“Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old
is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of
it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have
lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it
is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.”
– Robertson Davies
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or
sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the
human spirit.”
– Helen Keller
“The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but
love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the
mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes
it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead
of creating the perfect love.”
– Tom Robbins
“Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today
well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and
every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this
day.”
– Sanskrit Proverb
“Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
– Henry Van Dyk
“If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.”
– Howard Hendricks
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the
highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by
them.”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Keep the other person’s well being in mind when you feel an
attack of soul-purging truth coming on.”
– Betty White
“The self is not something ready-made, but something in
continuous formation through choice of action.”
– John Dewey
“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find
what interests you and that you can do well, and put your
whole soul into it — every bit of energy and ambition and
natural ability you have.”
– John D. Rockefeller, III
“Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and. I’ll understand.”
– American Indian Proverb
“Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?”
– Dennis and Wendy Mannering
“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the
chess player, not the chess piece.”
– Ralph Charell
“Let it never be said by future generations that indifference,
cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals
of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the
strivings of us all prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been
correct when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically
bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.”
– Nelson Mandela
“We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use
them that counts.”
– Madeleine L’Engle
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide
your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your
mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you
control your own destiny.”
– Albert Ellis
“The sweetest two words are ‘next time.’ The sourest word is
‘if.’”
– Chi Chi Rodriguez
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can
be made in a very narrow field.”
– Niels Bohr
“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not
to do the next time.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is
the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
– W. T. Purkiser
“It is well to give when asked but it is better to give
unasked, through understanding.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As
with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and
better as the years roll on.”
– Steve Jobs
“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every
mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”
– Rene Descartes
“Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health;
nothing is worse for your health than boredom.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“Think for a minute about what makes you fabulous and how you
can celebrate it.”
– Laura Mercier
“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant
it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem
than the person at the bottom.”
– Sandra Day O’Connor
“Don’t reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You
can’t have two sets of manners, two social codes — one for
those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom
you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.”
– Lillian Eichler Watson
“Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them.
Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who
gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
– Scott Adams
“Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth… Tame the
dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes
for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be
learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at
least, others can learn from.”
– Al Franken
“Politeness and consideration for others is like investing
pennies and getting dollars back.”
– Thomas Sowell
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live
your life so that when you die, the world cries and you
rejoice.”
– Kabir
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to
overlook.”
– William James
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.”
– Margaret Peters
“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable
to the child as it is to the caterpillar.”
– Bradley Miller
“My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99
cents a can. That’s almost $7.00 in dog money.”
– Joe Weinstein
“Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you’ve
never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as
though heaven is on earth.”
– Souza
“Everything will be all right in the end; if it’s not all
right then it’s not the end.”
– Unknown
“Keep your chin up and you will see the clouds in the sky.
Keep your chin down and all you will see is the dirt on the
floor.”
– Shelley L. Young
“Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what
perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our
best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human
– and by that I mean imperfect — beings.”
– Martha Beck
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
– W. Clement Stone
“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.”
– Jimmy Carter
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating
that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can
introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other,
we may even become friends.”
– Maya Angelou
“When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look
forward to your next objective.”
– George C. Marshall
“Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.”
– Denis Waitley
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”
– Winston Churchill
“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time.”
– T.S. Eliot
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.”
– Thomas Huxley
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again.”
– Bob Feller
“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of
the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth,
the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to
life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”
– Petrarch