To succeed jump as quickly to opportunities as you do at conclusions. Winning is not everything but wanting to is. Courage is resistance to fear not absence of fear. You may delay but time will not There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder, "What just happened?" The future is directly proportional to how you live the present and the present proportional to the past. Sometimes we need to look back to the things we did in the past to get a perspective on the future. If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging: it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. Ability is what you're capable of doing... Motivation determines what you do... Attitude determines how well you do it. A candle brightens the world around it. Unfortunately, it creates a shadow of its own. It still serves the purpose it is meant for. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (William James) A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one. Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you become, and still gently invites you to grow. A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight and walks beside you in the shadows. After months of training and you finally understand all of a program's commands, a revised version of the program arrives with an all-new command structure. (Thoreau's First Theory of Adaptation) A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. (Hugh Downs) A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism. All your dreams come true, if you have the courage to pursue them. (Walt Disney) All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. Always and Never are two words to always remember never to use. Always leave loved ones with loving words, it may be the last time you see them. A man who thinks he is smarter than his wife, has a very smart wife! A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. (louis L'Amour) A more expensive tennis racket will not make you a better player. An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Anyone who is not a socialist at 16 has no heart, but anyone who still is at 32 has no mind. (Woodrow Wilson). A penny saved is a penny earned, and a penny spent, is a penny enjoyed. A person can fail many times, but they are not really a failure until they start to blame someone else. A relationship is like sand in your hand. If held loosely in the palm of your hand it stays there, but as soon as you close your hand tightly it slips through your fingers. A relationship is like that held tenderly with respect for the other person it last, but once you close your hand to hold on tightly it slips through your fingers A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. (John A. Shedd) A single reason why you can do something is worth 100 reasons why you can't. Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life. (Chinese proverb) A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner A stand can be made against invasion of an army; no stand can be made against invasion of an idea. A ton of regret never made an ounce of difference. A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense. A woman's heart is like a campfire; if you don't tend it often the flame will go out. (Willie M. Lawrence) Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them. Coming together is a beginning, Staying together is progress, Working together is success. (Henry Ford) Confrontation doesn't always bring a solution to the problem, but until you confront the problem, there will be no solution. (James Baldwin) Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon) Don't be afraid of opposition; Remember a kite rises against, not with the wind. Don't be irreplaceable -- if you can't be replaced, you won't be promoted. Don't let people drive you crazy when it is within walking distance. Do one thing at time, with supreme excellence. (NASA proverb) Even though a marriage is made in heaven, the maintenance work has to be done here on earth! Excuses are the easiest things to manufacture, and the hardest things to sell. Expect people to do better than they are..it helps them to become better; but, don't be disappointed when they are not- it helps them to keep trying. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson) I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. (Diane Ackerman) If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener...it must be all the fertilizer they are using! (Kevin Rodowicz) If you ever need a helping hand, there is one at the end of your arm. If you only have the Word, you will dry up. If you only have the Spirit, you will blow up. But if you have the Word and the Spirit, you will go up and grow up. I have learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different. (James Rhinehart) I have never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat. It is difficult to "go with the flow" when you are swimming upstream. I've to say NO to the good so I can say YES to the best. Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Luck is a loser's excuse for a winner's position! Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct; what they like to be is a man's last romance. My love is like a cabbage, divided into two, The leaves I give to others but the heart I give to you. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. (Ashleigh Brilliant) Others may argue your beliefs, but they can't refuse your love. there are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those. Plenty of love, Tons of kisses, Hope some day, To be your Mrs. Share your smile with everyone, but save your kiss for only one. That which you cannot give away, you don't possess; it possesses you. The cold absolute truth is much more preferred than a kind and uncertain lie. (Gabe Suico) The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary. The only way to be free is to limit yourself. (Jason Benson) The opinion of the intelligent is better than the certainty of the ignorant. (Egyptian proverb) Absence makes the heart grow fonder. All's well that ends well The difficult is done at once; the impossible takes a little longer. A lie can go around the world and back while the truth is lacing up its boots Fight fire with fire Don’t set a wolf to watch the sheep. The best defense is a good offense People will often say the good reason, not the real reason. Right timing is in all things the most important factor. Half the truth is often a whole lie. Women are like tea bags, You never know how strong they really are until you put them in hot water. Be a God and hold me with a charm! Be a man and fold me with thine arm True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does Love that we can not have Is the one that lasts the longest, Hurts the deepest And feels the strongest. I have loved to the point of madness That which is called madness That which to me Is the sensible way to love In a sense our love is like a rose That blooms into something beautiful But unlike the rose Our love will never die Creation of Woman from the rib of Man: She was not made from his head to top him; Nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him; But out of his side to be equal with him, Under his arm to be protected, And near his heart to be loved. My love for you is a journey; Starting at forever, And ending at never The only things in life you regret, Are the risks that you didn't take. No matter where you go, However far away, A part of me will be with you And a part of you, with me, will stay I like not only to be loved, But to be told I am loved The only way to understand any woman is to love her... And then it isn't necessary to understand her. If it weren't for women, Men would still be Wearing last week's socks Shopping is better than sex. If you're not satisfied after shopping You can make an exchange For something you really like. I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet. I remember thinking Sometimes we walk Sometimes we run away But I know No matter how fast we are running Some how we keep Some how we keep up with each other Some of us think holding on makes us strong; But sometimes it is letting go. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. The greatest happiness of life Is the conviction that we are loved Loved for ourselves, or rather, Loved in spite of ourselves Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away To love someone deeply Gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply Gives you courage " If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. " -Lyaal Watson. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. Ray Bradbury Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. Edgard Varese Getting caught is the mother of invention. Robert Byrne There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. Ludwig Erhard To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant What's another word for Thesaurus? Steven Wright I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright Let the punishment match the offense. Marcus Tullius Cicero A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. Segal's Law If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. Lyndon B. Johnson It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. G. K. Chesterton In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. King Edward VIII A good listener is usually thinking about something else. Kin Hubbard Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? Charlie McCarthy One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. Efficiency is intelligent laziness. David Dunham It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. William G. McAdoo When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' Don Marquis We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean-Paul Sartre You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. Jerry Seinfeld Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. Cyril Connolly We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. Samuel Johnson What is now proved was once only imagin'd.