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Golden Lines ... Fourteen

 
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.  ---Samuel Johnson
 
Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.  ---Unknown
 
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.  ---F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
After pain is always a new opportunity. You can count on it, like the day following the night.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today. For tomorrow never comes.  ---Unknown
 
Life is a journey so be well equipped!  ---Joanne Hopkins
 
Everyday is a new life to a wise man.  ---Unknown
 
It’ only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only on we had.  ---Elisabeth Kubler  ---Ross
 
When in doubt, do without.  ---Vincount Herbert Samuel
 
Life is meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.  ---Eleandor Roosevelt
 
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right. Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.  ---George Eliot
 
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.  ---Pericles
 
Each person's work is a portrait of himself.  ---Samuel Butler
 
Anyone who dares to waste one hour of life has not yet discovered the value of life.  ---Charles Darwin
 
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.  ---Mae West
 
Develop a vision. People want to follow someone who knows where he or she is going.  ---Kenneth Labich
 
Keep your cool. The best leaders show their mettle under fire.  ---Kenneth Labich
 
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.  ---Helen Keller
 
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.  ---Winston Churchill
 
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
It¹s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.  ---Claude M. Bristol
 
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great.  ---Mark Twain
 
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.  ---Abraham Lincoln
 
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
 
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world!  ---Unknown
 
There is nothing to fear other than fear itself.  ---Unknown (submitted by Polet Kolopani)
 
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all, confidence in ourselves.  ---Marie Curie
 
Our patience will achieve more than our force.  ---Edmund Burke
 
Continuous effort not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.  ---Winston Churchill
 
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
It¹s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.  ---Claude M. Bristol
 
Don't go through life, grow through life.  ---Eric Butterworth
 
You can tell how healthy a man is by what he takes two of pills or stairs. – Unknown
 
People are always available for work in the past tense.  ---Unknown
 
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. – Unknown
 
Whatever we possess becomes of double value when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.  ---Unknown
 
Joy is prayer, Joy is strength, Joy is love, Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with joy.  ---Mother Teresa
 
Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know.  ---Eric Allenbaugh
 
What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours. – Unknown
 
Reputation is made in a moment: character is built in a lifetime.  ---Unknown
 
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.  ---Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
 
Admire those who attempt great things even if they fail.  ---Seneca
 
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence.  ---Henry Chestor
 
To gain complete trust from someone is to obtain an invitation into their soul.  ---Wayne Cheng
 
Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. Better a dumb question than a dumb mistake.  ---Unknown
 
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.  ---Arthur C. Clarke
 
The man of genius is he who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.  ---Stendahl
 
No man can produce great things who is not thoughly sincere in dealing with himself.  ---Lowell
 
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.  ---Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
 

Golden Lines ... Thirteen

 
Do what you can where you are with what you've got.  ---Theodore Roosevelt
 
One who fears limits his activities. Failure is the only opportunity to more intelligently begin again.  ---Henry Ford
 
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.  ---Henry Ford
 
Nothing great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.  ---Albert Einstein
 
Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.  ---Unknown
 
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved.  ---William Jennings Bryant
 
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.  ---Napoleon Hill
 
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.  ---Unknown
 
Any failure will tell you success is nothing but luck.  ---Anonymous
 
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.  ---Arthur Koestler
 
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.  ---Peter A. Cohen
 
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams . . . and what we do to make them come about.  ---Joseph Epstein
 
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.  ---Jean  ---Claude Killy
 
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear  ---not absence of fear.  ---Mark Twain
 
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.  ---Muhammad Ali
 
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination  ---Tommy Lasorda
 
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.  ---George Shultz
 
Success doesn't come to you ... you go to it.  ---Marva Collins
 
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.  ---Margaret Thatcher
 
A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.  ---B.F. Skinner
 
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.  ---Charles Buxton
 
Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.  ---Mahatma Gandhi
 
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.  ---Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity. One who fears limits his activities. Failure is the only opportunity to more intelligently begin again. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.  ---Charles Haddon Spurgeon
 
Behind every successful man there's a lot u unsuccessful years.  ---Bob Brown
 
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure.  ---Jean Kerr
 
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.  ---Colin L. Powell
 
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.  ---Charles Haddon Spurgeon
 
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.  ---Mother Teresa
 
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind!  ---William James
 
Success often comes to those who dare to act; it seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. – Jawaharlal Nehru
 
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure.  ---Jean Kerr
 
If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.  ---Zig Ziglar
 
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.  ---William Hazlitt.
 
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.  ---Langston Hughes
 
No one knows what he can do till he tries.  ---Publilius Syrus
 
The vintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that life is love, laughter, and work.  ---Elbert Hubbard
 
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.  ---Joseph Addison
 
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.  ---Thomas Jefferson
 
Life is fortified by many friendships  ---To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.  ---Sydney Smith
 
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.  ---Samuel Johnson
 
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.  ---Sir Philip Sidney
 
Nine  ---tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.  ---Dale Dauten
 
Success is never ending, failure is never final.  ---Dr Robert Schuller

Golden Lines ... Twelve

 
Remove failure as an option.  ---Joan Lunden
 
Live out of your imagination, not your history.  ---Stephen Covey
 
I just love when people say I can’t do something... because all my life people said I wasn’t going to make it.  ---Ted Turner
 
When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows.  ---David Viscott
 
Some goals are so worthy that it is glorious even to fail.  ---Unknown
 
Each person’s work is a portrait of himself.  ---Samuel Butler
 
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Be yourself. The world worships the original. – Ingrid Bergman
 
Do, or do not. There is no try. – Yoda
 
Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.  ---William Arthur Ward
 
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.  ---George Elliot
 
The future belongs to those who prepare for it.  ---Emerson
 
Bravery is believing in yourself, and that is something no one can teach you.  ---El Cordobes
 
Any failure will tell you success is nothing but luck.  ---Anonymous
 
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.  ---Arthur Koestler
 
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.  ---Peter A. Cohen
 
If you do not believe in yourself, very few other people will.  ---Anonymous
 
Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.  ---Anonymous
 
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.  ---Napoleon Hill
 
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it as long as you really believe 100 percent.  ---Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.  ---James Thurber
 
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.  ---Earl Gray Stevens
 
Obstacles across our path can be spiritual flat tires, disruptions in our lives seem to be disastrous at the time, but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.  ---Bernie Siegal
 
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.  ---Colin Powell
 
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.  ---Santayana
 
Bravery is believing in yourself, and that is something no one can teach you.  ---El Cordobes
 
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.  ---Carl Jung
 
Until further notice, celebrate everything.  ---Unknown
 
If you laugh every day you'll have more days to laugh.  ---Ashalia Denise Thacker
 
Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise – then you will discover the fullness of your life.  ---Brother David Steindl  ---Rast
 
There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.  ---Ralph H. Blum
 
For today and it’s blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.  ---Clarence E. Hodges
 
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.  ---Aristotle
 
People are like tea bags: They never realize their strength until they're dropped in hot water.  ---Unknown
 
He who endures conquers.  ---Italian Proverb
 
Who you are speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you are saying.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Repetition is the mother of skill.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
Success is peace of mind that is a direct result of self  ---satisfaction in knowing you gave your best effort to become the best of which you are capable.  ---John Wooden
 
The great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man.  ---Anonymous
 
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.  ---St. Frances De Sales
 
Who ceases to be a friend never was one.  ---Greek proverb
 
You’ll never know love until you surrender to it.  ---Unknown
 
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.  ---Charles de Gaulle
 
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.  ---Napoleon Hill

Golden Lines ... Eleven

 
Anger is one letter away from danger.  ---Eleanor Roosevelt
 
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.  ---Buckminster Fuller
 
We are not retreating  ---we are advancing in another direction.  ---General Douglas MacArthur
 
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.  ---Elizabeth Kubler  ---Ross
 
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.  ---Tzu  ---Sun
 
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.  ---Socrates (470  ---399 B.C.)
 
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.  ---Edward R. Murrow
 
Do you live in tomorrow when you must face today? At times, I forget to live in the moment, but what do I miss? The setting sun, the sound of birds' singing and, most importantly, I miss meeting myself. I am constantly changing, and if I don't spend time with myself in the here and now, I will never get to appreciate who I truly am because I am too busy focusing on who I want to be.  ---Gary Barnes
 
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.  ---Les Brown
 
We create the situations & then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place & no thing has any power over us for "WE" are the only thinkers in our mind.  ---Louise Hay "You Can Heal Your Life
 
Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.  ---Dottie Walters
 
It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do=20 anything else, read all that you can.  ---Jane Hamilton
 
I've never learned anything while I was talking.  ---Larry King (Television talk show host)
 
There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Death is nature's expert advice to get plenty of life. Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.  ---Oscar Wilde
 
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.  ---Mark Twain (1835  ---1910)
 
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.  ---Greg Anderson
 
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.  ---Maureen Dowd
 
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.  ---Antisthenes
 
Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.  ---Bo Jackson
 
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.  ---Dr. Jonas Salk, Developer of the first polio vaccine
 
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.  ---Sir Isaac Newton
 
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.  ---William Cowper
 
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.  ---Albert Einstein
 
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
If you want to know your past look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future look into your present actions.  ---Buddhist Saying
 
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.  ---Emily P. Bissell
 
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.  ---Charles Sorenson
 
If you believe everything you read, you better not read.  ---Japanese Proverb
 
It's better to be hated for what you are then loved for what you are not.  ---Andre Gide
 
We must love them both those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it.  ---St. Thomas Aquinas (1225  ---1274) Theologian and philosopher
 
Self  ---distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.  ---Christian Bovee
 
Spend less time deciding "who" is right and more time deciding "what" is right. Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.  ---Arthur Schopenhauer
 
Fault finding is like window washing. All the dirt seems to be on the other side. Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, don't think you can go wrong.  ---Ella Fitzgerald
 
Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it will turn out that this was good, so I shant worry about it too much.  ---William Gaines
 
Play to win, not to avoid losing.  ---Roger Crawford
 
Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes.  ---Abigail Van Buren
 
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.  ---Ernest Hemingway
 
Anyone's a fool who doesn't try to live up to his dreams and abilities.  ---Unknown
 
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.  ---Charles de Gaulle
 
He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.  ---Lao Tsu
 
A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done.  ---Cardinal Newman
 
Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions determine your habits. Your habits determine your character. And your character gives birth to your destiny.  ---Unknown
 
Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.  ---Michael Jordan
 
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.  ---Les Brown

Golden Lines ... Ten

 
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.  ---B. C. Forbes.
 
A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
 
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.  ---John Ruskin
 
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.  ---Christopher Morley
 
Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.  ---Ed Foreman
 
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.  ---Hannah Arendt
 
Goals determine what you are going to be.  ---Julius Erving
 
Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.  ---Liz Smith
 
Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.  ---H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
 
I think and think for months and years. Ninety  ---nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.  ---Albert Einstein
 
You can't get ahead while getting even.  ---Dick Armey
 
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.  ---Voltaire
 
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.  ---Henry J. Kaiser
 
You must act as if it is impossible to fail. – Ashanti Proverb
 
Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.  ---H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
 
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.  ---Abraham Lincoln
 
I will speak ill of no one, and speak all the good I know of everybody.  ---Andrew Jackson
 
It is not by whining that one carries out the job of a leader.  ---Napoleon 1
 
Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.  ---H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
 
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after other shave let go.  ---William Feather
 
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.  ---Joan Collins
 
The road to someday, leads to the town of nowhere. Procrastination is the silent killer.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come: we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we are ready, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.  ---Mother Teresa
 
If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution.  ---Unknown
 
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.  ---Charles M. Schwab
 
Life is just like a Jeopardy! game; all the answers are there, all you have to do is come up with the right questions to win.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
Whether you think you can or think you can't you are right.  ---Henry Ford
 
Always behave like a duck keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.  ---Lord Barbizon
 
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.  ---Joan Baez
 
W hat distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.  ---Joseph Epstein
 
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  ---Michael Jordan
 
If you can dream it, you can do it.  ---Walt Disney
 
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.  ---Vince Lombardi
 
Success often comes to those who dare to act; it seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. – Jawaharlal Nehru
 
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure.  ---Jean Kerr
 
Above all, challenge yourself. You may be surprised by what you can achieve.  ---Unknown
 
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.  ---Will Rogers
 
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.  ---George Shultz
 
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.  ---Joe Paterno
 
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.  ---C.S. Lewis
 
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.  ---Ronald E. Osborn
 
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.  ---Mohandas K. Gandhi
 
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.  ---Erica Jong
 
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.  ---Charles Kingsley
 
The only thing I can’t stand is discomfort.  ---Gloria Steinem

Golden Lines ... Nine

 
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.  ---Thomas Fuller
 
It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.  ---French Management saying
 
To do two things at once is to do neither.  ---Publilius Syrus
 
If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure.  ---Robert S. Hillyer
 
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.  ---Spanish Proverb
 
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.  ---Jim Bishop
 
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken  ---winged bird, that cannot fly.  ---Langston Hughes
 
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.  ---Charles F. Kettering
 
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.  ---Lao  ---Tzu
 
You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.  ---Charles Lynch
 
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.  ---Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.  ---Alistair Cooke
 
There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.  ---Sufi Proverb
 
A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.  ---Wilma Askinas
 
Each of us has a spark in life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.  ---Kenny Ausubel
 
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.  ---Orison Swett Marden
 
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.  ---Plutarch
 
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.  ---Whitney Young, JR.
 
Dreams have as much influences as actions.  ---Stephane Mallarme
 
It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.
 
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra miles.  ---Anonymous
 
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.  ---Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.  ---Samuel Smiles
 
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.  ---Louis E.Boone
 
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.  ---George Bernard Shaw
 
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.  ---Dag Hammarskjold
 
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.  ---Denis Waitley
 
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.  ---Denis Waitley
 
All things are possible until they are proved impossible  ---and even the impossible may only be so as of now.  ---Pearl S. Buck
 
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.  ---Mark Twain
 
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.  ---Bible
 
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.  ---Christian N. Bovee
 
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.  ---Miguel De Cervantes
 
Thought is the blossom; language is the bud; action the fruit behind.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.  ---Scott Adams
 
Convincing yourself does not win an argument.  ---Robert Half
 
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.  ---Sanskrit Proverb
 
The more you use your brain, the more brain you'll have to use.  ---George A. Dorsey
 
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.  ---Jennie Jerome Churchill
 
As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.  ---Akhenaton
 
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.  ---Napoleon Bonaparte
 
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.  ---Ray Bradbury
 
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.  ---Charles Caleb Colton
 
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.  ---Peace Pilgrim

Golden Lines ... Eight

 
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.  ---Anonymous
 
When the going seems easy, you may be going downhill.  ---Anonymous
 
Worry takes as much time as work and pays less.  ---Anonymous
 
You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.  ---Anonymous
 
You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.  ---Anonymous
 
Truth will be truth regardless of a closed mind, ignorance, or refusal to believe.
 
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.  ---Aeschylus
 
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.  ---Anonymous
 
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupil.  ---Hector Berlioz
 
Drifting through life without aim or purpose is the first cause of failure.
 
Few minds wear out; more rust out.  ---Christian nestell Bovee
 
The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.  ---Harold Coffin
 
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair whether and ask for it back when it rains.  ---Robert Frost
 
Don't cry about loss  ---God never takes anything away without replacing it. Think positive, especially in times of difficulty
 
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up and does not stop until you get into the office.  ---Robert Frost
 
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.  ---Serge Gainsbourg
 
Children are a great comfort in your old age  ---and they help you reach it faster too.  ---Lionel Kauffman
 
A smile costs you nothing. It's a little thing, but will always produce big results.
 
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.  ---Nikita Krushchev
 
If you drink like a fish, don't drive. Swim.  ---Joe E. Lewis
 
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.  ---Henry Wadsworth Longfeloow
 
A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light  ---Henry Morgan
 
The world is divided into people who do things  ---and people who get the credit.  ---Dwight Morrow
 
I never thought much of the courage of a lion  ---tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.  ---George Bernard Shaw
 
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.  ---George Bernard Shaw
 
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.  ---Lilly Tomlin
 
The trouble with a rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.  ---Lilly Tomlin
 
Be yourself" is the worst advice you can give to people.  ---Mark Twain
 
Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.  ---Oscar Wilde
 
Twixt the optimist and pessimist, the difference is droll: The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist sees the hold.  ---McLandburg Wilson
 
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.  ---Dale Carnegie
 
The depression era taught us that there is something worse than begin forced to work. It is being forced not to work.
 
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.  ---Sir Winston Churchill
 
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.  ---Sir Winston Churchill
 
Anyone who has never made mistake has never tried anything new.  ---Albert Einstein
 
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.  ---Henry Ford
 
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.  ---Henry Ford
 
Whether you think you can or think you can't  ---you're right.  ---Henry Ford
 
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.  ---Ben Franklin
 
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.  ---Ben Franklin
 
Success is that old ABC  ---ability, breaks, and courage.  ---Charles Luckman Good questions outrank easy answers.  ---Paul A. Samuelson
 
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.  ---Lord Chesterfield
 
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.  ---Ferdinand Foch
 
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.  ---William E. Gladstone
 
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.  ---Napoleon Hill

Golden Lines ... Seven

 
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.  ---Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Whatever comes, this too shall pass away.  ---Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 
Joy is not in things; it is in us.  ---Richard Wagner
 
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.  ---Sir James M. Barrie
 
Let those love now who never loved before; Let those who always loved, now love the more.  ---Thomas Parnell
 
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privelege to be free.  ---Charles Evans Hughes
 
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to share it with.  ---Mark Twain
 
Kindness is to be a friend No matter if you lose or win.  ---Dante D.
 
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.  ---Phyllis Diller
 
I know what happiness is for I have done good work.  ---Robert Louis Stevenson
 
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.  ---Kahih Gibran
 
Money often costs too much.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
One learns to itch where one can scratch.  ---Ernest Bramah
 
In prosperity our friend know us; in adversity we know our friends.  ---John Churton Collins
 
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.  ---Wally "Famous" Amos
 
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.  ---Hasidic Saying
 
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.  ---Herbert Gardner
 
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.  ---Bill Cosby
 
Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution  ---focused rather than problem  ---focused.  ---Brian Tracy
 
Do not follow where the path may lead...go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.  ---Anonymous
 
Your ego can be an asset or a liability depending on how you relate to it.
 
Footprints on the sands of time are never made by sitting down.  ---Anonymous
 
Remember that the door to opportunity swings two ways  ---in and out!
 
Free advice generally cost more than the other kind.  ---Anonymous
 
You only learn how to succeed by failing, and no success is possible without it.  ---Brian Tracy
 
When you see a problem or an obstacle, always look upon it as a challenge.  ---Brian Tracy
 
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.  ---Anonymous
 
The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.  ---Anonymous
 
Given a choice of two theories, take the one which is funnier.  ---Anonymous
 
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience  ---well, that comes from poor judgment.  ---Anonymous
 
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.  ---Anonymous
 
If you learn to develop a success  ---consciousness, your subconscious will work positively for you 24  ---hours a day  ---even when you're asleep!
 
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?Anonymous
 
If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50  ---50 it will.  ---Anonymous
 
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.  ---Anonymous
 
You will never get to where you want to be on dead hopes or hopeful wishing.
 
It makes no difference whether you win or lose until you lose.
 
Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.  ---Anonymous
 
Knock, Knock. Who's there? Opportunity. Don't be silly  ---opportunity doesn't knock twice!"Anonymous
 
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
 
The most effective answer to an insult is silence.  ---Anonymous
 
Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely.  ---Anonymous
 
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.  ---Anonymous
 
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.  ---Anonymous
 
Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.  ---Anonymous

Golden Lines ... Six

 
The ladder of success may now be an elevator, but it's still self  ---service. When you are looking into your future, it's important to know which questions to ask. You don't need to ask, "Do I have what it takes to be successful?" The answer to that is a resounding "YES!" The key question is, "Am I willing to pay the price for the success I desire?  ---Kathy R. Caulton Writer and publisher
 
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.  ---Lou Holtz
 
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.  ---Elbert Hubbard
 
Anger is one letter away from danger.  ---Eleanor Roosevelt
 
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.  ---Buckminster Fuller
 
We are not retreating  ---we are advancing in another direction.  ---General Douglas MacArthur
 
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.  ---Elizabeth Kubler  ---Ross
 
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.  ---Tzu  ---Sun
 
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.  ---Socrates (470  ---399 B.C.)
 
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.  ---Edward R. Murrow
 
Do you live in tomorrow when you must face today? At times, I forget to live in the moment, but what do I miss? The setting sun, the sound of birds' singing and, most importantly, I miss meeting myself. I am constantly changing, and if I don't spend time with myself in the here and now, I will never get to appreciate who I truly am because I am too busy focusing on who I want to be.  ---Gary Barnes
 
You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.  ---Les Brown
 
We create the situations & then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place & no thing has any power over us for "WE" are the only thinkers in our mind.  ---Louise Hay "You Can Heal Your Life
 
Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.  ---Dottie Walters
 
It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do=20 anything else, read all that you can.  ---Jane Hamilton
 
I've never learned anything while I was talking.  ---Larry King (Television talk show host)
 
There is nothing about a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. Death is nature's expert advice to get plenty of life. Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.  ---Oscar Wilde
 
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.  ---Mark Twain (1835  ---1910)
 
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.  ---Greg Anderson
 
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.  ---Maureen Dowd
 
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it. Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.  ---Antisthenes
 
Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.  ---Bo Jackson
 
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.  ---Dr. Jonas Salk, Developer of the first polio vaccine
 
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.  ---Sir Isaac Newton
 
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.  ---William Cowper
 
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.  ---Albert Einstein
 
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.  ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
If you want to know your past. look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future. look into your present actions.  ---Buddhist Saying
 
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.  ---Emily P. Bissell
 
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.  ---Charles Sorenson
 
If you believe everything you read, you better not read.  ---Japanese Proverb
 
It's better to be hated for what you are then loved for what you are not.  ---Andre Gide
 
We must love them both  ---those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in the finding of it.  ---St. Thomas Aquinas (1225  ---1274) Theologian and philosopher
 
Self  ---distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.  ---Christian Bovee
 
Spend less time deciding "who" is right and more time deciding "what" is right. Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.  ---Arthur Schopenhauer
 
Fault finding is like window washing. All the dirt seems to be on the other side. Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, don't think you can go wrong.  ---Ella Fitzgerald
 
Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it will turn out that this was good, so I shant worry about it too much.  ---William Gaines
 
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.  ---Louis E. Boone
 
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.  ---Earl Wilson
 
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.  ---Winston Churchill
 
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.  ---Edmund Burke(1729  ---1797)
 
A deadline has a marvelous ability to concentrate the mind. If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.  ---Thomas Edison
 
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.  ---Edward S. Martin
 
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.  ---Thomas Carlyle

Golden Lines ... Five

 
But how should we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.  ---Thomas Browne
 
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.  ---Alice Meynell
 
Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!  ---Napoleon Hill
 
Few people blame themselves until they have exhausted all other possibilities. Live each day as if it were your last ... someday it will be. A person with a tidy desk is not doing much work. Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.  ---Chinese Proverb
 
Life is fortified by many friendships  ---To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.  ---Sydney Smith
 
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.  ---Samuel Johnson
 
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.  ---Sir Philip Sidney
 
Nine  ---tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.  ---Dale Dauten
 
Success is never ending, failure is never final.  ---Dr Robert Schuller
 
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.  ---Samuel Johnson
 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.  ---Nelson Mandela
 
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take OFF! But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.  ---Amelia Earhart
 
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.  ---Andrew Carnegie
 
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.  ---Joubert (1754  ---1824)
 
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; great minds rise above them.  ---Washington Irving
 
The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.  ---Wayne Dyer
 
If you had a friend who talked to you, like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?  ---Rob Bremer
 
If I want circumstances in my life to change for the better, I must change for the better. Regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow are twin thieves that rob us of the moment.
 
I'll sleep when I'm dead.  ---Warren Zevon
 
Expecting the world to be fair to you because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is.  ---Horace Walpole
 
Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.  ---Earl Nightingale
 
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.  ---George Bernard Shaw
 
Happiness can't buy money.  ---Bob Hope
 
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.  ---Lowell
 
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.  ---Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
 
Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. Better a dumb question than a dumb mistake. To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.  ---Elbert Hubbard
 
You can't always control the wind, but you can control your sails.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.  ---Kahlil Gibran
 
He that lives upon hope, dies fasting.  ---Benjamin Franklin
 
The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.  ---Ray Kroc
 
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become fact.  ---Norman Vincent Peale
 
In the long run the pessimist may be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
 
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.  ---Lee Iacocca
 
Great ideas come to us in the shower because it's often the only time in the day when we're completely alone. No TV, no movies, no traffic, no family, no talkative pets  ---nothing to distract our mind from conversing with itself.  ---Steve Chandler, author, in"100 Ways to Motivate Yourself
 
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.  ---Tom Landry
 
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.  ---Galileo Galilei (1564  ---1642)
 
Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness.  ---Horotio W. Dresser
 
The friend of my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.  ---Ulysses. S. Grant
 
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.  ---Henri L. Bergson
 
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.  ---Orison Swett Marden
 
Fear is an asset which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.  ---Horace Fletcher
 
Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.  ---Frank Zappa
 
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.  ---Blaise Pascal
 
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.  ---Ross Perot
 
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.  ---Morarji Desai, 1896  ---1995. Prime Minister of India

Golden Lines ... Four

 
Every creature is a word of God.  ---Meister Eckhart
 
Every animal knows more than you do.  ---Native American Proverb
 
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.  ---Ben Hecht
 
Time is but the stream I go a  ---fishing in.  ---Henry David Thoreau
 
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.  ---Doug Larson
 
If you're too busy to go fishin', you're too busy.  ---Jed Clampett
 
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.  ---Unknown
 
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.  ---Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
Tom Seaver: "Hey, Yogi, what time is it?" Yogi Berra: "You mean now? Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.  ---George Burns
 
The future will be better tomorrow.  ---Dan Quayle
 
Life is so short we must move very slowly.  ---Thai saying
 
God knows no distance.  ---Charleszetta Waddles
 
If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer.  ---Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
 
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.  ---Stephen Wright
 
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.  ---Emily Dickinson (1830  ---1886)
 
May you live all the days of your life.  ---Jonathan Swift
 
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.  ---Marcus Aurelius (121  ---180)
 
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.  ---D.H. Lawrence
 
Old age was simply a delightful time, when the old people sat on the sunny doorsteps, playing in the sun with the children, until they fell asleep. At last they failed to wake up.  ---James Paytiamo (Acoma Peublo)
 
A painting is never finished  ---it simply stops in interesting places.  ---Paul Gardner
 
I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and I am satisfied with it.  ---Grandma Moses
 
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.  ---Betty Smith
 
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.  ---Meister Eckhart
 
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.  ---Victor Hugo
 
Now comes the mystery.  ---Henry Ward Beecher
 
It is time now for us to rise from sleep.  ---Saint Benedict
 
Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, "Surely the Lord is in this place.  ---Genesis
 
Ring the bell that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in.  ---Leonard Cohen
 
Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life. A bigot is a person who slams his mind in your face. You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.  ---Les Brown
 
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.  ---Henry David Thoreau
 
The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.  ---Langston Hughes
 
No one knows what he can do till he tries.  ---Publilius Syrus
 
Success often comes to those who dare to act; it seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.  ---Jawaharlal Nehru
 
Seems like every time history repeats itself the price doubles. God often tries us with a little to see what we would do with a lot. The more arguments you win the less friends you'll have. I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.  ---Gilda Radner
 
Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.  ---F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
After pain is always a new opportunity. You can count on it, like the day following the night.  ---Anthony Robbins
 
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.  ---Charles Haddon Spurgeon
 
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.  ---Mother Teresa
 
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind!  ---William James
 
The vintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that life is love, laughter, and work.  ---Elbert Hubbard
 
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.  ---Joseph Addison
 
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.  ---Thomas Jefferson
 
Life's like a boom  ---a  ---rang. The more good you throw out, the more you receive in return.  ---Josh Hinds
 
One who smiles rather than angers is always stronger  ---Chinese wisdom
 
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.  ---Mark Twain

Golden Lines ... Three

 
Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself  ---he'll never cease to be amused.  ---Anonymous
 
Life is too important to be taken seriously.  ---Oscar Wilde
 
It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, you're bound to live it fully.  ---Maude (from Harold & Maude)
 
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.  ---Diogenes
 
Water which is too pure has no fish.  ---Ts'ai Ken T'an
 
Where there are humans you'll find flies, and Buddhas.  ---Issa
 
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.  ---Emily Dickinson
 
Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laugh'd and danc'd and talk'd and sung." Princess Amelia (1783  ---1810)
 
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!  ---Louise Bogan
 
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.  ---Agatha Christie
 
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.  ---Seneca
 
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.  ---Emily Dickenson
 
Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life.  ---From the Sanskrit Salutation of the Dawn
 
Isn't it wonderful? All around us, living things!  ---Maude (from Harold & Maude)
 
People need joy. Quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.  ---Margaret Collier Graham
 
From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.  ---Wilbur the Pig (Charlotte's Web by E.B. White)
 
So you see, imagination needs moodling  ---long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.  ---Brenda Ueland
 
All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.  ---Anonymous
 
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.  ---Anne Frank
 
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.  ---The 14th Dalai Lama
 
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.  ---Lin Yutang
 
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.  ---Charlie McCarthy
 
Punctuality is the thief of time.  ---Oscar Wilde
 
The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.  ---Anonymous
 
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.  ---Bertrand Russell
 
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.  ---Ovid
 
I take a nap making the mountain water pound the rice.  ---Issa
 
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.  ---Spanish proverb
 
Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.  ---Zen saying
 
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
 
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.  ---Euripides
 
Patience is the key to paradise.  ---Turkish proverb
 
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.  ---Goethe
 
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.  ---Teresa of Avila
 
Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.  ---Rumi
 
As I walk, As I walk / The Universe is walking with me.  ---From the Navajo rain dance ceremony
 
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.  ---William Saroyan
 
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out  ---you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.  ---Henry James
 
Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase. That's what wild geese are for.  ---Anonymous
 
Geese are friends to no one, they badmouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.  ---E. B. White
 
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens  ---Grandma Moses
 
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.  ---Groucho Marx
 
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.  ---Winston Churchill
 
I have an Egyptian cat. He leaves a pyramid in every room.  ---Rodney Dangerfield
 
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.  ---Jean Cocteau

Golden Lines ... Two

 
Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.  ---Kahlil Gibran
 
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.  ---Antoine de Saint  ---Exupéry
 
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  ---Eleanor Roosevelt
 
To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway.  ---Anonymous
 
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.  ---Carl Jung
 
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.  ---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
The beginning is always today.  ---Mary Wollstonecraft
 
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.  ---John Wayne
 
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.  ---Anatole France
 
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.  ---Colette
 
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.  ---Samuel Ullman
 
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.  ---Pearl S. Buck
 
Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.  ---Lionel Stander
 
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.  ---Albert Einstein
 
In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some.  ---Anonymous
 
A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.  ---Rheta Grimsley Johnson
 
We're on a mission from God.  ---The Blues Brothers
 
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.  ---A.A. Milne
 
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.  ---Friedrich Neitzsche
 
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.  ---Mark Twain
 
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.  ---Edgar Degas
 
Ideas run wild without discussion.  ---Serge Kahili King
 
Without deviation, progress is not possible.  ---Frank Zappa
 
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.  ---Thomas Holcroft
 
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.  ---John Cage
 
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.  ---Thomas Edison
 
Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!  ---George Luks
 
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.  ---John Coltrane
 
I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.  ---Miles Davis
 
Art is running away without ever leaving home.  ---Twyla Tharp
 
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.  ---Pablo Picasso
 
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.  ---e. e. cummings
 
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?  ---Satchel Paige
 
It takes one a long time to become young.  ---Pablo Picasso
 
Things do not change: we change.  ---Henry David Thoreau
 
To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.  ---William James
 
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.  ---Doug Larson
 
If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.  ---Dr. Seuss
 
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.  ---Tom Robbins, from Still Life with Woodpecker
 
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.  ---Plato
 
Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day in my life.  ---Dr. Leila Denmark, 100, USA's oldest practicing physician.
 
Grown  ---ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.  ---Antoine de Saint  ---Exupery (The Little Prince)
 
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.  ---Ethel Barrymore
 
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.  ---Agnes Repplier
 
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.  ---Golda Meir

Success ... Three

 
One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us
---Mary Kay Ash
 
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong
---Leo Buscaglia
 
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure
---Colin L. Powell
 
Success is not measured by what a person accomplishes, but by the opposition they have encountered, and by the courage with which they have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds
---Charles Lindberg
 
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you get the most from your talent
---Nolan Ryan
 
Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be
---Harry Emerson Fosdick
 
Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel
---Denis Waitley
 
Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them
---Nido Qubein
 
Success is never ending, failure is never final
---Dr. Robert Schuller
 
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do
---Zig Ziglar
 
Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals
---Denis Waitley
 
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other
---Abraham Lincoln
 
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt
---Henry J. Kaiser
 
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture
---Lydia M. Child
 
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become
---Jim Rohn
 
There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything
---Vince Lombardi
 
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome
---Ann Bradstreet
 
As long as you keep yourself centered, and are fulfilling the purpose you were sent here for, you will succeed and be prosperous in all areas of life.
---Jose Silva
 
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing
---Abraham Lincoln
 
The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure
---Denis Waitley
 
One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration
---Jim Rohn
 
Integrity is the essence of everything successful
---R. Buckminster Fuller
 
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it
---Maya Angelou
 
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have
---Zig Ziglar
 
Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on
---Denis Waitley
 
It's usually the last ounce of effort that tips the scales of success
---Rick Beneteau
 
By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad
---Denis Waitley
 
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
---Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
 
Success is waking up in the morning, whoever you are, wherever you are, however old or young, and bounding out of bed because there's something out there you love to do, that you believe in, that you're good at - something that's bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to get at it again today
---Whit Hobbs

Success ... Two

 
There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it
---Denis Waitley
 
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got
---Walter Cronkite
 
There is more to success than reaching goals. Even a vast fortune can leave you feeling alone, unfulfilled and spiritually poor. Success must also include a joyful appreciation of living an authentic joy that pulls us toward the next episode of our life's purpose
---Steve Brunkhorst
 
Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action
---Jose Silva
 
The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal
---Earl Nightingale
 
Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned
---Howard Schultz
 
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours
---Henry David Thoreau
 
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen
---Frank Lloyd Wright
 
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed
---Bernard Edmonds
 
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it
---Maya Angelou
 
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner
---English poverb
 
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands
---Zig Ziglar
 
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree
---Thomas Fuller
 
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
---Og Mandino
 
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most
---Al Capp
 
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand
---Vince Lombardi
 
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success
---Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
 
Luck is the mindset of success in motion
---Rick Beneteau
 
Success lies in the heart, and is activated by the hope that lies in the dream
---Doug Firebaugh
 
If you work just for the money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours
---Ray Kroc
 
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places
---Author Unknown
 
The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have
---Nido Qubein
 
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more
---A. Lou Vickery
 
In the end, its extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?
---Jesse Owens
 
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough
---Og Mandino
 
Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times
---Barbara Rose
 
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self ... this is to have succeeded
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't, is the willingness to work very very hard
---Helen Gurley Brown
 
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
---Harry F. Banks
 
You always pass failure on the way to success
---Mickey Rooney

Personal Growth ... Three

 
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
---Montaigne
 
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
---Helen Keller
 
Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student
---Jim Rohn
 
Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?
---Ashleigh Brilliant
 
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure
---Paulo Coelho
 
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart
---Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton
 
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best
---Henry Van Dyke
 
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one
---Eleanor Roosevelt
 
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life
---Steve Jobs
 
What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you
---Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant
---Robert Louis Stevenson
 
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings
---Okakura Kakuzo
 
I am - the two most powerful words in the world, for whatever we put after them becomes our reality
---Susan Howson
 
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them
---Denis Waitley
 
Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit
---Helena Rubinstein
 
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
---Norman Vincent Peale
 
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will and his personal responsibility
---Albert Schweitzer
 
If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you
---Eric Allenbaugh
 
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn
---Benjamin Franklin
 
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline
---Harvey Mackay
 
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
---Henry David Thoreau
 
What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them
---Denis Waitley
 
The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness
---Lionel Barrymore
 
Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem
---Eric Allenbaugh
 
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice
---Nora Roberts
 
If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich
---Su Shi
 
Anger is one letter short of danger!
---Denis Waitley
 
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post
---L. Thomas Holdcroft
 
Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy - watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship, keep them till full-blown; You will have more happiness than you have ever known.
---Amy R. Raabe

Personal Growth ... Two

 
Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people
---Norman Vincent Peale
 
Faith is the hostess that will not entertain doubt
---Jenna Wright
 
Often we set out to make a difference in the lives of others, only to discover we have made a difference in our own
---Ellie Braun-Haley
 
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
---Norman Vincent Peale
 
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do
---Martha Grimes
 
Deeds not stones, are the true monuments of the great
---Motley
 
Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind
---Bob Proctor
 
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment
---Nido Qubein
 
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before
---Bonnie Blair
 
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step
---Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things
---Jim Rohn
 
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today
---William Allen White
 
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us
---Jim Rohn
 
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia
---Alexis Carrel
 
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island ... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life
---Walt Disney
 
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you
---Carl Sandburg
 
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center
---Kurt Vonnegut Jnr
 
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you
---Bob Proctor
 
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers
---Deepak Chopra
 
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time
---Charles F. Kettering
 
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge
---Emmet Fox
 
We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them
---Sterling W. Sill
 
When you speak of someone or about someone, you should speak as though they were in the room with you. The ears that you speak to today are attached to the mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
---William 'Biddy' Allen
 
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said
---Peter Drucker
 
If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far
---John Maxwell
 
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches
---Carolyn Gilmore
 
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand
---Robert Vallett
 
Surely it's no coincidence that the word listen is an anagram of the word silent!
---Author Unknown
 
There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it
---Edith Wharton

Persistence ... Three

 
Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come
---Og Mandino
 
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal
---Elbert Hubbard
 
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling
---Claude Pepper
 
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen
---Peter Marshall
 
Focus on the solution, not the problem
---Walter Anderson
 
The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail
---Napoleon Hill
 
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure
---Edward Eggleston
 
Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time
---Judi Adler
 
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it
---Lord Acton
 
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals
---Robert Conklin
 
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success
---Dale Carnegie
 
Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor
---Oliver Wendall Holmes
 
People do not lack strength; they lack will
---Victor Hugo
 
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul
---Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty
---William J. Bennett
 
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional
---Roger Crawford
 
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over
---F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles
---Claude M. Bristol
 
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
---Earl Nightingale
 
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish
---John Quincy Adams
 
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it
---Michael Jordan
 
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down
---Charles F. Kettering
 
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter
---Ralph J. Bunche
 
Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
---Henry Royce
 
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success
---Napoleon Hill
 
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air
---John Quincy Adams
 
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke
---W.J. Cameron
 
If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up
---Matt Martin
 
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop
---Confucius
 
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them
---Dr. Joyce Brothers

Persistence ... Two

 
A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a doer!
---Josh S. Hinds
 
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will
---Tony Robbins
 
Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination
---Carol Lloyd
 
Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do
---Paul Meyer
 
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something
---Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
As you work toward your goal, anxiously anticipating the light at the end of the tunnel, don't forget to notice the light that shines upon you today
---Michelle C. Ustaszeski
 
Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation
---Thomas Henry Huxley
 
While no road is ever straight, dedication and persistence will always lead you to your dreams
---Arte Moreno
 
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence
---Jim Watkins
 
It's always too soon to quit
---Norman Vincent Peale
 
Victory belongs to the most persevering
---Napoleon Bonaparte
 
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth
---Julie Andrews
 
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent
---Marilyn vos Savant
 
Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination
---Carol Lloyd
 
Continuous effort not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential
---Sir Winston Churchill
 
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained
---Marie Curie
 
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere
---Madeleine Albright
 
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on
---Norman Vincent Peale
 
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another
---Walter Elliot
 
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems
---Lee Iacocca
 
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks
---David Lloyd George
 
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. Y ou will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have
---Norman Vincent Peale
 
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second
---William James
 
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever
---Lance Armstrong
 
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want and are fully determined not to quit until you get it
---Alexander Graham Bell
 
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable
---Thomas Foxwell Buxton
 
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity
---Albert Schweitzer
 
The race goes not always to the swift... but to those who keep on running
---Author Unknown
 
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did
---Newt Gingrich
 
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible
---Richard M. DeVos

Leadership ... Three

 
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play
---William B. Given, Jr.
 
Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership
---Brian Tracy
 
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people
---Woodrow Wilson
 
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way
---Henry Miller
 
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
---Vince Lombardi
 
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people, they no longer can lead solely based on positional power
---Ken Blanchard
 
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing
---Theodore Roosevelt
 
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand
---Colin Powell
 
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely
---Auguste Rodin
 
Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
---Catherine DeVrye
 
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough
---Richard M. Devos
 
A leader is someone who creates infectious enthusiasm
---Ted Turner
 
If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
---Jack Welch
 
Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations
---Peter Drucker
 
The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you' The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?' The three most important are - 'If you please' The two most important are - 'Thank You' And the most important single word of all is - 'You'
---Denis Waitley
 
You can tell a man is clever by his answers. You can tell a man is wise by his questions
---Naguib Mahfouz
 
Change cannot be avoided ... change provides the opportunity for innovation. It gives you the chance to demonstrate your creativity
---Felice Jones
 
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
---Warren G. Bennis
 
Techniques don't produce quality products or pick up the garbage on time; people do, people who care, people who are treated as creatively contributing adults
---Tom Peters
 
The past doesn't equal the future. All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life, know the power of continuously pursuing their vision, even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available.
---Tony Robbins
 
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder
---William Joseph Slim
 
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better
---Jim Rohn
 
The best way to gain and hold the loyalty of your personnel is to show interest in them and care for them, by your words and actions, in everything you do.
---Secrets of Effective Leadership
 
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus
---Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall
---Stephen R. Covey
 
The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome
---John Haggai
 
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader
---John Quincy Adams
 
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves
---Ray Kroc
 
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done
---Ralph Nader
 
Great managers make themselves dispensable and let frontline people make the decisions
---Sinclair Beecham