"All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen." -Seth Godin

"Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge." -Carmelia Elliot

"It doesn't take strength to hold a grudge; it takes strength to let go of one." -Jesse (John Stamos), Full House

"Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy--and then just listen to what they say." -Dave Joyner

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." -Unknown

"Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars--but you may get the moon." -Carlton Young

"For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been.'" -John Greenleaf Whittier

"Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do." -No Time to Cry by Lurlene McDaniel

"A successful life doesn't require that we've done the best, but that we've done our best." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again." -William Penn

"If you love the life you live, you will live a life of love." -Unknown

"You never get a second chance to make a good first impression." -Unknown

"All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign." -Dan Pursuit

"An open mind opens doors." -Unknown

"Above all else, never think you're not good enough." -Anthony Trollope

"Think happy thoughts and you can fly." -Peter Pan

"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible." -Unknown

"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail." -Muriel Strade

"At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored." -Nathan C. Schaeffer

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -Robert F. Kennedy

"I would rather make my name than inherit it." -W.M. Thackeray

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be." -Abraham Lincoln

"You have to dance like no one is watching, and love like it's never gonna hurt." -Unknown

"Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mould or change you fate." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." -Henry David Thoreau

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do!" -Walter Bagehot

"You can sit around and wait for the good things to happen to you, or you can go out and make them happen." -Unknown

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Taylor Benson

"Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst thing is not to try." -Unknown

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -Will Rogers

"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not." -Albert Brooks

"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." -Tobias Wolff

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing." -George Sheehan

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." -Clarence Thomas

"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by." -Annie Dillard

"Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get a leg up." -Dave Weinbaum

"The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat." -A.J. Cronin

"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." -Michael Landon

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life." -William Osler

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." -Unknown

"It may be that those who do most, dream most." -Stephen Leacock

"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be." -Jimmy Johnson

"The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them." -James Oliver

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." -W. Somerset Maugham

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." -William Arthur Ward

"Go the extra mile. It's never crowded." -Executive Speechwriter Newsletter

"When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in." -Aeschylus

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin

"Every problem is just an opportunity waiting to be made use of." -Unknown

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. -H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience -Anon.

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?" -Anna Robertson Brown

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before. To test your limits.. to break through barriers.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. --Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate

No matter how well you nurse a grudge, it will never get better. --Joyce Smith

There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say "Ah, there you are!" --Frederick L. Collins

Insults should be written in the sand, and praises carved in stone. --Arab proverb

To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly. --Henri Bergson

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back or a fool from any side. --Yiddish Proverb

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. --Rev. Peter Marshall

Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. --William Shakespeare

It's a lot better to hope than not to. --Benjamin J. Stein in The American Spectator

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides. --John Stuart Mill

Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself. --Tommy John with Dan Valenti, My Twenty-six years in Baseball

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. --Henry Ford

Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself. --O.A. Battista

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. -- Albert Camus, The Fall

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. -- Haim Ginott

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. --Plato

It opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. --Milton Berle

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. --Bodie Thoene, Munich Signature

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps. --James Thurber, Lanterns and Lances

Solitude is a good place to visit, but a poor place to stay. --Josh Billings.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. --Galileo

Even the longest journey begins with the first step. --Chinese Proverb.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Act as though it were impossible to fail.

If better is possible, good is not enough.

Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not "how much time do we have? " The question is "what shall we do with it?" --Anna Robertson Brown (What is Worth)

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend." - Albert Camus -

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." - Albert Schweitzer -

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." - Buddha

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." "One can't complain. I have my friends. Someone spoke to me only yesterday." - Eeyore

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." - Kahlil Gibran -

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton -

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for thoes who are friends." - Richard Bach, Illusions -

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.." - Bilbo Baggins, from "The Hobbit" -by J.R.R. Tolkien-

"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."

"It is more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them." - La Rochefoucauld -

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain -

"A smile is a window on your face to show your heart is at home." - anonymous -

"Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life."

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." - Mencius

"I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, And this becomes men's nature in the end." - Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics -

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others." - Bertrand Russell -

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's." - Jean Paul Richter -

"You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you; you have to go to them sometimes." - Winnie the Pooh -

"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them." - Evelyn Waugh -

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." -Lee Iacocca

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." -unknown

"Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." - Anais Nin -

"The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say." - Kahlil Gibran -

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." - Elbert Hubbard -

"Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say."