When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble to difficult to overcome.
- Wilma Rudolph
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
- Ralph Vaull Starr
No one stops growing until he stops asking questions, either of others or of himself.
- Author Unknown
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you can dream it, you can do it
- Walt Disney
Always chase your dreams instead of running from your fears.
- Author Unknown
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer
- Nolan Bushnell
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Never part with your dreams. When they’re gone, you might still exist, but you cease to live.
- Author Unknown
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist.
- Jack London
I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.
- Og Mandino
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato
You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money. You’ve got to love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching. You’ve got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
- Susanna Clark
Speak only if it improves upon the silence.
- Gandhi
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
- Henry Drummond
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
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Only a life lived for others is worth living.
- Albert Einstein
You’ll make more friends in ten minutes by taking an interest in others than in a month trying to get others interested in you.
- Author Unknown
If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it.
- Edgar Watson Howe
The only way to have a friend is to be one
- Ralph Waldo Emerson\
Are you lonely? Stretch a hand to one unfriended and your loneliness is ended
- Author Unknown
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Don’t spend your precious time asking “Why isn’t the world a better place?” It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is “How can I make it better?” To that there is an answer.
- Leo F. Buscaglia
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
- Thomas Dewar
Never judge a day by its weather. Sunshine is uplifting; rain, nourishing; wind, exhilarating; snow, cleansing; hail, stimulating. Any weather is better than none
- Author Unknown
Thank God every morning you get up and find you have something to do that must be done, whether you like it or not. That builds character.
- Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier
- Author unknown
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
- Christian Larson
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
When a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
- Napoleon Hill
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
- Oscar Wilde
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
- Michael Cibenko
Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
- James Callaghan
Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
- Elbert Hubbard
Fall seven times, stand up eight!
- Japanese Proverbs
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
- Micheal Jordan
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
- Napoleon Hill
[if you know of anymore, then add them to this thread!...and remember to smile today.]
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