Great things said by others

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."
- Jean Kerr

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
- Unknown

"'Time Management' is really a misnomer - the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves."
- Stephen Covey

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
- Jim Valvano (American College Basketball Coach)

"There is a point at which people who are cast upon their own resources stop living and begin merely surviving."
- Stephen King (The girl who loved Tom Gordon)

"It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends."
- Euripdes

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There are thousands of reasons why you cannot do what you want to. All you need is one reason why you can."
~ Willis R. Whitney ~

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

"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching."
~ Author Unknown ~

"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word - "love". It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."
~ Lydia Maria Child ~

"There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves … so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful."
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery ~

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once, and we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ (1844-1900, German Philosopher)

"Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity."
~ Helen Schucman ~

"They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To me, a picture is worth a thousand memories; for when all is said and done, it is the memories that last with us forever."
~ Jeffrey A. Goodman ~ (1971- , Fashion/Advertising Photographer)

"What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high."
~ Anonymous ~

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
- Doris Mortman

"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."
~ Gaylord Nelson

"Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."
- Corrie Ten Boom

"Some days you eat the bear; some days the bear eats you."
- Stephen King (The girl who loved Tom Gordon)

"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left."
- George Carlin

"Let your soul be your pilot." -Greg Johnson

"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."
~ Confucius ~ (BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher)

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
~ Henry J. Kaiser ~

"A label is easy to stick on, but difficult to remove."
~ Old Proverb ~

"I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen."
~ Mark Twain ~

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
~ Sophocles ~ (BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet)

"We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have."
~ Basil S. Walsh ~

"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."
~ Elbert Hubbard ~ (1859-1915, American Author, Publisher)

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but rather something to be acheived."
~ William Jennings Bryan ~

"Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late."
~ Robert R. Updegraff ~

"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter."
~ B.C. Forbes ~

"Boats in the harbor are safe, but that is not what they are meant for."
~ Zig Ziglar ~

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

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

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

"Some people see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?" "
~ George Bernard Shaw ~ (1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist)

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
~ Albert Einstein ~

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
~ Francis Bacon ~

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
~ Seneca ~ (BC 3-65 AD, Roman Philosopher, Dramatist, Statesman)

"The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes cheaper."
~ Anonymous ~

"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."
- May L. Becker

"A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads."
- Thomas Carlyle

"I wear my heart on my sleeve." - Princess of Wales Diana

"We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them."
~ William Arthur Ward

"Always remember that your own resolution to succeed is more important than anything else."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
- David Hare

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
– Albert Einstein

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."
- Henry Van Dyke (1852--1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer)

"We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind."
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
- Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher)

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
– Albert Einstein

"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and shrinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can." - Sydney Smith

"Health is a great treasure. It is the richest possession mortals can have. Wealth, honor, or learning is dearly purchased, if it be at the loss of the vigor of health. None of these attainments can secure happiness, if health is wanting."
- Ellen G. White

"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 1878-1967, American Poet)

"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it." - Albert Einstein

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
- Margaret Fontey

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
- Douglas Macarthur

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else."
- Peyton Conway March

"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best."
- Henry Van Dyke

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
- Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA)

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader)

"When a man has done his best,has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has succeeded."
- Mack Douglas

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
- William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author)

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
- Dale Carnegie

"No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or another, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."
- Napoleon Hill

"The true way of soften one's troubles is to solace those of others."
- Madame De Maintenon

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Prime Minister)

"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
- Horace (BC 65-8, Italian Poet)

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."
~ Josh Billings ~ (1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer)

"The more you do, the more you are."
~ Angie Papadakis ~

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."
~ Smiley Blanton ~

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on!"
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt ~ (1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA)

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