Never does a man know the force that is in him until some mighty
affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
-- Frederick W. Robertson

And Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today... I can find
no serenity until I Accept that person, place, thing, or situations
being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous

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

Wherever you go, Go with all of your heart
-- Confucius

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long
enough and loud enough at the gate , you are sure to wake up
somebody.
-- Longfellow

What is life without the radiance of love?
-- Anonymous

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing
to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

A sure way to lift oneself up is by helping to lift someone else.
-- Brooker T. Washington

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
-- Muhammad

Dare! And Dare Again! And Go On Daring!
-- Georges J. Danton

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

"Go to the edge" they said, "We Can't" we replied "We are afraid"
"Go to the edge"  they said again
We went - They pushed - And We flew
-- Unknown

Don't be content to be average, Average is just as close to the
bottom as it is the top.
-- Unknown

Your mind is like a parachute, it only works when it is open.

Every Flower must grow through Dirt.
-- Seen on a Sign at Northeastern Presbyterian Church, St Petersburg, FL.

The U.S. Constitution Doesn't Guarantee happiness, only the pursuit
of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together.
-- Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing will come of nothing. Dare mighty things
-- Shakespeare

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin.
-- Lowell

Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do
anything wise in this world.
-- Helen Keller

Hope works in these ways: It looks for the good in people instead of
harping on the worst; It discovers what can be done instead of
grumbling about what cannot; It regards problems, large or small, as
opportunities; It pushes ahead when it would be easiest to quit; It
lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness
-- Anonymous

Look for your choices, Pick the best one, and then go with it.
-- Pat Riley

Hope never abandons you, you abandon hope.
-- George Weinberg

I believe there is an inner power that makes winners or losers, and
the winners are the ones who really listen to the truths of their
hearts.
-- Sylvester Stallone

My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is
narrow, my my way is rough my companions are few, my guide is
reliable my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised,
detoured, lured away, turned back, diluted or delayed. I will not flinch
in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity,
negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity
or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won't give up, shut up, let up
or slow down.
-- Robert Moorehead

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... Is to set our
own condition to the events of each day. To do this is to condition
circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
-- Ralph Waldo Trine

I am somebody, I am me, I like being me, and I need nobody to
make me somebody
-- Louis L' Amour

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Nothing is ever achieved that stays in a dream.
Take Action Now!
-- Unknown

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (from Sarah Bates jbdv@pacbell.net )

Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks, It's just a
matter of how you view them.
-- Unknown

It's funny thing about life; If you refuse to accept anything but the
best (including from your self) You will often get it.
-- W. Somerset Maughbam

We become what we think about.
-- Earl Nightingale

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
-- Shakespeare

The true measure of a person is not how they behave in moments of
comfort and convenience, but how they stand at times of
controversy and challenge.
-- Martin Luther King JR

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Don't let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can.
-- John Wooden

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful
person in the world.
-- Emmett Fox

When you were born you cried and rejoiced. Live your life in such a
manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
-- An Old Indian Saying

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because
you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever
need.
-- Jerry Gillies

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built. for.
-- William Shedd

The true leader inspires in others self trust, guiding their eyes to the
spirit, the goal.
-- Bronson Alcott

Go confidently in the direction of your Dreams.
-- Thoreau

If you do what you have always done,
you’ll get what you have always gotten.
-- Unknown

The difference between ordinary & extraordinary is
that little Extra!
-- Unknown

There is no challenge more challenging than the
challenge to improve yourself
-- Michael F. Stately

The greatest battles of your life are fought within
the private chambers of your own soul.
-- Unknown

Learn not only from your mistakes,
but learn from your success
-- Gayle L. Freidson

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step
to overcoming the consequences of any
misfortunes.
-- William James

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but
not enough to make us Love one another.
-- Jonathan Swift

Learn how to achieve the impossible
--Anonymous

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has
its stages of drudgery & triumph;
a beginning, a struggle & a victory
-- Unknown

Go as far as you can see, & when you get there
you will see farther.
-- Unknown

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is
to be found in their industry, application &
perservance under the prompting of a brave,
determined Spirit.
-- Mark Twain

Relax!
You are unique in this world.
Just like everybody else
-- Jokes about us

Great people are those who make others feel that they,
too, can become great.
--  Mark Twain

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to
work a day in your life
--  Confucius

Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired out
in the world, and cannot be attained in a closet.
-- Lord Chesterfield

There is a soul force in the universe which if we
permit it, will flow through us and produce
miraculous results.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in
playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but
from their errors and mistakes the wise and good
learn wisdom for the future.
-- Plutarch

Your distress about life might mean you have been
living for the wrong reason, not that you have no
reason for living!
-- Tom O'Conner

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole
from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you
have chosen to sink.
-- Elizabeth Elliot

Celebrate the success of others. Bring people up,
not down.
--  Unknown

If you judge people, you have no time to love them
-- Mother Teresa

People who won't help others in trouble "because
they got into trouble through their own fault" would
probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until
he learned whether he fell in through his own fault
or not
-- Sydney J. Harris

No one can really pull you up very high... You can lose
your grip on the rope, but on your own two feet you
can climb Mountains
-- Louis Brandeis

Life at its best is a series of challenges. A big enough
challenge will bring out strengths and abilities you
never knew you had. Take on your challenges and you
will bring yourself to life.

Only one life that soon is past,
only what's given in love will last
-- Stephen Hall

Believe in the possibilities, not probabilities
-- Raymond Charles Barker

All of God's people are ordinary people. Who have been
made extraordinary by the purpose he has given them.
-- Oswald Chambers

Confidence is contagious...So is lack of confidence.
-- Vince Lombardi

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never have
to be alone
-- Maxwell Maltz

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never
be content with what you have.
-- Doris Mortman

Tomorrow's life is too late... Live Today
-- Martial

Bigness comes from doing many small things well..
Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions.
Together, though, they add up!
-- Edward S. Finkelstein

Life is lived in the present. Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow is yet be. Today Is The Miracle

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible
and suddenly you are doing the impossible
-- Saint Francis

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in
rising every time we fall
-- Confucius

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast
into the lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo
a development and display an energy of which they
were previously unsusceptible
-- Benjamin Franklin

Four steps to achievement, Plan Purposefully,
Prepare Prayerfully, Proceed Positively,
and Pursue Persistently.
-- William A. Ward

Knowing is not enough, we must apply.
Willing is not enough, we must do!!
-- Johann Van Goethe

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off
a hard thing makes it impossible
--  George Claude Lorimer

Success is all in the mind

Leadership is to be both a speaker of words and
a doer of deeds
-- Homer

Life Has to be lived. That's all there is to it.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
 

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
-- Dante

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
-- Clarence Darrow

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealised past.
-- Robertson Davies

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
-- Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity.
-- Hugo Demartini

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
-- William Dement

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
-- Phyllis Diller

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.
-- John Donne

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-- Will Durant

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
-- Abba Eban

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
-- Albert Einstein

Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
-- Albert Einstein

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
-- T. S. Eliot

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
-- Havelock Ellis

Always do what you are afraid to do.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
-- Desiderius Erasmus

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
-- John Erskine

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-- Euripides

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
-- Harold Evans

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
-- Clifton Fadiman

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
-- Eilliam Feather

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.
-- David Ferrier

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
-- W.C. Fields

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
-- Errol Flynn

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
-- Henry Ford

I am responsible only to God and history.
-- Francisco Franco

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
-- Benjamin Franklin

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
-- Sigmund Freud

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.
-- Fred Friendly

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- Erich Fromm

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-- Robert Frost

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
-- Athol Fugard

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
-- Millard Fuller

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
-- German Proverb

If you can count your money you don't have a billion dollars.
-- J. Paul Getty

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
-- Jean Giraudoux

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
-- Arnold Glasow

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
- Mikhail Gorbachev

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
-- Graham Greene

Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
-- Charles H. Grosvenor

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
-- Alex Hamilton

War will cease when men refuse to fight. - Fridtjof Hansen

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
-- Sydney Harris

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
-- Paul Harvey

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
-- William Hazlitt

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
-- Hebrew Proverb

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
-- Katherine Hepburn

There is nothing permanent except change.
-- Heraclitus

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
-- Herodotus

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
-- Adolf Hitler

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler

Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
-- Adolf Hitler

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
-- Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
-- Adolf Hitler

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
-- Eric Hoffer

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
-- Abbie Hoffman

Justice is incidental to law and order.
-- J. Edgar Hoover

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
-- Kin Hubbard

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
-- Kin Hubbard

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
-- Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.