All saints have past and all sinners have a future. -Anton Chekhov
Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry by day, and too sleepy to worry at night.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. -Bernard Meltzer
The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down. --Ed McBain
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. -Frank Crane
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. -H.W. Byles
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. -Bernard de Fontenelle
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. -William R. Inge
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. -Jacques Prévert
Goals are dreams with deadlines. -Diana Scharf Hunt
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? -Sydney J. Harris
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. -George MacDonald
How glorious it is and also how painful to be an exception. -Alfred de Musset
Tap into people’s dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won’t lift a finger. -Thomas Friedman
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like. -Mill Smith
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. -Wayne Dyer
The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude. -Robert H. Schuller
It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. -Claude Bernard (1813-1878 French Physiologist)
A problem is your chance to do your best. -Duke Elington
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.-Theodore Roosevelt
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. -Francis Maitland Balfour
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. -Eddie Cantor
If I am not for myself, who will be? -Pirke Avoth
Long-term planning is not about making long-term decisions, it is about understanding the future consequence of today's decisions. -Gary Ryan Blair
Real success in life means the individual's conquest of himself, it means how he has bettered himself not how he has bettered his fortune. The great question of life is not What have I? but What am I? -William George Jord
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. -Donald A.Adams
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. -Roy Disney
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us. -Edward Wallis Hoch
Everbody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. -George Moore
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -Confucius
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Allan K. Chalmers
Do not wait for extrordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. -Jean Paul Richter
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -Walter Savage Landor
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age. -Christopher Morley
The fruit of Silence is Prayer,
The fruit of Prayer is Faith,
The fruit of Faith is Love,
The fruit of Love is Service,
The fruit of Service is Peace. -Mother Teresa
It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibly. -Albert Einstein
Everything you are against weakens you. Everythingt you are for empowers you. -Wayne Dyer
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us. -Edward Wallis Hoch
Everbody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. -George Moore
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. -Confucius
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Allan K. Chalmers
Do not wait for extrordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations. -Jean Paul Richter
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -Walter Savage Landor
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age. -Christopher Morley
The fruit of Silence is Prayer,
The fruit of Prayer is Faith,
The fruit of Faith is Love,
The fruit of Love is Service,
The fruit of Service is Peace. -Mother Teresa
It is better to believe than to disbelieve, in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibly. -Albert Einstein
Everything you are against weakens you. Everythingt you are for empowers you. -Wayne Dyer
Patience and preservence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles anish. -John Quincy Adams
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step, if that is of no avail will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at
The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself. -Brian Tracy
Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. -L. J. Peter
Sometimes the best gain is to lose. -George Herbert
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. -Jean de La Bruyere
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. -Doug Horton
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. -Richard M. Nixon
Decide promptly, but never give your reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong. -Lord Mansfield
When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles. -Edgar Watson Howe
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. -Ibn Gabirol
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age. -Christopher Morley
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. -Kin Hubbard
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy. -Aristotle
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. -Aristotle
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -W.W. Ziege
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them. -John Stuart Mills
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Ann Landers
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. -Sally Field
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. -Mark Twain
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. -Ben Stein
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. -Gelett Burgess
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. -Jean de La Fontaine
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. -Mark Twain
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. -Antoine de Saint
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -Jules Renard
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. -Bruce Jenner
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. -Logan Pearsall Smith
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. -James Openheim
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. -Javan
I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one. -James Gordon Bennett
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies. -Roderick Thorp
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. -Frank A. Clark
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -Lou Erickson
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Worrying is like a rocking chair it gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere. - Van Wilder
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. -Benjamin Franklin
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -Mahfouz Naguib
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. -Doug Larson
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. -Bergen Evens
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. -William Cowper
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -Walter Lippman
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. -William Hutton
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. -Jack London
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. -Elmer G. Letterman
