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2. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day
when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to
do, and you've done it.
-Margaret Thatcher
8. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up
where I intended to be.
-Douglas Adams
9. Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves.
-Sir James Barrie
10. When I hear somebody say, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask,
"Compared to what?"
-Sydney J. Harris
11. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin,
but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
-Douglas MacArthur
12. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made
them feel.
-Carl W. Buechner
15. Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and
make strong.
-Norman Vincent Peale
16. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a
person with a certain set of attitudes.
-Hugh Downs
17. What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
-Unknown
20. 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.
-Carl Sandburg
22. Kindness is a language, which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
-Mark Twain
23. The man who is born with a talent, which he is meant to use, finds his
greatest happiness in using it.
-Goethe
25. Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest
summary of a life is: could have, might have, and should have.
-Louis E. Boone
26. When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast
by a light.
-H.K. Barclay
29. Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make
them great.
-Orison Swett Marden
31. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there
is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy,
there are only shades of gray.
-Doug Hall
34. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what
direction we are moving.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
36. In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the
next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
-Theodore Roosevelt
38. I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
-Lance Armstrong
39. You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and
I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.
-Cotton Fitzsimmons, head coach-Phoenix Suns
40. We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the
day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude
is everything.
-Charles Swindoll
41. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain
42. The "as if" principle works. Act "as if" you could and you'll find that you can.
Act "as if" you like a person and you'll find a friendship.
-Norman Vincent Peale
43. What really matters is what you do with what you have.
-Shirley Lord
44. Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
-Tallulah Bankhead
45. I believe we never fail at anything. Every time we create something we are
successful at creation. But sometimes we make poor choices about what we
create.
-Unknown
46. Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.
-Unknown
47. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do
not dare that things are difficult.
-Seneca
48. I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things
I am not able to appreciate.
-Elbert Hubbard
51. You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take
that away.
-Clark Moustakas
53. Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of
how you view them.
-Unknown
55. It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it
wrong.
-Longfellow
56. Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to
find one good reason why it will.
-Dr. Robert Anthony
57. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
-Unknown
58. If I spent as much time doing the things I worry about getting done as I do
worrying about doing them, I wouldn't have anything to worry about.
-Beryl Pfizer
59. There is only one success, to be able to spend your own life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley
61. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them.
-Dr. Denis Waitley
62. Life's strict rule is this: you get more of what you focus on.
-Marsha Sinetar
64. You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your
life wakes up and everything has meaning
-Barbara Sher
65. I can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or I can rejoice because
thorn bushes have roses.
-Unknown
66. If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well
laugh now.
-Unknown
67. Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do.
It comes from not finishing what they started.
-David Allen
68. The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can
become.
-Harold Taylor
69. I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than
they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.
-Jim Rohn
70. You and I possess within ourselves, at every moment, under all
circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.
-Wemer Erhard
72. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do ... Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain
75. The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You
have to catch up with it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
76. Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
77. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way
you think about it.
-Unknown
78. To be happy, drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next
time".
-Smiley Blanton, M.D.
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Miscellenous
1. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
Something to do, Something to love, and Something to hope for.
2. Happiness should be founf along the way but not at the end of the way.
• There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get
results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results
person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor. -- Alan
Cohen, A Deep Breath Of Life
• You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. --
Charles F. Kettering
• 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.." -- James Allen, 1864-1912, British-born
American Essayist, Author of "As a Man Thinketh"
• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the
REALIST adjusts his sails. (author unknown)
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their
prejudices. -- William James
• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
• The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you
be somebody else. -- E. E. Cummings
• Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us
clear through them. -- Brendan Francis
• Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in
our hand -- and melting like a snowflake. -- Marie Beyon Ray
• My dad always used to say, "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have
nothing to lose." -- Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5
• Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. --
John Wooden
• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. -- Wayne Dyer
• When we blame, we give away our power. -- Greg Anderson
• Maturity is the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with
consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others. -- Hrand Saxenian
• It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected. -- Voltaire
• A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure. --
Ecclesiastes 9:10
• Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• There are countless ways to express love. Be creative! -- Inneractions by Stephen C.
Paul and Gary Max Collins.
• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other
is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
Uplifting quotes - Persistence
• "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other. -- Douglas Everett, American
Hockey Player
• If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what
you're doing. And believe in what you're doing. -- Will Rogers
• When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a hand
full of mud, either." -- Leo Burnett
• The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human
imagination to crystallize its possibility. -- Leland Kaiser
• The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the
environment in which you first find yourself. -- Mark Caine
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor
Roosevelt
• The people that get on in this world are the people that get up and look for the
circumstances that they want; and if they can't find them, they make them. -- George
Bernard Shaw
• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though
sometimes it is hard to realize this. - Henry Ford
• The best way to predict the future is to create it! -- Jason Kaufmann
• Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation. -- Inneractions by
Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
• Remove the rock from your shoe rather than learn to limp comfortably. -- Inneractions by
Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
• The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or
humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of
the opportunities to grow, that counts. -- Alan Cohen, Rising in Love
• It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. -- Roy Disney
• To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such
transparent egotism. -- Will Durant