"Education is what you get from reading the small print;
experience is what you get from not reading it."

"You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the
morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis,
try another choice."
  - Steven D. Woodhull

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
  - Abraham Lincoln

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and 
leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but 
paddle like the devil underneath."
- Jacob Braude

"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work."
- Al Capp

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position 
falls, your ego goes with it."
- Colin Powell

"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards 
of success." - Rob Gilbert, Sports psychologist

"The right word spoken at the right time sometimes achieves
miracles."

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and
just as hard to sleep after."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

"Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got."
Jim Rohn

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise
grows it under his feet." -- James Oppenheim

"Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away."

"Image creates desire. You will what you imagine."
- J. G. Gallimore

"'He means well' is useless unless he does well."
  - Plautus

"When life gives you lemons, make grape juice. Then sit back and let the 
world wonder how you did it."

"Never let the word "impossible" stop you from pursuing what
your heart and spirit urge you to do. Impossible things
come true every day."
      Robert K. Cooper
      Speaker and writer

"Nothing is impossible to the willing heart."
Thomas Heywood (1574-1641)

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden

"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of
its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of
each honest worker."
  - Helen Keller

"You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but
if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks,
you are a pretty rich man."
  - Seth Parker

"If you think you are too small to be effective,
you have never been in bed with a mosquito."
- Betty Reese

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

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves
       strong. The amount of work is the same."
       --Carlos Castenada

"Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is
important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in
so that it can touch you."

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude
toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993), Clergyman and writer

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out
of the way things turn out."
- Art Linkletter, Television and radio personality

"When you are DOWN to nothing....
God is UP to something"

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman
knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."
-- Booker T. Washington**

"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're
qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish,
to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes."
--Jan Ashford

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to 
see what you believe."

"The most beautiful sunsets are made by cloudy skies."

"If you are going to walk on thin ice you might as well dance."

"Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease, it just gets
replaced."

"Your character is what you think you are.
Your reputation is what others think you are."

"Everything happens for a reason.
Neither success nor failure is an accident.
They have specific causes, and when you repeat
the causes you get the same effects, no matter who
you are."

"The person born with a talent they are meant to
use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
  -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone,
don't keep it a secret."

"Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom,
while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us
will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated."

"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are
supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an
injustice without wanting to get even."  ~~Ann Flanders**

"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others 
outweighing your concern for yourself."
  ~~~John Macnaughton**

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are
doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing
well to do even better." -- Jim Rohn

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts 
can do that." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"Be tender to the young, compassionate to the aged, tolerant with the weak. 
For in your life you will be all of these."

"Think big, start small." -- Patricia Fripp

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can
go; they merely determine where you start." -- Nido Qubein

"The real winners in life are the people who look at every
situation with an expectation that they can make it work or
make it better." -- Barbara Pletcher

"Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden.
Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to
keep any relationship flourishing and growing."  Jim Rohn

"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also
keep out the joy." Jim Rohn

"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."
  - Alice Walker**

"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail
overnight.  Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment,
repeated every day." Jim Rohn

"Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do
something and you don't talk back." (W. K. Hope)

"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the
other by association with smarter people."
     - Will Rogers... Humorist

"If you can learn to THINK BIG, nothing on earth will keep
you from being successful in whatever you choose to do.
     - Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. ... Surgeon

"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps 
ahead." - Fannie Flagg

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to  forget.

"It's better to tell your money where to go
than to ask where it went."
   American Proverb	

"Today is the Tomorrow you worried about Yesterday.
Was it worth it?"

"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our 
own bottom."  ~~~-- Michel de Montaigne

"Everything we do seeds the future.
No action is an empty one."~~~- Joan Chittister

"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings,
  the other claps."
   -- Joe Murray

"From the little spark may burst a mighty flame."
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can
from a mountain top."
Proverb

"A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool learns from his
friends."
Jacques Deval

"The wise see knowledge and action as one."
Bhagavad Gita

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
         - William G. McAdoo

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't
learn something from him."
         - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes. - H. 
Ross Perot

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to
get, only with what you are expected to give... "
  --  Katherine Hepburn

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the
judgment that something else is more important than fear."
--  Ambrose Redmoon

"A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks almost
instantly."

"For the unlearned, old age is winter.  For the learned, it
is the season of the harvest"

"Strive for integrity
That means knowing your values in life
and behaving in a way that is consistent with those values."
- Anonymous

"Sometimes if you are not sure about something,
you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your 
wings on the way down."

"Real love stories never have endings."

"We do not fall in love, we grow in love and love grows in
us."
Karl Menninger

"Stress is when your mouth says "Yes" and your gut says "No".

"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to
meet our expectations."
- Richard M. DeVos

"Who gossips to you will gossip of you."
-- Puerto Rican Proverb	

"You will never be on top of the world if you try to carry
it on your shoulders."

"Hurt happens in an instant. Healing occurs over time."

"Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to
set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about
working hard and creating a solid future."
Katharine Hepburn

"Although we travel the world over in search of the beautiful, we must
carry it with us or we find it not."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not despair when you falter. It is in the toughest times, we
encounter our greatest opportunities to grow."

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
-- Mark Twain

"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
-- Indira Gandhi

"If you live in my heart, you live rent free."
           -- Irish Proverb

"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we
are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for
the moment realizes itself." -- Anna Jameson

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for
his opportunity when it comes." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in
peace." -- J. Lubbock

"Knowing how to learn fast is the key to rapid personal growth
and quick sales success. Develop your powers of focus and
concentration." -- Tom Hopkins

"Training teaches people to follow prescriptions.  Education
teaches people to make choices." -- Nido Qubein

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need
motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn
him around." -- Jim Rohn

"Don't water your weeds." -- Harvey Mackay

"Let criticism motivate you." -- Jan Ruhe

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it
away from him.  An investment in knowledge always pays the
best interest." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Keep in mind that you are always saying 'no' to something."

"Days are scrolls; write on them what you want to be
remembered."

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with
the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
  Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

"You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You
can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if 
you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They
are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony
of aspiration."
-- Charles Dudley Warner, "My Summer in a Garden", 1871

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do
the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you
from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can
also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize
those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.
- Napoleon Hill 

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop
your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not
to surrender, that is strength."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger {American Actor and Govenor of California}

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or 
she begins with some wild expectations.
-- Ralph Charell

Keep away from 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.
- Mark Twain