FAVORITE QUOTES

NEW QUOTES ADDED: January 14, 1999

New Quotes were added:

A friend is a present you give yourself. (Anonymous)

A smile is a curve that sets a lot of things straight. (Anonymous)

Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference. (Anonymous)

Do not fear tomorrow... God is already there!! (Anonymous)

Do what's right, because it's right, and do it right. (Anonymous)

Joy is not what we own, it's what we are. (Anonymous)

No brook is too little to seek the sea. (Anonymous)

Pick your friends, but never to pieces. (Anonymous)

Success comes in CANS, not in CANNOTS. (Anonymous)

The best companions are often the best books. (Anonymous)

To complete a dream, I start with a plan. (Anonymous)

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. (Anonymous)

Winners don't set limits. They set goals. (Anonymous)

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. Cherish it. (Anonymous)

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are. (Eva Arrington)

It takes courage to show your dreams to others. (Erma Bombeck)

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single
moment--the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
(Jorge Luis Borges)

One who does not look ahead remains behind. (Brazilian Proverb)

It takes a few words to tell the truth. (Chief Joseph - Nez Perce)

A good book has no ending. (R. D. Cumming)

When we don't waste time, we always have enough. (Jean Drapeau)

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. (Dwight Eisenhower)

Joy and courage make a handsome face. (French Proverb)

The highest of distinctions is service to others. (King George VI)

Be a friend to yourself and others will be so, too. (German Proverb)

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. (C. Gordy)

You miss 100% of the shots you never take. (Wayne Gretzky)

Don't concentrate on disabilities; focus on abilities. (Rick Hansen)

Faith is to be sure of what you hope for through the evidence of things unseen. (Hebrews 11:1)

The cheerful loser is a winner. (E. Hubbard)

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they just are. (W.R. Inge)

In a world so full of wonder with so many exciting things to do, it's a shame so many choose to just exist rather than to live. (Javan)

The mere absence of war is not peace. (John F. Kennedy)

Truth isn't just stranger than fiction - it's a lot cleaner too.
(K. Kirkpatrick)

Christ's work of making new men is not mere improvement but transformation. (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)

Laugh at yourself first before anybody else can. (Elsa Maxwell)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. (Mother Teresa)

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words. The Gettysburg Address is 286 words. There are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but the government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
(National Review)

That which does not destroy me, will make me stronger. (Nietzsche)

If you don't hope to win, you've already lost. (Jose Olmedo)

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority of government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put on this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. (Ronald Reagan)

I am strong because I believe in myself. I know who I am and what I can
do. It doesn't matter what I look like, where I live, or who my friends
are. What matters is the confidence that I carry within.
(Reebok)

If you live in the past, you can't build for the future. (Debbie Reynolds)

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. (Jean Paul Richter)

Until you get dissatisfied, you won't do anything to really move your life to another level. Dissatisfaction is a gem. If you're totally satisfied, you're going to get comfortable. And then your life begins to deteriorate.
(Anthony Robbins)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)

It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
(Theodore Roosevelt)

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
(Theodore Roosevelt)

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. (G. Santayana)

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. (John Sculley)

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing. (Seneca)

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. (George Bernard Shaw)

It's better to get wisdom than to get gold. (King Solomon)

He that has learned to obey will know how to command. (Solon)

Carve your name on hearts and not on marble. (Charles H. Spurgeon)

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
(Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

I am persuaded that all of your problems are conceived and born in the
sinful belief that something or someone other than Jesus Christ can quench
the thirst of our souls.
(C. Samuel Storms)

I've always looked at failure as just another step you need to reach success. (Joseph Sugarman)

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
(Rabindranath Tagore)

There's a constant contradiction with what feels good, and what feels right and you live with the decisions that you make in your life.
(Randy Travis)

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. (Harry S.Truman)

He who doesn't read has no advantage over he who cannot read.
(Mark Twain)

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain)

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human. (Abigail VanBuren, Dear Abby)

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
(
William A. Ward)

I will permit no man to degrade my soul by making me hate him.
(Booker T. Washington)

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. (Virginia Woolf)

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