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“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” -Lao Tzu

“Can’t the Marx Brothers be arrested and maybe even tortured for all the confusion and problems they’ve caused” -Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

“A waist is a terrible thing to mind.” -Jane Caminos

“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” -Paul Sweeney

“Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. ” -Henry Ward Beecher

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.” -Charles Mingus

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” -William Shakespeare

“A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.” -WORDSWORTH: Ode to Duty.

“The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.” -Kahlil Gibran

“Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.” -Chinese Proverb

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” -Indira Gandhi

“The only thing you have to fear is not giving 100%. ” -Unknown

“To a quick question, give a slow answer.” -Italian Proverb

“You are in control of your life. Don�t ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.” -Barbara Hall

“Time eases all things.” -Sophocles

“Opportunity, often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.” -Napoleon Hill

“I only know how true it is: that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.” -Truman Capote

“Maturity begins when we�re content to feel we�re right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.” -Sydney J. Harris

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” -Henry Ford

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.” -Walt Whitman

“You can�t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” -Michael Phelps

“Time heals what reason cannot.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“At a distance from home a man is judged by what he means.” -Anonymous

“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.” -Mason Cooley

“Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” -Unknown

“The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.” -Pierre Charron

“Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.” -Chinese Proverb

“Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.” -Georges Duhamel

“Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.” -Kjell Magne Bondevik

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” -George Bernard Shaw

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” -Walt Whitman

“Stern is the on-look of necessity, Not without shudder may a human hand Grasp the mysterious urn of destiny.” -Friedrich von Schiller

“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.” -Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

“We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.” -George Dennison Prentice

“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.” -James MacGregor Burns

“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” -Doug Larson

“Progress involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first base.” -Anonymous

“The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.” -Earl Warren

“Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.” -Oscar Levant

“Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.” -Brian Tracy

“Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.” -Charles Feidelson, Jr.

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.” -Heywood Hale Broun

“Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.” -Emily Dickinson

“When I am dead, I hope it is said, ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read’.” -Hilaire Belloc

“The amount of resistance to something is equal to the potential for gain.” -Allan Hunkin

“At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife�s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.” -Empedocles

“Lat: Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away.” -Anonymous

“Where are you going? What are you doing today to get there? ” -Unknown

“Friends are treasures.” -Horace Bruns

“I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that.” -Julius Henry Marx

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.” -Frederick Douglass

“Innovation is the creation of the new, Or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.” -Mike Vance

“He’s no failure. He’s not dead yet.” -William Lloyd George

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” -Sophia Loren

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” -Bill Watterson

“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in” -A.E. Housman

“Failure is never as scary as regret. ” -Unknown

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” -Henry Louis Mencken

“Wealth and children are the adornment of life.” -Koran

“Motivation is the electrical power that activates the engine of success.” -Remez Sasson

“You generally hear that what a man doesn’t know doesn’t hurt him, but in business what a man doesn’t know does hurt.” -E. St. Elmo Lewis

“Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” -Samuel Butler

“In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Makepeace Thackeray

“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.” -Francis Crawford

“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.” -Cyril Northcote Parkinson

“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.” -Ursula K. LeGuin

“Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does” -Richard Exely

“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.” -Joseph Addison

“You write a hit the same way you write a flop.” -Alan J. Lerner

“Habit is the nursery of errors.” -Victor Hugo

“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” -Benjamin Franklin

“A good education is another name for happiness.” -Ann Plato

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

“The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails.” -Edward Young

“Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.” -F. M. Hubbard

“Abortion is a question of choice.” -Robert Casey

“Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.” -Clifton Paul Fadiman

“Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.” -Andrew Carnegie

“There are no office hours for leaders.” -Cardinal James Gibbons

“Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.” -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Deep, abiding joy is available to anyone who learns the secret of pursuing every task with energy and dedication, as though it were a calling.” -Thomas Kinkade

“‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” -Abraham Lincoln

“At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables)” -Victor Hugo

“When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word succeed, you find that it simply means to follow through.” -F. W. Nichol

“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.” -Marlene Dietrich

“A life lived with integrity even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.” -Denis Waitley

“There�s no thrill in easy sailing … but there IS satisfaction that�s mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you�d never make.” -Spirella

“You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much.” -Anonymous

“Today a reader–tomorrow a leader.” -W. Fusselman

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.” -Helen Keller

“The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.” -Bill Clinton

“Look at frustration as a positive thing. It is the frustration that drives you to improve.” -John Lyons

“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” -William Ernest Henley

“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.” -Tom Chappel

“Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.” -Adrienne Gisoff

“Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.” -Vivian Baxter

“The difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector is that the taxidermist takes only your skin. ” -Mark Twain

“An ounce of discretion is worth more than a pound of knowledge.” -Italian Proverb

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” -Lewis B. Smedes