Eileen Caddy

"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way."

Richard Bach

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true."

Helen Keller

"Self pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world."

Stephen R. Covey

"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it - immediately."

Shakti Gawain

"If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know, ask yourself why am I telling it?"

Leroy "Satchel" Paige

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

Nancy Kerrigan

"Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident."

Douglas Adams

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Hugh Downs

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Leo Aikman

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."tok pupuki opo? heeh

Og Mandino

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

Mark Twain

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Eric Allenbaugh

"Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem."

Earl Nightingale

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed."

H. Jackson Brown

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance."

Moshe Waldoks

"A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable."

Joseph Fort Newton

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us...how we can take it, what we can do with it...and that is what really counts in the end."

Harvey Mackay

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline."

Frank Perdue

"If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself."

Wayne Dyer

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

Eric Hoffer

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

Bertrand Russell

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

Claude M. Bristol

"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."

Dale Carnegie

"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?"

Albert Einstein

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge."

Robert Fritz

"In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails."

Channing Pollock

"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."

Marcia Wieder

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

Gail Hamilton

"Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest."

Harold Thurman Whitman

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

William Wordsworth

"The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life."

Hermann Hesse

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

Arthur Ashe

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

Gloria Steinem

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

St. Bernard

"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."

Naomi Judd

"I'm living proof that your choice of how to respond to a situation constitutes your ultimate power."

Ann Bradstreet

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

Winston Churchill

"Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character of another."

Michel de Montaigne

"The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."

Malcolm Forbes

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are."

Benjamin Disraeli

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

Helen Keller

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do."

Lillian Smith

"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."

Neale Donald Walsch

"Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do."

Tom Payne

"We can't fear the past. Fear is a future thing. And since the future's all in our heads, fear must be a head thing."

Red Skelton

"I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter had always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough."

Louisa May Alcott

"Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success."

Rob Bremer

"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"