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The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do.-- John Holt

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.-- Abraham Lincoln

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.-- Lee Iacocca

No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person.-- Willa Cather

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.-- Thomas Carlyle

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.-- Colette

If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.-- Paula A. Bendry

Today is yesterday's effect and tomorrow's cause.-- Phillip Gribble

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

A man is literally what he thinks.-- James Lane Allen

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.-- Scottish Proverb

We only do well the things we like doing.-- Colette

Imagination is more important than knowledge.-- Albert Einstein

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.-- Erma Bombeck

Pain is never permanent.-- Saint Theresa of Avila

Taking risks gives me energy.-- Jay Chiat

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.-- Helen MacInness

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."--Janis Joplin

" . . . if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."--Erica Jong

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."--Benjamin Franklin

"Enthusiasm moves the world."--J. Balfour

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."--Lauren Bacall

"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge."--Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Nothing can prevent you from learning the truth so much as the belief that you already know it. " --Jon K. Hart.

"Rumors are like seagulls. Once they start to fly, they get crap on everybody." --Jean Laney.

"Experience is the best teacher, and considering what it cost, it should be. "--Unknown.

You make a living by what you get, you make a life by what you give.--Unknown.

Fish and houseguests smell after three days. --Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem. —Unknown.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people. —Mason

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. —Jessel

Plan out your life on paper but live your life by your heart. —Warren DeMike

Forgive your enemies, but remember their names. —President John F. Kennedy 1917-1963

Don't listen to what people are saying. Listen to why they're saying it. —Unknown.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. —Unknown.

Reach for the moon; even if you miss, you will land among the stars. —Anonymous.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence. —Anonymous.

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him becone what he is capable of being.—J.W. von Goethe 1749-1832

Always give your best; never get discouraged, never be petty. Always remember others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. —President Richard M. Nixon. 1913-1994

Do not look where you fell but where you slipped. —Proverb.

Don't waste your time thinking about who you ought to be, just be content with who you're becoming.—Anonymous.

What's the point in living life in the fear of dying? —Unknown.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're still alive, it isn't. —Richard Bach.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. —Unknown.

I do not regret the things I've done, but rather those I did not do. —Anonymous.

Life's a journey, not a destination. —Steven Tyler

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world. —Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

People avoid change until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing.—Unknown.

Life will teach you the lessons, it is up to you to learn them. —Unknown.

The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take.—Unknown

If man could live forever, he'd still be a fish. Why would he evolve? He could always do it later.—Aki Soga.

Never take life too seriously; after all, no one gets out of it alive.—Anonymous.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.—Muhammad Ali.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is, "Try to please everybody." —Herbery Bayard Swope.  1882-1958

Success in life comes not from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly. —Joshua Dool.

"When trouble comes, wise men take to their work; weak men take to the woods."--Elbert Hubbard

"Money is like an arm or a leg - use it or lose it."--Henry Ford

"A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him."--Mae West

"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."--Grace M. Hopper

"Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom."--Anon.

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."--Mark Twain

"The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places."--Ernest Hemingway

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable."--Tillich

"Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along."--Harry Stack Sullivan

"There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow."--Kierkeguard

"One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say."--Voltaire

"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression."--Karen Horney

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."--Marie Curie

"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom."--Scottish proverb

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases."--C. G. Jung

"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault." —Thomas Fuller.

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." —Winston Churchill.

"The less of routine, the more of life." —A. B. Alcott

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." —Dolly Parton

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." —Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present."—James Petersen

"Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information."—Heinz R. Pagels

"Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love."—Mariah Burton Nelson

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see."—Anonymous

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."—William James

"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."—Michel de Montaigne

"The tongue weighs next to nothing. But so few people can hold it!"—Unknown

"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."—Unknown

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."—William James

"I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach."—Bill Muse

"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."—Earl of Chesterfield

"Learning is discovering that something is possible."—Fritz Perls

"Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it."—Unknown

"The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get."—Unknown

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."—Unknown

"For those who understand no explanation is needed, for those who don't none will do."—Jerry Lewis

"You cannot plan the future by the past."—Edmund Burke

"The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent."—Edgar Watson Howe

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous."—Margaret Fontey

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without."—Dr. James C. Dobson

"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."—Mary Engelbreit

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."—George Bernard Shaw

"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted."—Ruth E. Renkl

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