"The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief."
-- Eileen Caddy
"What may be done at any time will be done at no time."
-- Scottish Proverb
"'Have I done more for some today...than some have done for me?' If you can answer yes at the end of a day, then you've had a good day!"
-- sent in by KWall
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
-- Michael J. Fox
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."
-- Arthur James Balfour
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle."
-- Phillips Brooks
"When you are talking to yourself, watch your language."
-- Dennis Waitley
When the devil starts reminding you of your past, simply remind him of his future.
"Listen, or your tongues will keep you deaf."
-- Native American Proverb
Cancer is a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience.
Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor will eventually rot out.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
43.3% of statistics are meaningless!
"Don't fight the problem, decide it."
-- George C. Marshall
"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."
-- Gen. H. Norman Scharzkopf
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
-- Margaret Fuller
"A sharp tongue sometimes cuts its own throat."
-- Jim Scancarelli
"Without darkness there are no dreams."
-- Karla Kuban
"Luck is where opportunity and preparation collide."
-- Chely Wright
"Bad habits are like chains that are to feel until they are too heavy to carry."
-- Warren Buffett
Blunt people always come to the point.
Start each day with a smile; you may not feel like it later on.
Criticism: The thing most of us think is more blessed to give than to receive.
When no one listens, history repeats itself.
Indecision is torture.
Guard your thoughts. They may become words at any moment.
Isn't it interesting that the words "listen" and "silent" contain the same letters?
You cannot combine clover with poison ivy to get a rash of good luck.
Do not encourage a window-washer to step back and admire his work.
The hitchhiker who sucks his thumb never gets anywhere.
"Yearn to understand first and be understood second."
-- Beca Allen
"I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would not have to worry."
-- Anthony Robbins
Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are.
Never get into fights with ugly people because they have nothing to lose.
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
-- John F. Kennedy
"Do not bother to wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it."
-- David Miles
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
-- Confucius
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
-- Warren Buffett
"Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night and we can scarcely see the way."
-- Charles B. Newcomb
"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same."
-- Carlos Castenada
"True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home."
-- John Hay
"God will probably not be interested in how much we included in our day, but how much of our day included him."
-- Allia Zobel-Nolan
"If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door."
-- Lois McMaster Bujold
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
-- John Adams
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
-- Michel de Montaigne
"You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself."
-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"Things are only impossible until they're not."
-- Jean-Luc Picard
"Strive for excellence, not perfection."
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us."
-- Wilma Rudolph
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
-- Dr. Seuss
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
-- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self."
-- Napoleon Hill
"In conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is."
-- Andy Rooney
Instead of using the words, 'if only', try substituting the words, 'next time'.
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But dreamers of day are dangerous men, that they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible."
-- T.E. Lawrence
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
-- Booker T. Washington
"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
"Most of us know how to say nothing, but few of us know when."
-- Mike Lermer
"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble."
-- Arabic Parable
Pay attention to the details, or those who do will begin to pay more and more attention to you.
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