Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

The soul is healed by being with children.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. – Epictetus

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Marcel Proust

Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. – Jackie Windspear

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

A wise man sometimes changes his mind, a fool never.

Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.

The wealthiest of all are those who are pure hearted.

Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. – Albert Einstein

You grow to heaven. You don’t go to heaven.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

If you are going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

Believe that you have it, and you have it.

When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself.

There’s nothing wrong with drinking like a fish…providing you drink what a fish drinks.

Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more.

We each have a choice: to approach life as a creator or a critic, a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.

A hostile person lives in a hostile world. A loving person lives in a loving world.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

What you love, you empower. And what you fear, you empower. And what you empower, you attract. – The Talmud

It’s better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi

They can because they think they can.

Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Chinese Proverb

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boese

Gratitude makes a person modest. A sense of gratitude expands the heart.

Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.

To err is human. To forgive, divine.

The best things in life are not things.

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

If you lend someone £20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.

The road to success is always under construction.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Good friends are like stars – you don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.

Parenthood is the art of bringing up children without putting them down.

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. – William Hazlitt

Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts

Leap and the net will appear. – Zen Saying

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. – Bryant H. McGill

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. – Bil Keane

We are such little men when the stars come out. – Herman Hagedorn

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. – Wendell Johnson

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. – Benjamin Franklin

Insist on yourself. Never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr Seuss

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. – Winston Churchill

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

Progress is like a wheelbarrow, if you stop pushing the wheelbarrow it stops.

We tend to live up to our expectations. – Earl Nightingale

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.

Conscience is God’s presence in man.

The measure of love is to love without measure. – Mother Teresa

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Ghandi

Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda

No one outside myself can rule me inwardly. Knowing this I become wholly free.

We can’t stop the waves, but we can learn to surf. – Jonathan Kabat-Zinn

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Jonathan Winters

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. – William Ward

Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times… it’s the only time you’ve got.

I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

Once we have found the true path, destiny unfolds before us like a red carpet.

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

No one has ever hurt their eyes by looking at the brighter side of life.

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved. – Mother Teresa

Remember you are unique, just like everybody else.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – André Gide

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. – Ron Wild

The wise seek wisdom, a fool has found it.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. – Sicilian Proverb

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.

Nearly all men can stand adversity… but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

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

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.

If you’re too open minded, your brains will fall out.

Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it. – Marva Collins

We can’t stop the waves, but we can learn to surf. – Jonathan Kabat-Zinn

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. – Thomas Jefferson

There are two ways of spreading light… To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. – Saint Augustine

The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. – James Beattie