wisdom is no monopoly of one continent or one race. |
Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi |
Community |
| Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. |
Margaret Mead |
Community |
| Just as there must be balance in what a community produces, so there must also be balance in what the community consumes. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
Community |
| Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. |
John F. Kennedy |
Community |
| You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. |
Joan Baez |
Community |
| It is a little dangerous to live in a society which is closed up like a shell. We petrify there and grow unaccustomed to fresh air and fresh ideas. |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
Community |
| A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. |
Henrik Ibsen |
Community |
| It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. |
Helen Adams Keller |
Community |
| It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders. |
Gertrude Bell |
Community |
| Yearning for community is a universal trait. Many people long for a deeper sense of belonging, kinship, and support.…Without community, both physical and mental health decline. With community, health blossoms and new possibilities open. |
Elan Shapiro and Kristin Anundsen |
Community |
| Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. |
Edmund Burke |
Community |
| People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. |
Edmund Burke |
Community |
| The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. |
Confucius |
Community |
| If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. |
Catherine Aird |
Community |
| It is a community of purpose that constitutes society. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
Community |
| We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without brightening our own. |
Ben Sweetland |
Community |
| Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. |
Andrew Carnegie |
Community |
