| Things
turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things
turn out. ~ John Wooden |
| You
always pass failure on the way to success. ~ Mickey Rooney |
| Courage
is found in unlikely places. ~ J.R.R.
Tolkien |
| Tomorrow
is your future's yesterday. ~ Craig
Ferguson |
| Kind
words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless. ~
Mother Teresa |
| 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 |
| Great
spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds. ~ Einstein |
|
One who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal
steadily & aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
~ C B. De
Mille |
| Life's
most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? ~
Martin Luther King,
Jr. |
| The
only real failure in life is the failure to try. ~
Anonymous |
| Win
without boasting. Lose without excuse. ~ Albert
Payson Terhune |
|
Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings. ~
Kirk Cousins |
|
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work. ~ Thomas Edison |
| God
whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain. ~
C.S. Lewis |
| Peace
cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
~ Albert Einstein |
| Forgiveness
is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has
crushed it. ~ Mark Twain |
| Peace
on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.
~ Helen Rice |
| The
time is always right to do what is right. ~ Martin Luther King
Jr. |
All
wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking,
are willing to pay the price. ~ Juvenal
Patti's Comment: In my limited experience this quote
is SO TRUE!! |
| Quality
means doing it right when no one is looking. ~ Henry Ford |
| Keep
away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. ~ Mark
Twain |
| It
is curious that physical courage should be so common in the
world and moral courage so rare. ~ Mark Twain |
| A
life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| There
are always flowers for those who want to see them. ~ Henri Matisse |
| Anything's
possible if you've got enough nerve. ~ J.K. Rowling |
| Happiness
can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers
to turn on the light. ~ J.K. Rowling |
| Our
choices make us who we are. ~ J.K. Rowling |
| It
is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our
abilities. ~ J.K. Rowling |
The
Fringe Benefits of Failure ~
JK Rowling (in a commencement speech at Harvard University)
Patti's Comment: When you are having a bad day, watch
this! |
| It's
impossible to live without failing at something, unless you
live so cautiously that you are hardly living at all. ~ J.K.
Rowling |
| To
find yourself, think for yourself. ~ Socrates |
| I
don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying
to please everybody. ~ Bill Cosby |
| The
brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at
all. ~ Meg
Cabot |
| It's
easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
~ Tom Brokaw |
| Success
isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where
you started. ~ Steve Prefontaine |
| If
you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time
to do it over? ~John Wooden |
| Those
at the top of the mountain didn't fall there. ~ Marcus Washling |
| Life
itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ~
Hans Christian Andersen |
|
He who angers you, conquers you. ~ Elizabeth Kenny |
| Keep
your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The
first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace
and follow it. ~ Thomas Hobbes |
| Be
not simply good; be good for something. ~ Henry
David Thoreau |
| Try
and fail, but don't fail to try. ~ Stephen Kaggawa |
| Don't
let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John
Wooden |
| I
hated training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live
the rest of your life as a champion.'" ~ Muhammad Ali |
| He
who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing
in life. ~ Muhammad Ali |
| Nothing
will work unless you do. ~ John Wooden |
| Some
people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at
it. ~ Source unknown |
| Life
is all about timing...the unreachable becomes reachable, the
unavailable become available, the unattainable...attainable.
Have the patience, wait it out. ~ Stacey Charter |
| Be
more concerned with character than reputation. Character is
what you are, reputation is what people think you are. ~ John
Wooden |
| Be
true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others.
Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. ~
John Wooden |
| Success
is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
~ John Wooden |
| Do
not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~
John Wooden |
| Let
us endeavor to live, so that when we die, even the undertaker
will be sorry. ~ Mark Twain |
| I
was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence,
but it comes from within. It is there all the time. ~ Anna Freud
|
| Things
work out best for those who make the best of how things work
out. ~ John Wooden |
| If
death were not the prelude to another life, our current life
would merely be a cruel joke. ~
Gandhi |
| Shared
joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
|
| Winners
never quit and quitters never win. ~ Vince
Lombardi |
| One
of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart
that you can't utter. ~ James Earl Jones |
| Continuous
improvement is better than delayed perfection. ~ Mark Twain
|
| People
think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not.
Failure is part of the process of success. ~ Randy Gage |
| We
are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an
act but a habit. ~
Aristotle |
| Sometimes
courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I
will try again tomorrow". ~ Mary Ann Radmacher |
| If
you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it
anywhere else. ~ Marvin Gaye |
| Never
to suffer would never to have been blessed." ~ Edgar Allan
Poe |
| Being
happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that
you've decided to look beyond imperfections. ~ Unknown |
| Continuous
improvement is better than delayed perfection. ~ Mark Twain
|
| People
think that the opposite of success is failure, but it's not.
Failure is part of the process of success. ~ Randy Gage |
| The
miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have. ~ Leonard
Nimoy |
| You
can't get where you're going unless you remember where you came
from. Who you are and what you are is the only thing you own.
Never lose it, and never…ever…surrender! ~ Corey Hart
|
| Reach
beyond the stars; read between the stripes. ~ John Demko
|
| To
John Dudek: "Why (on Earth) would you want to be a would-be?
Anyone who knows how to spell rose can be a romantic. Any Jesus
freak with a hand grenade can change the world." ~ John
Demko |
| Let
there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and
humility, mirth and reverence within you.~ Starhawk |
| To
pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose
it.~ George Roche, President, Hillsdale College |
| Every
idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed
it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some
failure of energy stifles the movement at birth. Eloquence may
set fire to reason. ~ Justice Holmes |
| If
a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music,
which he hears, however measured or faraway. ~ Henry David Thoreau
|
| If
I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around.
Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity
to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as
treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend,
for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms
with it. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| A life
spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing. ~ George
Bernard Shaw |
| Public
opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
What we think of ourselves, this is what determines, or rather
indicates, our fate. ~
Henry David Thoreau
|
| When
you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.~ Lao
Tzu |
| The
only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really
want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know
yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself.
And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.
~ Mike Dooley
|
| Action
is the antidote to despair. ~
Joan Baez |
| I like
living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely
miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know
quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~
Agatha Christie
|
| Success
is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of
genius. ~
An Wang |
| You
may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't
try. ~ Beverly Sills |
| Don’t
cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. ~ Dr.
Seuss |
| Hold
yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects
of you. Never excuse yourself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| I am
enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination
is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination
encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein |
| I hope
you appreciate the magnitude of your impending good fortune.
~The Sure Thing |
| The
difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
~ Unknown |
| There
is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing
a dream. ~Author Unknown |
| You
must live your passion. If you are not passionate about what
you do...then don't do it. ~ Brinker |
| Whenever
you doubt yourself, look back at the hard work you've done and
know you can do anything. ~ Borycki |
| If
a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| Action
may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without
action. ~ Benjamin Disraeli |
| The
greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can
alter life by altering his attitude. ~ Unknown |
| Look
at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first
or last time. ~ Betty Smith |
| Anyone
who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ~Albert
Einstein |
| You
don't have to put an age limit on your dreams. ~ Dara Torres |
| If
you worried about falling off the bike, you d never get on.
~ Lance Armstrong |
