- A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Josh S. Hinds
- A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard
- A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Confucius
- A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. Anonymous
- A thief believes everybody steals. E.W. Howe
- Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets. Clark Moustakas
- Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? Robert Browning
- All life is an experiment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy
- All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha
- All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. Napoleon Hill
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Abraham Lincoln
- An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha
- Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
- As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie
- Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. John Sales
- At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer. Lee Jampolsky
- Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
- Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill
- Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. James Allen
- Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have. Brian Tracy
- Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde
- 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
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can dothat. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Don Miguel Ruiz
- Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire, which transcends everything. Napoleon Hill
- Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. Malcolm Forbes
- Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden
- Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. Basho
- Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. George Macdonald
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
- Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George
- Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. Anon
- Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. James Allen
- Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau
- Every exit is an entry somewhere. Tom Stoppard
- Every human has four endowments-self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey
- Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. Richard Bach
- Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul SartreEverything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve made in the past. Deepak Chopra
- Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
- Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb
- Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
- Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. Michael Pritchard
- Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. Swedish Proverb
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? James Allen
- Fortune favours the brave. Publius Terence
- Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when decide how to respond. Jeffery Borenstein
- Friends are treasures. Horace Bruns
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau
- Great spirits have always encountered violen to pposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
- He is able who thinks he is able. Buddh
- aHe who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny
- He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao-Tzu
- He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. Unknown
- He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. Anonymous
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach
- High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. Jack Kinder
- Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bid that cannot fly. Langston Hughes
- I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. Anthony Robbins
- I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. Horace Mann
- I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau
- I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten
- If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. Chinese Proverb
- If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that … I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it. John Lennon
- If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. Henry Kissinger
- If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee
- If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. Dale Carnegie
- If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life. Abraham H. Maslow
- If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou
- If you don’t risk anything, then you risk even more. Erica Jong
- If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou
- If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never really was in the first place. Unknown
- If you want rainbows, you have to put up with the rain. Dolly Parton
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
- Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon Bonaparte
- In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
- Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past. Brian Tracy
- It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
- It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Jeseph Joubert
- It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. LeGuin
- It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca
- It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes
- It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. Baha’u'llah
- It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- It takes a great man to be a good listener. Calvin Coolidge
- It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Ornette Coleman
- It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. Unknown
- It’s always too early to quit. Norman Vincent Pearle
- It’s not the situation … It’s your reaction to the situation Robert Conklin
- I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. Anthony Robbins
- Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes … they’re just friends waiting to be made. Jeffery Borenstein
- 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
- Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Earl of Chesterfield
- Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Goethe
- Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon
- Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Albert Einstein
- Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured. Earl Nightingale
- Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you. Jim Rohn
- Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Peter Marshall
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most mendread it. George Bernard Shaw
- Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. Morarji Desai
- Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. American Indian Proverb
- Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi
- Live free or die. New HampshireLive out of your imagination, not your history. Stephen Covey
- Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it’s when you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it. Margaret Thatcher
- Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Betty Smith
- Looking back, I have this to regret, that too oftenwhen I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson
- Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
- Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
- May you live every day of your life. Jonathan Swift
- Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Henry David Thoreau
- Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. Lord Thomas Dewar
- Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein
- Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up. Jesse Jackson
- No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. Buddha
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
- No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman
- Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Benjamin Disraeli
- One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. John Wanamaker
- One should not stand at the foot of a sick person’s bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel. Jewish Folk Saying
- One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. Anonymous
- One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regain sits original dimensions. Oliver Wendel Holmes
- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Elliot
- Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Our strength grows out of our weakness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
- People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale
- People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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