Quotes

* LIFE IS CALLING.....WHERE ARE YOU???
* NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE IN THIS WORLD FOR A FIRM MIND

* WHEN ONE CAN DO, OTHER CAN ALSO DO

* HAVE 3D APPROACH DISCIPLINE, DEDICATION AND DETERMINATION TO YOUR EFFORT TO ACHIEVE THE SET GOAL

* WINNERS NEVER QUIT, QUITTERS NEVER WIN

* THE REAL PURPOSE OF READING IS NOT ACCUMULATE KNOWLEDGE BUT TO USE IT

* HAVE TOTAL FAITH IN YOUR ABILITIES

* THE PLANT OF AMBITION GROWS FAST IN THE DARKNESS OF DIFFICULTIES

* THE WAY TO DEVELOP SELF-CONFIDENCE IS TO DO THE THING YOU FEAR TO DO

* ONLY KNOWLEDGE THAT IS USED, STICKS IN YOUR MIND

* THOSE WHO CAN VIEW THE FUTURE FIRST ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET THERE

* FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTH ALWAYS

* GROWTH BEGINS WHEN WE START TO ACCEPT OUR OWN WEAKNESS

* A FAULT ONCE DENIED IS TWICE COMMITTED

* FEAR NOT, YOUR SINCERITY IS YOUR SAFEGAURD

* A MAN WITHOUT PATIENCE IS A LAMP WITHOUT OIL

* HE WHO HAS HEALTH, HAS HOPE AND HE WHO HAS HOPE HAS

EVERYTHING

* YOU CAN TELL CHARACTER OF EVERY MAN WHEN YOU SEE HOW

HE RECEIVES PRAISE

* THE REMEDY TO WEAKNESS IS NOT BROODING OVER WEAKNESS,

BUT THINKING OF STRENGTH

* KEEP YOUR FEARS TO YOURSELF, BUT SHARE YOUR COURAGE

* THE STRONGEST IN THIS WORLD IS, HE WHO STANDS MOST ALONE

* A GOOD HEART IS BETTER THAN ALL THE HEARTS IN THE WORLD

" Winning isn't always a victory & losing isn't always a defeat!"

Always remember in life...There are people better than you; there are people worst than you... BUT, there will never be anyone who's YOU !!

" It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task, which more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

" I am a big believer in the 'mirror test'. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best."

" If you let failure become a stopping point, then it remains failure. If you can get up and carry on, it becomes a lesson."

" We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil."

" Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again."

" Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway."

" Ambition is not a vice of little people."

" No one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance."

" Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds."

" We are often so caught up in our destination
That we forget to appreciate the journey,
Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way.
Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it."

" It is not the perfect picture we are looking for,
But rather time spent to be captured."

" How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
To improve the world."

Have you ever watched kids
on a merry-go-round
Or listened to the rain
slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
Do you run through each day on the fly
When you ask "How are you?"
do you hear the reply?

When the day is done,
do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
running through your head?

You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
'Cause you never had time
to call and say "Hi"?

You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away...

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

" What's hidden in the brush is only dark til you shine a light on it !

The jungle awaits the sun !"

THE BOTTOM LINE
FACE IT, nobody owes you a living.
What you achieve, or fail to achieve in your lifetime
Is directly related to what you do or fail to do.
No one chooses his parent or childhood,
But you can choose your own direction.
Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome,
But that too is relative to each individual.
NOTHING IS CARVED IN STONE!

You can change anything in your life
If you want to badly enough.
Excuses are for losers! Those who take responsibility for their actions
Are the real winners in life.
Winners meet life challenges head on
Knowing there are guarantees, and give it all they've got
And never think it's too late or too early to begin.

Time plays no favorites
And will pass whether you act or not
Take control of your LIFE
Dare to Dream and take risks.......
Compete!
If you aren't willing to work for your goals
Don't expect others to.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!

" Charity sees the need, not the cause."
" 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 ---
" Do something bad and regret it
Do something good and forget it."

" We fail because deep inside we want to.
We rise when we have no alternatives.
Extinguish your alternatives
And you have no where to go but UP !!"
--- Nirvikar Dahiya --- India
" It is amazing what can be accomplished,
When you don't care who gets the credit."

The Girl In The Glass
When you get what you want in the struggle of life
And the world makes you queen for a day...
Go to the mirror and take a look at yourself
And see what that girl has to say.

It isn't your mother, father or husband
Whose judgement on you must pass.
The person whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the girl staring back from the glass.

You may be like Jack Horner and chisel a plum
And think you are a wonderful girl.
But the girl in the glass says you are a bum
If you can't look her straight in the eye.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on your back as you pass.
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you've cheated the girl in the glass.

" My interest is in the future,
Because I'm going to be spending the rest of my life there."

" The Secret to Success:
Trust God, Work Hard, Help Others, Be Sincere."

" There is no self-made man.
You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

" Winners win. That's what winners do."
" Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an explanation."

" If it is the philosopher's stone you seek, find it in your friends,
For your friends can turn a day as dark as coal
Into a day that's as bright as gold."

" Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
And you help them to become what they are capable of being."

" As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

" Procrastination is the natural assassin of opportunity."

" Talents are nurtured best in solitude,
But character on life's tempestuous seas!"

" All we are given is possibilities
To make of ourselves one thing or another...."

" Wrinkles merely indicate where the smiles have been."

" Believing in yourself, is in endless destination.

Believing you have failed, is the end of your journey."

Something I tell myself when I feel like someone is trying to tear me down:
" When you are standing on a table:
Be careful.....
For it is a lot easier for someone to pull you down from the table
Than for you to help them up onto it."
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" In the end,
Being first and achieving all your goals doesn't happen all the time.
Still, I think you should dream big dreams,
As long as you're willing to work toward those dreams.
Never look back and say,
'If only I had done this or that, I could have reached my dreams.'
When you have a dream, your first and only goal should be
To prepare yourself as best you can and try your best.
That's all anyone can ask.
When you do that, as my dad says, no matter what the scoreboard reads,
You'll always walk away a winner."

" There is only Me stopping Me from being Successful."

" If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me."

" Every boxer gets knocked down,
The champions get back up and fight another round."

" A good friend is hard to find,
Hard to lose,
And impossible to forget."

" Never say I love you if you don't care
Never talk about feelings, if they're not really there
Never talk touch a life if you mean to break a heart."

DON'T QUIT
When things go wrong
As they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit...
Rest if you must -- but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won if he'd stuck it out.
Don't give up, though the pace seems slow
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things go wrong
That you mustn't quit.

" Rules can be made and therefore reshaped or broken.
Principles cannot be arbitrarily made...
They must never be broken.
Rules are temporal, principals are eternal.
Rules are helpful, principles are essential."

" Fools scatter about their many attributes,
The wise keep such within;
A piece of straw floats upon the surface of water
A precious gemstone sinks to the bottom!
Therefore, it is best to disregard the seen
And concentrate upon the unseen.
Only within the latter may riches be found."

" Every person you meet knows something you don't,
Learn from them."

" Lack of will power has caused more failure
Than lack of intelligence or ability."

" Imagination - sparks dreams and laughter,
Dissolves barriers, expands knowledge and lights the mind.
Imagination also holds captive in dark places
Both the weak and strong, liquefies courage,
Builds enormous insurmountable fear."

You're a very special person
Though at times you may feel bad
You are special to your mother
And important to your dad
Your parents may have chided you
And you've never understood -
That they wanted what is best for you
And did it for your good.

Because you are so special
They want to see you grow -
Into the kind of person -
That people like to know.
Life isn't always easy
But you have to hold on tight
To the knowledge that you're special
And always do what's right.

If you learn to cope with problems
And be careful what you say
If you keep the ten commandments
Then there will come a day -
In the not too distant future
When you'll be very glad
That you were important
To a loving Mom and Dad.
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" Ordinary people do ordinary things.
EXTRAORDINARY people do EXTRAORDINARY things!"
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" Don't ever assume that the same old rules apply,
That things should be as they were.
Constantly reevaluate everything!
Break the rules, make new ones.
Change your goals. Adapt your methods.
Try desperately to find a different perspective.
Maybe the old way is still the best...but maybe not."
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" To be or not to be, that is your decision."
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" Each day brings with it an opportunity to build
Upon the wisdom and understanding in your life.
Embrace it!"
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" A true friend never gets in your way
Unless you happen to be going down."
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" To see the sun set
And then the night sky fill with stars
Is not half as beautiful to the eyes
As a dream is to the soul"
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" Nobody ever drowned in sweat."
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" You cannot change your life by changing your life
You can only change your life if you change your thinking."
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" The incredible power to change your life
Into whatever you wish to be
Lies within you, right now,
Waiting to be unchained."
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" The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible
And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening.
It is a little star-dust caught,
A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched."
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" DREAM the BIG DREAM;
Build your Imagination and
Create vivid pictures of HOPE."
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" There is no real excellence in all this world
Which can be separated from right living."
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" Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
And when you laugh, laugh like hell,
And when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. "
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" Make your best effort when the opportunity arises
And you shall not fail."
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" Hope is like a balloon,
It can't soar to the heavens
If you hold it by the string."
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" Things work out best for the people
Who make the best out of the way things work out."
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" Nobody is ever old until the day
That dreams are replaced by regrets...
Some people see mistakes as failure in life
While others see it as gaining experience
For handling what they will have to overcome
Tomorrow..
Are you preparing yourself for tomorrow
Or are you like the fool who wants only to
Follow in the footsteps of another
Never to experience the greatness of personal victory?"
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" When I was a young man I observed
That nine out of the ten things I did were failures.
Not wanting to be a failure,
I did ten times more work."
--- Roosevelt ---
" Love is not a fairy tale that is always soft and cozy.
It is the journey of Life.
It transcends slowly the superficial emotions
Of anger, jealousy, hatred.
It climbs higher with each passing day of difficulties.
It rides life's storms one by one,
Until finally, after years of effort,
It attains the highest level of existence known to man.
It merges in that state of being, mortals call Heaven."
--- Written by Dr. Nirvikar Dahiya --- India
" Why continue to chase fire flies,



When it's pyrotechnics you really desire?"
--- Diana Roth --- South Carolina
" It would appear that most individuals



Can quite easily come up with a myriad of reasons
Why something WOULDN'T WORK.
Why most things imagined and dreamed about
Are never brought to fruition is because
So few ask the question -- Why WOULDN'T IT WORK?"
--- Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
" Lose this day loitering,



'Twill be the same story
Tomorrow -- and the next more dilatory.
Then indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting over days!
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute!
What you can do, or dream you can --begin it!
Courage has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated.
Begin it, and the work will be completed."
--- Goethe --- Sent in by Larry Collister --- California
BEGIN AGAIN




One of the best things we can do in our lives is this:
Begin again.

Begin to see yourself as you were
When you were the happiest and strongest you've ever been.

Begin to remember what worked for you
(and what worked against you),
And try to capture the magic again.

Begin to remember how natural it was when you were a child --
To live a lifetime each day.

Begin to forget the baggage you have carried with you
For years:
The problems that don't matter anymore,
The tears that cried themselves away,
And the worries that are going to wash away
On the shore of tomorrow's new beginnings.

Tomorrow tells us it will be here every new day of our lives;
And if we will be wise,
We will turn away from the problems of the past
And give the future -- and ourselves -- a chance
To become the best of friends.

Sometimes all it takes is a wish in the heart to let yourself ..
Begin again.
--- Collin McCarty
" The best way to predict the future is to create it!"



--- Jason Kaufmann --- Sent in by Dave Holicky --- Virginia
" Only those who will risk going too far



Can possibly find out how far one can go."
--- T.S. Eliot --- Sent in by Adam Koch --- California
" When making decisions do what makes sense



Instead of other reasons such as impatience, hostility,
Too much pride, people pleasing, fear, chance for luck, etc."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Dennis Looper --- North Carolina
" My soul has a wordless song for you."



--- Andrina --- Alberta, Canada
" There are two things to aim for in life :



The first is to get what you what,
The second to enjoy it when you get it,
Only the wisest of mankind achieves the second. "
--- Marthiens and Teresa --- Australia
" Never hold on because you are too afraid to let go. "



--- Sarah Smith --- Canada
" Say the Best; Think the Rest."



--- Sandy Fuentes
" If the word QUIT is part of your vocabulary,



Then the word FINISH is likely not."
--- Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
" The only person you need to prove anything to



Is yourself."
--- David Gethings --- New Jersey
" I've learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past,



But we must not allow our past to control us either.
We must learn and grow from our past failures,
Disappointments, pains and experiences.
Reset our goals and priorities... and move forward.
Start TODAY, by Un-Ty-ing the knots that LIMIT you!"
--- Ty Howard --- Maryland

" If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly."
--- ' The Secret of Letting Go' --- Guy Finley ---Submitted by Cheryl Thomas
" The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious.

It is the true source of life, art and science."
--- Michael Talbot --- Submitted by Christine Lane
" Spend everyday casual, but industrious;

Every moment alert, but relaxed."
'Freedom From the Ties That Bind.' --- Guy Finley
--- Submitted by Cheryl Thomas
" Don't go through life, grow through life."

--- Ashley --- North Carolina
" Help me believe in what I could be and all that I am.

Show me the stairway I have to climb, for my sake,
Teach me to take one step at a time."
--- Sandy J.H. --- New Jersey
" Destiny speaks for itself,
whispering the knowledge of yesterday,
by calling the future today."
--- By: Christine Lane
" Don't let your problems get you down.
Pick them up and turn them around."
--- Contributed by Regina Mckay --- New Jersey
" Friends are all chatter

But love is all that really matters."
--- By: Vanessa Merrill
" Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."

--- Helen Keller --- Contributed by Melanie Black
" We never know how far reaching something we may think,
say, or do today will effect the lives of millions tomorrow."
--- Dr. B.J. Palmer, the developer of Chiropractic
--- Submitted by Kirk Evans, D.C. --- Pennsylvania
" I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
What I can do, I ought to do.
And what I ought to do,
By the grace of God,
I shall do!"
--- Edward Everett Hale --- Contributed by Jude --- Ontario, Canada
" Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues."
--- Maya Angelou --- Contributed by Valerie --- San Francisco, California
" Commitment is the igniter of momentum."
--- Peg Wood
" A man's reach must far exceed his grasp, lest what is heaven for."
--- Browning --- Submitted by Terry Moore --- Ireland
" The ultimate joy is from being sincerely happy for someone,
Though it hurts. "
--- Submitted by Sim Yee --- Malaysia
" It is the province of knowledge to speak,

It is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
--- Christine Lane
" When I was a boy,
I knew love to be only a word I said to my family.
As a young man,
I knew love to be that feeling I had
When I liked someone for a long time.
As an old man,
I now know love to be a choice.
And I choose to love my wife everyday until the day I die."
--- Chris Matheson
" If life seems as though it's falling to pieces,
Keep your head up high and think positive."
--- Regina Mckay --- New Jersey
" Plenty of people miss their share of happiness,
Not because they never found it,
But because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
--- William Feather --- Contributed by Tania --- Moscow
" The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past,
Than education, than money, than circumstances,
Than failures, than successes,
Than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
Regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past...
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
And that is our attitude...
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
And 90% how I react to it.
And so it is with you...
We are in charge of our Attitudes."
--- by Charles Swindoll -- Contributed by Anne Kinnear --- New York
" I don't dream about actors and actresses;
They dream about me.
I am reality, they are not."
--- Alexander Popov --- Contributed by Sarah Deibler
" Look in your lovers' eyes to see who you are;
What you can be, and what you should be.
Look in the mirror to comb your hair."
--- Chris Matheson --- Arizona
" Blessed is he who has learned
To admire but not envy,
To follow but not imitate,
To praise but not flatter,
And to lead but not manipulate."
--- W.A.Ward --- Contributed by Tania --- Moscow
" Your love will last forever,
If you do not expect her to walk the same path,
But you look in the same direction."
--- T. Clay Sanders
" Listen to your heart,
because in the end it is your heart that matters."
--- Jennifer Tyler
" The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
--- G.K.Chesterton --- Contributed by Tania --- Moscow
" Dream about the future,
build upon that dream,
and then do what it takes to get there."
--- Written--- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois
" Renew your brilliance.
It is the privilege of the Phoenix.
Excellence grows old and so does fame.
Custom wears down our admiration, and a mediocre novelty
can conquer the greatest eminence in its old age.
So be reborn in courage,
in intellect, in happiness, and in all else.
Dare to renew your brilliance, dawning many times,
like the sun, only changing your surroundings.
Withhold it and make people miss it;
renew it and make them applaud."
--- Baltasar Gracian --- Contributed by Tania --- Moscow
" The only way to predict the future is to shape it."
--- Car Ad in the UK ----contributed by Jonathan Smith --- UK
" Time is the iron that smooths away all the wrinkles in our past."
--- Vibin J. Chowallur --- New York
" No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for he is not the same man and it is not the same river."
--- Contributed by Junior -- Pennsylvania
" Don't try to get even...get ahead !"
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by RJ Kautz
" Each individual is an eternity unto himself."
--- Christine Lane
" If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it."
--- Spanish Proverb --- Contributed by James Sweeney
" I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,
It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Which is what I do,
And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
--- Dr. Seuss --- Contributed by Kristi Wright
" You gotta have a dream.
If you never have a dream,
How are you gonna have a dream come true?"
--- Rogers and Hammerstein - Happy Talk - From South Pacific
--- Contributed by Kelly K. Marshall --- Tennis Pro
--- and Marjorie Federici
" The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."
--- Contributed by Doris Rodriguez
" Have you ever noticed that the God Lord has made us
With two eyes, two ears, and one mouth.
He also placed another ear,
Just below the upper most part of our spirits.
It's the third ear.
It's only used when He has something to say.
The problem with this organ is most people don't know they have it,
And when they find out they do,
They've been listening to the wrong god."
--- Robert (Gary) Lee --- Maryland
On Becoming a Champion
"Champions do not become champions when they win the event,
but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it.
The victorious performance itself
is merely the demonstration of their championship character."
--- T. Alan Armstrong --- Georgia
" Courage is resistance to fear,
Mastery of fear-not absence of fear."
--- Mark Twain --- Contributed by Kristi Wright
--- Submitted by Katie G., Age 16 --- British Columbia, Canada
" For long you live and high you fly,
For smiles you give and tears you cry,
For all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be."
--- Pink Floyd --- Submitted by Tony
" There's a part of my life that a needs a dose of humbleness
that can only be treated with pain in order to heal the pride."
--- From Wasted Suffering --- Gary Lee --- Maryland
" Never let the odds keep you from pursuing
What you know in your heart you were meant to do."
--- Satchel Paige --- Contributed by Kristi Wright
" If the eyes are looked upon as the windows to the soul...
then a smile must be the doorway the heart."
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Melinda
" Running like a chicken with your head cut off?
Just consider the chicken's options vs. your own."
--- Cindy B. Neal --- Mississippi
" Two men looked out from prison bars,
And one saw mud
And one saw stars."
--- Anonymous --- contributed by Eugene Doran --- Ireland
" You defeated me! But you won't defeat me again!
Because you have grown all you can grow....
but I am still growing!"
--- Sir Edmund Hillary about Mt. Everest --- Contributed by Terry Litwiller
" Winning isn't everything, It's the only thing."
--- Vince Lombardi --- Contributed by Bradly Simmons
" Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
--- J. Andrews --- Contributed by Kristen Hope Rigsby
" All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors.
Those who choose to have others edit their pathways,
must live on the edge of another man's sword."
--- Julie Arabi
" Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
--- Mel Gibson as William Wallace in the movie 'Braveheart'
--- Contributed by Ruth Carter
" Determine to work, work to stand, stand to fight, fight to WIN!"
--- SuanLoyd
" We can gain strength and courage and confidence,
By each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...
We must do that which we think we cannot."
--- Eleanor Roosevelt --- Contributed by Q.A.
" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
--- George Ellis --- Contributed by Corky Akins
" It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."
--- Confucius --- Contributed by Sahar Anwar --- Egypt
--- Correction of quote supplied by Hannah F.
" Death is more universal than life;
Everyone dies but not everyone lives."
--- A. Sachs --- Contributed by Kyle Looney
" The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."
--- J.Martin Kohe --- Contributed by Corky Akins
" You don't stop laughing because you grow old;
You grow old because you stop laughing."
--- Michael Pritchard --- Contributed by Amanda Gier
" Life has it's ups and downs,
Somewhat like a roller coaster.
After a day on a roller coaster,
We all need to stop and relax for a while,
Think about what we just did,
And which ride to go on next.
Why don't you apply that to life?
At the end of a rough day,
Or even a smooth one,
Relax, gather your thoughts and emotions.
Then and only then, should you
Move on to the next ride."
--- Neill MacRae --- Australia
" Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never
give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
--- Winston Churchill --- Contributed by Corky Akins
--- Quote correction provided by Molly --- California --- 11-27-00
" The bigger the hill you climb,
The more you can see from the top,
The more you enjoy the ride down,
And the longer the ride lasts."
--- Frank Stephens
" You can never go wrong by doing right."
--- Sue Sheffler --- Georgia
" All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream."
--- Edgar Allen Poe --- Contributed by VQueen
" Don't be reckless with other people's hearts,
And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours."
--- Kurt Vonnegut --- Contributed by Amanda Gier
" Inside each and every one of us is a person that no one knows.
A person, should you take the time to look,is waiting to be discovered,
Wanting you to take notice.
Take a few minutes every day and sit down to chat to this person.
Who knows what you may learn?"
--- Neill MacRae
" It takes a whole life to learn how to live."
--- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Beth Garvin --- Mississippi
" Luck is when opportunity meets preparation."
--- Contributed by Grumman
" You give little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. "
--- Kahlil Gibran --- Contributed by Laura Gomez --- Nevada
" Don't miss out on life just to stay alive."
--- Adam Burrell --- Contributed by Q.A
" If you ain't true to yourself, you ain't true to no one.
If you're living your life for someone else, you just ain't living."
--- Vanilla Ice in "Cool as Ice" --- Contributed by Angi
" Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky,
Before the sun came out.
You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know
How glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day.
You cannot touch love either,
But you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything."
--- Annie Sullivan
" If the doors of perception were cleansed,
Every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
--- William Blake (1757-1827) --- Contributed by Russ
" Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
--- John Lennon --- Contributed by VQueen & James Sweeney
" Love is a flame that burns in heaven,
And whose soft reflections radiate to us.
Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it.
It is by love that we double our being:
It is by love that we approach God."
--- Aimee Martin
" What you keep for yourself, you lose.
What you give away, you keep forever."
--- Axel Monthe --- Contributed by James Sweeney

" If you can show me a person who has made no mistakes,
I will show you a person who has achieved nothing."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Kelly Paplaczyk
" Your hometown is not where you're from.
It's who you are."
--- Arnold Palmer --- Sent in by Chris Nannini --- New Hampshire
" We live as long as we are remembered."
--- Old Russian Proverb --- Sent in by The Matheneys --- Texas
" More good has been accomplished
By simple people seeking their own honest ends
Than by all the philanthropists of history."
--- Robert Brault --- Sent in by Joan Brault
" L.I.F.E.
Life Is Facing Everything
An Infinite Loop We'll Always Be In
Live Today For Your Tomorrow
Live Today Like There's No Tomorrow"
--- Kelvin Soh
" The tears of today may be just enough eye water to cleanse
And clear my vision for seeing a tremendously joyous tomorrow."
--- Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
" Talent is God-given, be humble.
Fame is man-given, be thankful.
Conceit is self-given, be careful."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Fonz --- Minnesota
" You never have to worry,
About remembering someone you will never forget."
--- John Bafford
" In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present."
--- Tao Te Ching --- Sent in by Terésa Meyer --- Perth, Western Australia
" Forgive yourself for the mistakes you have made.
Forgive others for hurting your heart.
For the things of the past,
you must part.

If you do not,
the present will suffer,
and the future will never start."
--- Stacy Hughes --- Texas
" Make others happy and joyful.
Your happiness will multiply a thousand fold."
--- Swami Sivananda --- Sent in by G.Thirunacarasu --- Malaysia
" The great thing about being yourself,
Is that if you always do it,
People expect it, and accept nothing less...
No matter how different you may be."
--- Michelle Cole
" Looking back you realize,
That a very special person passed briefly through your life;
And it was you.
It is not too late to find that person again."
--- Robert Brault --- Sent in by Joan Brault
" I may not be who I want to be
And I may not be who I am going to be
But thank God I am not who I was."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Jennifer Mason --- Massachusetts
" Live and create to the point of tears."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Karushka Naidu --- Sydney, NSW, Australia
" Don't let anyone think you don't deserve what you want."
--- From the movie '10 things I hate about you' --- Sent in by Lara Holmberg
" All men dream: But not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recess of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."
--- Thomas Lawrence --- Sent in by Rich Swanson --- New Zealand
" Make yourself a blessing to someone.
Your kind smile or pat on the back,
Just might pull someone back from the edge."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Alexis Adams --- Massachusetts
" Everyone has a talent and a mission
That could change the face of the world
If they were used in a positive and effective way."
--- Pierre Smith --- Haiti
" Life is entirely too short to listen to negativity,
Irrespective of how it is packaged.
If it comes in the form of an individual, don't 'Return to Sender'
But rather throw it precisely where it belongs ---
The trash can!"
--- Tanya L. Jett --- Kentucky
" In our labor we meet the objective needs and demands of others;
Our employer, the public,
People who are impacted by and through our work.
But in leisure we scratch the subjective itches within ourselves."
--- Charles R. Swindoll --- Sent in by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia
" Life is a pretty precious and wonderful thing.
You can't just sit down and let it lap around you.
You have to plunge into it. You have to dive through it."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Michael Dayes --- Australia
" Kisses are words that cannot be written."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Chris Daleske --- South Carolina
" Courage is contagious.
When a brave man takes a stand,
The spines of others are stiffened."
--- Brian G. Jett --- Kentucky
" Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
--- Oscar Wilde --- Sent in by Destiny, Age 19 --- Ohio
"What is the real good?"
I ask in a musing mood.
"Order," said the law court;
"Knowledge," said the school;
"Truth," said the wise man;
"Pleasure," said the fool;
"Love," said the maiden;
"Beauty," said the page;
"Freedom," said the dreamer;
"Home," said the sage;
"Fame," said the soldier;
"Equity," said the seer.
Spake my heart fully sad:
"The answer is not here."

Then within my bosom,
Softly this I heard:
"Each heart holds the secret:
'Kindness' is the word."
--- John Boyle O'Reilly --- Sent in by Michael Crawley --- New Hampshire
" Nothing happens until something happens, and then everything happens."
--- Copyright © 1999 Nirvikar Dahiya --- India

" A dream is the essence of your youth, never let it go.
Stay young inside. Never let your dreams go."
--- Adrienne F. Raimer --- Wisconsin

" Beginning today,
Treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster,
And do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again."
--- Og Mandino --- Sent in by Debbie Bashaw --- New Zealand


" Help people reach their full potential.
Catch them doing something right."

" You get credit for what you finish, not what you start."
--- Author Unknown --- Sent in by Jenn --- Pennsylvania

" Don't waste your time worrying about the things you cannot control."
--- Brian Howard --- Sent in by Elizabeth Howard

" The early bird only catches the worm, if her beak is in the hole."
--- Glenn Anaiscourt

" Freedom, is the choice from the available options."
--- Savater --- Sent in by Patrice Boman --- Portugal, Algarve, Loulé

" It is something to be able to paint a particular picture,
Or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful;
But it is far more glorious to carve and paint
The very atmosphere and medium through which we look.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts."
--- Thoreau (from Walden) --- Sent in by Frank --- New York

" Happiness is a by-product of productive effort."

" Today is going to be my day,
I will let no one stand in my way,
If I think like a champion,
Act like a champion,
I will become a champion."
--- Colin Evans --- Australia --- Sent in by Kaleb Sexton --- Mildura, Australia

" It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

" The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream."
--- Shakespeare --- Sent in by Andrew Ho --- Malaysia

" Each day comes bearing it's gifts.
Untie the ribbons!"

" Move - one step at a time, but always forward."
--- From a friend --- Submitted by Anish --- India

" It is better to fail at something that will ultimately succeed,
Than to succeed at something that will ultimately fail."
--- Unknown --- Sent in by Todd Wielgos
" There is a place in this world which no one else but you can fill."
--- Jigsha Desai --- Pennsylvania --- formerly from Zambia

" We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Shall be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
--- T.S. Eliot --- Sent in by Whisper --- Australia
" Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
--- Thoreau --- Sent in by Melissa Stroupe --- Virginia
" The price of greatness is responsibility."
--- Winston Churchill --- Sent in by Martha Varzaly --- Pennsylvania

" You know that you are destined to be successful
When you spend less time dreaming about IT
And more time doing IT."
--- Copyright © 1999 Glen Prendergast --- Ontario, Canada
" In the giving - Is the getting."
--- David Matoc --- --- Ontario, Canada
" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
--- William James --- Submitted by Maegen Mac --- Michigan

" Keep your eyes on the stars,
and your feet on the ground."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Nora Magnus --- Singapore

" You'll never catch anything, unless you put your bait in the water."
--- My Dad --- Sent in by Sean Anderson --- Minnesota

" Success is creating a state of mind
That allows you to obtain whatever it is you really want."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by --- Laura M. Ackroyd --- Massachusetts

" From the seed of giving - grows a flower of getting."
--- David Matoc --- Ontario, Canada

" Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
--- Sir J.M. Barrie --- Sent in by Andrew Ho --- Malaysia

" Once you have experienced excellence,
You will never again be content with mediocrity."
--- Thomas S. Monson --- Submitted by Julia L. Portillo

" Look around and find some wonder in the world today.
It's easy, we're surrounded by amazing things.
All you have to do is open yourself up to them...
See what's already there."
--- Chad O. King --- Texas

" Everyone has their own 'personal tree' to sit in.
Life's circumstances sometime seem overwhelming,
But we must remember the amazing power of love.
Just as the ripples in the ocean shape and form the land --
From the cliffs to the tiny grains of sand --
So do our actions, words, and thoughts shape and form our reality.
Even more,
Ripples joining one another form tidal waves that change the planet.
If we make sure that our every thought, word, and action are based in love
Then the ripples we create
Will bring about positive change for a positive future."
--- Julia Butterfly Hill --- Sent in by Melissa Stroupe --- Virginia

" Make good habits and they will make you."
--- Parks Cousins --- Submitted by Martha Varzaly --- Pennsylvania

" Setting a goal is not the main thing.
It is deciding how you will go about achieving it
And staying with that plan."
--- Tom Landry --- Submitted by Chen Fawn Meng --- Malaysia

" Faith makes it possible, not easy."
--- Sally Nguyen --- Virginia

" Life, what is life?
A newborn baby, a growing child,
A smiling grandma, or is it you and I,
Much, much more, I think,
Greater than merely breathing air,
Far more than merely living what is there,
It is exploring, searching and findings all things,
The vastness of creation,
Relishing in the sunrise, being part of sunset,
Feeling it, living it, breathing it,
Creating life, touching life,
Loving someone, the glory in being loved,
Why do you want more, see what is yours,
Life is appreciation, happiness inside,
Rescuing the bird with the broken wing,
Finding the first brilliant spring bloom and
Leaving it for a butterfly to feed on,
Life is what you are, make or break,
To live is to be life, live it!"
--- Copyright © 1997 Terésa Meyer --- Perth, Western Australia

" And when you have reached the mountain top,
Then you shall begin to climb."
--- Kahlil Gibran --- Sent in by Melissa Stroupe --- Virginia

" Measure success by success,
Not by the number of failures it takes to achieve it."
--- Harvey Mackay --- Sent in by Chad O. King --- Texas

" Relationships are the grease that smooth the friction of life."
--- Scott Michael --- Sent in by Al Pipkin --- California


" Dream lofty dreams and as you dream, so shall you become."
--- James Allen --- Sent in by Andrew Ho --- Malaysia

" Our darkest hour only has 60 minutes."
--- Unknown --- Submitted by Meghann Mason --- Texas