Robert Francis Kennedy


"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right." 

Henry Ford


"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt


"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."
Edmond de Goncourt


"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
Adelle Davis


"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
Og Mandino


"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."
Anne Michaels


"Never regret something that once made you smile."
Amber Deckers


"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."
George MacDonald


"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be."
Robert Fulghum


"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."
Brendan Francis


"What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?"
Robert Browning


"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
George Santayana


"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it."
Mark Twain


"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
Sam Ewing


"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Thomas Paine


"The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have."
Edward Clarke


"The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done."
Allard Lowenstein


"Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
Robert Ingersoll


"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
Pythagoras


"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
Mignon McLaughlin


"A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog."
John Grogan


"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."
the Dhammapada


"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
Arnold Bennett


He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."
Horace


"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
Epictetus


"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson


"A good home must be made, not bought."
Joyce Maynard


"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
Benjamin Franklin


"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Alva Edison


"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
Thomas Moore


"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
William Hazlitt


"Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts."
Mary O’Hara


"Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants."
Horace


"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
Ovid


"When you strike at a king, you must kill him."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Hemingway


"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin


"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
Henry David Thoreau


"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
Og Mandino


"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
Pierre Corneille


"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
Bruce Barton


"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
Saint Francis de Sales


"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say."
Calvin Coolidge


"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
George Washington


"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional."
Unknown


"To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains."
Mary Pettibone Poole


"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
Samuel Johnson


"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
Robert Louis Stevenson


"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw


"I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people."
Antonia Brenner


"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
Thomas Carlyle


"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."
Whitney Young


"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
Samuel Butler


"Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!"
Henry Miller


"I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards."
Patricia Moyes


"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
Franklin D. Roosevelt


"What you cannot enforce, do not command."
Sophocles


"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back."
Thomas Sowell


"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."
Aristotle


"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation."
Jack Nicklaus


"You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
Harriet Martineau


"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
Eleanor Roosevelt


"To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can."
Sydney Smith


"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
Sir Winston Churchill


"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
Charles Dickens


"Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself."
Viktor Frankl


"Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad."
Thomas Paine


"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."
Dorothy Sarnoff


"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Henry Ford

 
"The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can't fight back."
Abigail van Buren


"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
Joseph Addison


"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
Charles Caleb Colton


"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
Emiliano Zapata


"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair."
Edmund Burke


"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke


"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
Edmund Burke


"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
Thomas Jefferson


"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw


"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
Booker T. Washington


"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
Barbara Hall


"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
Willa Cather


"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."
Confucius


"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
Martin Luther King Jr.


"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde


"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
Socrates


"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up."
Anne Lamott


"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
Benjamin Disraeli

 
"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
Benjamin Disraeli


"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Benjamin Disraeli


"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
Benjamin Disraeli


"The three things that cannot be hidden for long are the sun, the moon, and the truth."
Confucius


"Running a marathon imposes major trauma and near exhaustion to the fit and healthy, and can cause severe injury for the medically unprepared."
Race Director's pre-race announcement at Rocket City Marathon


"Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high."
Adrienne E. Gusoff


"All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
Dale Carnegie


"Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world."
Thomas Guthrie


"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings."
W. Lee Grant


"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Erica Jong


"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale


"Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world..."
Hugh Elliott


"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide."
Marva Collins


"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Mark Twain


"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr.


"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich


"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
Dwight D. Eisenhower


"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
William Hazlitt


"Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Jean Giraudoux


"Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing."
Elizabeth Goudge


"If the furnace is hot enough, it will burn anything."
John L. Parker


"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare."
Juma Ikangaa


"If you want to win a race, you have to go a little berserk."
Bill Rodgers


"You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed."
Elizabeth Aston


"Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out."
Christina Baldwin


"A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."
William Penn


"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt


"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
Dan Zadra


"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams."
Og Mandino


"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."
Abraham Lincoln


"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
Charles De Secondat


"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
Robert Louis Stevenson


"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
Leonard Bernstein


"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
Voltaire


"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
William Ellery Channing


"The ultimate irony of faith is that it necessarily admits doubt."
Barack Hussein Obama


"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
English proverb


"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention."
Kevin Kelly


"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world."
John Locke


"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Plato