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PEACE OF MIND The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

HAPPINESS There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson

ACCEPTANCE God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr

FORGIVENESS Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them. Aughey

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. Jean Vanier

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE Make yourself necessary to somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson

FRIENDSHIP True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. Dave Tyson Gentry

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD When we lose God, it is not God who is lost. Anon

FAITH AND BELIEF Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. Guideposts

PRAYER Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. John Aikman Wallace

SELF-ACCEPTANCE You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself. William J.H. Boetcker

SELF-CONTROL Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. George Bernard Shaw

SELF-CONFIDENCE Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. Stan Smith

SIMPLICITY What I do, I do very well, and what I don’t do well, I don’t do at all. Anon

ONE DAY Nothing in business is so valuable as time. John H. Patterson

YESTERDAY: THE PAST Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old days” you’re going to miss in the years ahead. Anon

TODAY: THE PRESENT The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. Elbert Hubbard

THIS MOMENT If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done. Anon

MORNINGS Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start. Edgar Watson Howe

EVENINGS Sum up at night what thou has done by day. Lord Herbert

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire

DIFFICULT DAYS The secret of patience … to do something else in the meantime. Anon

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. Madeline Bridges

ENTHUSIASM Give me a man who sings at his work. Thomas Carlyle

HOPE Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier. Anon

VISUALIZATION We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. Konrad Adenauer

ROLE MODELS Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burke

CHANGE Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

DECISIONS Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter Drucker

INSTINCTS Systems die; instincts remain. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US Skills vary. We must … strive by that which is born in us. Pindar

MOTIVATION To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Baruch Spinoza

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. Lin Yutang

GOALS The one thing worth living for is to keep one’s soul pure. Marcus Aurelius

FEAR Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid. Ron Meyer

WORRY Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts. Howard Chandler Christy

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning. George Eliot

SECURITY There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. General Douglas MacArthur

RISKS No one reaches a high position without daring. Publilius Syrus

COURAGE To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius

WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you. Anon

COMMITMENT If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Michael Evans

GETTING GOING Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. Brendan Francis

SUCCESS The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Sir William Osler

LUCK The one who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. B.C. Forbes

OPPORTUNITY The successful person is one who had the chance and took it. Roger Babson

COMMITMENT Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. Isaac Barrow

CONCENTRATION Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. Colonel Michael Friedsman

WORK Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. Ulysses S. Grant

PERFECTION The person with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. Johann von Goethe

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. Katheryn Hulme

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. Lord Chesterfield

PERSEVERANCE They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful. Samuel Smiles

PROBLEMS Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. Corrie ten Bloom

FAILURES AND MISTAKES Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. Bertolt Brecht

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind. Frank Harris

REACTING TO EVENTS What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. George Levinger

SELF-PITY Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Helen Keller

PEACE OF MIND Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. Lin Yutang

HAPPINESS Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou

ACCEPTANCE We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr.

FORGIVENESS The angry people are those people who are most afraid. Dr. Robert Anthony

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. Karl Barth

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well. Foe Ancis

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. Vauvenargues

FRIENDSHIP The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen. Bob Lemon

ACCEPTANCE Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity. G.K. Chesterton

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost. Anon

FAITH AND BELIEF Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. Erich Fromm

PRAYER Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard

SELF-ACCEPTANCE I’m not OK, you’re not OK - and that’s OK. William Sloane Coffin

SELF-CONTROL When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something. Robert Browning

SELF-RELIANCE Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. Frank Tyger

SIMPLICITY What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Confucius

ONE DAY Nothing is worth more than this day. Johann von Goethe

YESTERDAY: THE PAST Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big. Audrey Snead

TODAY: THE PRESENT It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Jim Bishop

THIS MOMENT The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. Mignon McLaughlin

MORNINGS With each sunrise, we start anew. Anon

EVENINGS Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. Scottish proverb

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. Isak Dinesen

AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS Being bored is an insult to oneself. Jules Renard

DIFFICULT DAYS Pain is never permanent. Saint Teresa of Avila

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. Herbert Samuels

ENTHUSIASM You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. Colette

HOPE Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without. LeRoy Douglas

VISUALIZATION A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it. Anon

ROLE MODELS People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves. Tyron Edwards

CHANGE Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another. Arthur Christopher Benson

DECISIONS Full maturity … is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make. Angela Barron McBride

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Joan Baez

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US There is just one life for each of us: our own. Euripides

MOTIVATION Don’t let other people tell you what you want. Pat Riley

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. Mignon McLaughlin

GOALS If you don’t know where you are going, how can you expect to get there? Basil S. Walsh

FEAR We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Marcus Annaeus Seneca

WORRY If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset. Krishnamurti

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it. Olin Miller

SECURITY To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. Marcus Annaeus Seneca

RISKS It takes courage to lead a life. Any life. Erica Jong

COURAGE It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. James A. Michener

WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Sir Winston Churchill

“IGNORANCE” Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do. Edgar Degas

GETTING GOING We will not know unless we begin. Howard Zinn

SUCCESS Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. Helen Hayes

LUCK You don’t just luck into things … You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities. Barbara Bush

OPPORTUNITY Opportunity knocks but once. Anon

COMMITMENT He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides. George P. Schultz

CONCENTRATION One arrow does not bring down two birds. Turkish proverb

WORK To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? Katharine Graham

PERFECTION If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. Gaelic proverb

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Friedrich Engels

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. Madame Marquise du Deffand

PERSEVERANCE It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day. Willie Mays

PROBLEMS Every path has its puddle. English proverb

FAILURES AND MISTAKES Our mistakes won’t irreparably damage our lives unless we let them. James E. Sweaney

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income. Robert R. Updegraff

REACTING TO EVENTS When things go wrong, don’t go with them. Anon

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington

SELF-PITY The opposite of having faith is having self-pity. Og Guinness

PEACE OF MIND If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. Paula A. Bendry

HAPPINESS It is in his pleasure that a man really lives. Agnes Repplier

ACCEPTANCE Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

FORGIVENESS The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Ghandi

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. Ruth Ann Schabacker

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are. R.H. Stoddard

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot

FRIENDSHIP There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Saint Thomas Aquinas

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD Let God love you through others and let God love others through you. D.M. Street

FAITH AND BELIEF I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Tm. 4:7

CHANGE A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. Sir Winston Churchill

SELF-KNOWLEDGE When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live. Norvin G. McGranahan

SELF-ACCEPTANCE Do not wish to be anything but what you are. Saint Francis de Sales

SELF-CONFIDENCE As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann von Goethe

SELF-RELIANCE The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm. Swedish proverb

SIMPLICITY There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself. Erich Fromm

ONE DAY We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. George MacDonald

YESTERDAY: THE PAST Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it. Anon

TODAY: THE PRESENT Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. Horace

MORNINGS If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly. Marcus Annaeus Seneca

EVENINGS Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Eph. 14:26

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein

DIFFICULT DAYS God grant us patience! William Shakespeare

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

ENTHUSIASM The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. William McFee

CHANGE Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. Eric Hoffer

VISUALIZATION We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon. Konrad Adenauer

ROLE MODELS A good example is the best sermon. Anon

CHANGE Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. Bertolt Brecht

FORGIVENESS One forgives to the degree that one loves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

INSTINCTS The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones. Soren Kierkegaard

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints. Joan L. Brannon

MOTIVATION We talk on principle, but we act on interest. Walter Savage Landor

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. Jean Vanier

GOALS You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. Billy Wilder

FEAR Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill. Shih King

WORRY Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. Swedish proverb

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES The only certainty is that nothing is certain. Pliny, the Elder

SECURITY No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather

RISKS Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you cannot take the cubs. Japanese proverb

COURAGE Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. John Dewey

WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. Victor Hugo

“IGNORANCE” No one knows what he can do until he tries. Publilius Syrus

GETTING GOING If we really want to live, we’d better start at once to try. W.H. Auden

SUCCESS Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry Ford

OPPORTUNITY I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. Mark Twain

COMMITMENT If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Michael Evans

WORK Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. David Bly

PERFECTION Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams. Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO God doesn’t make orange juice, God makes oranges. Jesse Jackson

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME The distance doesn’t matter; only the first step is difficult. Madame Marquise du Deffand

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

PERSEVERANCE It isn’t hard to be good from time to time … What’s tough is being good every day. Willie Mays

FAILURES AND MISTAKES The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Eleanor Roosevelt

REACTING TO EVENTS Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office. Abraham Lincoln

SELF-PITY Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. André Gide

PEACE OF MIND Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict. Anon

HAPPINESS Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle

ACCEPTANCE One cannot get through life without pain … What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

FORGIVENESS Judge not, that ye be not judged. Mt. 7:1

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS The mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE Charity begins at home, and usually stays there. Elbert Hubbard

HAPPINESS Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain

FRIENDSHIP When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing. Anon

HAPPINESS Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy? A Course In Miracles

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. Lin Yutang

PRAYER The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God. Oswald Chambers

PERSEVERANCE The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes

SELF-ACCEPTANCE Do not wish to be anything but what you are. Saint Francis de Sales

HAPPINESS Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. John Barrymore

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it. Malcolm Forbes

HAPPINESS Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. Anon

ONE DAY We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. George MacDonald

ACCEPTANCE Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell

FORGIVENESS Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. Harriet Uts Nelson

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us. Thomas Fuller

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves. William Hazlitt

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein

FRIENDSHIP We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. Thucydides

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS You can promote your healing by your thinking. James E. Sweeney

PRAYER When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide. Anon

HOPE All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas

ACCEPTANCE Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change! J.C.F. von Schiller

CHANGE There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change. Rollo May

DECISIONS Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. Harry A. Hopf

FORGIVENESS They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do. Anon

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. George Burns

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. Jean Vanier

GOALS Never try to catch two frogs with one hand. Chinese proverb

FEAR Fear is the absence of faith. Paul Tillich

WORRY Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. Swedish proverb

ACCEPTANCE If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job. Malcolm Forbes

FORGIVENESS It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. Madame Dorothee Deluzy

RISKS Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. General George S. Patton

COURAGE Confidence … is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. John Dewey

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have. Ken Keyes, Jr.

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. Dante Alighieri

ACCEPTANCE Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. Anon

SUCCESS A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. William Hazlitt

OPPORTUNITY I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. Mark Twain

FORGIVENESS When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. Norman Vincent Peale

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. English proverb

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy. Luther Burbank

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles. 2 Chr.

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese proverb

FRIENDSHIP It is easier to visit friends than to live with them. Chinese proverb

PEACE OF MIND There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better. L. Thomas Holdcroft

HAPPINESS Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln

ACCEPTANCE The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. George Bernard Shaw

FORGIVENESS Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon. Arthur J. Rehrat

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don’t make. Bill Veeck

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure. Ogden Nash

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

FRIENDSHIP One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness. William E. Holler

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives. Phillip Hewett

PRAYER When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can. Edward M. Goulburn

SELF-ACCEPTANCE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

SELF-CONFIDENCE Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Thomas Merton

SELF-RELIANCE The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles

SIMPLICITY To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa

ONE DAY The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now. Anon

YESTERDAY: THE PAST Never let yesterday use up today. Richard H. Nelson

PRAYER Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. Satchel Paige

MORNINGS When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature. Sydney Smith

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe

ENTHUSIASM Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. Dwight D. Eisenhower

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city. William A. Hulbert

VISUALIZATION Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born. Solomon

ACCEPTANCE If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters. Abigail Van Buren

CHANGE Nothing in this world is permanent. German proverb

INSTINCTS It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. Thomas Carlyle

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

MOTIVATION A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Napoleon Bonaparte

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS We cannot all be masters. William Shakespeare

GOALS Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven’t even begun to live. William P. Merrill

FEAR If you are afraid for your future, you don’t have a present. James Petersen

WORRY Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. A.J. Cronin

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca

RISKS In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge. Dennis Dugan

COURAGE Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation. Marcus Annaeus Seneca

GETTING GOING Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come. Janet Erskine Stuart

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had. Susan L. Lenzkes

GOALS It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. Johann von Goethe

RISKS Necessity is the mother of taking chances. Mark Twain

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS He has enough who is contented with little. Anon

ACCEPTANCE There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. C.M. Ward

PERSEVERANCE The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes

FAILURES AND MISTAKES The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Eleanor Roosevelt

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. Estonian proverb

FRIENDSHIP Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless. Turkish proverb

HAPPINESS No one gives joy or sorrow … We gather the consequences of our own deeds. Garuda Purana

ACCEPTANCE The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault. Charles Dudley Warner

FORGIVENESS Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness. Louis L’Amour

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS That which does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is. Frank A. Clark

ONE DAY I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. Golda Meir

FRIENDSHIP Friendship is a plant which must be often watered. Anon

MORNINGS Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

PRAYER Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks. The Desert Fathers

SELF-ACCEPTANCE To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. Anon

SELF-RELIANCE A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon

SIMPLICITY If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? Joe Namath

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS More than enough is too much. Anon

YESTERDAY: THE PAST The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. Max Beerbohm

TODAY: THE PRESENT So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by today’s economies. John Mason Brown

MORNINGS With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. Anon

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. Lin Yutang

ENTHUSIASM The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. Marshal Ferdinand Foch

HOPE Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. Anon

CHANGE When you’re through changing, you’re through. Bruce Barton

INSTINCTS Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. George Bernard Shaw

FRIENDSHIP Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor. Marcus Annaeus Seneca

PRAYER The fewer the words, the better the prayer. Martin Luther

FEAR The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert Hubbard

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. Henry L. Stimson

ENTHUSIASM The difference between one man and another is not mere ability … it is energy. Thomas Arnold

RISKS And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong

COURAGE You’re only as sick as your secrets. Anon

GETTING GOING Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. Alonzo Newton Benn

SUCCESS Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill

COMMITMENT Whether you are really right or not doesn’t matter, it’s the belief that counts. Robertson Davies

FEAR Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed. Anon

RISKS The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere

PRAYER Amazing things start happening when we start praying! Anon

SUCCESS Success comes before work only in the dictionary. Anon

FEAR Humor acts to relieve fear. Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.

HAPPINESS Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance. Oliver Wendell Holmes

ACCEPTANCE He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. David Hume

FORGIVENESS Revenge could steal a man’s life until there was nothing left but emptiness. Louis L’Amour

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. Maurice Setter

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. George Santayana

FRIENDSHIP They are rich who have true friends. Thomas Fuller

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet. Ancient Persian saying

PRAYER Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks. The Desert Fathers

SELF-ACCEPTANCE You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymore

SELF-RELIANCE God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest. Josiah Holland

COURAGE What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent van Gogh

RISKS Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury

FRIENDSHIP Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler

TODAY: THE PRESENT If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. Morris West

PRAYER Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. Thomas B. Brooks

ONE DAY A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. André Godin

GOALS He who begins many things finishes but few. Italian proverb

COURAGE No great things are done more through courage than through wisdom. German proverb

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US We are betrayed by what is false within. George Meredith

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get. Anon

GOALS The soul that has no established aim loses itself. Michel de Montaigne

FEAR A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Billie Jean King

FRIENDSHIP The best mirror is an old friend. Anon

PRAYER I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. Dwight L. Moody

ONE DAY Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions to actual deeds. Grenville Kleiser

COURAGE God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

FRIENDSHIP Hold a true friend with both your hands. Nigerian proverb

ONE DAY Every day is a messenger of God. Russian proverb

COURAGE To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid. John Cage

GOALS I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. William J. Locke

CHANGE If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson

FRIENDSHIP One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend. Marcus Annaeus Seneca

HAPPINESS How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. Publilius Syrus

CHANGE Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. Arthur Christopher Benson

FORGIVENESS Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. Isaac Friedmann

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. Robert Quillen

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35

FRIENDSHIP A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. Arnold H. Glasow

PRAYER We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. Oswald Chambers

GOALS Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? J.C.F. von Schiller

FRIENDSHIP Have but few friends, though many acquaintances. Anon

GOALS Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you. John F. Kennedy

FRIENDSHIP A man is known by the company he keeps. Anon

GOALS A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. John Powell

MORNINGS With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. Anon

ACCEPTANCE There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. C.M. Ward

ENTHUSIASM It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. General Douglas MacArthur

CHANGE Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde

DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR US A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. Marcus Annaeus Seneca

GOALS Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. Colonel Michael Friedman

FEAR The habit of doing one’s duty drives away fear. Charles Baudelaire

WORRY Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. William Ralph Inge

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve. Tehyi Hsieh

THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can’t cure. Ogden Nash