Famous People
"It's kind of fun to do the
impossible."
-Walt Disney -
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible
for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best
place for the next moment."
-Ophra Winfrey-
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."
-The Dalai Lama-
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our
enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-Martin Luther King Jr.-
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
-Amelia Earhart-
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are
tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-William Marrow-
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in
order that I may learn how to do it."
-Pablo Picasso-
"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by
the wisest men."
-Will Wonka-
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to
reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do
not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein-
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in
rising every time we fall."
-Confucius-
"I find the real thing in this world is not so much
where we stand as in what direction we are heading."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"I don't believe in circumstances. The people who
get on in this world are the people who get up and look for
circumstances they want."
-George Bernard Shaw-
"You will recognize your own path when you come
upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination
you will ever need."
-Jerry Gillies-
"Build a dream and the dream will build you."
-Robert Schuller-
"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win
is."
-Zig Ziglar-
"Get happiness out of your work or you may never
know what happiness is."
-Elbert Hubbard-
"Great achievement is usually born of great
sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
-Napoleon Hill-
"No wind favors him who has no destined port."
-Montaigne-
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on
new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
-John D. Rockefeller-
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not
trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."
-Malcomb Forbes-
"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble."
-Frank Tyger-
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one
which has been opened for us."
-Helen Keller-
"When we are not sure, we are alive."
-Graham Greene-
"We forfeit three fourths of ourselves to be like
other people."
-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going
to do."
- Henry Ford-
"You must have long term goals to keep you from
being frustrated
by short term failures."
-Charles C. Noble-
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
-Elbert Hubbard-
"Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger
the wind, the stronger the trees."
-Williard Marriott-
"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great
responsibilities."
-Napoleon Hill-
"Instead of thinking about where you are, think
about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become
an overnight success."
-Diana Rankin-
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It
does."
-William James-
"If you think you can or think you can't, you're
right."
-Henry Ford-
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is
what a man does with what happens to him."
-Aldous Huxley-
"To succeed . . . you need to find something to
hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
-Tony Dorsett-
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try
to become a man of value."
-Albert Einstein-
"Bite off more than you can chew, and then chew
like hell."
-Peter Brock-
"I demand more of myself than anyone could ever
expect."
-Julius Irving-
"Things turn out best for the people that make the
best of the way things turn out."
-John Wooden-
"The function of leadership is to produce more
leaders, not more followers."
-Ralph Nader-
"Some people are always grumbling because roses
have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
-Alphonse Kerr-
"It's not the having, it's the getting."
-Elizabeth Taylor-
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good."
-Ann Landers-
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,
the wise grows it under his feet."
-James Oppenheim-
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and
lose, the next best."
-William Thackeray-