•

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford

•

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.
Confucius

•

You must be the change in the world, you want to see in the world
Mahatma Ghandi

•

To live in fear, is to live half a life

•

Good things happen to good people
Discovelopment.com

•

What is now proved was once only imagined
William Blake (1757-1827)

•

Et problemer, har altid flere løsninger!

•

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iococca

•

In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Booth Luce

•

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard

•

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Euripides (480-406 BC)

•

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."
Washington Gladden

•

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.
Thomas Robert Gaines

•

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
Mabel Newcomber

•

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot (1819-1880)

•

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change
Charles Darwin

•

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

•

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
Lady Bird Johnson

•

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.
Robert Packwood

•

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.
Danish proverb

•

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Anonymous

•

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
Harold B. Melchart

•

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well.
E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)

•

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de la Fontaine

•

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren (1934 )

•

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George S. Patton

•

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

•

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Erastus Wiman

•

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
Bertolt Brecht, 1933

•

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.
Minot Simons

•

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

•

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
Stanley Horowitz

•

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
Tom Morris

•

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

•

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

•

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
Tyron Edwards

•

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher

•

Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott

•

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.
Lord Alfred Tennyson

•

So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America.
Thomas Wolfe

•

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard W. Newton

•

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Allophones Karr

•

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle

•

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)

•

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

•

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
Anatole France

•

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

•

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius (371-291 B.C.)

•

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
John Quincy Adams

•

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

•

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
William F. Scolavino

•

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
W.J. Davison

•

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
Terence

•

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.
Ann Landers, born 1918

•

The most 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 disastrous.
Margaret Fontey

•

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes (1904-1990)

•

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529)

•

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Brian Tracy

•

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your waking hours.
Beatrice Vincent

•

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

•

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
James Lane Allen (1849-1925)

•

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
Duguet

•

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams

•

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills

•

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
J. Harold Wilkins

•

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, ""We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.""
Jim Collins

•

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
Victor Robinsoll

•

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving (1783-1859)

•

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
A.W. Pinero

•

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.
Gelett Burgess

•

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

•

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
Janet Erskine Stuart

•

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,... it's all a miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)

•

To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.
John Henry Patterson

•

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

•

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

•

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
James Clavell, ""Shogun""

•

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
Louis Nizer (1902-1994)

•

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
Elvis Presley

•

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.
Arthur Schopenhauer

•

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life.
Michael Leboeuf

•

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
Grover Cleveland

•

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)

•

What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake (1757-1827)

•

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble (1939-)

•

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
Portuguese proverb

•

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practising for this, I was training for this.
Epictetus (55-135 AD)

•

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn

•

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.
W.J. Slim

•

When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up.
J Peterman

•

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Stewart L. Udall (1920 )

•

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow's a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why they call it ""the present"".
Unknown

•

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus 525-456 BC

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Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That's happiness.
Orville Wright

•

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy.
Emmet Fox

•

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

•

You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside.
Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros

•

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods (1927-)

•

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

•

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
Beverly Sills (1929-)

•

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
Jonathan Winters

•

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
Glenn Clark

•

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money.
New England proverb

•

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott

•

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Buddhist proverb

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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
James A. Garfield

•

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
Charles Darwin

•

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius

•

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
William Faulkner (1897-1962)

•

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.
Harry S. Truman

•

I can't do it never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
George P. Burnham

•

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
Frank Knox

•

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

•

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
Japanese proverb

•

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton (1608-1674)

•

Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.
Harold E. Stassen

•

Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

•

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
Fernandez de Andrada

•

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
John McCain

•

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

•

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. it's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell

•

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
J.C.F. von Schiller

•

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault

•

Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Irene Kassorla

•

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination.
Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923)

•

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

•

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

•

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

•

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook

•

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
Sherry Rothfield

•

Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)

•

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

•

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

•

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.
Jesse Herman Holmes

•

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.
Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)

•

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Epictetus (55-135 AD)

•

Anger is a prelude to courage.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

•

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron (1788-1824)

•

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
F. Hawes

•

Absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.
French proverb

•

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English proverb

•

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

•

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
John Burroughs

•

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
Thomas A. Kempis

•

A hero is a man who does what he can.
Roman Rollard

•

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
Wilma Askinas (1926 )

•

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Jack Dempsey

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Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.Henry Ford

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. Confucius

You must be the change in the world, you want to see in the world Mahatma Ghandi

To live in fear, is to live half a life

Good things happen to good peopleDiscovelopment.com

What is now proved was once only imaginedWilliam Blake (1757-1827)

Et problemer, har altid flere løsninger!

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.Lee Iococca

In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed. Clare Booth Luce

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. Elbert Hubbard

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. Euripides (480-406 BC)

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in." Washington Gladden

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Thomas Robert Gaines

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Mabel Newcomber

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot (1819-1880)

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change Charles Darwin

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it. Lady Bird Johnson

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience. Robert Packwood

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well. Danish proverb

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Anonymous

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Harold B. Melchart

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well. E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. Jean de la Fontaine

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren (1934 )

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. General George S. Patton

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. Erastus Wiman

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not. Bertolt Brecht, 1933

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval. Minot Simons

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. Stanley Horowitz

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment. Tom Morris

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller (1880-1968)

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. Tyron Edwards

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Carrie Fisher

Patience is passion tamed. Lyman Abbott

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power. Lord Alfred Tennyson

So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America. Thomas Wolfe

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Howard W. Newton

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. Allophones Karr

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. Aristotle

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. Anatole France

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. Mencius (371-291 B.C.)

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. John Quincy Adams

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. William F. Scolavino

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time. W.J. Davison

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get. Terence

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. Ann Landers, born 1918

The most 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 disastrous. Margaret Fontey

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. Marya Mannes (1904-1990)

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529)

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. Brian Tracy

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. James Lane Allen (1849-1925)

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. Duguet

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. James Truslow Adams

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. J. Harold Wilkins

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, ""We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail."" Jim Collins

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands. Victor Robinsoll

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. A.W. Pinero

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness. Gelett Burgess

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing. Janet Erskine Stuart

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,... it's all a miracle. Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)

To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences. John Henry Patterson

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about. James Clavell, ""Shogun""

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. Louis Nizer (1902-1994)

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away. Elvis Presley

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others. Arthur Schopenhauer

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life. Michael Leboeuf

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.
Confucius

You must be the change in the world, you want to see in the world
Mahatma Ghandi

Good things happen to good people
Discovelopment.com

What is now proved was once only imagined
William Blake (1757-1827)

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iococca

In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Booth Luce

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Euripides (480-406 BC)

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."
Washington Gladden

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.
Thomas Robert Gaines

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.
Mabel Newcomber

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot (1819-1880)

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change
Charles Darwin

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
Lady Bird Johnson

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.
Robert Packwood

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.
Danish proverb

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Anonymous

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
Harold B. Melchart

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing -- and does it well.
E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de la Fontaine

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren (1934 )

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George S. Patton

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Erastus Wiman

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
Bertolt Brecht, 1933

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.
Minot Simons

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
Stanley Horowitz

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
Tom Morris

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
Tyron Edwards

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher

Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.
Lord Alfred Tennyson

So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America.
Thomas Wolfe

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard W. Newton

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Allophones Karr

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
Anatole France

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius (371-291 B.C.)

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
John Quincy Adams

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
William F. Scolavino

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
W.J. Davison

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
Terence

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.
Ann Landers, born 1918

The most 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 disastrous.
Margaret Fontey

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes (1904-1990)

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529)

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Brian Tracy

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
James Lane Allen (1849-1925)

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
Duguet

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
James Truslow Adams

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
J. Harold Wilkins

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, ""We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.""
Jim Collins

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
Victor Robinsoll

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving (1783-1859)

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
A.W. Pinero

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.
Gelett Burgess

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
Janet Erskine Stuart

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,... it's all a miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)

To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences.
John Henry Patterson

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
James Clavell, ""Shogun""

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
Louis Nizer (1902-1994)

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
Elvis Presley

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life.
Michael Leboeuf

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
Grover Cleveland

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
E. Merrill Root (1895-1973)