All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

- Earl Nightingale For all that has been, "Thanks!", for all that will be, "Yes!" - Dag Hammerskjold Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. - Charles Dickens Never leave that 'til tomorrow which you can do today. - Benjamin Franklin Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave. - Henry Ward Beecher I am always doing that which I cannot in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso All glory comes from daring to begin. - William Shakespeare Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. - Walt Whitman If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Goodness is the only investment that never fails. - Henry David Thoreau The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it. - Michelangelo Hope lies in dreams in one's imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. - Jonas Salk If things do not turn out as we wish, we shall wish for them to turn out as they do. - Aristotle Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson The best portion of a good man's life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love. - Wordsworth The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. - Henry Ward Beecher Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward.

- Thomas Edison There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act. - Theodore Roosevelt It's never too late to be what you might have been. - George Elliot There aren't any rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas Edison The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you. - John Greenleaf Whittier No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. - Charles Dickens Genius is eternal patience. - Michelangelo If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear nothing in all of life to be afraid of. - Henry Ford Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity. - Earl Nightingale Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills. - Confucius He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age. - Plato The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself. - Victor Hugo Courage is not the lack of fear, absence of fear, it is mastery of fear, control of fear. - Mark Twain A man is what he thinks of all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. - Albert Einstein The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served by others as little as possible, and to serve others as much as possible. - Leo Tolstoy I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. - Walt Whitman A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The glow of one warm thought is to be me worth more than money. -Thomas Jefferson I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. - Dr. Albert Schweitzer In all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. - George Eliot We are all here for a spell. Get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers Whatever kind of word thou speakest, the like shall thou hear. - The Greek Anthology Life has to be lived. That's all there is to it. - Eleanor Roosevelt. Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. - Napoleon Hill We are all called upon to do small things with great love. - Mother Teresa

So much has been given to me, I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied. - Helen Keller We have nothing to fear but fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Little minds are subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes The longest journey starts with a single step. - Lao Tse Honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react. - Victor Frankl Only a life lived for others is the life worthwhile. - Albert Einstein A place for everything and everything in its place. - Ben Franklin The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato Lord, grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish. - Michaelangelo Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. - Aristotle Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, Or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, Let me do it now, as I shall not pass this way again. - William Penn Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. - Hans Christian Anderson You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. - William F. Scholavino We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Success is always to be found on the other side of fear. The secret to productive goal setting is establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words and emotions as if we've already achieved them. - Denis Waitley LIfe's greatest accomplishments are those that at first seem impossible. I never worked a day in my life. It was all fun! - Thomas Edison You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated short term failures. - Charles C. Noble One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up. - Susan Jeffers Never be afraid to try something new! One person with a belief is equal to 99 who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill Begin difficult things while they are easy. Do great things while they are small. The difficult things of the world must once have been easy. The great things must once have been small. A thousand mile journey begins with one step. Start today.

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. - H. W. Arnold Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. - Elbert Hubbard Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. - F. Dodson Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success. - Brian Tracy Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. - H. L. Hunt The secret of success is constancy to purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. - Napoleon Hill A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. - Helen Keller Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly. - Brian Tracy Climb the stairway to the stars one step at a time. When we set a goal, let's try to enjoy every moment of the trip along the way. I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. - Jonathon Winters The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success. - Brian Tracy You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders. - J. Hawes The winners in life think constantly in terms of "I can, I will, I am". Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have done or on what they don't do. - Denis Waitley We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all. - Donald M. Nelson You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried. - Susan Jeffers Self discipline is the key to everything. I believe it down to my core. Keep true to the dreams of your youth. There is only one success - to be able to live your life in your own way and not to give others absurd, maddening claims upon it. - Christopher Morley

There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now. - Brian Tracy Break down an impossible task to manageable size. Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an "I-can-solve-it" attitude. - Mark Victor Hansen Find a job you love and you'll add 5 days to every week. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom. -Brian Tracy Success in any endeavor depends on the depths to which it is it is an expression of your true self. There are no such things as problems - only temporary situations without a solution. We are not going to succeed in everything we attempt in life. That's a guarantee. In fact, the more we do in life, the more chance there is not to succeed in some things. But what a rich life we are having! Win or lose, we just keep winning. - Susan Jeffers Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. - Alfred N. Whitehead Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success. - Frank Davidson Each person's work is always a portrait of himself. - Samuel Johnson Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them. - Norman Vincent Peale Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. - Dr. George Crane Man's quest is always for sufficient self-confidence to be himself. Getting things accomplished isn't nearly as important as taking time for love. - Janette Oke Shift your problems to challenges. When you have problems, you worry about them. When you have challenges - you are working, applying, and attacking your plan to get results. This shift in thinking from problems to challenges is important in making tension an asset. All progress is made by people dissatisfied with the way things are. Everything big starts little. The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life. - Brian Tracy If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. - Jim Rohn The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt

The person who says "It can't be done" is liable to be interrupted by someone doing it. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, which we must fervently believe in, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Stephen A. Brennan

Success Quotations: No one can knows what he can do until he tries. There are times when we have to work quickly - but never in a hurry - hurry indicates fear. Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them. - Vernon Howard I am happiest when I am accomplishing something - something worthwhile. There is no such thing as failure - there is only success or quitting. I'm not a quitter. Fear is an illusion. If you use that energy for self confidence you will be amazed at the results. The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities. - Frank Baron Patience and fortitude conquer all things. - Emerson No one has success, until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold qualities of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness. - L. Whitney Order is heaven's first law - the 1st step toward efficiency and peace of mind. Make your best guess. Take the step beyond. Stand an idea on its head. Work on one problem, but expect to discover something else. This sums up my strategy as a scientist. - Melvin Clan Success in life consists of going from one mistake to the next without losing your enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen. Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow. - Brian Tracy Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. - George S. Patton The difference between the impossible and possible lies in a person's determination. The brave person confronts fear and moves toward it. It then gets smaller. Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals. If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. - Miyamoto Mursashi Nothing limits achievement like small thinking. Nothing equals possibilities like unleashed thinking. - William Arthur Ward What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat." - Napoleon Hill It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth Strong-minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a New World. Others have and

they have no monopoly. - Charles Bristol Jim Daniels has just released a secret "blueprint" for achieving great success on the internet by following 10 Simple Steps that will lead to your financial independence. Just click on the gold key at the bottom of his site to access your free report. To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. - Harry Truman Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win which is one of the essentials to success. - Napoleon Hill Leaders don't wait. They shape their own frontiers. The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity. What makes leadership is the ability to get people to do what they don't want to do and like it. - Harry Truman If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning - Mahatma Gandhi Fear stops you in your tracks. Self confidence propels you forward. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. - Orison Swett Marden The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership. - Jim Loehr Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. - Goethe You can't win any game unless you're committed to winning. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen endeavor. - Vince Lombardi With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. - Jim Rohn The word impossible is not in my dictionary. - Napoleon Bonaparte The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused. - Jim Rohn Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. - David J. Schwartz Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton Life's biggest challenge is deciding what's important - then disregarding the rest. Leadership Quotes: We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare. - Thane Yost Believe in yourself and act on your convictions. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington Everyone faces challenges and problems. Success lies in dealing

with them promptly and thoroughly. We will either find a way or make one. - Hannibal Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved? - Susan Jeffers Leadership is not a one-day thing. It is a constant commitment to excellence, a habit . . . a daily practice. Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire. - Mike Murdock Challenge yourself all the days of your life. Plunge boldly into the thicket of life! Half-heartedness never won a battle. - William McKinley Quotes on Leadership: We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. - Queen Victoria Never . . . Never . . . Never . . . Never Give up! - Winston Churchill If you want to get the best out of someone - you must look for the best that is in them. I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps. - Theodore Roosevelt The guy who takes a chance . . . who walks the line between the known and unknown . . . who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. - Gordon Parks Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. - Brian Tracy Nothing would be done at all if we waited until we could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. - John Henry Move. Go forward or backward, whatever it takes. Just move! You will always miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. Exceed expectations! The amount of people that fails is directly proportionate to the amount of people that give up. - Joseph McClendon III Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson I glory in conflict that I may hereafter exult in victory. - Frederick Douglas Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. - Winston Churchill A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - William Shedo Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made just like anything else. . . through hard work. That's the price we have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal. - Vince Lombardi People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it. - Stedman Graham As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

- Jim Rohn Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness! - George Jacques Danton

The challenge may not be easy, but it is possible. Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never-ending Improvement - or CAN I. In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle. - Tony Robbins Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the very best that you can make of what you are. The very best. - Sadie T. Alexander Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. - John Welch We can stay young by focusing on a dream instead of on a regret. It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older one climbs with surprising strides. - George Sand If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well. - Black Hawk That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - E. M. Forester The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime. The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. - Wayne Dyer The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. - Somerset Maugham Life appears to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong. - Charlotte Bronte Your key to freedom lies in your power to control your thoughts. To teach is to touch a life forever. Put your interest in the future, because you're going to spend the rest of your life there. Reflective thinking turns experience into insight. - John Maxwell Change brings freshness. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from the old ones. - John Maynard Kynes No one can give you better advice than yourself. - Cicero What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. - Seneca The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. - Michael de Montaigne Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. - Seneca Freedom is the ability not to care what the other person thinks.

I've learned that the more possessions I acquire, the less free I feel. Creative ideas reside in people's minds but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment-free environment and you'll unleash a torrent of creativity. - Alex Osborne Anger is the most impotent of passions. It affects nothing it touches and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. - Claredon We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Ben Sweetland Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed. - Alan Loy McGinnus No man is free who is not master of himself. Time is Nature's way of preventing everything from happening all at once. To see what's in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. GeorgeOrwell It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Have patience with all things, but especially with yourself. You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts. - Brian Tracy The whole process of mental, spiritual, and material riches may be summed up in one word - gratitude. Your key to freedom lies in your power to control your thoughts. - Tim Connor Reading is knowledge and knowledge is power. Prosperity is a life experience in health, wealth and love. You are prosperous when you have the resources to do what you truly want to do at the time you want to do it. - Scott Sherman A generous man forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives. - Old Proverb Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong tone of voice. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have - get understanding. - Proverbs 4:7 What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day. - Jack Smith Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. - Goethe All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. - Isaac Bashevis Singer Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real

strength. - Frances de Sales Wisdom is divided into two parts: (a) having a great deal to say, and (b) not saying it. The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence. - Tony Robbins The best cure for anger is delay. - Seneca, A.D. 63 One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. - Michael Pritchard There is no wealth but life. - John Ruskin When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. - Bill Lemley There is no security in life. There is only opportunity. - Douglas MacArthur O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I've said enough. Wisdom Quotations: Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are. - Wayne Dyer Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That "still small voice" is yearning to be heard. - Susan Jeffers True freedom is an inner thing. It is a state of mind. It is a deliberate exercise of choice. Thus, if we think we are bound by external forces, we are deceiving ourselves. It is our willing acquiescence to these outer demands that imprisons. Free yourself today. Take control of your thoughts. No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I am silent. - Publilius Syrus Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them, since you cannot even make yourself as you wish to be. - T. A. Kempkis If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day. - Oprah Life without friendship is like the sky without the sun. 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

Friends find the sweetest sense of happiness comes from simply being together. Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they are always there. Gems may be precious, but friendship is priceless. Friends are angels sent down to Earth to make good days and and help us find our way. Friendship involves man things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. - Thomas Huxley Friends can make you laugh like no one else can. I thank God for the way he made you, distinct, special and unique. You were not made from a common mold. - Erwin W. Lutzer I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. - Charles R. Swindoll Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of going out of one's self and appreciating what is noble and loving in another. - Thomas Hughes Where there are friends, there is wealth. - Titus Maccius Plautus A friend like you happens once in a lifetime. The warmth of a friend's presence brings joy to our hearts, sunlight to our souls, and pleasure to all of life. The more we nurture our friendships, the greater the happiness that comes our way. Friends - they're kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other. Few delights can equal the mere presence of someone we utterly trust. - George MacDonald Friends affirm life. Be kind. Everyone is struggling. Happy-go-lucky days are the ones I spend in your company. It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship. Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. - Orison Swett Marden To each of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold. - Kassia Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding. - Mary Lou Retton A true friend is the greatest of all blessings. Don't bore your friends with your troubles. Tell your enemies, who will be delighted to hear about them. Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. Sometimes the perfect gift is a cheery smile.

Most friendships begin with a compliment. - Peter M. Brown He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value. - Benjamin Johnson If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, "You are wrong". This method works every time. Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is it made by the friends whom we choose. Words of encouragement give a lift to a heavy heart. Nothing is quite so annoying as to have someone go right on talking while you're interrupting. Love is the harmony between friends. Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. - William Thackeray Forget your woes when you see your friend. - Priscean Friends make life a little sweeter.

Wherever you may be, it is your friends who make your world. Friends are made for caring and sharing. Become the world's most thoughtful friend. A real friend is there when you need them. Every friendship begins small. Friendship speaks in words your heart can understand. When just being together is more important than what you do, you are with a friend. The art of conversation lies in building on another's observations . . . not in overturning them. A friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. One of life's greatest treasures is the love that binds hearts together in friendship. Our road will be smooth and untroubled, no matter what care life may send, if we travel the pathway together and walk side by side with a friend. Isn't it fun, isn't it extraordinaire - friends are found most everywhere. Friendship is a cozy shelter from life's rainy days. The essence of true friends is to make allowances for another's little lapses. David Storey Being a good friend and having a good friend can enrich our days and bring lifelong satisfaction. Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most

basic part of love. - Ed Cunningham A Friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. - Arabian Proverb A friend is someone you can count on to keep a promise. Favorite people, favorite places, Favorite memories of the past, These are the joys of a lifetime. . . These are the things that last. Quotes on Friendship: Good times are even better when shared with a friend. A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets. Friends always laugh at your jokes even when they're not funny. A friend is a present you give yourself. We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. - Letty Cottin Pogrebin You can make more friends in two minutes by being interested in them than you can in two weeks by trying to get them interested in you. - Dale Carnegie The less you talk, the more you're listened to. - Abigail Van Buren A smile is a gift you can give everyday. Life's most persistent and urgent question is . . . what are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King, Jr. How rare and wonderful is that flash in the moment when we realize we have discovered a friend. - William Rotsler Laughter is the shortest distance between people. Friendship Quotations: One thing people always appreciate is being appreciated. Strangers are simply friends you haven't met yet. Give the gift of attention today. Listen to someone without giving an opinion. Don't put your faith in others liking you, put your faith in you liking them. One of the greatest pleasures of life is conversation. Begin your friendship with kind words and compliments and live a lifetime as friends. Happiness is the best medicine. Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them. - Peter Cook Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least. - Charles Wiley When you finally allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it, you will find you dance with everything.

- Emanuel Open your arms and welcome the joy of today! The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - E E. Cummings Don't waste a minute being unhappy. If one window closes - run to the next window - or break down a door. True happiness arises in the first place from enjoyment of oneself. - Joseph Addition The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware - joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller To be happy, do not add to your possessions, but subtract from your desires. Live with your whole being all the days of your life. Your reward will be true happiness. - Rebecca Thomas Shane Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. - Joseph Addison To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness. - Malcolm Forbes The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do. - James Barrie Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. - Lucy Mand Montgomery Cultivate caring and generosity. Happiness is the natural state of a loving heart. The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living. - Walter Rauschbusch Perceive and rejoice that life is abundant, that beauty and goodness are amply available . . . that your happiness is in your hands. - Paul Hodges To love others makes us happy. Happiness is a grateful spirit, an optimistic attitude, and a heart full of love. The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but they seize us. - Ashley Montagu Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. - James Prevert Happy people roll with the punches. They know from experience that everything changes. Today's good fortune may vanish tomorrow, today's crises may turn out to be tomorrow's good fortune. To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely, unsought. - A. Marc Lauren Happiness does not consist in things, but in the relish we have of them . . . - Francois duc de la Rochefoucald Once a happy thought gets started, you can't help but feel warm-hearted. To be happy with simple pleasures is no simple matter. You cannot be thankful and unhappy at the same time.

You don't have to know how to sing, it's feeling as though you want to that makes the day happy and successful. - Monica Crane The first recipe for happiness. Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past. What a wonderful life I've had. I only wish I had realized it sooner. - Collette Happiness is really a deep harmonious inner satisfaction and approval. - Francis Wilshire It's the little moments that make life big. Everyone is responsible for their own joy. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. The secret of happiness is curiosity. -Norman Douglas The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings not his cash. Seize the humor of the moment. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are trifles, to be sure, but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes better friends with ourselves and everybody around. -Orison Marden Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like a violin. Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive. The plain fact is that human beings are happy only when they are striving for something worthwhile. A certain simplicity of living is usually necessary to happiness. - Henry D. Chapin Finding fun in simple ways makes the happiest days. A happy heart makes a cheerful face. - Proverbs 15:13 Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad. - Victor Borge Enjoy your life without comparing it to others. - Condobcet I am not fully dressed until I adorn myself with a smile. May you be truly blessed to always glitter with a radiance that shines from deep within you. - Barbara Becker Holstein Quotes on Happiness: Live wholeheartedly. Be surprised! Give thanks and praise! Then you will discover the fullness of your life. - Brother David Steindl Rase Euphoria is a blissful feeling that everything is coming up roses usually the feeling that comes when everything is going your way and you are supremely contented with your life. Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. Merriment it is the sunny side of existence. - Lord Bryon The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow. I'm going to be happy today, Though the skies may be cloudy and gray

No matter what may come my way I'm going to be happy today. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and elevating them to an art. - William Morris The joyful people are those who are generous and kind, The miserable people are those who are selfish & unforgiving. The problem solvers are those whose lives are powered by faith & optimism. The problem people are those whose lives are drained by doubts & pessimism. The winners are those who learn to take full responsibility for their actions. The losers are those who blame others for their failures. A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues - Cicero Happiness Quotations: The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if your spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if you were brave, use all your will to that end and courage will very likely replace fear. The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic-type person and the happy, normal person is the difference between get and give. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained. - John Boswell Happiness is like a potato salad - when shared with others it's a picnic. Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is just out of grasp. But if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. - Joseph W. Krutch Life can be one satisfaction after another if we let it. - John Schindler Happiness is intrinsic. It's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away. Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it. - Tony Robbins The work praises the man. Fall seven times, stand up eight. Inspiration: There is no man upon the earth, no foolish man or wise, No man of high or humble birth but somewhere in the skies Can find a star to lead him on if he will lift his eyes. All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.-ColePorter You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.-AlexanderPope The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.-Publius Ovidius NasoOvid We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily.-CelesteHolm

Do not kick against the pricks.-Aeschylus Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.-LisaAlther The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.-John Dalberg, LordActon This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.-John QuincyAdams Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.-Mortimer JeromeAdler For only Zeus is free.-Aeschylus We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.-Sir RogerBannister Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.-Richard DavidBach A! fredome is a noble thing! Fredome mayse man to haiff liking.-JohnBarbour The cause of Freedom is the cause of God!-William LisleBowles You cant put democracy and freedom back into a box.-George Herbert WalkerBush

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. Vidal Sassoon Fear is not of the present, but only of past and future - which does not exist. A Course in Miracles In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. Lao Tsu My dad always used to say, "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose." Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5 It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W.Somerset Maugham The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. Napoleon Hill I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. Albert Einstein When you are afraid of something you are acknowledging it's power to hurt you. A Course in Miracles The Force both obeys and commands. Yoda, Star Wars What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Dr Robert Schuller You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness. Kahlil Gibran

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. Gandhi You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Gandhi Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. Gandhi The pleasure lies in making the effort, not in its fulfillment. Gandhi Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny. Gandhi Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. Gandhi Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares. Gandhi You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Gandhi It is health which is real wealth, not pieces of silver and gold. Gandhi Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Gandhi Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. Gandhi The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. Gandhi Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. Gandhi The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Gandhi Be the change that you want to see in the world. Gandhi Action expresses priorities. Gandhi Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. Gandhi An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. Gandhi Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Gandhi Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this". Gandhi It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. Gandhi A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self. Gandhi Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Gandhi In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Gandhi There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi There is a beauty and an art in simplicity which he who runs may see. Gandhi What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? Gandhi An eye for an eye makes us all blind. Gandhi Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it. Gandhi There are risks and costs to a programme of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy Communication is to a relationship what breathing is to living. Virginia Satir The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein Fear is the foundation of all human limitations. Benny the Jet Because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King