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The moment of surrender is not when life is over, it's when it begins.
- Marianne Williamson % Sometimes, it's not the times you decide to fight, but the times you decide to surrender, that makes all the difference. - Sissy Gavrilaki % I am learning to live between effort and surrender. I do my best and hope for what I want but I do not resist the direction of the wind. - Anonymous % To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Lao Tzu % Surrender is a journey from outer turmoil to inner peace. - Sri Chinmoy % If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh % When total surrender happens, suffering is removed, duality is removed, too. - Mohanji % Surrender means the surrender of your ego. - Radhanath Swami % Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. - Eckhart Tolle % It's time for trust and surrender. - Anonymous % Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender. - Marianne Williamson % If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. - Anonymous % The creative process is a process of surrender, no control. - Julia Cameron % Let it all go - surrender to the present moment, and know that the universe has a plan for you and everything will work out just fine. - Anonymous % When fear gets the best of me, I surrender to love. - Anonymous % Childlike surrender and trust. - Brennan Manning % Surrender is like a fish finding the current and going with it. - Mark Nepo % Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender. - Richard Paul Evans % The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. - Ram Dass % Surrender is not a weakness, it is a strength. It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding. - Mooji % Try something different - surrender. - Rumi % All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. - Blaise Pascal % Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be a loser. - Radhanath Swami % The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender. - William Booth % Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. - Jack Kornfield % They are the chosen ones who have surrendered. - Rumi % You need to trust. To surrender. To ask for guidance. Go within for the answers. They're within you. You have the answers. All you need to do is ask. - Karen Hackel % Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj % The ultimate act of power is surrender. - Krishna Das % Surrender all that no longer serves you. Let all that remains buried in your heart come to the surface and be healed. Let there be space for new energies to enter. A new beginning transforms darkness to light. - Anonymous % Surrender to the deepest level within that you're aware of. - John de Ruiter % Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become. - Reinhold Niebuhr % The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where your soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty. - Neale Donald Walsch % Growing closer to God is not the result of trying harder but of surrendering more. - Anonymous % Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be. - Sonia Ricotti % The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald % Never say die. - Proverb % This too will pass. - Attar % Don't think, just do. - Horace % No man is an island. - John Donne % Time is money. - Benjamin Franklin % Live with passion. - Tony Robbins % He who hesitates is lost. - Proverb % Life must be lived as play. - Plato % Hope is a waking dream. - Aristotle % Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon % Fate is character. - William Winter % Funny is an attitude. - Flip Wilson % Perseverance is king. - Josh Billings % Storms make oaks take roots. - Proverb % Unity is a precious diamond. - Holyday % My life is my message. - Mahatma Ghandi % No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca % Nothing succeeds like success. - Proverb % Either attempt it not, or succeed. - Ovid % Silence is often advantageous. - Menander % United we stand, divided we fall. - Aesop % The middle course is the best. - Cleobulus % Failure teaches success. - Japanese Saying % Attitude determines altitude. - Anonymous % Learn to obey before you command. - Solon % A good name will shine forever. - Proverb % I failed my way to success. - Thomas Edison % Begin with the end in mind. - Stephen Covey % Fortune favors the brave. - Publius Terence % Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato % Rule your mind or it will rule you. - Horace % Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle % Misfortunes often sharpen the genius. - Ovid % Many hands make light work. - English Proverb % Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey % Compassion is a two way street. - Frank Capra % The dew of compassion is a tear. - Lord Byron % Happiness is a state of activity. - Aristotle % They can because they think they can. - Virgil % Thoughts rule the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Motivation comes from within. - Author Unknown % Real living is living for others. - Bruce Lee % Improvement begins with I. - Arnold H. Glasgow % Forgiveness is God's command. - Martin Luther % A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare % As you think, so shall you become. - Bruce Lee % I shut my eyes in order to see. - Paul Gauguin % A life lived in fear is half lived. - Anonymous % Smile, breathe and go slowly. - Thich Nhat Hanh % Go back a little to leap further. - John Clarke % Obstacles are great incentives. - Jules Michelet % There is time for everything. - Thomas A. Edison % A friend is, as it were, a second self. - Cicero % A man of courage is also full of faith. - Cicero % Nothing ever is, but is always becoming. - Plato % Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur % He that is down needs fear no fall. - John Bunyan % Time and tide wait for no man. - Geoffrey Chaucer % Practical dreamers do not quit. - Napoleon Hill % He who cannot help many hinders. - German Proverb % He who has hope has everything, - Arabian Proverb % Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % When the horse is dead, get off. - Author Unknown % Who has not served cannot command. - John Florio % Constant dripping hollows out a stone. - Lucretius % Hope is the dream of a man awake. - French Proverb % Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch % Most ball games are lost, not won. - Casey Stengel % Press on! A better fate awaits thee. - Victor Hugo % A goal is a dream with a deadline. - Napoleon Hill % The impossible is often the untried. - Jim Goodwin % Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. - David Ogilvy % Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach % There are no gains without pains. - Adlai Stevenson % The waters wear the stones. - The Book of Job 14:19 % The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost % There is no strength without unity. - Irish Proverb % Life is full of obstacle illusions. - Grant Frazier % Friendship is the soul's heaven. - A. Bronson Alcott % Thought is the seed of action. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. - Maya Angelou % Goals are dreams with deadlines. - Diana Scharf Hunt % Hope is the dream of the waking man. - French Proverb % Kind words are the music of the world. - F. W. Faber % Money amassed either serves us or rules us. - Horace % Dreams seldom materialize on their own. - Dian Fossey % Industry is the parent of success. - Spanish Proverb % Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer % Never mistake activity for achievement. - John Wooden % A hard beginning maketh a good ending. - John Heywood % You haven't failed until you quit trying. - Anonymous % I cannot command winds and weather. - Horatio Nelson % A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens % How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! - Homer % Spare moments are the gold dust of time. - Bishop Hail % Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. - Jim Rohn % Try and fail, but don't fail to try. - Stephen Kaggwa % Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo % The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir % Hear the meaning within the word. - William Shakespeare % The soul of conversation is sympathy. - Thomas Campbell % He who know most grieves most for wasted time. - Dante % He that converses not, knows nothing. - English Proverb % You have to know what you want to get. - Gertrude Stein % Words are plentiful; deeds are precious. - Lech Walesa % Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin % Bad is never good until worse happens. - Danish Proverb % Necessity is the mother of taking chances. - Mark Twain % The healthiest response to life is joy. - Deepak Chopra % And all may do what has by man been done. - Edward Young % Insist on yourself. Never imitate. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Time in its aging course teaches all things. - Aeschylus % Time is a physician which heals every grief. - Diphilus % Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. - Plato % Heaven never helps the man who will not act. - Sophocles % It is not enough to aim, you must hit. - Italian Proverb % Many can argue - not many converse. - A. Bronson Alcott % Goals determine what you're going to be. - Julius Erving % Ever artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. - Zig Ziglar % Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. - John Heywood % May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift % The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. - Will Smith % He that will not reflect is a ruined man. - Asian Proverb % God ever works with those who work with will. - Aeschylus % You are never a loser until you quit trying. - Mike Ditka % Poverty is a blessing hated by all men. - Italian Proverb % Money alone sets all the world in motion. - Publius Syrus % Have friends. 'Tis a second existence. - Baltasar Gracian % Every noble work is at first impossible. - Thomas Carlyle % You change your life by changing your heart. - Max Lucado % To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. - William Shakepeare % It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid. - Publius Syrus % To do two things at once is to do neither. - Publius Syrus % There is no education like adversity. - Benjamin Disraeli % Deliver your words not by number but by weight. - Proverb % You can disagree without being disagreeable. - Zig Ziglar % To move the world we must first move ourselves. - Socrates % If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. - Unknown % I want to be all used up when I die. - George Bernard Shaw % Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. - Mark Twain % A chain is as strong as its weakest link. - Danish Proverb % Garbage clutters the house that has no dream. - Mike Dolan % You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky % Arguing with a fool proves there are two. - Doris M. Smith % Men are more mindful of wrongs than of benefits. - Proverb % Take time: much may be gained by patience. - Latin Proverb % If you can't accept losing, you can't win. - Vince Lombardi % There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties. - Ovid % Hold a true friend with both your hands. - Nigerian Proverb % The less men think, the more they talk. - Baron Montesquieu % Always do what you are afraid to do. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Beauty without expression is boring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % To respond is positive, to react is negative. - Zig Ziglar % Action is the real measure of intelligence. - Napoleon Hill % Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African Proverb % Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. - Maya Angelou % A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting. - Anonymous % When placed in command - take charge. - Norman Schwarzkopf % Learning new ways of communicating is not easy. - Anonymous % The only journey is the journey within. - Rainer Maria Rilke % If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? - Joe Namath % They can conquer who believe they can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % All experience is an arch to build upon. - Henry Brook Adams % It is not the position, but the disposition. - J. E. Dinger % Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling. - Yogi Berra % Achievement results from work realizing ambition. - Adam Ant % Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. - Zig Ziglar % For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior % Let thy words be few. - Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom % Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides % Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller % Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle % Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon Bonaparte % To win without risk is to triumph without glory. - Corneille % When I want to read a novel, I write one. - Benjamin Disraeli % Never say more than is necessary. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan % Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers. - Mme. du Deffand % Divide the fire and you will soon put it out. - Greek Proverb % If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill % Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. - Basil King % We do not remember days; we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese % Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. - William Thackeray % Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. - Henry David Thoreau % Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert % Soon gotten, soon spent; ill gotten, ill spent. - John Heywood % Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin % Be silent, or say something better than silence. - Pythagoras % Language is the close-fitting dress of Thought. - R. C. Trench % When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive? - Thomas Hood % It takes a person with a mission to succeed. - Clarence Thomas % Big thinking precedes great achievement. - Wilferd A. Peterson % Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt % What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock % Don't wait. The time will never be just right. - Napoleon Hill % To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. - James Allen % Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. - C.D. Jackson % A conductor should guide rather than command. - Riccardo Muti % The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. - Thales % The more you say, the less people remember. - Fran�ois F�nelon % Make use of time, let not advantage slip. - William Shakespeare % Fractures well cured make us more strong. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Men do not understand how great a revenue is economy. - Cicero % Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein % Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. - John Milton % Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. - Jim Rohn % A problem is a chance for you to do your best. - Duke Ellington % Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - M. Kathleen Casey % We acquire the strength we have overcome. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. - Zadok Rabinwitz % Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. - Mark Twain % He who has never hoped can never despair. - George Bernard Shaw % The best motivation always comes from within. - Michael Johnson % Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. - Woody Allen % If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. - Zig Ziglar % Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - J. B. Gough % Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge % No man is happy who does not think himself so. - Publilius Syrus % There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard % Time is a file that wears and makes no noise. - English Proverb % Self-trust is the first secret of success. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. - Persian Proverb % Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lipman % Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare % Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? - Anonymous % To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. - Bruce Lee % As soon as there is life there is danger. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Make no judgments where you have no compassion. - Anne McCaffrey % For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. - Wallis Simpson % If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. - Thomas Fuller % Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau % Let him who would move the world, first move himself. - Socrates % There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills % It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. - John Locke % We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon % A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne % Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi % Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson % The more a man knows, the more he forgives. - Catherine the Great % There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Mahatma Ghandi % Money can't buy everything - for example poverty. - Nelson Algren % Money talks, but all it ever says is good-bye. - American Proverb % Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself. - Sophocles % Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. - Oscar Wilde % It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. - Edmund Hillary % Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. - Horace % The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James % You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. - Horace Mann % Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser % He knows the water best who has waded through it. - Danish Proverb % A willing helper does not wait until he is asked. - Danish Proverb % Great minds have purposes, others have dreams. - Washington Irving % By losing your goal, You have lost your way. - Friedrich Nietzsche % Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. - Bruce Lee % A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is. - Chinese proverb % You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. - William Boetcker % An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Beginnings are only difficult without any action. - Byron Pulsifer % At the end of the day, love and compassion will win. - Terry Waite % Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. - Maya Angelou % A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao-tzu % Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. - Jim Rohn % Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. - Washington Irving % It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % It is never too late to be who you might have been. - George Eliot % There is great force hidden in a gentle command. - George Herbert % Dreams are the touchstones of our character. - Henry David Thoreau % Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it. - Horace % Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. - Sir William Jones % A friend is one who dislikes the same people you dislike. - Unknown % Three, helping one another, bear the burden of six. - Latin Proverb % When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. - Ethiopian Proverb % Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything. - Scott Reed % Change is not merely necessary to life it is life. - Alvin Toffler % Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished. - Christopher Reeve % It's great to be great, but its greater to be human. - Will Rogers % There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. - Han Suyin % Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. - John Dewey % Those who can command themselves command others. - William Hazlitt % Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong. - William Thackeray % He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - Napoleon Bonaparte % The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable. - Seneca % A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world. - Bendixline % The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao Tzu % Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. - Roger L'Estrange % Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. - Kenneth Hildebrand % Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. - Bo Jackson % It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know. - Tony Robbins % How can something bother you if you won't let it? - Terri Guillemets % The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden % We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are. - Anais Nin % One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. - Thomas Fuller % Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain % Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. - Napoleon Hill % That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche % Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. - Author Unknown % If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. - Thomas Fuller % Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau % A full purse is not as good as an empty one is bad. - Yiddish Proverb % Change yourself and fortune will change with you. - Portugese Proverb % Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. - Chinese Proverb % The years teach much which the days never know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Experience is the universal mother of sciences. - Miguel de Cervantes % Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire % Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. - Mark Twain % In life you need either inspiration or desperation. - Anthony Robbins % Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. - Horace % If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin % A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. - Pat Riley % We talk on principal, but act on motivation. - Walter Savage Landor % The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. - Joseph Le Conte % A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon % To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. - Albert Camus % Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. - William Shakespeare % I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein % Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt % You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Ghandi % Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly. - Publilius Syrus % Whatsoever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved. - Seneca % The most important thing about goals is having one. - Geoffry F. Abert % A good indignation brings out all one's powers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. - Winston Churchill % If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. - Lucy Larcom % It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know. - Anthony Robbins % Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. - Henry Ward Beecher % Always do everything you ask of those you command. - George S. Patton % If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. - William Edward Hickson % It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes. - Louis Kossuth % In this world man must either be anvil or hammer. - Henry W. Longfellow % Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are. - Assyrian Proverb % Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert % Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale % The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. - Bruce Lee % I've got to say 'no' to the good to say 'yes' to the best. - Zig Ziglar % Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote % Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. - Charles Schulz % The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole. - Anonymous % The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. - Steven Covey % He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. - Ben Jonson % To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. - Andre Malraux % The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery % You must look into other people as well as at them. - Lord Chesterfield % All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. - Henry David Thoreau % Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau % If the truth were self evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. - Cicero % Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. - Thomas Dewar % A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams. - Anonymous % Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein % Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them. - Author Unknown % We can't command our love, but we can our actions. - Arthur Conan Doyle % Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. - Publius Syrus % They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich % Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. - James A. Froude % The best way to cheer yourself up: Cheer everybody else up. - Mark Twain % Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. - Edith Hamilton % Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach % No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. - Mark Twain % Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone. - Cyrus A. Bartol % By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. - Menander % Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. - Seneca % Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. - William Shakespeare % We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still. - William Shakespeare % Live each day as if your life had just begun. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe % You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself. - English Proverb % We never listen when we are eager to speak. - Fran�ois de La Rochefoucauld % There is no such thing as failure. There are only results. - Tony Robbins % We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa % You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. - Walt Schmidt % Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. - Henry David Thoreau % Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle % It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish. - Katharine Hepburn % I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility. - Eliot Spitzer % I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation. - Lorrie Fair % Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. - Norman Ralph Augustine % A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. - Andre Gide % We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. - Author Unknown % You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Author Unknown % No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. - J. Petit Senn % Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war. - John Shebbeare % Everyone has naturally the power of excelling in some one thing. - Proverb % Lots of things that couldn't be done have been done. - Charles Auston Bates % It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. - Montaigne % Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin % The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them. - Maya Angelou % Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. - Emily Dickenson % He who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche % Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back % He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. - Niccolo Machiavelli % I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason. - Juvenal % Men's best successes come after their disappointments. - Henry Ward Beecher % The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. - Richard Monckton Milnes % Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends. - Isocrates % Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. - Walter Dill Scott % Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. - Zig Ziglar % Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination. - Anonymous % Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth. - Anonymous % One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. - Wayne Gretzky % A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. - William Shedd % To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. - Eva Young % Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer. - Marcia Wieder % Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. - Abd-el-Kadar % Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. - William Ellery Channing % It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius % People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. - Josh Bilings % Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. - Helmut Schmidt % Sometimes we are limited more by attitude than by opportunities. - Anonymous % The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. - Nido Qubein % Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them. - Richard Bach % Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. - Bern Williams % You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop. - Deepak Chopra % Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. - Napoleon Hill % Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed. - C. H. Parkhurst % Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. - Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog % Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. - Thomas Fuller % What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. - Thomas Sprat % It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb % The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you. - Elmer Davis % What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill % The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. - Unknown % You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. - Uncle Remus % If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be. - Anonymous % We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less. - Anonymous % The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. - Unknown % Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb % The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. - Richard Bach % If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. - Napoleon Hill % Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. - Zig Ziglar % The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain % I don't think any collector knows his true motivation. - Robert Mapplethorpe % If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. - Noel Coward % Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. - Lou Holtz % Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. - Saint Augustine % A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb % Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana % The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. - Lord Bacon % Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. - George Herman ""Babe"" Ruth % What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent van Gogh % Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater. - Epictetus % The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be. - Socrates % The first man gets the oyster; the second man gets the shell. - Andrew Carnegie % The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. - Confucius % The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. - G.K. Chesterton % Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running. - Zig Ziglar % It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw % Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. - Bach, Richard % But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa. - Dennis Brown % Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports. - Katarina Witt % Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown % He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert % Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein % The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt % Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. - Napoleon Hill % Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. - George F. Will % The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius % It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. - Vince Lombardi % A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. - Bo Bennett % Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson % I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation. - Leigh Steinberg % Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. - Jim Ryun % God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. - Author Unknown % He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one. - Wally Schirra % It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command. - Ned Beatty % The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. - Roger Babson % If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. - Yogi Berra % Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. - Oliver Wendell Holmes % Friendship, like phosphorus, shines brightest when all around is dark. - Proverb % Make not thy friend to cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. - Thomas Fuller % Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with. - Robert Leighton % Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars.. - Les Brown % You have to 'be'' before you can 'do', and do before you can 'have'. - Zig Ziglar % The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius % Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain % Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference. - Zig Ziglar % There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou % Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave. - Constantin Brancusi % You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. - Robert F. Kennedy % Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe % Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults. - Chinese Proverb % How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson % The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle % If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else. - Yogi Berra % They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. - Sir Philip Sidney % A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendall Holmes % Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. - Bruce Lee % Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw % To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. - Dave Weinbaum % All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney % To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain % Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. - Unknown % Out of the strain of the doing, Into the peace of the done. - Julia Woodruff, Gone % The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. - Barry Commoner % If God had wanted us to read minds He would have given us glass heads. - Anonymous % If you would create something, you must be something. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe % Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself. - A. Bronson Alcott % Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. - Epicurus % We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. - Ovid % The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition. - William Wordsworth % Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. - Jonathan Swift % All for one and one for all. - Motto from the Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas % If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton % The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. - Ralph Waldo Emereson % People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. - Earl Nightingale % Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. - Earl Nightingale % Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton % Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. - Helen Adams Keller % You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. - Joe Sabah % Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein % The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain % The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand % Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe % Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. - Plato % We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were. - Natash Jasefowitz % What we call ""morals"" is simply blind obedience to words of command. - Henry Ellis % I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Patrick Henry % Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. - Anonymous % Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. - Epictetus % Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb % The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. - Richard Cech % If you would know the road ahead, ask someone who has traveled it. - Chinese Proverb % One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness. - William Feather % Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. - Earl Nightingale % Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you. - Anonymous % Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue. - Albert Einstein % The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. - Deepak Chopra % There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. - Robert Fripp % A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe % The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. - Author Unknown % It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld % Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them. - Marcel Proust % Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. - Edward Eggleston % The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet. - Seneca the Younger % Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction. - Author Unknown % If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. - Bruce Lee % If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer % Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, 'What happened?' - Anonymous % I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. - Maya Angelou % No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage. - Epictetus % First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus % Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill % Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo % That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. - James Taylor % Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes. - From a billboard advertisement % It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep. - Chas. Austin Bates % Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. - Leo Tolstoy % We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us. - Aristotle % Friends are like melons. You may try fifty before you find a good one. - Claude Mermet % The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese Proverb % The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. - Sir Francis Bacon % Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations. - Brain Tracy % A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe % Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. - Bruce Lee % The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. - Jennifer Yane % Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley % The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious. - Ferdinand Foch % There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader. - Alexandre Ledru-Rollin % In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. - Victor Cousins % The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. - William Penn % Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. - Doug Firebaugh % He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. - Thomas Fuller % It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others. - Michel de Montaigne % Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. - Carl Sandburg % Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. - George S. Patton % Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Mark Twain % Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill % Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain % Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. - Anthony Robbins % My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. - Alfred Lord Tennyson % I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams % Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand. - Lord Mountbatten % Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster % It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed. - William Winter % Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? - Robert Browning % People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest. - George Matthew Allen % If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison % It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. - Theodore Roosevelt % Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield % Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of eternity. - Jerome K. Jerome % In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer. - Albert Careb % The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance. - Gustavus F. Swift % The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon % Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. - Epictetus % If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. - Tony Robbins % I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. - Maya Angelou % Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful. - Zig Ziglar % Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. - Mason Cooley % Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. - Author Unknown % A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. - Ralph W. Sockman % I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. - Bill Watterson % Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep. - Miguel De Cervantes % You can't heal what you can't feel. You can't feel what you medicate. - Sharon W. Cruise % Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. - Viktor Frankl % One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. - Henry Adams % If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done. - Bruce Lee % Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius % Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. - Robert H. Schuller % I always try to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble. - Rudyard Kipling % If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. - Anonymous % Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius % The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done. - Allard Lowenstein % We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. - Winston Churchill % Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw % If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently. - Placido Domingo % I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them. - Vladimir Horowitz % The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt % Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck % You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton % Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game. - Winston Churchill % Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle % Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius % It is good to learn what to avoid by studying the misfortunes of others. - Publius Syrius % I get knocked down. But I get up again. You're never going to keep me down. - Chumbawamba % People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. - Anonymous % It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. - Bruce Lee % Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. - Danny Kaye % A lot of people seeking new beginnings have never finished with the past. - Byron Pulsifer % What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. - Ezra Pound % One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. - Jack Penn % In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. - George Bernard Shaw % Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. - Seamus Heaney % If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra % Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell % The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future. - Steven W. Hawking % If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world? - Ben Franklin % If money go before, all ways do lie open. - William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor % We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. - Gerald J. Simmons % Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship. - William Ellery % Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % What I must do is all that concerns me, not what other people think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. - Henry David Thoreau % All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. - Tony Robbins quote % We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls. - Winston Churchill % All the advice in the world will never help you until you help yourself. - Fred Van Amburgh % The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes... but that would be a mistake. - Anonymous % Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. - Andrew Carnegie % Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. - George Bernard Shaw % A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. - Marcel Proust % It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. - Arnold Bennett % I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. - Napoleon Bonaparte % To reach a port, we must sail - Sail, not tie at anchor - Sail, not drift. - Franklin Roosevelt % Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. - Thomas Hood % It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - Isaac Asimov % Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it! - Mazzini % If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. - Zen Proverb % Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle % Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli % Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. - Hans Selye % A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde % Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. - Leo Buscaglia % Surround yourself with people who are going to motivate and inspire you. - Charles M. Marcus % If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton % Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right. - Walt Disney % A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou % Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything. - Walt Whitman % The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. - Henry Ward Beecher % The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates % We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. - Denis Diderot % A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin % Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles. - James Sharp % Obvious thinking commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions. - Humphrey B. Neil % The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. - Denis Waitley % If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark % Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. - Henry Ward Beecher % Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese Proverb % Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot % Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. - Ringo Starr % The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going. - Robert Brault % At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic. - Ziaur Rahman % Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. - Aristotle % Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air. - Johann C. F. von Schiller % You will never ""find"" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. - Charles Bruxton % In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. - John Churton Collins % The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. - Henry W. Longfellow % Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton % Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague % A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped. - John C. Maxwell % I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. - George Burns % The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. - Deepak Chopra % If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream. - Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 % No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. - Denis Diderot % When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker % Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do. - Orison Swett Marden % I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier. - Napoleon I % People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. - Oliver Goldsmith % There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley % Although fate presents the circumstances, how you react depends on your character. - Anonymous % Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. - Bruce Lee % My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do. - Jim Rohn % Count your blessings! Things can always get better and could always be worse. - Donald Neviaser % Others believing in you is nice but worthless if not matched by your own thought. - Scott Moore % We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter. - Donald Norman % Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading. - Kevin Smith % Most people associate command and control leadership with the military. - Margaret J. Wheatley % No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn % If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. (Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe) - Latin Proverb % Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. - Benjamin Disraeli % On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows. - Edward Young % The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us. - Hamerton % I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best. - John Keats % I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward. - Firdtjof Nansen % Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. - Unknown % Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein % Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. - John Wooden % You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato % High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. - Charles F. Kettering % Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett % Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford % How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? - Anthony Robbins % We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. - Robert Brault % Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. - Dennis Waitley % There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. - Henry Ford % Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. - William Ellery Channing % There is no surer bond of friendship than an identity of community of ideas and tastes. - Cicero % When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you'll find a way to get it. - Jim Rohn % As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. - Tony Robbins % By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it. - Nikos Kazantzakis % Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide % Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. - Benjamin Franklin % The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. - Ernest Hemingway % Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation. - Roger Clemens % In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. - William J. Clinton % The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. - Michel de Montaigne % A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere. - La Rochefoucauld % You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. - James Lane Allen % The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials. - Danish Proverb % What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. - Proverb % If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. - Benjamin Franklin % Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it. - H. Clay Trumbull % In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult. - Epictetus % Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. - Benjamin Disraeli % Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. - Wayne Dyer % If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw % The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. - Maya Angelou % The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. - Dale Carnegie % Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill % Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin % If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. - J.M. Power % Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish somep'n. - Thomas Alva Edison % You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves. - Bob Nelson % It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. - J. Petit Senn % The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. - Kahlil Gibran % If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? - Lord Chesterfield % We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld % Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau % Difference of opinion was never, with me, a motive of separation from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson % The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. - James Beattie % Experience is by industry achieved And perfected by the swift course of time. - William Shakespeare % Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. - Sydney Smith % A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. - Anonymous % Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson % One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. - Lucille Ball % Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. - Tom Krause % Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. - Henry Ford % Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson % It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. - Brian Tracy % If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. - Lawrence J. Peter % Life's problems wouldn't be called hurdles if there wasn't a way to get over them. - Author Unknown % As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. - George Bernard Shaw % Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese Proverb % It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. - John Maynard Keynes % To measure is to know. - Francis Bacon % Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. - Abraham Lincoln % Whatever you are, be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln % Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? - Abraham Lincoln % America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln % My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. - Abraham Lincoln % Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln % My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. - Abraham Lincoln % I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down. - Abraham Lincoln % Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. - Abraham Lincoln % When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln % Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln % Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. - Abraham Lincoln % I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln % There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. - Abraham Lincoln % Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. - Abraham Lincoln % I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. - Abraham Lincoln % When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Abraham Lincoln % I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln % Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. - Abraham Lincoln % If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln % You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln % I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody. - Abraham Lincoln % All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. - Abraham Lincoln % Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln % I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. - Abraham Lincoln % Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln % No man is poor who has a Godly mother. - Abraham Lincoln % The best way to predict your future is to create it. - Abraham Lincoln % I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. - Abraham Lincoln % We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. - Abraham Lincoln % Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln % Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. - Abraham Lincoln % I will prepare and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln % No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. - Abraham Lincoln % My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work. - Abraham Lincoln % The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln % Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln % I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln % All I have learned, I learned from books. - Abraham Lincoln % Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln % I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln % Every man's happiness is his own responsibility. - Abraham Lincoln % I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. - Abraham Lincoln % You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln % I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln % It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't. - Abraham Lincoln % The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them. - Abraham Lincoln % It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln % You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. - Abraham Lincoln % You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln % If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln % You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry. - Abraham Lincoln % A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. - Abraham Lincoln % It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. - Abraham Lincoln % I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer. - Abraham Lincoln % I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise. - Abraham Lincoln % The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. - Abraham Lincoln % To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. - Abraham Lincoln % The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. - Abraham Lincoln % I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln % Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. - Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address % Achievement has no color. - Abraham Lincoln % When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. - Abraham Lincoln % Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. - Abraham Lincoln % I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. - Abraham Lincoln % No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. - Abraham Lincoln % The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. - Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832-1858 % We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. - Abraham Lincoln % I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. - Abraham Lincoln % If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. - Abraham Lincoln % My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln % The ballot is stronger than the bullet. - Abraham Lincoln % You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. - Abraham Lincoln % The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. - Abraham Lincoln % Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause. - Abraham Lincoln % As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln % Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. - Abraham Lincoln % Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself. - Abraham Lincoln % Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. - Abraham Lincoln % Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances. - Abraham Lincoln % If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work. - Abraham Lincoln % Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. - Abraham Lincoln % Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it. - Abraham Lincoln % You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence - Abraham Lincoln % Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible) - Abraham Lincoln % Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed. - Abraham Lincoln % Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way. - Abraham Lincoln % Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. - Abraham Lincoln % Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. - Abraham Lincoln % My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. - Abraham Lincoln % Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. - Abraham Lincoln % Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. - Abraham Lincoln % We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln % Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln % In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity. - Abraham Lincoln % That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. - Abraham Lincoln % If friendship is your weakest point, then you are the strongest person in the world. - Abraham Lincoln % You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak. - Abraham Lincoln % Force is all conquering, but its victories are short lived. - Abraham Lincoln % You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. - Abraham Lincoln % I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. - Abraham Lincoln % Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung - Abraham Lincoln % A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. - Abraham Lincoln % A tendency to melancholy... let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. - Abraham Lincoln % Life is hard but so very beautiful. - Abraham Lincoln % You cannot have the right to do what is wrong! - Abraham Lincoln % Nothing will divert me from my purpose. - Abraham Lincoln % It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. - Abraham Lincoln % The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next. - Abraham Lincoln % No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln % I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready. - Abraham Lincoln % Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me. - Abraham Lincoln % Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition. - Abraham Lincoln % If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. - Abraham Lincoln % Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. - Abraham Lincoln % I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No-when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. - Abraham Lincoln % Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. - Abraham Lincoln % I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. - Abraham Lincoln % A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. - Abraham Lincoln % I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. - Abraham Lincoln % Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. - Abraham Lincoln % In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time. - Abraham Lincoln % I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. - Abraham Lincoln % Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln % If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. - Abraham Lincoln % I am nothing, truth is everything. - Abraham Lincoln % Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die. - Abraham Lincoln % But for this book we could not know right from wrong. - Abraham Lincoln % Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself. - Abraham Lincoln % It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. - Abraham Lincoln % I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference. - Abraham Lincoln % People who have no vices, have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln % Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. - Abraham Lincoln % I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot. - Abraham Lincoln % If you think you can you can, if you think you can't you're right! - Abraham Lincoln % The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. - Abraham Lincoln % Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln % I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. - Abraham Lincoln % I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you cannot fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not. - Abraham Lincoln % I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down... - Abraham Lincoln % Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals. - Abraham Lincoln % The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. - Abraham Lincoln % I believe that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe. - Abraham Lincoln % Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent. - Abraham Lincoln % I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it. - Abraham Lincoln % If you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write something worth reading. - Abraham Lincoln % Writing is the great invention of the world. - Abraham Lincoln, Discoveries and Inventions: A Lecture by Abraham Lincoln Delivered in 1860 % And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln % I was a little cross. I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper, I have no sufficient time to keep it up. - Abraham Lincoln % He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. - Abraham Lincoln % Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous. - Abraham Lincoln % A house divided cannot stand. - Abraham Lincoln % The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. - Abraham Lincoln % If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again. - Abraham Lincoln, Quotations of Abraham Lincoln % A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home. - Abraham Lincoln % What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree. - Abraham Lincoln % Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself. - Abraham Lincoln % What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? - Abraham Lincoln % The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends. - Abraham Lincoln % Investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Abraham Lincoln % Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. - Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and Other Speeches % What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. - Abraham Lincoln % And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. - Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress July 4th, 1861 % Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. - Abraham Lincoln % I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln % Too big to cry, too young to laugh... - Abraham Lincoln % ...but let us judge not that we be not judged. - Abraham Lincoln % There can be glory in failure and despair in success. - Abraham Lincoln % Everybody likes compliment. - Abraham Lincoln % Important principles may and must be inflexible. - Abraham Lincoln % IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting. - Abraham Lincoln % Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts. - Abraham Lincoln % The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. - Abraham Lincoln % He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand - Abraham Lincoln % If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. - Abraham Lincoln % The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. - Abraham Lincoln % To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of men. - Abraham Lincoln % Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. - Abraham Lincoln % The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. - Abraham Lincoln % Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. - Abraham Lincoln % The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. - Abraham Lincoln % Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. - Abraham Lincoln % The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln % A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure. - President Abraham Lincoln % To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing. - Abraham Lincoln % Avoid popularity if you would have peace. - Abraham Lincoln % To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me. - Abraham Lincoln % I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. - Abraham Lincoln % If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. - Abraham Lincoln % Military glory - that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood - that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy... - Abraham Lincoln % One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both. - Abraham Lincoln % A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall. - Abraham Lincoln % Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. - Abraham Lincoln % The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln % There has never been but one question in all civilization - how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it. - Abraham Lincoln % The most altruistic man is the most selfish. - Abraham Lincoln % If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes. - Abraham Lincoln % I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. - Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln % Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart. - Abraham Lincoln % People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. - Abraham Lincoln % The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid. - Abraham Lincoln % It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. - Abraham Lincoln % Teach the children so it won't be necessary to teach the adults. - Abraham Lincoln % If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier - Abraham Lincoln % You can lose everything in life, but not dreams. - Abraham Lincoln % If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe. - Abraham Lincoln % And this, too, shall pass away. - Abraham Lincoln % While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. - Abraham Lincoln % Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. - Abraham Lincoln % When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln % In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more successful man in the great struggle of life, than many others, who have entered college more easily. - Abraham Lincoln % The best thing a man can do for his children is love their mother. - Abraham Lincoln % The only way to predict the future is to create it. - Abraham Lincoln % Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. - Abraham Lincoln % A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded. - Abraham Lincoln % I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse. - Abraham Lincoln % Everyone desires to live long, but no one would be old. - Abraham Lincoln % I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them - Abraham Lincoln % With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. - Abraham Lincoln % I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. - Abraham Lincoln % You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. - Abraham Lincoln % ... that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863 % If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad. - Abraham Lincoln % Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by and election, neither can they take by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war. - Abraham Lincoln % How weak and fruitless must be any word of mine. - Abraham Lincoln % I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side...allow bygones to be bygones and look to the present & future only. - Abraham Lincoln % The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people. - Abraham Lincoln % Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold. - Abraham Lincoln % I have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke... - Abraham Lincoln % So, you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! - Abraham Lincoln % I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. - Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln % My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. - Abraham Lincoln % And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! - Abraham Lincoln % If by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly, would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case. - Abraham Lincoln % The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves. - Abraham Lincoln % The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, "It's a slip and not a fall." - Abraham Lincoln % All over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. - Abraham Lincoln % As our case is new, we must think and act anew. - Abraham Lincoln % No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. - Abraham Lincoln % Fourscore and seven years ago... - Abraham Lincoln % Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend? - Abraham Lincoln % So true it is that man proposes and God disposes. - Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings % Must is the word... You cannot fail if you resolutely determine that you will not... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. - Abraham Lincoln % I never tire of reading Tom Paine. - Abraham Lincoln % She won't think anything about it. - Abraham Lincoln % Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government. - Abraham Lincoln % I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable - nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. - Abraham Lincoln % If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him. - Abraham Lincoln % I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things. - Abraham Lincoln % I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him. - Abraham Lincoln % God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them. - Abraham Lincoln % Everything I ever learned, I learned from books. - Abraham Lincoln % He is not my equal in many respects, but in his right to enjoy 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,' in his right to put into his mouth the bread that his hands have earned, he is my equal... - Abraham Lincoln % Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse." - Abraham Lincoln % I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln, Words of Abraham Lincoln % I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. - Abraham Lincoln, The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: All Volumes % Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen. - Abraham Lincoln % We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln % Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty. - Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln % I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined. - Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln % I would just as soon die now, but I haven't done anything yet to be remembered by. - Abraham Lincoln % We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. - Abraham Lincoln % A chair that reclines is mighty fine. - Abraham Lincoln % Gentlemen, reading from speeches is a very tedious business, particularly for an old man that has to put on spectacles, and more so if the man be so tall that he has to bend over to the light. - Abraham Lincoln, Writings of Abraham Lincoln % As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. - Abraham Lincoln % The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shoreline of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge. - Abraham Lincoln % A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. - Abraham Lincoln % If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on - Abraham Lincoln % He who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed. - Abraham Lincoln, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates % No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God. - Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation % Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe. - Abraham Lincoln % Advancement - improvement in condition - is the order of things in a society of equals. - Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln % As to your proposals that a poll shall be opened in every precinct, and that the whole shall take place on the same day, I do not personally object. - Abraham Lincoln, The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 2: 1843-1858 % A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. - Abraham Lincoln % The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. - Abraham Lincoln % With Malice Towards None. - Abraham Lincoln % The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path. - Abraham Lincoln % And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln % Don't believe everything you read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln % I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do. - Abraham Lincoln % I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. (From the Prayer of Twenty Millions by Horace Greeley 1862) - Abraham Lincoln % My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union and it is not I that is to save or destroy slavery. (The Prayer of Twenty Millions by Horace Greeley 1862) - Abraham Lincoln % When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing. - Abraham Lincoln % People without any vices rarely have any virtues either. - Abraham Lincoln % If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. - Abraham Lincoln % An ant's life was to it, as sweet as ours to us. - Abraham Lincoln % Be guided by reason. Cold calculated unimpassioned reason. - Abraham Lincoln % The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. - Abraham Lincoln % Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move." - Abraham Lincoln % To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government. - Abraham Lincoln % Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. - Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Quotations and Sayings: Spurious % If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. - Abraham Lincoln % Don't criticize the; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances. - Abraham Lincoln % I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln % And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln % The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well. - Abraham Lincoln % Once said that his political adversary dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew. - Abraham Lincoln % When you have succeeded in dehumanizing the Negro, when you have put him down, are you quite sure that the demon you have roused will not turn and rend you. - Abraham Lincoln % All I can do is the best I can do. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. - Abraham Lincoln % Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.... - Abraham Lincoln, Writings of Abraham Lincoln % If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. - Abraham Lincoln % We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. - Abraham Lincoln |