"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous."
-- Margaret Fontey
"The surface of the ocean changes constantly. Now it is smooth and quiet. Again it becomes violent and tempestuous. But in its depths, down under the storms that whip the surface into a fury, there is a zone of eternal calm which no storm ever reaches, no hurricane ever ruffles. The surface of life is also in a state of constant flux, with good days and bad, victory and defeat. To maintain, as the ocean does, a deep inner calm, while the storms of misfortune, reverses, fears and worries lash at the surface of life, is to discover the secret of serenity."
-- Wilferd A. Peterson
Some of us treat opportunity like sand. We fill our hands with it, and then let it slip through our fingertips until it is gone.
Sometimes, when we do not get what we want, we realize that what we got is what we would have wanted had we known what we would have gotten in the first place.
If you stop to think, don't forget to get started again.
Do what you can today, you may not have the same opportunity tomorrow.
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
-- Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe
"The interest of being positive today will determine the incredible returns that await you tomorrow."
-- Brian G. Jett
"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame."
-- Erica Jong
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end."
-- Sidney A. Friedman
"I never think of the future -- it comes soon enough."
-- Albert Einstein
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
-- John Quincy Adams
"Each of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it."
-- Mary Lou Retton
Live each day as if it were your last, because someday you will be right.
"The difference between a goal and a dream is the written word."
-- Gene Donohue
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
-- Robert Frost
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
-- Helen Keller
"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."
-- Winston Churchill
"Live to win, dare to fail."
-- Metallica, Carpe Diem Baby
"I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out."
-- Payne Stewart
"The greater the obstacles, the more glory in overcoming it."
-- Moliere
"If you can go through life without experiencing pain, you probably haven't been born yet."
-- Neil Simon
"A prudent question is one-half wisdom."
-- Francis Bacon
You cannot make your dreams come true until you wake up.
It is far more important that you know where you are going than to get their with record speed.
Being satisfied with things the way they are is a sure way to stop progress.
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-- Walter Bagehot
"Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you. The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out."
-- Grace Speare
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents
determinism; the way you play it is free will."
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
"Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well."
-- Danish Proverb
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!"
-- Mother Teresa
"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."
-- Marquis de Condorcet
"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible--not to have run away."
-- Dag Hammarskjold
"Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's."
-- Martha Burgess
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on."
-- Oswald Spengler
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
-- Albert Einstein
"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
-- Martha Grimes
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
-- William Blake
"The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it and the faith to believe it's possible."
-- Rich DeVos
"This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths...Once we truly know that life is difficult -- once we truly understand and accept it -- then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."
-- M. Scott Peck
"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin
where he was."
-- Richard L. Evans
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."
-- William Osler
"The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn."
-- Peter McWilliams
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-- Anais Nin
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men."
-- Albert Einstein
"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."
-- Italian Proverb
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
-- Lou Holtz
The first and last lesson is that there will always be more lessons.
"Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong."
-- Sydney J. Harris
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