Month: February 2016

1) “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.” — J.C. Watts

2) “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R. R. Tolkein

3) “There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas Edison

4) “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane, and the pessimist the parachute.” — Gil Stein

5) “The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.” — Marquise du Deffand

6) “It doesn’t matter if I don’t succeed in something. What matters is if I learn from my mistakes.” — Linda Evans

7) “If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” — Maya Angelou

8) “He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else.” — Benjamin Franklin

9) The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Allan K Chalmers

10) “Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin

11) “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” — Mark Twain

12) “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road, doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” — Dalai Lama

13) “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” — Plato

14) “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain

15) “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” — Mark Twain

16) “Don’t go around saying the world owes you something. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain

17) “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” — Mark Twain

18) “The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.” — Mal Pancoast

19) “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison

20) “Success if getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” — Dale Carnegie

21) “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

22) “What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

23) “For every minute you remain angry, you give up 60 seconds of peace of mind.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

24) “What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

25) “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

26) “Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” — Stephen Kaggwa

27) “The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” — Eriksson

28) “To be great, is to be misunderstood.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

29) “The only person you are destined to become, is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

30) “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

31) “Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde

32) “Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.” — Oscar Wilde

33) “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

34) “I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” — Oscar Wilde

35) “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde

36) “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde

37) “There is no beauty without some strangeness.” — Edgar Allen Poe

38) “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” — Charles Darwin

39) “All that we see or seem is but a scream within a scream.” — Edgar Allen Poe

40) “I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” — Carl Jung

41) “The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” — Buddha

42) “Don’t make a permanent decision for a temporary emotion.” — unknown

43) “Life is too short to spend another day at war with yourself.” — Confucius

44) “Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.” — Mitch Albom

45) “We ARE our choices.” — J.P. Sartre

46) “Most people would learn from their mistakes, if they weren’t so busy denying them.” — Harold J. Smith

47) “If the simple things in life don’t put a smile on your face, then you will never truly be happy.” — unknown

48) “Make is simple, but significant.” — Don Draper

49) “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” — Confucius

50) “Forgiveness doesn’t mean you excuse the crime. It only means you are no longer willing to be the victim.” — Unknown

51) “I’m rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds.” — Laurie Halgoe

52) “When you complain, you make yourself the victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.” — Eckhart Tolle

53) “What is love? Love is absence of judgement.” — Dalai Lama

54) “Be a voice, not an echo.” — Albert Einstein

55) “Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.”

56) “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu

57) “Do not wish for, what you will not work for.” — Unknown

58) “If it wasn’t for failures, I wouldn’t know what strength looked like.” — Byron Pulsifer

59) “The only way a relationship will last, is if you see your relationship as a place you go to give, and NOT a place you go to take.” — Anthony Robbins

60) “Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” — Swedish Proverb

61) “The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be all used up when I die.” — George Bernard Shaw

62) “No matter the time of day, no matter who is watching, and no matter what the situation, personal integrity doesn’t take a holiday.” — Byron Pulsifer

63) “He who angers you, conquers you.” — Elizabeth Kenny

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