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“Responsibility is the one thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us.”
Frank Crane
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”
Mark Twain
“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.”
Dr. David M. Burns
“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.”
C.S. Lewis
“After a time, you may find that ‘having’ is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as ‘wanting.’ It is not logical, but it is often true.”
Mr. Spock, Star Trek
“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”
Benjamin Franklin
“How long should you try? Until.”
Jim Rohn
“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.”
Pam Brown
“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”
Herb Caen
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.”
Woody Allen
“He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”
Pablo Picasso
“When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.”
Carlos Slim Helu
“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
Carl Jung
“Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
Bob Hope
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
Charles Wadsworth
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
Amelia Earhart
“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.”
Igor Stravinsky
“It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven’t done badly. People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
Stephen Hawking
“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.”
Lauren Bacall
“I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.”
Jamie Lee Curtis
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Bertrand Russell
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
Bernice Johnson Reagon
“There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.”
Andy Andrews
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
Michael J. Fox
“Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity.”
Willam George Plunkett
“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”
Elvis Presley
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations… can never effect a reform.”
Susan B. Anthony
“You have to be focused on the things that make you a human and not a golden god. You have to focus on just living.”
Michael Kearney
“What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.”
George Eastman
“Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches.” (when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life.)
Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
“Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.”
Jim Fiebig
“It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.”
Jane Hamilton
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”
Clint Eastwood
“I’ve always believed in the idea that each of us has a particular place in the universe where we belong, and that if we find it everything will fall into place and we will flourish.”
Patrick O’Connell
“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.”
Alfred A. Montapert
“Square your shoulders to the world, be not the kind to quit. It’s not the load that weighs you down but the way you carry it.”
Anonymous
“Real beauty isn’t about symmetry or weight or makeup; it’s about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own.”
Valerie Monroe
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