The light which experience gives
is a lantern on the stern,
which shines only
on the waves behind us.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
– Longfellow
You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandparents were.
– Irish Proverb
The basic problem in the world today is that there is too much religion and not enough common sense.
– Richard G. Harms
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
No one is liable to make more mistakes than
the man who acts only on reflection.
– Vauvenargues
Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.
– Melanie Gustafson
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life: reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.
– Robert Anthony
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
– Alfred Korzybski
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
– Harold Taylor
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
– Lynn Johnston
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
– Dylan Marlais Thomas, 1914 – 1953
All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that “luck” is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.
– Unknown
He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
– Arabian Proverb
Nothing else can quite substitute
for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere
words of praise.
They’re absolutely free
and worth a fortune.
– Sam Walton
To the North American Indian, „medicine‰ meant more than a substance to restore health and vitality to a sick or maladjusted body. Medicine was energy–a vital power or force that was inherent in Nature itself. A person‚s medicine was their power–the inherent expression of ttheir own life-energy system. „Medicine Wheel‰ meant a circle of generated energy under the control of mind, which provided knowledge of that power. „Medicine,‰ then, is personal empowerment.
– Kenneth Meadows
A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes.
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 – 1948
‘Taint’t worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
– Sarah Orne Jewett
If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.
– John A. Wheeler
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth…”
– Albert Einstein
“Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”
– Samuel Johnson
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
– Robertson Davies
As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
– Victoria Principal
The feeble tremble before opinion,
the foolish defy it,
the wise judge it and
the skillful direct it.
– Jeane Platiere
“I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do.”
– Arthur Warwick
“When two people love each other, they don’t look at each other, they look in the same direction
– Ginger Rogers
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
– Anatole France
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
– William James
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
– Mark Twain
“Believe you can, and you can.”
– Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)
Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.
– Gore Vidal
“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Anonymous