Aristotle - Friends

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Bo Bennett - Dreams

"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."

Arthur Rubinstein - Success

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

Elbert Hubbard - Character

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

Garrison Keillor - Getting what you want

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

Norman Vincent Peale - Change

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Friedrich von Schiller - Dreams

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth."

John Lennon - Life

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

Michelangelo - Goals

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

Demosthenes - Attitude

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."

Jonathan Kozol - winning

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

Anais Nin - Life

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

Carlos Castaneda - Maturity

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

John F. Kennedy - Forgive your enemies

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

Buckminster Fuller - Creativity

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Frederick Douglass - Self Respect

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

Dale Carnegie

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

Goethe - Worth

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Arthur Schopenhauer - perspective

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

Albert Einstein - Knowledge & Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."

Blaise Pascal - Humility

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."

Anne Bradstreet - Wealth

"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."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

Denis Waitley - Happiness

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others."

Dalai Lama - Kindness

"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."

Henry Ford - Thoughts

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

Abrham Lincoln - Success

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

Confucius

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

Jack Dempsey - Champion

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Common Sense

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

Sir James M. Barrie - Love

"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Socrates - Love the word

"One word frees us
Of all the weight and pain in life,
That word is Love"

Lao Tzu - Love

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Franklin P. Jones

"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Love - George Sand

A week of love quotes.

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

George Carlin

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"

Bill Clinton

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit."

John F. Kennedy - Country

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

Vote for Obama!

Mahatma Gandhi - Freedom

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

Robert Stuberg - Control over our lives

"The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside."

Sun Tzu - Confrontation and victory

"Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory."

Henry David Thoreau - A single footstep

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Sasha Azevedo

“I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!”

Success - Robert Collier

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

Words of Wisdom - Catherine the Great

This one may be the toughest for me.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Catherine the Great

Lazyboy - This is the truth

"You dont win silver, you lose gold."

"Stop earning the right to be, you won the day you were born."

"If you dont know what direction you should take, you dont know where you are."

"Success is a matter of luck, ask any failure."

"Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you."

"We are born naked, wet, and hungry, then things get worse."

"Your success is measured by your ability to finish things."

"Skepticism is the beggining of faith."

"Forgive your enemies but never forget their names."

"There is no such thing as right or wrong, only consequences."

"All men are born equal but quite a few of them eventually get over it."
"We are the people our parents warned us about."

"Somtimes I think the surest sign of inteligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, is that none of them have tried to contact us."

"Be nice to nerds, chances are youll end up working for one."

"Do not get mad with others because they know more than you, it is not their fault."

"If you do not change your beliefs, your life will always be like this."
"Fantasy is as important as wisdom."

"Do not try to satisfy everyone."

"The biggest lie you can tell yourself is, "When I get what I want I will be happy."

"Dont take life too seriously... you wont get out alive."

"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others."

"Life is shorter than expected, What you are willing to accept is exactly what you
will get."
"You cant control, without being controlled."

"Creativity is great but plagiarism is faster."

"You are the very reason for everything that happens to you."

"Someone said to Voltaire, "life is hard", Voltaire replied, "Compared to what?"