A ship in port is safe, but this is not what ships are built for.
Grace Hopper
Our strentgh gorws out of our weakness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism is a cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though it's in hot water up to its nose
Anonymous
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended
Francois de La Rochefaucald
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; and nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Thomas Jefferson
When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out
David L. Weatherford
I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything. I will not refuse to do the something that I can do
Edward Everest Hale
Troubles are like babies. They only grow bigger by nursing
Old Postcard
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart
Phyllis Theroux
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down
Mary Pickford
The doctors told me I would never walk again, but my mother told me I would, so I believed my mother
Wilma Rudolph
Opportunity...often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat
Napoleon Hill
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything
Allyson Jones
Youth is a gift of nature, Age is a work of art
Helen M. Carroll
Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still
Japanese Proverb
There is a net of love by which you can catch souls
Mother Teresa
Should you shield the canyons from the wind-storms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings
Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross
Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset
Crowfoot
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on
Carl Sandberg
When spider webs untie, they can tie up a lion
Ethiopian Proverb
One day, the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments are going to have to get out of their way and let them have it
Dwight D. Ersenhower
Some of us are like wheelbarrows--only useful when pushed, and very easily upset
Jack Herbert
I can live for two months on a compliment
Mark Twain
Circumstances are like a mattress: When we are on top, we rest in comfort; when we are underneath, we are smothered
Anonymous
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
Theodore Roosevelt
Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
Vernon Saunders' Law
Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it
Old Postcard
You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt
Source Unknown
I have a dream my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but the content of their character
Martin Luther King Jr.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined
Henry David Thoreau
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome
Helen Keller
You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing
Lewis Freedman
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear
Mark Twain
We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are somethings you learn best in calm, and some in storm
Willa Cather
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it
John Ruskin
Brothers and sisters help each other along, first up backyard hills, and later up life long climbs
William Bennett
My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyway
Mary Kay Ash
Sports don't build character--they reveal it!
Heywood Hale Brown
Attitude defies limitation and exceeds expectation
Source Unknown
One joy shatters a hundred griefs
Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow
Chinese Proverb
In the game of life, heredity deals the hand, and society makes the rules; but you can still play your own cards
Peter's Almanac
Stressed is just desserts spelled backwards
Brian Luke Seaward
A kick in the rear is a step forward
Anonymous
If you always keep your face to the sunshine, you'll never see the shadows!
Helen Keller
Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Doctor Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."
Source Unknown
We cannot direct the wind...but we can adjust the sails
Source Unknown
Don't look back unless you intend to go that way
Marc Holm
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sorrow
David L. Weatherford
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood
Marie Curie
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand
Chinese Proverb
Has anyone ever said, "It is important to spend less time on how we look and more time on how we see"? If not, someone should
Carmen Richardson Rutlen
Beauty is the heart of the beholder
Al Bernstein
What the caterpillar thinks is the end of the world...the butterfly knows is only the beginning
Anonymous
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these
George Washington Carver
Be like the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way
Beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
Grace Hopper
Our strentgh gorws out of our weakness
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism is a cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea kettle to sing though it's in hot water up to its nose
Anonymous
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended
Francois de La Rochefaucald
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; and nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude
Thomas Jefferson
When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out
David L. Weatherford
I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything. I will not refuse to do the something that I can do
Edward Everest Hale
Troubles are like babies. They only grow bigger by nursing
Old Postcard
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart
Phyllis Theroux
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down
Mary Pickford
The doctors told me I would never walk again, but my mother told me I would, so I believed my mother
Wilma Rudolph
Opportunity...often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat
Napoleon Hill
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything
Allyson Jones
Youth is a gift of nature, Age is a work of art
Helen M. Carroll
Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid of standing still
Japanese Proverb
There is a net of love by which you can catch souls
Mother Teresa
Should you shield the canyons from the wind-storms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings
Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross
Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset
Crowfoot
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on
Carl Sandberg
When spider webs untie, they can tie up a lion
Ethiopian Proverb
One day, the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments are going to have to get out of their way and let them have it
Dwight D. Ersenhower
Some of us are like wheelbarrows--only useful when pushed, and very easily upset
Jack Herbert
I can live for two months on a compliment
Mark Twain
Circumstances are like a mattress: When we are on top, we rest in comfort; when we are underneath, we are smothered
Anonymous
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
Theodore Roosevelt
Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
Vernon Saunders' Law
Put your troubles in a pocket with a hole in it
Old Postcard
You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt
Source Unknown
I have a dream my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but the content of their character
Martin Luther King Jr.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined
Henry David Thoreau
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome
Helen Keller
You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing
Lewis Freedman
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear
Mark Twain
We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are somethings you learn best in calm, and some in storm
Willa Cather
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it
John Ruskin
Brothers and sisters help each other along, first up backyard hills, and later up life long climbs
William Bennett
My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyway
Mary Kay Ash
Sports don't build character--they reveal it!
Heywood Hale Brown
Attitude defies limitation and exceeds expectation
Source Unknown
One joy shatters a hundred griefs
Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow
Chinese Proverb
In the game of life, heredity deals the hand, and society makes the rules; but you can still play your own cards
Peter's Almanac
Stressed is just desserts spelled backwards
Brian Luke Seaward
A kick in the rear is a step forward
Anonymous
If you always keep your face to the sunshine, you'll never see the shadows!
Helen Keller
Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Doctor Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."
Source Unknown
We cannot direct the wind...but we can adjust the sails
Source Unknown
Don't look back unless you intend to go that way
Marc Holm
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sorrow
David L. Weatherford
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood
Marie Curie
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand
Chinese Proverb
Has anyone ever said, "It is important to spend less time on how we look and more time on how we see"? If not, someone should
Carmen Richardson Rutlen
Beauty is the heart of the beholder
Al Bernstein
What the caterpillar thinks is the end of the world...the butterfly knows is only the beginning
Anonymous
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these
George Washington Carver
Be like the bird
That, pausing in her flight
Awhile on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way
Beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
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