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“An improper mind is a perpetual feast.” -Logan Pearsall Smith

“Ability is nothing without opportunity.” -Napoleon Bohaparte

“For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.” -Drake

“The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.” -Michelangelo

“Punctuality is the thief of time.” -Oscar Fingall O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

“Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas. If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.” -Robert Schuller

“Character is destiny.” -Heraclitus

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” -Ingrid Bergman

“Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.” -Stephen B. Leacock

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” -Vincent Van Gogh

“An optimist expects his dreams to come true. A pessimist expects his nightmares to come true. ” -Unknown

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

“Old age is the verdict of life.” -Amelia Barr

“Don’t rely on our knowledge of what’s best for your future. We do know, but it can’t be best until you know it.” -Ayn Rand

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” -Francis Bacon

“Except and expect positive things, and that is what you will receive. ” -Lori Hard

“You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures. ” -Charles C. Noble

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” -Thomas Jefferson

“He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.” -Abraham Maslow

“He that lives on hope will die fasting.” -American Proverb

“Vain ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.” -John Webster

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable. ” -Seneca

“The universe is completely balanced and in perfect order. You will always be compensated in full for everything you do.” -Brian Tracy

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” -William Shakespeare

“Dreams are wishes your heart makes.” -American Proverb

“Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.” -May Sarton

“The heart that loves is always young.” -Anonymous

“Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.” -Karl Joseph, Prince de Ligne

“The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.” -William Shakespeare

“It’s not enough that I should succeed – others should fail.” -David Merrick

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.” -George Washington

“A man has two names: the one he is born with and the one that he makes for himself. ” -Unknown

“If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ” -Thomas Edison

“Develop the habit of changing your habits.” -Unknown

“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” -Sophocles

“If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.” -American Indian Proverb

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

“I never expect to lose. Even when I am the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. ” -H. Jackson Browne

“The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves” -William Penn

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” -H. L. Mencken

“You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.” -Les Brown

“Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.” -Dante Alighieri

“Power is the ability to do good things for others.” -Brooke Astor

“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.” -Aldous Huxley

“I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.” -Mark Twain

“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.” -George Bernard Shaw

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.” -Jane Austen

“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” -Victor Hugo

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” -Arnold H. Glasow

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” -Winston Churchill

“Learn to self conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. St.” -Teresa of Avila

“Originality and the feeling of one’s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!” -Logan P. Smith

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present– which seldom happens to us.” -La Bruyere

“I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.” -Bette Midler

“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” -Booker T. Washington

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result.” -Albert Einstein

“The biggest mental roadblocks that you will ever have to overcome are those represented by your self-limiting beliefs.” -Brian Tracy

“We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.” -Friedrich von Hardenberg Novalis

“Life Is A Challenge – Meet It Life Is A Song – Sing It Life Is A Dream – Realize It Life Is A Game – Play It Life Is Love – Enjoy It” -Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” -Mary Wollstonecraft

“You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.” -Ursula Le Guin

“Never judge someone by who he’s in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.” -Cynthia Heimel

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” -Horace Mann

“He only profits from praise who values criticism.” -Heinrich Heine

“A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.” -Cuban Proverb

“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