Far away 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 lead.
Louisa May Alcott
It isn't the mountains ahead that
wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Unknown
Being powerful is like being a lady.
If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
Experience is the name everyone
gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
That which we obtain too easily,
we esteem too lightly.
Unknown
It's easy to stop making mistakes.
Just stop having ideas.
Unknown
I will study and get ready, and
perhaps my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
Life's real failure is when you
do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
Unknown
I hear and I forget. I see and I
believe. I do and I understand.
Confucius
The men who try to do something
and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and
succeed.
Lloyd Jones
Life is easier than you'd think;
all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without
the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
I don't believe that life is supposed
to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life
is just supposed to make you feel
Gloria Naylor
How a person masters his fate is
more important than what his fate is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Adversity has ever been considered
the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with
himself.
Samuel Johnson
If you get up one more time than
you fall you will make it through.
Chinese Proverb
The hardest thing to learn in life
is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
Few men during their lifetime come
anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them.
There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard Byrd
The supreme accomplishment is to
blur the line between work and play.
Arnold Toynbee
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
The quality of an organization can
never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
Harold R. McAlindon
To be nobody but yourself in a world
which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody
else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being
can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings
Where ignorance is our master, there
is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama
Discovery consists of seeing what
everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
I share no man's opinions; I have
my own.
Ivan Turgenev
In the beginner's mind there are
many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
A man who views the world the same
at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his
life.
Muhammad Ali
Doing what you like is freedom.
Liking what you do is happiness.
Unknown
Everyone has talent. What is rare
is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where
it leads.
Erica Jong
I will permit no man to narrow and
degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
For the believer there are no questions
and for the unbeliever there are no answers.
Menachem Mendel
One cloud is enough, to eclipse
all the sun...
Thomas Fuller
It is easy to be brave from a safe
distance.
Aesop's Fables
Freedom, after all, is simply being
able to live with the consequences of your decisions.
James X. Mullen
You can't separate peace from freedom
because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X
Advice is worth what it cost - that
is, nothing.
Douglas MacArthur
If we see ourselves as others see
us, we might never come back for a second look.
Unknown
You know by the time you've reached
my age you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life
properly.
Ronald Reagan
The man who doesn't read books has
no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain
The search for happiness is the
chief source of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
Happiness isn't getting what you
want; it's wanting what you get.
Garth Brooks
What a man can be, he must be.
Abraham Maslow
People live for their dreams, not
for the oppressiveness of truths.
Michael Shurtleff
It wouldn't be one man's dream if
it weren't another man's possession.
Unknown
I am a part of all that I have met
Alfred Lord Tennyson (Ulysses)
Between our dreams and our actions,
there's this world.
Bruce Springsteen
When your absence has the authority
of your presence, that is power.
Harriet Rubin
Every enemy is someone at war with
himself. You just happen to get in the way.
Harriet Rubin
Realize that if you have time to
whine and complain about something then you have the time to
do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Man is troubled not by events, but
by the meaning he gives them.
Epictetus
When I hear somebody say 'Life is
hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
Sydney Harri
Life is either a daring adventure
or nothing.
Helen Keller
Happiness isn't something you experience;
it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
Avoid having your ego so close to
your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
Colin Powell
The person who has lived the most
is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest
experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To love what you do and feel that
it matters-how could anything be more fun?
Katherine Graham
Man's mind, once stretched by a
new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Most people would rather be certain
they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
The grand essentials of happiness
are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope
for.
Allan K. Chalmers
What a wonderful life I've had!
I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the
difference.
Robert Frost
There is no time like the pleasant.
Oliver Herford
I take a simple view of life: keep
your eyes open and get on with it.
Sir Laurence Olivier
Achieving life is not the equivalent
of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
A man is not old as long as he is
seeking something.
Jean Rostand
We don't stop playing because we
grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
The mind has exactly the same power
as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
The true miracle is not walking
on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
Let us not look back in anger or
forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
We must learn our limits. We are
all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal
The world cares very little about
what a man or woman know; it is what the man or woman is able
to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington