No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
- Oscar Wilde



Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening
when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson





Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill



What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson





Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love,
the things you are, the things you never want to lose. 
- The Wonder Years



Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. 
- John Lennon





What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God. 
- Eleanor Powell



It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e.e. cummings





Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
- Woody Allen



A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the
wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he
was yesterday.
- Alexander Pope





I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. 
- Dan Wilcox & Thad Mumford



Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
- Marsha Norman





The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain



If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
- Benjamin Franklin





Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
- Jean Cocteau



Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
-Christopher Reeve





The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which
the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea
cannot be expected to reproduce.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes



Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
- Arthur Freed





Failure is an event, never a person.
- William D. Brown



Life is the sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus





Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is
simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein



I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners
of my mouth point toward the heavens.
- Jeb Dickerson





In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect,
and no more of it than we had earned.
- Jane Haddam



Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many
days in the year as you make use of.
- Charles Richards





If you woke up breathing, congratulations!
You have another chance.
- Andrea Boydston



Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.
- C. Astrid Weber





Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which
needs it most, grows two thereby.
- George Herbert



Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men
and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower
cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower





The life of every man is a diary in which he means
to write one story, and writes another.
- James Matthew Barrie



All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt
in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have
salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the
ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail
or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.
- John F. Kennedy

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- C. S. Lewis



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to
day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov



Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha



Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists,
but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
- Lillian Smith



All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart,
will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have
asked and desired.
- Martin Luther



A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard



A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasow



All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney



We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy



It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy
to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi



Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself,
even though you never touch its coat-tails.
- Clarence Darrow



Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face
the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have
a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the
true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
- Martin Luther King Jr.



A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain



What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a
man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
- Ann Radcliffe



Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
- William Wallace



Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa



A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to
bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan



Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some
other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are
the change that we seek.
- Barack Obama



Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how
we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by
the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain
reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst,
a spark that creates extraordinary results.



Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
- Richard Kemph



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



Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
- Les Brown



The greatest mistake you can make in life is to
be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard



With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson



That's not serious; it's just human. 
- Jerry Kopke



I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time,
somehow things will work out in the end.
- Larry Bird



We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus



I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
- Sydney Smith



Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.
It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
- P.S. I Love You



God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
- J.M. Barrie

It is only in misery that we recognize the
hand of God leading good men to good.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe





Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow --
red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious
in God's sight.
- Jesse Jackson





I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and
unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do
his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching
the high water mark of pure and useful living.
- Booker T. Washington





A relationship isn't going to make me survive.
It's the cherry on top.
- Jennifer Aniston





While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated
to realize and remember that everyone else and everything
else are also God's creation.
- Maya Angelou





If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works
are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson





I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln





Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau





This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow,
as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare





A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is braver five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson





Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what
may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin





Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a
couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But
train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
- Mary Hemingway





The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- George Santayana





Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up,
all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit
takes their place.
- Mark Twain





Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
- Bo Jackson





The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich





A man who dares to waste one hour of
time has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin





Believe that life is worth living and your
belief will help create the fact.
- William James





Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those
few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington





Boredom: the desire for desires.
- Leo Tolstoy

if you don't risk anything you risk even more.
- erica jong



doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- voltaire



although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- hellen keller



never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
- edgar allen poe



if you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
- spanish proverb



if you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- mark twain



real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- oprah winfrey



human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- h. g. wells



gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
- charles e. jefferson



forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- confucius



a bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- maya angelou



the greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
- jennifer aniston



the real death of america will come when everyone is alike.
- james t. ellison



if we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
- chinese proverb



when one looks up to they sky searching for hope, that hope is given.
but not because of the sky, the sky didn't do anything. that hope was
given because that person believed in himself and knew he was going to get hope.
- claire charmont



flatter me, and i may not believe you. criticize me, and i may not like you.
ignore me, and i may not forgive you. encourage me, and i may not forget you.
- william arthur



they always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- andy warhol



art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
- frank zappa



the first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
- ben stein



it is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- j.k. rowling



we live in oppressive times. we have, as a nation, become our own thought
police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of
dissent and wonder ''censorship,'' we call it ''concern for commercial viability.''
- david mamet



the history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
- dwight d. eisenhower



into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
- henry wadsworth longfellow



we were promised sufferings. they were part of the program. we were even told, ''blessed are they that morn.''
- c. s. lewis



in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- albert einstein



there is hope for all of us. well, anyway, if you don't
die you live through it, day in, day out.
- may l. becker



the really idle man gets nowhere. the perpetually
busy man does not get much further.
- sir heneage ogilvie



life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you,
they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
- bernice johnson reagon



somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are,
and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. make that
decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's
life, not even your own child's.
- eleanor roosevelt



be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.
- les brown



difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
- barbara de angelis



big thinking precedes great achievement.
- wilferd a. peterson



in dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
- janos arnay



i put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when i could not sleep i wrote in the dark.
- henry david thoreau



ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
- johann wolfgang von goethe



believe in love. believe in magic. hell, believe in santa clause.
believe in others. believe in yourself. believe in your dreams.
if you don't, who will?
- jon bon jovi



if Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him.
of course, no one would have remembered him either.



hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly
deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling
through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our
journey's end.
- francois de la rochefoucauld



christians are supposed not merely to endure change,
nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
- harry emerson fosdick



you can never get enough of the things you don't need,
because the things you don't need can never satisfy.
- marvin j. ashton



no matter who you are it's the simple things in life that
lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.
- ronaldo (ronaldinho) assis moreira



it is not enough to be busy. so are the ants. the question is: what are we busy about?
- henry david thoreau



we are not born all at once, but by bits. the body first, and the spirit
later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive
to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. our mothers
are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the
longer pains of our spiritual growth.
- mary antin



accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
- george s. patton



i don't care how much you know until i know how much you care.



no entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
- lady mary wortley montagu



he who has health, has hope. and he who has hope, has everything.
- arabian proverbs



the art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your
personality into the person you want to be. . . . be gentle with yourself,
learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right
attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
- wilfred peterson



today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and
thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same?
change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force
and worth, so also has hope.
- thomas carlyle



there should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.
what do you do then? take a broom and clean someone's house.
that says enough.
- mother teresa



cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
- lord alfred tennyson



it's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it.
- janis joplin



i don't believe in accidents. there are only
encounters in history. there are no accidents.
- elie wiesel



don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you
may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
- jon bon jovi