"A man's life is what his thoughts make of it."

-Marcus Aurelius

"I saw an angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

-Michelangelo

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time.
Then your time on Earth will be filled with glory." 

-Betty Smith

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly,
but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

-Mary Kay Ash

"People don't grow old.  When they stop growing, they become old."

-Aldous Huxley 

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

-Golda Meir

"One of the secrets of success is to

refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us."

-Mary Kay

"If you know what to do to reach your goal, it's not a big enough goal."

-Bob Proctor

"If your reason isn't clear, strong, and powerful,
you will be distracted any anything."

-Bob Schmidt

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

-William Feather

"Friends are like stars, you don't always see them,
but you know they're always there."

-Vannii Arcri 

"Saying something helps you believe in it.
Doing something helps others believe in you."

"The time is always right to do what is right.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

"It's wonderful to spend time with people who are having a great time.
It's fun to be with people who are having fun."

-Bob Schmidt

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

-Michael Jordan

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

-Paul Boese

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

-Buddha

"I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

-Winston Churchill

"Life lived for tomorrow will always be
just a day away from being realized."

-Leo Buscaglia

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success."

-Henry David Thoreau

"There is nothing more important in life,
than the people you meet along the way."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

-Napoleon Hill

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever."

-Carl Sagan

-Henry Ford

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which,
more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

-William James 

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

-Wayne Dyer

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

-Aesop

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it
is committing another mistake."

-Confucius

"Trying to forget someone you love is like
trying to remember someone you never met."

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

-Frank Loyd Wright

"Heros are ordinary people who place their dreams above their fears."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

-William James

"Look for the best choices, pick the best one, then go with it."

-Pat Riley

"The most powerful force on Earth is the human soul on fire."

-Ferdinand Foch

"We are all capable of greater things than we realize."

-Norman Vincent Peale

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

-Maya Angelou

"Success is going from failure to failure with a loss of enthusiasm."

-Winston Churchill

"You never know when a few sincere words can have an impact on a life."

-Zig Ziglar

"The more I see, the more I wonder."

"You're living on a speck."

-Horton

"As a man thinks in his heart, so he is."

-Proverbs 23:7

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

-Chinese Proverb

"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out. 
It's the grain of sand in your shoe."

"The healthy and strong individual
is the one who asks for help when they need it."

-Rona Barrett

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever-
the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it."

-Vince Lombardi 

"Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if
you already had the confidence you desire to have."

-Brian Tracy

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall."

-Nelson Mandela

"Excellence is not an act, it is a habit."

-Aristotle

"If you see someone without a smile, give them yours."

-Jacqueline Rudd

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

-Thomas Paine

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do,
he will never do all that he can."

-Henry Drummond

"Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water."

-Zen Proverb

"Believe in yourself and others will too."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life.
It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

-Marcus Aurelius

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on Earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

-Thomas Jefferson

"If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure:
When you get the chance, go for it."

-Oprah Winfrey

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life
simply by altering his attitude of mind."

-William James

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

-Stephen Hawking

"Happiness depends on ourselves."

-Aristotle

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."

-Gerry Spence

"I am realistic - I expect miracles."

-Wayne Dyer 

"You can only see the stars after it gets dark."

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

-Shirley MacLaine

"Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get."

-Dale Carnegie

"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.."

-Walt Whitman

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

-Winston Churchill 

"According to your beliefs, it is done unto you."

-Matthew 9:29

"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

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound.
Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."

-Napoleon Hill

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any one thing."

-Abraham Lincoln

"When we wake up in the morning, we have two choices:
go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams."

"If not you, who?  If not now, when?"

-Abraham Maslow

"A man is what he thinks all day long."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

-Stephen Covey

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

-Albert Einstein

"You are never given a wish without also being given
the power to make it come true."

-Richard Bach

"Everyone has two choices.  We're either full of love... or full of fear."

-Albert Einstein

"People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."

-Zig Ziglar

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

-Walt Disney

"Happiness is a state of mind.  It comes from appreciating what we have
and accomplishing the goals we set for ourselves."

-Mike

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you;
be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." 

-W. Clement Stone

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

-William James

"If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big."

-Donald Trump

"It's not what you get, but what you become in the process."

-Jim Rohn

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

-Sophocles

"It's easier to go down the mountain, but the view from the top is best."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

-Thomas Jefferson

"It is our duty to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist."

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity;
a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity"

-Winston Churchill

"In the end, it's about your memories and friendships."

-Bob Schmidt

"The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate."

-Oprah Winfrey 

"The most important thing about goals is having one."

-Geoffrey Abert

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

-Albert Einstein

"If you have a powerful enough reason, you can do anything."

-Jim Rohn

"The key is not to prioritize what's on the schedule,
but to schedule your priorities."

-Stephen Covey

"You can do anything if you put your focus on how to do it
rather than on why you can't."

-Bob Proctor

"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness
because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

-William Feather