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“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” -Grant Frazier

“With too much data, too many demands, and too much competition; is it any wonder that people today are looking for ways to stop and smell the roses?” -Nick Campbell

“God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can’t last.” -Greg Evans

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!” -George Bernard Shaw

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” -Benjamin Franklin

“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.” -Sloan Wilson

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” -Zig Ziglar

“Difficulties are things that show what men are.” -Epictetus

“Just remember….when you think all is lost, the future remains.” -Bob Goddard

“Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.” -Jesse Stuart

“There is no great success without great commitment. ” -Unknown

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.” -Robert Frost

“A positive attitude is a powerful force.. .it can’t be stopped. ” -Unknown

“My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.” -Carl Rowan

“We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.” -Denis Waitley

“Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.” -Russell Baker

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it�s always your choice.” -Wayne Dyer

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself–nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” -Richard Milhous Nixon

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” -William Shakespeare

“Truth implies meaning.” -Lukas Foss

“The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains. ” -Ernest Hello

“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.” -Agnes Repplier

“Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.” -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.” -Charles Baudelaire

“It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time. ” -Thomas Wolf

“If you don�t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else.” -Brian Tracy

“Calamity is the test of integrity.” -Samuel Richardson

“As soon as there is life there is danger.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.” -Brian Lindsay

“I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.” -James A. Autry

“We do not know who we are until we see what we can do. ” -Martha Grimes

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” -Rabindranath Tagore

“Idiots…nothing can live forever.” -Magus Dactylus

“Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.” -Ayn Rand

“The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.” -Daniel Defoe

“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.” -Joseph Addison

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ” -Elmer Letterman

“The perfect man of action, is the suicide.” -William Carlos Williams

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.” -Lord Thomas Dewar

“Ignorance of the law excuses no man Not that all men know the law, but because ’tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.” -John Selden

“The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.” -Thomas Szasz

“As I say YES to life, life says YES to me!” -Louise L. Hay

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble, but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. ” -Norman Vincent Peale

“I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do.” -Arthur Warwick

“Nobody ever died of laughter.” -Max Beerbohm

“If a person gets his attitude towards money straight, it will straighten out almost every other area in his life. ” -Billy Graham

“The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food. ” -Russian proverb

“We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.” -Jean Toomer

“There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.” -Henry Van Dyke

“Every achiever that I have ever met says, "My life turned around when I began to believe in me." ” -Robert H. Schuller

“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” -George Santayana

“Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.” -Brian Tracy

“Reach for the moon. If you fall short at least you’ll be among the stars. ” -Unknown

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” -William Butler Yeats

“They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.” -Sir Winston Churchill

“Wealth is the product of man’s ability to think.” -Ayn Rand

“A problem is your chance to do your best.” -Duke Ellington

“The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing.” -Unknown

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Roosevelt, Eleanor

“Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.” -Isocrates

“You’ve got to build a career and a practice.” -Robin Day

“Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.” -Rosalene Glickman

“He who steals an egg will steal a camel” -Arab proverb

“Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.” -Anonymous

“What happens in your mind, happens in time.” -Jim Bakker

“The highest happiness of man . . . is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Answer That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.” -Walt Whitman

“When you believe in yourself and dream big, anything is possible. ” -Unknown

“An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.” -Harold Loukes

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” -Henry C. Link

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -E. V. Lucas

“You’ve got to work hard for your success and you’ve got to have a steady presence. That’s the secret.” -Kid Rock

“If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.” -Bruce Lee

“Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.” -Dag Hammarskjold

“One should never put on one’s best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.” -Henrik Ibsen

“Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.” -Ruth McKenney

“A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.” -Chuck Palahniuk

“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.” -Pythagoras

“Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.” -George Carlin

“Enemies are so stimulating.” -Katharine Hepburn

“Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire

“Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you’ve been there. Live it to learn it.” -Mark McClinchie

“Success covers a multitude of blunders.” -George Bernard Shaw

“Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” -J. Paul Getty

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… But I am too busy thinking about myself.” -Edith Sitwell

“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.” -John Keats

“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” -Confucius

“The belief that becomes truth for me… is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action. ” -Andre Gide

“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.” -Epicurus

“Success is all in the mind. ” -Unknown

“Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one’s spirit, not a result of one’s rank in human affairs.” -Sherman Finesilver

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Success is predictable. ” -Brian Tracy

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau

“Packed in my skin from head to toe Is one I know and do not know.” -Edwin Muir

“There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.” -Andrew Weremy

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” -Stephen R. Covey