“It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so
short.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable
to the child as it is to the caterpillar.”
– Bradley Miller
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world
straight in the eye.”
– Helen Keller
“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”
– Tennyson
“Mishaps are like knives that either serve or cut us as we
grasp them by the blade or handle.”
– James Russell Lowell
“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to
respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you
compel others to respect you.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them
with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of
waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you
will reach your destiny.”
– Carl Schurz
“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my
life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything
that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”
– Wayne Dyer
“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of
this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of
sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged.
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today,
but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”
– Dale Carnegie
“I’ve always found that anything worth achieving will always
have obstacles in the way and you’ve got to have that drive
and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to
whatever it is that you want to accomplish.”
– Chuck Norris
“If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing
more to patient attention than to any other talent.”
– Sir Isaac Newton
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination;
never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
– Mae Jemison, astronaut
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to
remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very
good. Understanding is joyous.”
– Carl Sagan
“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more
fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of
the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we
are among the privileged.”
– Helen Keller
“Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a
finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.”
– Doug Coupland
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
– Julie Andrews
“There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward!
The thing is to move!”
– Edgar Cayce
“Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people
ask better questions, and as a result, they get better
answers.”
– Anthony Robbins
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do
against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold
increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like
manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great
wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci
“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the
future, and live in the only moment of time over which you
have any control: NOW.”
– Denis Waitley
“Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.
Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you
interpret events to yourself.”
– Brian Tracy
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
– Woody Allen
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. “
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you
have made an approach to immortality.”
– Norman Cousins
“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do
something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody
goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a
crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a
champion someday.”
– Wilma Rudolph
“To lead in the modern world, you have to focus on what the world wants and needs instead of what makes you comfortable. “
– Jeremie Kubicek
“Kids are the all-time champions of questioning. What could you gain by imitating the innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get an answer?”
– Anthony Robbins
“The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. “
– Wayne Lukas
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a
present and not giving it.”
– William Arthur Ward (Sharing this quote was inspired by one
of our long-time subscribers, Emmy. Thank you, Emmy!)
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the
cheese.”
– Jon Hammond
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to
be.”
–Clementine Paddleford
“To get the rainbow, you’ve gotta put up with the rain.”
– Dolly Parton
“Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again.
Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We
go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it
doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is
that we embark.”
– Barbara Hall
“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
– Lord Byron
“Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it
was lived for.”
– David Starr Jordan
“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not
really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”
– Mitch Albom
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
– Tom Robbins
“I like nonsense — it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a
necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope… and that enables you
to laugh at all of life’s realities.”
– Theodor S. Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss
“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow
feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.”
– Kay Knudsen
“We did not change as we grew older; we just became more
clearly ourselves.”
– Lynn Hall
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is
constantly making exciting discoveries.”
– A. A. Milne
“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and
we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of
happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first
calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort
somewhere.”
– Jane Austen
“Blessed are those that can give without remembering and
receive without forgetting.”
– Elizabeth Bibesco
“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the
world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more
I gain.”
– Susan B. Anthony
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will
fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman
“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things
I haven’t done.”
– Lucille Ball
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be
happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by
fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of
achievement.”
– Golda Meir
“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the
chess player, not the chess piece.”
– Ralph Charell
“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage.
Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of
them.”
– Erma Bombeck
“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had
bloody well better find some way that is going to be
interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.”
– Katharine Hepburn
“Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds — all they have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have.”
– Edward Everett Hale
“I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the
source code.”
– Unknown
“Life is a series of commas, not periods.”
– Matthew McConaughey
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the
rest of my life there.”
– Charles F. Kettering
“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you
can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once
you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”
– Harvey MacKay