"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."

—Dalai Lama

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection

we can catch excellence."

— Vince Lombardi

"We become what we think about."

— Earl Nightingale

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

—Maya Angelou

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

— Tony Robbins

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

— Samuel Johnson

"There is always a barrier between me and someone who does not like dogs."

— Ellen Glasgow

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

—Aristotle

The nine scariest words in the English language: I'm from the government and I'm here to help

— Ronald Reagan

"You never know how strong you are,

until being strong is your only choice."

— Christina Cuomo

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

— George Addair

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

—Leonardo da Vinci

"Tell and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words"

— Unknown

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

— Grandma Moses

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

— Dolly Parton

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

— Oprah Winfrey

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

— Farrah Gray

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,

is not an act but a habit."

— Aristotle

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Tommy Joe, don't take any wooden nickels."

— Dolly Hale (my Mom)

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself

makes you fearless."

— Lao Tzu

"A truly rich man, is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."

—Ziad K. Abdelnour

"The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence.

All passes; nothing returns."

— Ellen Glasgow

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."

— Abigail Van Buren

"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting."

— Walt Disney

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

— Joshua J Marine

"Every charitable act is a step toward heaven."

— Unknown

"There is no love, there are only proofs of love."

— Pierre Reverdy

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

—Christopher Columbus

"The secret of happiness is something to do."

— John Burroughs

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

—Rosa Parks

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."

— Roger Staubach

"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have."

—Teddy Roosevelt

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."

—Charles Swindoll

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

—Socrates

"It takes 20 years to make a reputation and only 5 minutes to destroy it"

— Warren Buffet

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."

—Henry Ford

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

— Maya Angelou

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, 'I'm possible' "

—Audrey Hepburn

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

— Henry Ford

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

— J.D. Salinger

"The heart has reasons the brain know nothing of."

- Blaise Pascal

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see."

— Confucius

""As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other is for helping others."

— Audrey Hepburn

"Three o'clock is always too late, or too early, for anything you want to do."

— -Jean Paul Sartre,"

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

— Tony Robbins

"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day,

as each day came."

— Abe Lincoln

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

—Mark Twain

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

—Norman Vincent Peale

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

—Chinese Proverb

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

— John Maynard

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

—Buddha

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

— Albert Einstein

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."

— William Ellery Channing

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

— Plato

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

— Vivian Greene

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

— Booker T. Washington

"Success is a lousy teacher.

It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

— Bill Gates

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."

—Vince Lombardi

"Good friends are like stars, you don't always see them but you know they are there"

— Christy Evans

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

—Ayn Rand

"I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

— Benjamin Franklin

"When I was 5 years, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."

— John Lennon

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."

— Sir Claus Moser

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."

—Ancient Indian Proverb

"Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon."

— Unknown

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

— Confucius

"Cruel, but composed and bland, dumb, inscrutable and grand. So Tiberius might have sat, had Tiberius been a cat."

— Matthew Arnold

“One of the secrets of life is all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.”

— Lewis Carroll

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

— Cicero

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan"

—Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

—Anais Nin