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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. - Oprah Winfrey
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible. - Thomas Robert Gaines
Don't curse the darkness - light a candle. - Chinese Proverb
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One often passes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Suess
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castaneda
The courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. - Henry Clay
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed. - Erastus Wiman
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. - M.A. Kelty
If you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! - Winston Churchill
The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. - Larry Eisenberg
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. - Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. - Tom Clancy
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. - Philip Gulley
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King Jr.
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things halfheartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect halfhearted results. - Michael Jordan
If you bring forth what is inside of you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside of you, what you don't bring forth will destroy you. - Jesus
How hard to feel the rhythm of Grace When the noise of confusion surrounds! The Kind words that fill: forgiveness, caress, gentle, ease, quiet, alone, tenderness, belief, hold, tremble, sweet. My vocabulary shall brim with them all day: words spoken aloud, thoughts held to myself. Rhythm makes a connection from the wanting-to-be to the-being. And Grace fills in the missing parts. Whatever's missing - ask Grace and trust Honestly. Grace will abound. Promise. ©Stella Savoie
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping. - Claudius Claudianus
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. - Charles L. Morgan
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. - Flora Edwards
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. - Audrey Hepburn
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of . - Samuel Smiles
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. - H.P. Blavatsky
Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. - R. Turnbull
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. - Aristotle
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. - Hans Margolius
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. - Henry W. Longfellow
Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. - Henry Ford
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself. - Mother Teresa
Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more. - Oswald Chambers
The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have. - Charles M. Schwab
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best everyday and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness... - H. W. Dresser
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.-Indian Proverb
I have the strength to fight for everything I believe in.
I have the will to make every dream come true.
I have the faith to love all that surrounds me.
And I have the courage to just be myself. - Monica Sawdaye
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.- Henry Miller
Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves. - William Shakespeare
What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.- Albert Einstein