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QUOTES
"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever." - Samuel Smiles "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau
"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking." - David Joseph Schwartz
"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality." - Earl Nightingale
"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus "Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try." - Unknown
"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." - Helen Keller
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"The 'haves' and 'have nots' can often be traced back to the 'dids' and 'did nots'." - Unknown
"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank
"Your power comes from that first step. What a lot of people can't accept is that there is no control. You can't see the entire journey." - Ed Gillette
"Don't worry about opposition. Remember, a kite rises against the wind, not with the wind." - Hamilton Wright Mabie "Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have to change others." - Unknown
"The more of the past you carry around, the less of the present there is room for." - Dalton Roberts
"If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right." - Carol Burnett
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had been done before." - Jacob Riis
"It's not the mistakes we make in life that are important, it's what we learn from them." - Donna Guthrie "Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity." - Helen Schucman and William Thetford "To succeed, you must first improve. To improve, you must first practice. To practice, you must first learn. To learn, you must first fail." - Wesley Woo
"What consumes your mind, controls your life" - Creed
"Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. 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
“Habits…the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction…You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way – by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.” – Juliene Berk "Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used…" - Mary Cholmondeley
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; for what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine Saint-Exupery
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault.
“Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.” - Ken Blanchard
"Character -- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life -- is the source from which self-respect springs." - Joan Didion
"The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his or her mind to get it, whatever the price may be." -- Napoleon Hill
"Has worrying about tomorrow ever changed it?" - Max Lucado
"Most of the important achievements in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - Sidney Greenberg
"Speak kind words and you will hear kind echoes." - Unknown
: "Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everyone has talent. What is rare it the courage to follow the talent to the place where it leads." - Erica Jong
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If we fill our hours with regrets of yesterday and with the worries of tomorrow, we have not today in which to be thankful." - Unknown "In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat there lies a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time." - Robert Collier
"What an immense power over one's life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason." - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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