MARY PICKFORD

What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

BUDDHA

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

ANDREW CARNEGIE

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Bulgarian Proverb

Tell me who your friends are, so I can tell you who you are.

ANON

It costs nothing, but creates much.
It enriches those who receive without impoverishing those who give.
It happens in a flash, and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
It cannot be begged, borrowed, or stolen, but it is of no earthly good to anyone until it's given away.
So if in your hurry you run across someone too weary to smile, leave one of yours.

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE

If you are cold, tea will warm you.
If you are too heated, it will cool you.
If you are depressed, it will cheer you.
If you are excited, it will calm you.

BENJAMIN SPOCK

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

MAYA ANGELOU

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

AESOP

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Spanish Proverb

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

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ROBERT FROST

Never take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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WASHINGTON IRVING

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

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WINSTON CHURCHILL

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

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KAREN KENYON

Life need not just happen to us. We can choose. We are choosing every moment which direction to turn, towards the light or towards the dark.

ANDRE GIDE

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

WOODY ALLEN

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.


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STEPHEN KAGGWA

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.


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JOHN WESLEY

Beware you be not swallowed up in books.
An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.


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Chinese Saying

Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark.

DR. SEUSS

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

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MARGARET THATCHER

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

ANON

Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.


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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry,
the philosophy which does not laugh
and the greatness which does not bow before children.

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LESLIE NIELSEN

Doing nothing is very hard to do - you never know when you’re finished.

Greek Proverb

A heart that loves is always young

All The Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein II)
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Mary's Ghost (Thomas Hood)
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