Insist on yourself. Never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one outside myself can rule me inwardly. Knowing this I become wholly free.
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Conscience is God’s presence in man.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
A hostile person lives in a hostile world. A loving person lives in a loving world.
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. – Jonathan Winters
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Marcel Proust
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times… it’s the only time you’ve got.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable. – Benjamin Franklin
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boese
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda
Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Chinese Proverb
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach
Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. – William Hazlitt
The wise seek wisdom, a fool has found it.
Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
The road to success is always under construction.
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
To err is human. To forgive, divine.
Nearly all men can stand adversity… but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. – Bryant H. McGill
Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
No one has ever hurt their eyes by looking at the brighter side of life.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Believe that you have it, and you have it.
If you’re too open minded, your brains will fall out.
Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it. – Marva Collins
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill
There are two ways of spreading light… To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. – Saint Augustine
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Remember you are unique, just like everybody else.
They can because they think they can.
Parenthood is the art of bringing up children without putting them down.
Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. – William Ward
Progress is like a wheelbarrow, if you stop pushing the wheelbarrow it stops.
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Ghandi
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
If you are going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
Once we have found the true path, destiny unfolds before us like a red carpet.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
What you love, you empower. And what you fear, you empower. And what you empower, you attract. – The Talmud
Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more.
The best things in life are not things.
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.
You grow to heaven. You don’t go to heaven.
We can’t stop the waves, but we can learn to surf. – Jonathan Kabat-Zinn
We are such little men when the stars come out. – Herman Hagedorn
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. – Ron Wild
The soul is healed by being with children.
Leap and the net will appear. – Zen Saying
A wise man sometimes changes his mind, a fool never.
Good friends are like stars – you don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.
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
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. – Sicilian Proverb
Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. – Jackie Windspear
It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.
When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself.
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
We each have a choice: to approach life as a creator or a critic, a lover or a hater, a giver or a taker.
If you lend someone £20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. – J. Robert Oppenheimer
There’s nothing wrong with drinking like a fish…providing you drink what a fish drinks.
It’s better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – André Gide
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. – Bil Keane
Gratitude makes a person modest. A sense of gratitude expands the heart.
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The measure of love is to love without measure. – Mother Teresa
We can’t stop the waves, but we can learn to surf. – Jonathan Kabat-Zinn
Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. – Thomas Jefferson
When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved. – Mother Teresa
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think. – James Beattie
Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. – Wendell Johnson
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
We tend to live up to our expectations. – Earl Nightingale
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. – Epictetus
The wealthiest of all are those who are pure hearted.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
