“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
– William Shakespeare
“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when
the match is even.”
– Muhammad Ali
“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most
wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.
Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to
hamper you or hold you up in any way.”
– Eileen Caddy
“Agreements, whether to yourself or others, should not be made
if they cannot, or will not, be honored. You have the
strength, intelligence, and heart to know what you are willing
and not willing to do.”
– Dr. Gay Hendricks
“Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with
time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”
– Charles Duhigg
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can
be done without hope and confidence.”
– Helen Keller
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
– Hosea Ballou
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t ask what the world needs.Ask what makes you come alive,and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. “
– Howard Thurman
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“May you live all the days of your life. “
– Jonathan Swift
“Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won’t matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won’t matter
whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you’ll be competing with yourself.”
– Rick Pitino
“Carry laughter with you wherever you go. “
– Hugh Sidey
“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Be ready when opportunity comes…Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.”
– Roy D. Chapin Jr.
“Life is full of endless possibilities.”
– Mettrie L.
“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek
happiness for others. “
– Martin Luther King Jr
“Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less”
– Rabbi Julius Gordon
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go Wrong. “
– Marianne Williamson
“It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail of success.”
– John Mason
“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”
– Claude M. Bristol
“Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.”
– Ryunosuke Satoro
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
– Paul Tillich
“Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete
(the) other tasks.”
– Brian Tracy
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
– Sydney J. Harris
“It’s not where you start – it’s where you finish that counts.”
– Zig Ziglar
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
– Latin Proverb
“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a
could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be
a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might
have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.”
– Milton Berle
“You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you.
Shouldn’t you take the time right now to figure out what that
life is all about?”
– Harry Browne
“Every moment of your life is a chance to get it right. Any
moment you’ve been living in you could turn it on like a
light.”
– Third Eye Blind Lyrics
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little ‘extra’.”
– Jimmy Johnson
“If you don’t know where you are going,you’ll end up some place else.”
– Yogi Berra
“No matter what a man’s past may have been, his future is spotless.”
– John R. Rice
“All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather do something else.”
– Sir James Matthew Barrie
“The entrepreneur is… the most important player in the building of the global economy. So much so that big companies are reconstituting themselves as
networks of entrepreneurs.”
– John Naisbitt
“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
– Douglas MacArthur
“All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.”
– Horace Friess
“Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above.”
– Julia Fletcher Carney
“The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.”
– Og Mandino
“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”
– Henry Rollins
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
– Ben Franklin
“Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving,a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.”
– Ralph Ransom
“There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.”
– Hugh Prather
“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”
– Harvey Mackay
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just
the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.”
– Brian Tracy
“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.”
– Jim Rohn
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
– John F Kennedy
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
– Erica Jong
“However beautiful the strategy,you should occasionally look at the results.”
– Winston Churchill
“Try to know everything of something and something of everything.”
– Henry Brougham
“They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast, and their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow