Never fear shadows, it only means there is light nearby.
"It is far better to shoot an airball than to not shoot at all for fear of missing."
-- Tony Alfonso
"Just because you can't see air, doesn't keep you from breathing it."
-- from 'The Preacher's Wife'
Put things in perspective! Don't gag on a gnat and swallow an elephant.
"If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it."
-- Ray Bradbury
"Live with men as if God saw you, and talk to God as if men were listening."
-- Athenodorus
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
-- Galileo Galilei
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
-- George Washington
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
-- Michael J. Fox
"Maintaining a comfort zone can, paradoxically, lead to discomfort in the long run."
-- Eric Allenbaugh
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-- Albert Einstein
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-- George Eliot
"Commitment challenges you to set a goal and then to support it with a promise. You must promise to achieve and never entertain the thoughts of making excuses or shunning responsibility."
-- Gary Ryan Blair
"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
-- Mary Hemingway
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
-- Naguib Mahfouz
"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."
-- James Allen
"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."
-- Nolan Bushnell
"If we work on marble, it will perish; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear up temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and the love of our fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity."
-- Daniel Webster
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
-- Zig Ziglar
"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it."
-- Samuel Goldwyn
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
-- Sydney J. Harris
Those who say it can't be done are being passed by those who are doing it.
"You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish if you don't put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try."
-- Kathy Seligman
"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
-- John Ruskin
"He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."
-- Jean Luc Godard
"Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
-- Plutarch
"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you."
-- Frank Tyger
"It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing."
-- Marcia Wieder
"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."
-- Euripides
The sign on the door of opportunity reads "Push".
"We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt."
-- William Ernest Hocking
"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."
-- John Wayne
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."
-- Bernard M. Baruch
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
-- Oscar Wilde
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
-- Winston Churchill
"[Common sense] is the best sense I know of."
-- Lord Chesterfield
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!"
-- Jonathan Winters
"Be who you are and be that well."
-- Saint Francis de Sales
"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do."
-- Olin Miller
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
-- Samuel Johnson
"What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are."
-- Edgar Z. Friedenberg
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
-- Duke Ellington
"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor."
-- Jackson Browne
"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. After all, if we do the wrong thing, at least we can learn."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"...be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
-- William Shakespeare
"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
"We are always focusing. The question is, what are we focusing on?"
-- Chuck Hogan
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."
-- Epictetus
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
-- Helen Keller
"Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-- Henry Ford
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."
-- Babe Ruth
"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
-- Belva Davis
"The biggest temptation is to settle for too little."
-- Thomas Merton
"What to do with a mistake - recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it."
-- Dean Smith
"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
-- Samuel Johnson
"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"
-- Frank Scully
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