Maureen Dowd
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

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

Stephen C Paul
You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way.

Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Wayne Gretzky
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

Daniel O'Connell
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Dr. Jerome Brunner
We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

Dr. Frederick Tilney, French brain specialist
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Jack Schwartz, expert in human potential
We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.

Charles Schultz, creator of "Peanuts"
In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back.

Arnold Glasgow
Make your life a mission-not an intermission.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Zen Buddhist Text
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Diogenes
No man is hurt but by himself.

Warren Bennis
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

John C. Maxwell
Policies are many, principles are few, policies will change, principles never do.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

General Colin Powell
Experts often possess more data than judgment.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Scout Cloud Lee, The Circle is Sacred
When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.

Bill Gates
64K ought to be enough for anybody. (1981)

Kevin Nations
You cannot break the constraints of low cash flow by saving a higher percentage of what little you have.

Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Who are we NOT to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in us all.

Fanny Brice
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be-because sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you?

Gita Bellin
If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Sam Levenson
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Thomas Watson, founder of IBM
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Yogi Berra
Nobody goes there anymore . . . it's too crowded!

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

You can see a lot just by looking.

Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.

Paul Twitchell
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

Chin-Ning Chu
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Guy Kawasaki
Evangelism is selling a dream.

Rebecca Falls
One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

Cynthia Pearl Maus
You may have tangible wealth untold,
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you could never be;
I know someone who told stories to me.

Rush Limbaugh
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

William M Bulger
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.

Vince Gill
Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Dr. Loretta Scott
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Sri Chinmoy
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.

Gary Zukav
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Michael Sky
The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.

Kirsten Zambucka
Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is amirror.  We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all.  Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

William Dempsey
The awakening has begun!

Walter Russell
Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.

Bo Lozoff
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Mark Victor Hansen
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

True or true? Yes or yes?

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Don't think it, ink it.

Michael Gerber
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Tony Allasandra, Money Talk
Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

John Nasibitt, author of Megatrends

Value is what people are willing to pay for it.

You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, "No Shit!" or at least, "No kidding!"

Coach Bear Bryant
It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

William George Jordan
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Lou Holtz
It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Denny McDonough
There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

William Wallace in the movie Braveheart
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are/Till we are called to rise/And then, if we are true to plan,/Our statures touch the skies.

Aesop
Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC)

Thomas Adams
Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. (1640)

Kenneth Blanchard
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose . . . By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

H - umor
E - go, edging God out
L - istening
P - urpose

Disney's Pochahantas
You'll see things "you never knew you never knew."

Charles Schwab
A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

Lord Acton
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Martial
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Guy Finley
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly
Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

Paul Zane Pilzer
Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brian Tracy
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Rev. John Wellesly
EARN as much as you can. SAVE as much as you can. INVEST as much as you can. GIVE as much as you can.

Yogi Desai
Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Robert Stuberg
The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.

Alice Potter
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do.
I affirm only the best for myself and others.
I am the creator of my life and my world.
I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.
I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

Joseph Murphy
The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.

Dr. David Schwartz, author of The Magic of Thinking Big
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

D A Benton, author of Lions Don't Need to Roar
Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.

Sydney J Harris
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Eugene S Wilson
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

William Ellery Channing, author of Spiritual Freedom
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Marcus Bach
We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Flora Edwards
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

Earl Nightingale -1989
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future—Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed, savored.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Bob Richards, Olympic Pole Vaulting Champion
One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.

Jon Kabat-Zinn
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Wilhelm von Humboldt
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselvers.

Charles Givens, author of Wealth Without Risk
Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Claude Bristol, author of The Magic of Believing
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

John Wesley
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

Sheryl Adams
Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

L Ron Hubbard
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

Robert Collier
You can have anything you want—if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish-if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Peter Marshall
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Richard Milhouse Nixon 1913-1994
Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them—and then you destroy yourself.

from the movie Cool Runnings
A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

from the president of International Harvester
Business is simple. Make some stuff and sell it for more than it cost you. There's nothing more to it than that except for a few million details.

Gary Comer, founder of Land's End
Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

John Dryden
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

Cherie Carter-Scott
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

Mel Brooks
Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.

Dorothy Parker
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Lilian Carter
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. (at age 85)

Tom Hopkins
Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You and the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become them.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.

Abraham Sutzkever
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Michael Burke
Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.

Mike Ditka, Chicago Bears coach
You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Alexandria Penney
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

Dwight D Eisenhower
Pessimism never won any battle.

Byron J Langenfield
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

Walt Schmidt
You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Sudie Back
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.

Clarence Day
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

George Burns (1896-1996)
I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

You've got to be honest; once you can fake that, you've got it made.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Sam Rayburn
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

Jack Kemp
Democracy without morality is impossible.

Charles Wadworth
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Joe Murray
Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Doug Larson
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Wayne Lukas
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Martha Grimes
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

Leroy Brownlow
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Henry Winkler
A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Joe Poyer
Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

Ruth E Renkel
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

Joyce Brothers
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Tommy Lasorda
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

Thomas Leonard
A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

E Joseph Cossman
Love is a friendship set to music.

Kitty O'neill Collins
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well
Writing is thinking on paper.

Writing is a craft not an art.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Alan Watts, philosopher of science
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Archimedis
Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough and I can single-handedly move the world.

Fredrich Nietzsche
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Rene Descartes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Edmund Spenser
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Antonio Machado
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Sir Thomas Browne
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

Hannibal
We will either find a way, or make one.

Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live and not prepare to live.

Thomas Moffett, seventeenth century physician
We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Robert Fulghum
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge-that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts-that hope always triumphs over experience-that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Father Don Walk
It's easy to point when you can't heal it.

Tim Foley
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Peace Pilgrim 190? - 1981
You are within God. God is within you.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

On the anger habit: Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same.

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

This is my peace message in one sentence: This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission: "While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day."

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

We are that which activates the body.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Lyndon Johnson
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.

David P Gardner
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

Sir William Bragg
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Arthur C Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Mae West
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Too much of a good thing—is WONDERFUL.

William Saroyan
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Lewis B Hershey
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

Jonathon Kozol
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

John W. Gardner
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Mal Pancoast
Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Thinking is heavily endorsed.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

There's nobody "out there." It's all in here.

It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point of reality—to make something real.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. People who have an ear to hear can hear. You will no longer tolerate what you used to tolerate. A second point of reality. It's the loving thing to do. What's being revealed here? Dogs don't have things wrong. Wrong disempowers people. Upsets indicate a "right" that's been violated. Notice when you are angry that you are the only one around. The only constant thing is you. Business is made up. It's invented. If it really turns you on, you may want to inform your face. There is no "right" way. 

You get paid to impact the world, not be impacted by it.

Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Jerry Martin
Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Bill Wheeler
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.

Reginald B Mansell
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

William Pitt
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Robert Townsend
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Edith Armstrong
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my number.

Austin O'Malley
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Fritz Reiner
Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

Georges Bernanos
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

David Bohm
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

George Kneller
Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know . . . Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

Rabbi Harold Kushner
I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.

George Santayana
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

G A Borghese
It is necessary; therefore, it is possible.

Kazantzakis
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darknesses.

Lyall Watson, biologist
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Arnold Toynbee
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

Buddy Hackett
I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

Hugh Downs
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

John Luther
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

N Eldon Tanner
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Stephen Grellet
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Lloyd Jones
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Cassius Longinus
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Jules W Lederer
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Jules Ormont
Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out.

Solomon Schechter
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

David Seabury
No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

W Clement Stone
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Woodrow Wilson
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

Frank Tyger
Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.

James Rogers
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

Plautus
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Herbert Bayard Swope
I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure-which is: Try to please everybody.

Carl Bard
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end.

Nashua Cavalier
Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.

Henry Chestor
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.

C C Colton
Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.

T S Eliot
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

Alberta Flanders
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Werner Erhardt
Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.

Create your future from your future not your past.

John Lennon
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

Deepak Chopra, MD
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being."

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Terry Cole-Whittaker
What you think of me is none of my business.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me."

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Lao-tzu, Tao-te Ching
Because of a great love, one is courageous.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.

Lawrence Bixby
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.

Victor Borge
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Robert Ingersoll
My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy is here./ The time to be happy is now./ The way to be happy is to make others so.

Walter Chrysler
The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

Edmund Cooke
You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smiling face,/ It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Lucretius
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Bernard Baruch
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

St. Bernard
Nothing can work me damage except myself.

George Sheehan
If you want to win anything—a race, your self, your life—you have to go a little berserk.

Jacob Bronowski
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Louis B Mayer
Be smart, but never show it.

Daniel J Boorstin
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk—and to act.

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower."

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

Hugh Walpole
Don't play for safety—it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Sir Cecil Beaton
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Robert Benchley
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Jackie Collins
If you want to be a writer—stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Gene Fowler
Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

William Faulkner
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

Oprah Winfrey
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Leo Rosten
If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Nicholas Rowe
Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.

Les Brown
It's important to me that money not be important to me.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Alexander Graham Bell
When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists . . . and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want . . . and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Edgar Friedenbar
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.

Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Saint Exupery
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Georg Hegel
We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.

E E Cummings
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Robert Herrman - scientist
Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.

Stewart Brand
When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

Arnold Glasow
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

J P Donleavy
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

Oscar Levant
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.

Alexander Haig (some of his Haigspeak)
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Lord Buckley
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Bob Hope
I do benefits for all religions—I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

Sir William Temple
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.

John Marquand
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

The Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it-even if I said it-unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

Henry Fielding 1707-1754
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Igor Stravinsky 1936
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Anne Bradstreet 1664
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Lewis Thomas
Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.

Charles Revson
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Virginia Ostman
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Anna Freud
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Clifton Fadiman
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Cicero
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Virtue is its own reward.

Dr. Melba Colgrove
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Hobart Brown
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

H L Mencken
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Ilka Chase
America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Don Herold
Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

John Wicker
Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized, they die when neglected.

Coco Gabrielle Chanel
There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Ingrid Bergman
Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.

Edward Gibbon
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.

Charles Dickens
Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Rene Auberjonis
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I will show you a guy you can beat every time.

Cynthia Heimel
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Margaret Thatcher
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

William Penn
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Man must be governed by God or he will be ruled by Tyrants.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Cleveland Amory
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't—it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Nadia Boulanger
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Eric Burdon
You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

Norman Podhoretz
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy—the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

George Lois
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

Cecil B deMille
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

John Stewart Mill
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest.

Sheila Graham
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Marilyn Manroe
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

Don Marquis
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

General Douglas MacArthur
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Truman Capote
Fame is only good for one thing—they will cash your check in a small town.

Bill Vaughan
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

De Witt Clinton
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Robert HeinLein
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

David Zucker
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, minister
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Katherine Mansfield
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Mario Burata
Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Peter De Vries
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Maurice Chevalier
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Margaret Anderson
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Quentin Crisp
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Norman O Brown
Love without attachment is light.

Bruce J Freidmen
A Code of Honor—never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

Tom Wolfe
A cult is a religion with no political power.

William Feather
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you.

Ben Jonson
To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Chief Seattle
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Harry Truman
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Guilt is never a rational thing; it distorts all faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him in confusion.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

There is perfect order in the universe. Mankind, and mankind alone, can understand that order. It is good for mankind to understand that order.

Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crisis. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Katherine Hepburn
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Kin Hubbard
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

John Cage
If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.

Ralph Waldo Trine
There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

All truth goes through three steps: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.

Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Robert Fritz
The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life . . . I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

David H Comins
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Gracie Allen
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Kenneth Hildebrand
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

Madonna
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Losing my virginity was a career move.

David Augsnurger
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Sir Lawrence Olivier
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Eddie Rickenbacker
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Isaac Asimov
When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: "Type faster."

Guy Bellamy
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Robin Williams
Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table's ready."

What's right is what's left after everything else has been wrong.

Parkinson's Law
Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Marcus Aurelius 121-180
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

Earl Warren
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

B F Skinner
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Dr. Rob Gilbert
First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

Henry Miller
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

R A Dickson
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.

Bob Dylan
He not busy being born is busy dying.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bertolt Brecht
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Sydney Hook
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Russell Bishop
I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, "How can we screw this kid up."

In the heating and air conditioning trade, the point on the thermostat in which neither heating nor cooling must operate-around 72 degrees-is called the "Comfort Zone." It's also known as the "Dead Zone."

Rodney Dangerfield
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.

Garrison Keillor
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Henry S Haskins
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

William Jennings Bryan
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac. It's great for the first two weeks.

Mickey Rooney
I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.

George Champman
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is not entirely absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life spring.

When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn't leave until they're 20.

It is better to ask some of the questions than know all the answers.

All men should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Ethel Barrymore
You grow up the first day you have your first good laugh—at yourself.

Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.

What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

He that gives should not remember, he that receives should never forget.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

There is no time like the pleasant.

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master—and masters get to change things.

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

This is how it happens. We get the dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.

When we put things off until some future—probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect to fulfill your dream.

To affirm is to make firm.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

Keep your goals away from the trolls.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

First, all relationships are with yourself—and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life—the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die—is with yourself.

We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another—and especially yourself—"I Can't," take a deep breath and say instead, "My resources are otherwise engaged.

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.

Emotion is energy in motion.

In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to love it.

When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it.

You can have anything you want in life, you just can't have everything you want.

You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything you want.

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts—putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Every creative act involves . . . a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can be done.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Jan Glidwell, St Petersburgh Times
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

There is only one success—o be able to live your life in your own way.

There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.

Dan Millman, author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.

There are no ordinary moments.

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia, 1990
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Unfaithfulness in keeping an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You might as well borrow a person's money as his time.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Great things happen when men and mountains meet.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

We're all in this alone.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

William Drury, Sr College of the Atlantic
When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you've detected that is threatening your current model of the world or some aspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. This discomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and begin again.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Tom Crum, author of The Magic of Conflict
You either move toward something you love or away from something you fear. The first expands. The second constricts.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Thomas Henry Huxley
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Og Mandino, author of The Greatest Salesman in the World & others
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

That is why you fail. (in response to Luke saying, "I don't believe it.")

Do or do not. There is no try.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Richard Snelling, Vermont Governor 1927-1991
Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

Time on My Side, personal planner
In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.

Joseph Pierce
Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

Hugh Prather, author of How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy
Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

Nathan Hale
I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

Hubert Humhrey
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Lon Watters
School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside.

Louise Bogan 1897-1970 American Poet
No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the world a portion of its lost heart.

Bhagavad-Gita - means The Song of the Lord
We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into the world of spirit.

Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectly than it is to do somebody else's work perfectly.

There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.

A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action has understanding among men and discipline in all action he performs.

Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over all evil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood to ashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.

Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.

Jonathon Swift
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice Supreme Court
Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

The best way out is always through.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I Ching
A leader is powerful to the degree he empowers other people.

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

Alexander Pope
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Order is heaven's first law.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

The thing I fear most is fear.

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Hans Selye
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

A human being is a deciding being.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had a life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries around in his pocket. The more he has, the more they weigh him down.

Danish Proverb
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Hindu Proverb
The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself

It takes a thorn to remove a thorn.

Zen Proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

After enlightenment, the laundry.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

When you seek it, you cannot find it.

Spanish Proverb
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

Yiddish Proverb
God gave burdens, also shoulders.

French Proverb
It is overdoing the thing to die for love.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

Greek Proverb
A miser and a liar bargain quickly.

Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shalt thou bear.

German Proverb
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.

Persian Proverb
The drowning man is not troubled by rain.

Japanese Proverbs
Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.

Cameroon Proverb
He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Chinese Proverbs
Outside noisy, inside empty.

If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

He who treads softly goes far.

Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.

Scottish Proverb
Money is flat and was meant to be piled up.

Slovenian Proverb
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Robert Bolton
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Stephen Leacock
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

John Churton Collins
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the siren, till she transforms us into beasts.

A peaceful mind generates power.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

So, the All-Great, were the All-loving too.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Bob Harrington, minister "Chaplain of Bourbon Street"
The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

You never become a howling success by just howling.

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Paul J Meyer, Success Motivation Institute
Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined personal goals.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

To whom much is given, much is required.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The fates lead him who will—him who won't they drag.

If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.

The cure for anger is delay.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them—that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from hodfuls of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Ken Keyes, Jr , author of Handbook to Higher Consciousness
To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Denis Waitley
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: "If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!"

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

William H Johnsen
If it is to be, it is up to me.

Ted Turner
The mind is just another muscle.

Franklin P Jones
When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Mary Kay Ash
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.

Robert Heller
Fear is excitement without breath.

Kermit the Frog
It's not easy being green.

Mark Twain
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Adam was human; he didn't want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

There's nothing more dangerous than an idea if its the only one you have.

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.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

The difference between the right word and the wrong word is like the difference between the lightning and the lightning bug.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words . . . the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.

Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket!

Courage is the mastery of fear—not the absence of fear.

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and create new ones; it can lift men to angelship.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read, but nobody wants to read.

Mahatma Gandhi
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Tom Clancy
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Angelique Arnauld
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Edith Hamilton, historian
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Greek Definition of happiness (approx)
To use all of your powers to the fullest along the lines of personal excellence.

Nathaniel Branden
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Colette Dowling
Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

Blaise Pascal
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

Law, without force, is impotent.

All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

Gustave Flaubert 1821-1880
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Martin Luther King
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Lord Byron
Adversity is the first path to truth.

Friedrich Neitzche
What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.]

Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.

Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do . . . and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.

Edward Teller, American physicist and author
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Daniel Borsten, author of The Discoverist
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

Zukav
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.

Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Nathaniel Emmons
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead (Howard Roark)
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

A P Erkkila
Success is in the details.

Jonas Salk, M D
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will—he will be sure to repent it.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Roy Disney
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Vincent Van Gogh
Conscience is a man's compass.

Dennis Weaver
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

Jesus Christ
According to your faith; be it done unto you.

Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. Mathew 7:13-14

Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make me feel inferior without my consent. No one can reject me without my consent.

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Theodore Roosevelt
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

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

Franklin D Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

When you come to the end of your rope . . . tie a knot and hang on.

T J Watson
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Alfred Armand Montapert, The Superior Philosophy of Man
In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Democritus
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

Emmanuel Kant
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

A Course in Miracles
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

I am never upset for the reason I think.

Only my condemnation injures me.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

This instant is the only time there is.

Would you rather be right or happy?

Woody Allen
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Ninety percent of success is showing up.

A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

Thomas Paine
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue: but moderation in principle is always a vice.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

We have it in our power to begin the world again.

Stephen Covey
Interdependency follows independence.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Private victories precede public victories.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Bruce Barton
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things . . . I am tempted to think . . . there are no little things.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Chuck Olson
Playing safe is only playing.

Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Jean Paul Getty
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

John D Rockefeller
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success . . . If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

Oliver Cromwell
Make the iron hot by striking it.

John Haggai
The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Grenville Kleiser
People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Dr. James Farr
A difference, to be a difference, must make a difference.

Zig Ziglar
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing—hat's why we recommend it daily.

You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Frank Sinatra
The best revenge is massive success.

Benjamin Franklin
Trickery and treachery are practices of fools that have not wits enough to be honest.

Beware the hobby that eats.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

The body of B Franklin, printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents worn out and stript of its lettering and guilding lies here, food for worms but the work shall not be lost for it will, as he believes, appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, corrected and improved by the author. Franklin's epitaph written by himself 8-31-1776

Let thy discontents be thy secrets.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

Well done is better than well said.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Sloth makes all things difficult; industry all easy.

Employ thy time well if thou means to gain leisure.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Beware of little expenses. Small leaks will sink great ships.

Observe all men, thyself most.

If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.

If a man empties his purse in his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Some people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou can'st.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

What has become clear to you since we last met?

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

H E Jansen
The man who wins may have been counted out several times but he didn't hear the referee.

James M Barrie
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

J F Clarke
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

John Charles Salak
Failures are divided into two classes—those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

Andrew Carnegie
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Dale Carnegie
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt . . . .Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picturize it for the audience.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

Today is life—the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most of them do.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

Willa A Foster
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

Kay Lyons
Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have—so spend it wisely.

Jacob Riis
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Walter Bagehot
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Katherine Graham
To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun.

C W Ceran
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

Harold V Melchert
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

Channing Pollock
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Daniel H Burnham
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

J Lubbock
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

Louis Pasteur
Chance favors the prepared mind.

Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal: My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Syrus
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

H W Arnold
The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

Sir Walter Scott
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

The will to do, the soul to dare.

St Francis De Sales
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Earl Wilson
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Frederick Wilcox
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Robert Half
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Elmer Letterman
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?"

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Howard W Newton
People forget how fast you did a job—but they remember how well you did it.

Horace
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

John Norley
All things are difficult before they are easy.

Demosthenes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Tennyson
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

There lies more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

I am a part of all that I have seen.

The Book of Changes
Everything serves to further.

An Indian Chief's prayer
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

Rama Krishna
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

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

He can who thinks he can, And he can't who thinks he can't. This is an indisputable law.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few people engage in it.

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Never complain. Never explain.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progress; Working together is success.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

William Ernest Henley
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.

Virgil 70-19 B.C.
Fortune sides with him who dares.

They can because they think they can.

Laurens Van du Post
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Marcia Moore
The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Michael E. Angier
Be careful not to confuse being rich with living a rich life. Being rich (financially) is a worthy goal, but living a rich life should be our primary mission. And this comes from having who we become, not what we achieve being our main objective.

An investment in yourself will pay dividends for the rest of your life. It won’t depreciate, it will appreciate. It will never be devalued or stolen. Clearly, your inner portfolio is the best investment you can make.

If you develop the habits of success, you will make success a habit.

Facts are cheap, information is plentiful—knowledge is precious.

The greatest lever for change is awareness.

Real courage is moving forward when the outcome is uncertain.

It's never boring to listen to someone tell the truth. When people are speaking from the heart, you can't help but be interested regardless of the content or whether or not you agree with them.

The only thing that has to be done today is to breathe.

It's better to curl up with a good book and a good woman than a good book.

If you learn to appreciate more of what you already have, you will find yourself having more to appreciate.

Confidence isn't something that you get. It's something that you do.

Old dreams never die; they just get filed away.

It's important; but it's not serious.

A successful day: to learn something new; to laugh at least 10 times; to lift someone up; to make progress on a worthy goal; to practice peace and patience; to do something nice for yourself and another; to appreciate and be grateful for all your blessings.

All through history, highly-evolved people have always been, at the very least, misunderstood. They have been criticized and condemned and, for the most part, have been killed.

If you ask something of someone and you are upset over their response, then it wasn't a request, it was a demand.

Your progress is hindered to the degree that you are upset about where you are. If you are in Chicago and want to get to LA, it does no good to be upset about being in Chicago. In fact, it detracts from your ability to get to LA. What is, is.

Ideas are worthless. Intentions have no power. Plans are nothing . . . unless they are followed with action. Do it now!

Spiritual Principle is much like the wind. It is neither good nor bad and you must know how to use it. You can be run aground, be dismasted, or use it to move you where you want to go.

You have a choice to be happy or unhappy. Since you must be one or the other, why not choose happiness?

Today's action becomes tomorrow's habit.

We never do what we have to do. We always do what we want to do. It just seems like we have to.

There is a price for success but there is also a price for failure. Given the choice, the price of success clearly has the best return on investment.

A person with some doubt but taking action is better than one with no doubt taking no action.

We do not take action to gain or prove we are valuable, we take action to gain results and discover more of who we already are.

Everything I do, I do to make my heart sing.

Reading can be a powerful catalyst for thinking; it has the potential for stimulating wisdom.

Use your head, but live in your heart.

The only way to truly have what you want is to give up what you think you have to have.

Our job is to decide; the Universe's job is to provide.

When you learn something, share it with at least three people on different occasions and it will be yours.

Getting the right answers is only possible when you have asked the right questions.

It's not whether you win or lose it's whether or not you play the game.

There are no honorariums for people to get up and tell how they didn't do it.

Conquer your fears. Otherwise, your fears will conquer you.

It matters not what road we take but rather what we become on the journey.

You can only be happy when you are in the process of achieving a goal. Without a goal there can be no accomplishment. Without accomplishment there is no meaning—no satisfaction. Man was created for accomplishment.

If I can always find a way to survive, then I have the same skills it takes to thrive.

It's expensive to be a maverick.

J Francis Angier
If you want to give God a good laugh, tell him what you are going to do the rest of your life.

Farmers have always had two good years—one about twenty years ago, and next year.

Louisa May Alcott
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they may lead.

Ram Dass
The most exquisite paradox . . . as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all . . . As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible. from Be Here Now

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

W Somerset Maugham
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous. On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Sydney Harris
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1881-1955 French Jesuit priest
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world. . . . life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. . . . The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world . . . Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Epictetus
Circumstances do not make the man, they merely reveal himself to himself. (close)

A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

Dovstoyevsky
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. The Brothers Karamazov

Mother Theresa
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

God has no hands but these.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

God doesn't require that we succeed; He only requires that we try.

Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world and that is an idea whose time has come.

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Carl Rogers
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Brother Angelus
That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.

Thomas Troward
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

Eric Butterworth
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.

There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.

Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

While many people are trying to be in tune with the infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

John Ruskin
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant "well-being," and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it.

Doing is the great thing. For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Charles Fillmore, co-founder of Unity School of Christianity
It is a sin to be poor.

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

L P Jacks
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.

Dorthea Brande
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Charles Kettering, American industrialist
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

The only difference between a a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Our imagination is the only limitation to what we can have in the future.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Linus
I love humanity, it's the people I can't stand.

Paul Vernon Buser
Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

Anthony Robbins
The past doesn't equal the future.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

CANI! (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Never-ending Improvement

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it)

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals—that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. (with yourself as well as with others)

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

There is always a way-if you're committed.

You always succeed in producing a result.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.

E James Rohn
By working hard, you get to play hard—guilt-free.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

It's not the hours you put in, but what you put into the hours that count.

The Challenge
Let others lead small lives, but not you.
Let others argue over small things, but not you.
Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

The major value in life is not in what you get, but in what you become.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity and the emotions to affect other people.

Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

The more you know the less you need to say.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Five minutes complaining is five minutes wasted. If continued, you will suffer from an economic cancer which will haul you off into a financial desert where you will choke on the dust of your own regrets.

When you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Work as hard on yourself as you do on your job.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive.

Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a "me too" attitude while impressing evokes a "so what" attitude.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Casualness leads to casualties.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Failure: A few errors in judgment repeated every day. Success: A few simple disciplines practiced every day.

Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

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. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with a license of a higher order of beings.

I was determined to know beans. (might be Emerson quote)

We have never quarreled. (HDT's response when asked if he had made his peace with God)

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Be not simply good; be good for something.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Our life is frittered away by detail . . . simplify, simplify!

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

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 he hears, however measured or far away.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Things do not change; we change.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. To confront only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn from it what it had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Walt Whitman
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains it's original dimensions.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye, the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Frank Capra
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965
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.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always.

Julie Andrews
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Bovee
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat them as probabilities.

Larry Eisenberg
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

I often quote myself; it ads spice to my conversation.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; who persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. (Man and Superman)

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I of dream things that never were, and say, "Why not?"

The worst sin . . .  is . . .  to be indifferent.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Frank Giblin, II
Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

Emilie Cady
Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

From the tomb of Machiavelli
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize winner
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

I have no particular talent. I am merely extremely inquisitive.

Science without religion is lame; Religion without science is blind.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

If you sit with a beautiful girl, two hours seem like two minutes. If you sit on a hot stove, two minutes seem like two hours. That's relativity.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

God does not roll dice.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

How do I work? I grope.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved on the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Perfections of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is incomprehensible.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

John Donne
No man is an island unto himself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Henry Kissinger
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

3rd Patriarch of Zen
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

On attachment: The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Our bodies are our gardens . . . our wills are our gardeners.

Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst then be false to any man.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery. Julius Caesar

Assume a virtue if you have it not.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

Richard Bach
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Dream what you dare to dream. Be where you want to go. Be what you want to be. Live! JLS

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. TBAF

I've got the answer you need, but there's not a prayer you will listen before you get yourself flattened by the great steamroller of experience. TBAF

Argue for your limitations and they are yours.

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. The Savior's Manual

Everything in this book may be wrong. The Savior's Manual

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true . . .  You may have to work for it, however.

Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Once you label me you negate me.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Norman Douglas
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Catherine Ponder
If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Gerald G Jampolsky
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

You can be right or you can be happy.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Aristophanes
The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Roy L Smith
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Pante
You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Nothing can resist a human will that will stake even its existence on the extent of its purpose.

Man is not the creature of circumstance; circumstances are the creatures of men.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

There is no education like adversity.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Little things affect little minds.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Oscar Wilde
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

Life is too important to take seriously.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I can believe anything, provided it is incredible.

When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

Ruth Ross, author of Prospering Woman
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.

A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is dead energy.

In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Never, never, never, never, never, never give up.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then a third time—a tremendous whack.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.

It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination rules the world.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

The best way to keep your word is not to give it.

Merlin, character in Excalibur
When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

You are the land. The land is you.

Jim Fraser, contrarian investor, Burlington Vermont
A cause a day keeps reality away.

Robert Schuller
On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

Turn your scars into stars

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Every burden is a blessing.

Tough times never last but tough people do.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Success is never certain. Failure is never final.

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

God's delays are not God's denials.

I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Waylon Jennings
I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.

Henri-Frederic Amiel
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible with talent is genius.

Samuel Butler
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Sydney Harris
When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Every situation—nay, every moment—is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Arnold Bennet
The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Washington Irving
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

Horace Greeley
The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

James Dillet Freeman
Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Edwin C Bliss
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!

Abraham Lincoln
I will study and prepare myself and one day, my day will come.

I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned with what his grandson will be.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

All that we are is a result of what we have thought.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Flaccus
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Gracian Baltasar
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Hebbel Friedrich
What you can become you are already.

Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Happiness is activity.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. or, Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

Alfred Adler, 1870-1937, Austrian psychiatrist
It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.

Man knows more than he understands.

Frank Scully
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

Golnik Eric
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Robert Frost
I shall be telling this with a sigh; Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by, and it has made all the difference.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

An idea is a feat of association.

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

We dance round in a ring and suppose,/But the secret sits in the middle, and knows.

The best way out is always through.

Forgive me my nonsense as I forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

Edwin Markham
For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear—When you are the hammer, strike.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Voltaire
Common sense is not so common.

Shun idleness, it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

William Cowper 1731-1800
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well whatever you do.

The heights by great men reached and kept/ Were never attained by sudden flight,/ But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Thomas Alva Edison
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

What you are will show in what you do.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Aeschylus
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

James Truslow Adams
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living. The other should teach us how to live.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Genius is the capacity to take infinite pains.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Henry Ward Beecher
The first hour is the rudder of the day.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Elbert Hubbard
Blessed is that man who has found his work.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows 'em up.

Josh Billings
Do not put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Edward Hersey Richards
Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that old bird.

David Grayson
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I had six honest serving men who taught me all I know; their names were what and how and why, and when and where and who.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.

Miguel de Cervantes
By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Robert Louis Stevenson
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Lord Chesterfield
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

T B Aldrich
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow—I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Adlai Stevenson
It's not the years in your life, but the life in your years that count.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

George Bush
If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

William James
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The great use for life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the "as if" technique.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

If we had no faults, we should not take pleasure in noting those of others.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

T S Elliot
You are the music while the music lasts.

G K Chesterton
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off)

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Henri Bergson
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Charles Muses & Arthur Young
It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millennia.

Dr Wayne Dyer
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.

Softly and kindly remind yourself, "I cannot own anything." It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.

As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

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.

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Our intention creates our reality.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I have chosen to be. (from James Allen)

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out—because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

A am realistic-I expect miracles.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a fact, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

A transcendent being can be any miracle.

Everything is perfect in the universe—even your desire to improve it.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

I think and that is all that I am.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the quiet acceptance of what is."

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from the Sufis)

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Finish each day and be done with it . . . You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you should begin it well and serenely.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for the better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

To the dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

I hate quotations.

A foolish consistency is the hobglobbin of little minds.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

What is Success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded.

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Self-trust is the first secret to success.

We become what we think about all day long.

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

Wendall Phillips
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Mrs. Hubbard Davis, president of ROAL
To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline . . . I firmly believe that any man's finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear-is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.

Winning is not a sometime thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Winning isn't everything but the will to win is.

Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

The green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

It's hard to be aggressive when you're confused. (when asked why he had his players run such simple plays)

Robert Elliot
Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all small stuff.

Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Michael Vance
The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional, Financial, Social and Family

Scott Alexander, author of Rhinoceros Success
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem . . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

James Allen 1864-1912
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. (on focus)

Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and evermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass. As A Man Thinketh

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Jimmy Dean
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

James Dean
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Ann Landers
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial)

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale
A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

Alain French Philosopher
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Michael Korda, author of Success
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Ben Sweetland
Success is a journey . . . not a destination.

Happiness is a journey . . . not a destination.

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life.

Erik H Erickson: The Growth of His Work by Robert Coles
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

Dean Acheson
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Dennis the Menace
The best thing you can do is get good at being you.

People wait for opportunity to come along . . . yet it is there every morning.

M H Alderson
If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.

Stanely J. Randall
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Sioux Indian Prayer
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.

Andrew Jackson
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Jane Heard
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Rex Harrison
Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

Jules Ellinger
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Olin Miller
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

Verda Ross
If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it.

Earl Wilson
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Calvin Coolidge
The business of the country is business.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles by it.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Frank A Clark
A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.

Guillaume Apollinaire
Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ They came./ He pushed them. And they flew.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

James Liter, National Enquirer
One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Lady Bird Johnson
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Martina Navratilova
Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is like a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Norman Cousins
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives—the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Tom Bodett
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Pearl Strachan Hurd
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Mohammed Ali
The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Dame Flora Robson, Friends BBC London
Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Helmut Schmidt
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

God is a verb.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Everyone is born a genius.

You can't learn less.

Alfred Korzybski, (Semantalist)
The map is not the territory.

Ernest Hemingway
Man can be defeated but not destroyed.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Napoleon Hill
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve.

Man, alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone can dream and make his dreams come true.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

A goal is a dream with a deadline

Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Walt Whitman
If you done it, it ain't bragging.