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Daily Quote Archive

Delivered	Quote	Author
11/20/09	Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist	view
11/20/09	“Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist			view
11/19/09	Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'Sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.' I know I am very fortunate in that respect.	C.S. Lewis	writer, theologian, scholar	view
11/18/09	Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.	Victor Hugo	poet, novelist, playwright	view
11/17/09	The soul was never put in the body to stand still.	John Webster	dramatist	view
11/16/09	Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.	Vincent 'Vince' Lombardi	athletic coach	view
11/13/09	Find out who you are and do it on purpose.	Dolly Parton	Singer-songwriter, actress, author, philanthropist	view
11/12/09	Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.	Henry Ford	founder of Ford Motor Company	view
11/11/09	Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.	David Augsburger	writer, anabaptist author	view
11/10/09	Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.	George Burton Adams	educator, historian	view
11/06/09	In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.	Antoine de Sainte-Exupery	(1900-1944); aviator, writer	view
11/05/09	Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.	D. H. Lawrence	(1885-1930); poet, author, playwright	view
11/04/09	I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.	Eleanor Roosevelt	(1884-1962); First Lady, diplomat, activist	view
11/03/09	Because life is a living, breathing work of art, you are a painting as you go. Be a masterpiece. Drink in life. Laugh too loud. Compliment others constantly.	Nicole Johnson	author, performer, motivational speaker	view
11/02/09	The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.	Ivy Baker Priest	(1905-1975); US political figure	view
10/30/09	Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.	Thomas Carlyle	(1795-1881), historian, essayist, satirist	view
10/29/09	All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.	Henry Ellis	(1721-1806); 2nd royal governor of Georgia, US	view
10/28/09	Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.	Shirley Hufstedler	(b. 1925); lawyer, 1st US Secretary of Education	view
10/27/09	We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.	Mary Catherine Bateson	writer, cultural anthropologist	view
10/26/09	Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.	Booker T. Washington	(1856-1915); educator, orator, author	view
10/23/09	We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.	Dorothy Day	(1897-1980); journalist, social activist	view
10/22/09	I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.	George Bernard Shaw	(1856-1950); playwright, political activist	view
10/21/09	Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.	Margaret Cousins	author	view
10/20/09	The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.	Abraham Lincoln	(1809-1865); 16th U.S. President	view
10/19/09	Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.	Tom Robbins	(b. 1936); novelist, short story writer, essayist	view
10/16/09	It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.	Albert Einstein	(1875-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher	view
10/15/09	I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.	John D. Rockefeller, Jr.	(1874-1960); philanthropist, businessman	view
10/14/09	Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.	Sarah Caldwell	(1924 – 2006); opera conductor, impresario, stage director of opera	view
10/13/09	Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.	Henry L. Doherty	(1870-1939); businessman	view
10/12/09	Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game.	Will Durant	(1885-1981); writer and historian	view
10/09/09	A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.	Henry Ford	(1863–1947); inventor and businessman	view
10/08/09	Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.	Charles Dickens	(1812–1870); novelist	view
10/07/09	Everybody likes to go their own way to choose their own time and manner of devotion.	Jane Austen	(1775-1817); writer and novelist	view
10/06/09	Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.	Albert Einstein	(1875-1955); theoretical physicist, philosopher	view
10/05/09	The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.	Morrie Schwartz	(1916 - 1995); educator	view
10/02/09	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.	Albert Einstein	(1875-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher	view
10/01/09	The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.	Monica Baldwin	(1893 – 1975); author	view
09/30/09	The world is but a canvas to the imagination.	Henry David Thoreau	(1817-1862); philosopher, writer, naturalist	view
09/29/09	The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.	Alan Alda	(b.1936); actor, screenwriter, director	view
09/28/09	Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.	General George S. Patton	(1885-1945); American General in World War II	view
09/25/09	There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.	Lyndon B. Johnson	(1908-1973), 36th U.S. president	view
09/24/09	One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	(1900-1944), aviator, writer	view
09/23/09	There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.	Pat Riley	(b. 1945); former NBA player and coach	view
09/22/09	Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.	Virginia Burden Tower	author	view
09/21/09	The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.	Thomas Carlyle	(1795-1881), historian, essayist, satirist	view
09/18/09	Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true.	Author Unknown		view
09/17/09	Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another.	Ayn Rand	(1905-1982); writer, novelist	view
09/16/09	There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.	Aldous Huxley	(1894-1963); writer	view
09/15/09	Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.	Mark Victor Hansen	author, speaker	view
09/14/09	The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.	Adlin Sinclair	motivational speaker; humanitarian	view
09/11/09	Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence.	Christian Nestell Bovee	(1820-1904); author, lawyer	view
09/10/09	The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.	Felix Adler	(1851-1933); intellectual, founder of the Society for Ethical Culture	view
09/09/09	Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.	Albert Schweitzer	(1875-1965); Recipient of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize	view
09/08/09	There is no teaching to compare with example.	Sir Robert Baden-Powell	(1857-1941); founder of the Boy Scouts	view
09/04/09	Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.	Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay]	(b. 1942); athlete, boxer	view
09/03/09	The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.	Vance Havner	(1901-1986); preacher, author	view
09/02/09	Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.	Joel A. Barker	scholar, speaker	view
09/01/09	Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.	Jonathan Swift	(1667-1745); author	view
08/31/09	I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.	Anne Lamott	(b. 1954), author, political activist	view
08/28/09	There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.	Nathaniel Branden	doctor, author	view
08/27/09	To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy.	Robert Louis Stevenson	(1850-1894); poet, essayist, author	view
08/26/09	There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.	Peyton C. March	(1864-1955); General, US Army	view
08/25/09	The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.	Mitch Albom	(b. 1958); author, screenwriter, musician	view
08/24/09	One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.	Maya Angelou	(b. 1928); poet	view
08/21/09	Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.	Helen Keller	(1880-1968); author, lecturer, activist	view
08/20/09	The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.	Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy	(b. 1932); United States Senator	view
08/19/09	Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	(1749-1832); philosopher, scientist, author	view
08/17/09	All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.	Walt Disney (1901-1966), animator, film producer		view
08/16/09	Set out each day believing in your dreams. Know without a doubt that you were made for amazing things.	Josh Hinds; motivational speaker, author		view
08/13/09	I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.	Larry King (b. 1933), American television and radio host		view
08/12/09	The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.	Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); philosopher, writer, naturalist		view
08/10/09	Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.	J. Isham		view
08/09/09	Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.	Margaret J. Wheatley; writer, consultant		view
08/09/09	Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.	Doug Larson; cartoonist		view
08/06/09	Each day when I awake I know I have one more day to make a difference in someone's life.	James Mann (b. 1946); writer		view
08/04/09	You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.	Jim Stovall; author, speaker		view
08/03/09	Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.	Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), educator, writer, theologian		view
08/02/09	Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.	Dr. Seuss (1904-1991), Writer, cartoonist		view
08/02/09	Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.	Dr. Seuss (1904-1991), Writer, cartoonist		view
08/02/09	We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.	Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939); activist, president and founder Children's Defense Fund		view
07/28/09	Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed \ Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; \ Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, \ Or sin by silence when I should defend... \ 'The world is better that I lived to-day.'	Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919); author and poet		view
07/27/09	Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.	Ralph Marston; author and publisher of The Daily Motivator		view
07/26/09	One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.	Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973); poet		view
07/23/09	A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.	Unknown		view
07/22/09	A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.	Unknown		view
07/21/09	One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.	Lucille Ball (1911-1989); actress, producer		view
07/20/09	The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.	Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), pastor, theologian, German Resistance fighter in World War II		view
07/19/09	If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.	Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981); pacifist, peace-activist		view
07/16/09	Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.	Helen Keller (1880-1968); author, lecturer, activist		view
07/15/09	Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.	Arthur Jersild; professor of psychology and education		view
07/14/09	Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.	Deepak Chopra (b. 1946); physician, author		view
07/13/09	It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.	Unknown		view
07/12/09	Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.	Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883); economic historian, social reformer		view
07/09/09	Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold.	Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948); novelist		view
07/08/09	Don't worry so much about your self- esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.	Laura Schlessinger (b.1947); radio host, author		view
07/06/09	A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.	Unknown		view
07/06/09	Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); 3rd US President		view
07/01/09	Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.	Natalie Goldberg; author, motivational speaker		view
07/01/09	You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.	Frank H. Crane (1873-1948); stage and film actor, director		view
07/01/09	Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.	George Herbert (1593–1633); poet, orator, priest		view
06/29/09	Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.	Cherie Carter-Scott; author, motivational speaker		view
06/28/09	Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.	Unknown		view
06/26/09	Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.	Golda Meir (1898-1978); 4th Prime Minister of Israel		view
06/25/09	Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.	Robert Fulghum (b.1937); author, pastor		view
06/23/09	We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.	Anton Chekov (1860-1904); playwright; short-story writer, physician		view
06/22/09	This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.	Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981); pacifist, peace-activist		view
06/21/09	A smile is the beginning of peace.	Mother Teresa (1910-1997), founder of the Missionaries of Charity		view
06/18/09	If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.	Alex Noble		view
06/17/09	Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.	Dr. Wayne Dyer; author, speaker		view
06/16/09	Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.	Dr. Wayne Dyer; author, speaker		view
06/15/09	Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.	Jim Rohn; author, business coach, motivational speaker		view
06/14/09	No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.	Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880); author, lecturer, minister		view
06/11/09	Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination.	George Marshall (1880-1959); American military leader		view
06/10/09	To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.	John Lubbock (1834-1913); biologist, politician,		view
06/09/09	We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.	Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001), businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics		view
06/08/09	A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.	Pearl Bailey (1918–1990); singer, actress		view
06/07/09	Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.	Bill Bradley (b. 1943); American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar,former U.S. Senator from New Jersey		view
06/04/09	The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.	Brian Tracy (b. 1944); author, motivational speaker		view
06/03/09	Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.	Swedish Proverb		view
06/02/09	You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. \ \ -Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"	E. B. White (1899-1985); author		view
06/02/09	I believe that friends are quiet angels who sit on our shoulders and lift our wings when we forget how to fly.	Unknown		view
06/01/09	Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.	Anais Nin (1903-1977); author, diarist		view
05/27/09	The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.	Audre Lorde (1934-1992), writer, poet, and activist		view
05/26/09	At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.	Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965); theologian, philosopher, physician		view
05/26/09	To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.	Johannes A. Gaertner (1912-1996); professor of art history, poet, theologian		view
05/25/09	Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.	John Milton (1608-1674); poet		view
05/13/09	You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.	Winnie the Pooh		view
05/12/09	Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses.	Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890);critic, journalist, and novelist		view
05/12/09	Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.	Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, prime minister, author, Nobel Prize winner		view
05/10/09	Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.	Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) spiritual leader, author, physician		view
05/08/09	Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.	Napoleon Hill (1883–1970); author		view
05/07/09	Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes (1807-1882); poet		view
05/05/09	Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.	Og Mandino (1923-1996); essayist, psychologist		view
05/05/09	Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.	Og Mandino (1923-1996); essayist, psychologist		view
05/04/09	You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy...To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.	Jean Shinoda Bolen; psychiatrist, author		view
04/30/09	We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live life fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.	Herbert A. Otto; author		view
04/29/09	HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!	FBL Team: Kindee, Rachel, and Brooke		view
04/28/09	Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.	Epicurus (341BC-270BC); ancient Greek philosopher		view
04/27/09	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 (b. 1954), author, political activist		view
04/26/09	Hope is the dream of a soul awake.	French Proverb		view
04/26/09	When the world says, 'Give up,' hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'	Author Unknown		view
04/23/09	Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.	Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), clergyman, social reformer		view
04/20/09	It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.	Oprah Winfrey (b. 1954), television host, actress, philanthopist		view
04/20/09	I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.	Sasha Azevedo (b. 1978); actress, athlete, model		view
04/19/09	A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.	Christopher Reeve (1952-2004), actor, producer, director, and writer; best known for his role as Superman.		view
04/19/09	To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.	Bernard Edmonds		view
04/14/09	Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.	William James (1842-1910), psychologist, philosopher, author		view
04/14/09	If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the River of Greatness is always the Stream of Adversity.	Cavett Robert (1907-1997); founder of the National Speakers Association		view
04/13/09	The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.	Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author, revolutionary, pamphleteer		view
04/12/09	Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.	Joshua J. Marine		view
04/12/09	The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.	Ben Okri (b. 1959); poet, novelist		view
04/08/09	Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.	Anthony Robbins (b. 1960); self-help writer, speaker		view
04/08/09	Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.	Robert Collier (1885-1950); motivational author		view
04/06/09	A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.	Earl Nightingale (1921-1989), entrepreneur, motivational author		view
04/05/09	There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.	Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958); inventor, engineer		view
04/02/09	Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill.	Jeffrey Bryant (b.1965); author		view
04/02/09	Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.	Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924), author, publisher		view
03/31/09	Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.	John D. MacDonald (1916-1986); author		view
03/31/09	Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.	George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) playwright, political activist		view
03/30/09	Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.	W. Clement Stone (1902-2002); author, businessman		view
03/26/09	Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.	Helen Keller (1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist		view
03/26/09	Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.	George Santayana (1863-1952); philosopher, poet		view
03/24/09	Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.	Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, prime minister, author, Nobel Prize winner		view
03/23/09	There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919); poet, writer		view
03/22/09	If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.	Samuel Johnson (1709-1784); author, poet, essayist		view
03/19/09	If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.	Nora Roberts (b. 1950), fiction author		view
03/18/09	A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.	Washington Irving (1783-1859); author, historian		view
03/17/09	You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.	Bill Cosby (b. 1937); actor, comedian, television producer		view
03/16/09	A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around.	Carolyn Birmingham		view
03/15/09	Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.	~Victor Borge (1909-2000); comedian, pianist		view
03/12/09	Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.	Victor Borge (1909-2000); comedian, pianist		view
03/11/09	If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.	Les Brown; motivational speaker, author		view
03/10/09	I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.	John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960); philanthropist, businessman		view
03/10/09	Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.	Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist		view
03/08/09	Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.	Anthony Robbins (b. 1960); self-help writer, speaker		view
03/05/09	Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.	Laozi; ancient Chinese philosopher, central figure in Taoism		view
03/05/09	I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.	Mother Teresa (1910-1997), founder of the Missionaries of Charity		view
03/04/09	Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.	Alan Alda (b.1936); actor, screenwriter, director		view
03/02/09	Confidence...thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.	Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. president		view
03/01/09	People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.	Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004); psychiatrist, educator		view
03/01/09	Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.	Earl Gray Stevens		view
02/26/09	How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? \	William Shakespeare, Othello, 1604		view
02/24/09	Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight... When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. \	Helen Keller (1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist		view
02/24/09	The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.	Ralph Marston; author and publisher of The Daily Motivator		view
02/23/09	Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.	Harriet Tubman (1820-1913); American escaped slave, abolitionist, humanitarian		view
02/22/09	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 (1567-1622), Roman Catholic saint		view
02/17/09	The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.	Babe Ruth (1895-1948); baseball player		view
02/16/09	It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.	Harvey S. Firestone (1868-1938); founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company		view
02/16/09	I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity...to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.	Paul McCartney (b. 1942); member of The Beatles, singer-songwriter		view
02/12/09	Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.	Vincent “Vince” Lombardi (1913-1970), athletic coach		view
02/11/09	You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. \	Sara Paddison; author		view
02/10/09	Love consists in this, that its own should be another's; to feel the joy of another as joy in oneself, that is loving.	Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772); philosopher, scientist, theologian		view
02/09/09	I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love...it is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives.	Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004); psychiatrist, educator		view
02/08/09	One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.	Sophocles (496 BCE-406 BCE); ancient Greek tragedian		view
02/05/09	To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.	Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857); Russian author		view
02/04/09	When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.	Roy Disney (b. 1930); former Disney executive, nephew of Walt Disney		view
02/04/09	When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.	Roy Disney (b. 1930); former Disney executive, nephew of Walt Disney		view
02/02/09	Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.	—Charles Dickens (1812-70), novelist		view
02/01/09	Your life is an occasion; rise to it.	Mr. Magorium, as played by Dustin Hoffman in "Mr. Magorium"		view
02/01/09	You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy....	Stephanie Marston; family therapist, author		view
01/29/09	The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.	Richard David Bach (b. 1936), writer		view
01/29/09	If you turn on the lights fast enough...	Bono from U2...		view
01/29/09	My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.	Ross Parmenter; writer, anthropologist		view
01/29/09	If you turn on the lights fast enough, you can see what the dark looks like.	Bono from U2		view
01/29/09	If you turn on the lights fast enough, you can see what the dark looks like.	Bono from U2		view
01/27/09	Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.	Bill Bradley (b. 1943); American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar,former U.S. Senator from New Jersey \		view
01/26/09	Respect is love in plain clothes.	Frankie Byrnes; former radio host in Ireland \ \		view
01/25/09	We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.	E. E. Cummings (1894-1962); poet, essayist, painter, playwright \ \		view
01/21/09	The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.	Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); philosopher, printer, writer, inventor, scientist		view
01/20/09	Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind.	Debbie Coulter		view
01/19/09	Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.	Marie Curie (1867-1934), chemist, physicist, Nobel Prize winner		view
01/19/09	If you're trying to achieve, there will be road blocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.	Michael Jordan (b. 1963), retired professional basketball player, businessman		view
01/15/09	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.	Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672); writer, poet, first woman to be published in Colonial America		view
01/14/09	Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.	William Penn(1644-1718); Founded the English colony that later became the U.S. State of Pennsylvania.		view
01/13/09	I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.	Laozi; ancient Chinese philosopher, central figure in Taoism		view
01/12/09	Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.	John J. McCloy (1895-1989); lawyer and banker, former political advisor		view
01/12/09	Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, as faithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness.	Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), philosopher		view
01/08/09	You are here for a purpose. There is no duplicate of you \ in the whole wide world. There never has been, there never \ will be. You were brought here now to fill a certain need. \ Take time to think that over.	Lou Austin; author		view
01/08/09	Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.	Thomas Moore (1779-1852); poet \		view
01/06/09	The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.	Don Williams, Jr. (b. 1968); novelist and poet		view
01/06/09	If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.	Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); philosopher, writer, naturalist		view
01/04/09	Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.	Pamela Vaull Starr		view
01/04/09	If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.	John Quincy Adams (1825-1829); 6th US President		view
12/31/08	Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.	Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924), author, publisher		view
12/30/08	It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.	Zig Ziglar (b. 1926), motivational author, speaker		view
12/29/08	When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.	Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896); writer, abolitionist		view
12/28/08	The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.	William F. Scolavino		view
12/23/08	When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.	Nancy Coey; motivational speaker		view
12/22/08	Love yourself — accept yourself — forgive yourself — and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.	Dr. Leonardo Buscaglia (1924-1998); professor, author		view
12/22/08	To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.	G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936); writer, critic		view
12/21/08	Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.	Reverend E.H. Chapin (1814-1880)		view
12/17/08	Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.	Dr. Thomas Dooley (1927-1961); physician of the US Navy		view
12/16/08	No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.	Harry Fosdick (1878-1969); clergyman		view
12/15/08	Life means to have something definite to do—a mission to fulfill—and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.	Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955); philosopher		view
12/14/08	The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.	Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959); film producer and director		view
12/11/08	Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.	Gail Devers (b.1966); three-time Olympic 100 meter champion		view
12/10/08	Our doubts are traitors And makes us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.	William Shakespeare (1564-1616); quote from: Lucio, Act I, scene IV Measure for Measure		view
12/10/08	Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.	Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936); writer		view
12/08/08	Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.	Bruce Barton (1886-1967): politician, author, executive		view
12/07/08	As for courage and will we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. \ \	Andre Norton (1912-2005), novelist		view
12/07/08	With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.	Keshavan Nair; author, speaker		view
12/04/08	We are all in the process of becoming. \ \	Audre Lorde (1934-1992), writer, poet, and activist		view
12/02/08	Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us.	A. G. Trudeau (1903-1991); former General of the US Army		view
12/01/08	You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.	Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); 16th U.S. President		view
11/30/08	If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.	Beryl Markham (1902-1986); adventurer, author, horse trainer		view
11/30/08	Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.	Helen Keller (1880-1968); author, lecturer, activist		view
11/24/08	As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. \	John F. Kennedy (1917-1963); thirty-fifth President of the United States		view
11/23/08	When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.	Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), novelist, playwritght, politician		view
11/23/08	If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.	Lucy Larcom (1824-1893); poet		view
11/19/08	I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.	Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950), author		view
11/18/08	There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. ‘Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night’s lodging. ‘Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. \	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), philosopher, poet, essayist		view
11/17/08	All doors open to courtesy. \	Thomas Fuller (1608-1661); clergyman and author		view
11/16/08	Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.	Henry Clay (1777-1852), politician and orator		view
11/13/08	There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.	Maya Angelou (b. 1928), poet		view
11/12/08	Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.	Melody Beattie; author, journalist		view
11/10/08	By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.	Paulo Coelho (b. 1947); novelist		view
11/10/08	It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.	Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998); author, professor of special education		view
11/09/08	Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.	Ann Landers (1918-2002); advice columnist		view
11/06/08	Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves—our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.	William E. Simon (1927-2000); businessman, former United States Secretary of Treasury.		view
11/05/08	As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?	Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), 36th U.S. president		view
11/04/08	At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.	Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), scholar, writer, philosopher		view
11/03/08	My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.	Desmond Tutu (b. 1931); Archbishop, Nobel Peace Prize Winner		view
11/02/08	Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.	Author Unknown		view
10/30/08	The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.	Democritus (460BC-370BC); Greek philosopher, central in development of the atomic theory of the universe.		view
10/29/08	Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!	William Wordsworth (1770-1850), poet		view
10/27/08	Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.	George Santayana (1863-1952); philosopher, poet \		view
10/27/08	Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.	Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), aviator, writer		view
10/26/08	Only a life lived for others is worth living.	Albert Einstein (1875-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher		view
10/24/08	Only a life lived for others is worth living.	Albert Einstein (1875-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher		view
10/22/08	I am a part of all that I have met.	Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892); British Poet Laureate		view
10/21/08	The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.	Edwin Markham (1852-1940); poet		view
10/20/08	Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.	Josephine Baker (1906-1975), performer		view
10/20/08	There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.	George Burton Adams (1851-1925), educator, historian		view
10/16/08	So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.	Baha'u''llah (1817-1892); Iranian philosopher		view
10/15/08	I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now...the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.	Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), excerpt from Letters to a Young Poet		view
10/14/08	Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.	Carl Sagan (1934-1996); astronomer, scientist, writer		view
10/13/08	Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.	C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), author, scholar, theologian		view
10/12/08	Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.	Chinese Proverb		view
10/09/08	We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.	Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007); author		view
10/08/08	You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.	Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 28th U.S. President		view
10/07/08	Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.	Charles Dickens (1812-70), novelist		view
10/06/08	I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. \	Queen Elizabeth II (b.1926)		view
10/05/08	Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.	James Allen (1864-1912); British-born American Essayist, Author		view
10/02/08	My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.	Ross Parmenter; writer, anthropologist		view
10/02/08	The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.	Ross Parmenter; writer, anthropologist		view
10/01/08	My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.	Reed Konsler		view
09/30/08	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 (1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist		view
09/29/08	Therefore hold to the things which are reliable. \ Look to simplicity; embrace purity; \ Lessen the self; diminish desire.	Laozi; ancient Chinese philosopher, central figure in Taoism		view
09/29/08	Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.	Grantland Rice (1880 - 1954),American sportswriter		view
09/26/08	The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.	Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) industrialist, businessman, philanthropist		view
09/24/08	If you judge people, you have no time to love them.	Mother Teresa (1910-1997), founder of the Missionaries of Charity		view
09/23/08	We need not think alike to love alike.	Francis David (1510-1579), clergyman		view
09/22/08	When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.	African Proverb		view
09/18/08	Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family, friends, neighbors and the woman who you hardly notice who cleans your office.	Eric Weiner; author, national public radio correspondent		view
09/17/08	Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.	Zig Ziglar (b. 1926), motivational author, speaker		view
09/17/08	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. \	Dr. Seuss (1904-1991), Writer, cartoonist		view
09/15/08	Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'	Mary Anne Radmacher; author		view
09/14/08	Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.	Wanda Hope Carter; motivational speaker and writer		view
09/11/08	When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.	African Proverb		view
09/09/08	A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.	Plutarch (46-137), historian, biographer, essayist		view
09/09/08	To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.	Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (1835-1910), writer, lecturer, humorist		view
09/08/08	Example has more followers than reason.	Christian Nestell Bovee; author		view
09/07/08	I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children; certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.	Fred Rogers (1928-2003), U.S. children's TV personality, educator, writer		view
09/07/08	What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.	Father Andre		view
09/03/08	When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.	Stedman Graham (b. 1951); speaker, author, educator, businessman		view
09/02/08	Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.	Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), philosopher		view
09/01/08	For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.	Donald Williams (b. 1942); astronaut		view
09/01/08	Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.	Carl Jung (1875-1961); psychologist		view
08/28/08	Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.	Carl Jung (1875-1961); psychologist		view
08/28/08	For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.	Donald Williams (b. 1942); astronaut		view
08/27/08	Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.	Author Unknown		view
08/26/08	Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.	Orlando A. Battista		view
08/25/08	Within sorrow is grace. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.	Wayne Muller; author, therapist, minister		view
08/24/08	Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.	William Hazlitt (1778-1830); writer, essayist, literary critic \		view
08/24/08	Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.	Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); writer, playwright \		view
08/20/08	If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.	Flavia Weedn; author, artist \		view
08/19/08	And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.	Anais Nin (1903-1977), author, diarist \		view
08/18/08	Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.	Josie Bisset (b. 1970); Television actress		view
08/17/08	To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.	Anatole France (1844-1924), critic, writer		view
08/14/08	Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.	Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); philosopher, writer, naturalist		view
08/13/08	Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.	Frank Tyger		view
08/11/08	Every person in this life has something to teach me -- and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening.	Catherine Doucette; author		view
08/10/08	The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.	Ralph Nichols; author		view
08/10/08	Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.	Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger (1893-1990); psychiatrist, founder of the Menninger Foundation		view
08/07/08	The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.	Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005), professor, writer, management consultant		view
08/06/08	There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.	Walter Reuther (1907-1970); former president of the United Automobile Workers		view
08/05/08	As my mother says, 'You give back, you don’t give up.' You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.	Susan Ford (b.1957), photojournalist, author		view
08/04/08	Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.	Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68), American civil rights leader		view
08/03/08	The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.	Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian political and spiritual leader		view
08/02/08	If I can stop one heart from breaking, \ I shall not live in vain. \ If I can ease one life the aching, \ Or cool one pain, \ Or help one fainting robin \ Unto his nest again, \ I shall not live in vain.	Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), poet		view
07/31/08	Appreciation...acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.	Alan Cohen; author		view
07/28/08	Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.	Jerome P. Fleishman		view
07/28/08	Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.	Ashley Smith (b. 1978), author, speaker		view
07/24/08	Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.	Voltaire (1694-1778), writer, satirist, author, humanist		view
07/23/08	The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser—in case you thought optimism was dead.	Robert Brault		view
07/22/08	Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.	Colin Powell (b. 1937), 65th US Secretary of State		view
07/21/08	Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.	Pope John XXIII (1881-1963), 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church		view
07/21/08	Listen to the Musn't's child, Listen to the Don't's. Listen to the Shouldn't's, the Impossibles, the Won't's. Listen to the Never Haves, then Listen close to me. ANYthing can happen, child, ANYthing can Be.	Shel Silverstein (1930-1999), poet, songwriter, musician		view
07/17/08	No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side.	Zig Ziglar (b. 1926), author, motivational speaker		view
07/16/08	Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.	Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), educator, writer, theologian		view
07/16/08	The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.	Truman Capote (1924-1984) novelist, playwright, story writer		view
07/15/08	The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.	Arthur H. Stainback; author		view
07/13/08	No one's head aches when he is comforting another.	Indian Proverb		view
07/10/08	When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.	Pema Chodron (b. 1936); Buddhist nun		view
07/09/08	It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.	John Adams (1735-1826), 2nd U.S. President		view
07/09/08	I always prefer to believe the best of everybody-it saves so much trouble.	Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), poet, author		view
07/07/08	I can live for two months on a good compliment.	Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (1835-1910), essayist, humorist, novelist		view
07/06/08	Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.	Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), aviator, writer		view
07/06/08	No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.	Author Unknown		view
07/02/08	Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. \	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), philosopher, poet, essayist		view
07/01/08	To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.	Elizabeth Gilbert (b. 1969), novelist, biographer, essayist		view
06/30/08	You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.	Indira Gandhi (1917-1984), former Prime Minister of India		view
06/26/08	A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.	Barbra Streisand (b. 1942), singer, actress		view
06/26/08	The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.	Elizabeth Gilbert (b. 1969), novelist, biographer, essayist		view
06/25/08	Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.	Voltaire (1694-1778), writer, satirist, author, humanist \		view
06/24/08	I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.	Voltaire (1694-1778), writer, satirist, author, humanist \		view
06/23/08	The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.	Ralph W. Sockman (1889-1970), pastor, speaker, author		view
06/16/08	The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.	George T. Hewitt, historian		view
06/16/08	It is better to be faithful than famous.	Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th U.S. President		view
06/15/08	Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.	Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), 28th U.S. President		view
06/12/08	We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.	G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), poet, essayist, novelist		view
06/11/08	Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.	Arnold H. Glasgow; humorist		view
06/10/08	It's never too late to be what you might have been. \	George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880), novelist		view
06/09/08	Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. \	Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), novelist		view
06/08/08	You miss 100% of the shots you never take.	Wayne Gretzky (b. 1961), retired professional ice hockey player		view
06/04/08	'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. \ \	Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), novelist		view
06/04/08	A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.	William G.T. Shedd (1820-1894), theologian, teacher, pastor		view
06/03/08	If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.	Rachel Carson (1907-1964), marine biologist, her nature writings credited for advancing the environmental movement		view
06/02/08	There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living. \	Don Marquis (1878-1937), author, humorist, journalist		view
06/01/08	What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.	Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), philosopher		view
05/29/08	Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.	George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819-1880), novelist		view
05/28/08	We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.	Thornton Wilder (1897–1975), playwright, novelist		view
05/27/08	Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.	Melodie Beattie; motivational author		view
05/26/08	As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.	John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th U.S. President		view
05/26/08	Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.	Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), minister, civil rights activist		view
05/21/08	If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.	Mitsugi Saotome (b. 1937), Aikido instructor, author		view
05/20/08	The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.	Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), educator, writer, theologian		view
05/19/08	The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"	Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher, mystic		view
05/19/08	We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.	Max De Pree (b.1924), author, former CEO of Herman Miller, Inc.		view
05/15/08	Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.	John R. Wooden (b. 1910) basketball coach, author		view
05/14/08	Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.	Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), novelist		view
05/13/08	Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.	Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944), writer, social activist		view
05/12/08	If there is no wind, row.	Latin Proverb		view
05/11/08	All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.	Author Unknown		view
05/08/08	I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. \	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd U.S. president		view
05/08/08	Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.	Colleen C. Barrett (b. 1944), President and chief operating officer, Southwest Airlines Company		view
05/07/08	Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.	Anonymous		view
05/07/08	Have you had a kindness shown? \ Pass it on; \ 'Twas not given for thee alone, \ Pass it on; \ Let it travel down the years, \ Let it wipe another's tears, \ 'Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on.	Henry Burton (1840-1930), clergyman, writer		view
05/05/08	Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.	Mary Engelbreit; artist, entrepreneur. Quoted in "Believe: A Christmas Treasury."		view
05/04/08	A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.	Forest E. Witcraft (1894-1967), teacher, scholar		view
05/01/08	I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.	Pablo Casals (1876-1973), cellist, conductor		view
04/30/08	We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.	Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American civil rights leader		view
04/29/08	No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.	Hal Borland (1900-1978), author		view
04/28/08	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 (b. 1954), author, political activist		view
04/27/08	Once you choose hope, anything's possible.	Christopher Reeve (1952-2004), actor, producer, director, and writer; best known for his role as Superman.		view
04/27/08	Were it not for hope the heart would break.	Scottish Proverb		view
04/23/08	We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.	Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998), author, philosopher		view
04/22/08	Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.	Carly Patterson (b. 1988) gold medal gymnast in 2004 Olympics		view
04/20/08	The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.	Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author, revolutionary, pamphleteer		view
04/17/08	Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.	Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622), author, Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, Catholic Saint		view
04/16/08	Still round the corner there may wait, \ A new road or a secret gate. \	J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), scholar, fantasy novelist		view
04/15/08	Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.	Ella Jane Fitzgerald (1917-1996), jazz vocalist, also known as "Lady Ella" and the "First Lady of Song"		view
04/14/08	The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.	Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), First Lady, diplomat, activist		view
04/14/08	That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. \	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), essayist, poet, philosopher		view
04/10/08	Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.	Plato (427BC-347BC), Classical Greek philosopher		view
04/10/08	Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.	Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001), businesswoman		view
04/09/08	Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. \	Sally Koch, author		view
04/09/08	Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.	Mary Anne Radmacher, author		view
04/07/08	There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.	Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) author \		view
04/06/08	Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. \	Thomas Edison (1847–1931) inventor, entrepreneur \ \ \		view
04/02/08	No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. \	Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist		view
04/02/08	No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.	Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) industrialist, businessman, philanthropist		view
04/02/08	Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.	George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) playwright, political activist		view
04/02/08	We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.	Charles R. Swindoll (b.1934), writer, clergyman		view
04/01/08	In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. \	Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932), biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist		view
03/30/08	Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.	David Star Jordan, (1851-1931) educator, author, peace activist; exerpt from "The Philosophy of Despair"		view
03/27/08	Just go out there and do what you've got to do.	Martina Navratilova (b. 1956), former World No. 1 woman tennis player		view
03/27/08	Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), philosopher, poet, essayist		view
03/24/08	If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito. \ \	Unknown Author		view
03/24/08	Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find that you have crossed the mountain.	Unknown Author		view
03/23/08	It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. \	Franklin D Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. president		view
03/23/08	Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. \	Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, prime minister, author, Nobel Prize winner		view
03/19/08	The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.	Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I; 1769-1821), Emperor of the French, military leader		view
03/19/08	There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.	Frederick Faber (1814-1863), theologian and hymn writer		view
03/18/08	The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.	Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), historian, essayist, satirist		view
03/16/08	Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.	Anne Sexton (1928-1974), poet, writer		view
03/16/08	Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.	Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695), poet, writer		view
03/13/08	What is a friend? A single SOUL dwelling in two bodies.	Aristotle (		view
03/12/08	It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.	Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere (1622–1673), playwright, actor		view
03/10/08	Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.	Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), pastor, theologian, German Resistance fighter in World War II		view
03/09/08	We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control - for the philosophy of responsibility.	Barbara Charline Jordan (1936-1996), U.S. member of Congress		view
03/05/08	Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.	Bonaro W. Overstreet, author		view
03/05/08	Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. \	Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), political leader, educator		view
03/04/08	The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. \	Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) author, writer		view
03/03/08	First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times. \	Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), author, preacher		view
03/02/08	We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.	E. E. Comings (1894-1962), poet, playwright, painter, essayist		view
02/28/08	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 (1884-1962), U.S. First Lady, diplomat, human rights activist		view
02/27/08	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 (1567-1622), Roman Catholic saint		view
02/25/08	Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.	Hal Borland (1900-1978), journalist, author		view
02/24/08	The greatest power is often simple patience.	E. Joseph Cossman (b. 1918), author		view
02/21/08	Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), essayist, poet, philosopher		view
02/20/08	Look at what you've got and make the best of it. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.	Proverb		view
02/19/08	The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.	Victor Frankl (1905-1997), Holocaust survivor, neurologist, psychologist, author		view
02/19/08	I will offer a choice, not an echo.	Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998), former US Senator of Arizona, presidential candidate, 1964		view
02/18/08	Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. \	Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005), writer, professor, management consultant		view
02/14/08	It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.	J.K. Rowling (b. 1965), novelist		view
02/13/08	Who, being loved, is poor?	Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), poet, playwright, novelist		view
02/13/08	Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.	Zora Neale Hurst (1891-1960), author, folklorist		view
02/11/08	When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.	Michael Bridge		view
02/10/08	We can do no great things - only small things with great love.	Mother Theresa (1910-1997), founder of the Missionaries of Charity		view
02/10/08	For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you.	Charlie Brown; main character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.		view
02/06/08	Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.	Virginia Burden Tower, author		view
02/06/08	Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable	Kenyan Proverb		view
02/04/08	It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.	Irish Proverb		view
02/04/08	We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.	Whoopi Goldberg (b. 1955), actress, radio host, author, comedian		view
01/31/08	It takes two wings to fly.	Eric Schaub, doctor, author		view
01/30/08	Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.	John Cogley, journalist		view
01/29/08	Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180); Roman Emperor 161-180		view
01/28/08	What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? \	Mary Ann Evans (pen name George Eliot; 1819-1880), novelist		view
01/27/08	Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.	Cary Grant (1904-1986) actor		view
01/27/08	No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.	Aesop		view
01/23/08	Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.	Plutarch (46 AD-120 AD) Greek historian, essayist, biographer		view
01/22/08	How long should you try? Until. \	Jim Rohn, author, business coach, motivational speaker		view
01/22/08	Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. \ \	Douglas MacArthur (1888–1964), American general and field marshal		view
01/20/08	When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.	Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. president		view
01/17/08	Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.	Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990) publisher of Forbes magazine, businessman		view
01/17/08	In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins — not through strength but by perseverance.	—Jackson Browne (b. 1948), rock musician, songwriter, guitarist, pianist		view
01/15/08	No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.	Alexander Pope (1688-1744), poet, critic, translator		view
01/15/08	Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.	George Arliss (1868-1946) actor, author, playwright, film maker		view
01/10/08	Blushing is the color of virtue.	Diogenes (412 B.C.-323 B.C.), ancient Greek philosopher		view
01/09/08	The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.	Anonymous		view
01/08/08	I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.	Helen Keller (1880-1968), author, lecturer, activist		view
01/07/08	Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.	William James (1842-1910), psychologist, philosopher, author		view
01/06/08	Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), philosopher, poet, essayist		view
01/06/08	There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.	Roger Staubach (b. 1942), businessman and former professional football player		view
01/03/08	There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.	Wayne Dyer (b. 1940) self-help author and motivational speaker		view
01/01/08	Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. \ \	Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001), businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics \		view
01/01/08	Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? \	Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939), activist, president and founder Children's Defense Fund \		view
12/31/07	Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. \ \	Henry Ford (1863-1953) founder of Ford Motor Company \		view
12/30/07	Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.	Josh Billings (1818-1885), [Henry Wheeler Shaw] humorist, essayist		view
12/27/07	No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.	Voltaire (1694-1788) philosopher, author		view
12/25/07	He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love. \	Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), American civil rights leader		view
12/23/07	Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. \	Paul Boese (1668-1738); physician, botanist		view
12/22/07	To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.	Lewis B. Smedes (1921-2002), author, ethicist, theologian		view
12/19/07	The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.	Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), French soldier, theorist		view
12/18/07	Those who wish to sing, always find a song.	Swedish Proverb		view
12/18/07	Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.	Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] (1835-1910), humorist, essayist, novelist		view
12/16/07	Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination.	William Longgood author, journalist		view
12/10/07	Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.	James Neil Hollingworth (1933–1996), pseudonym Ambrose Redmoon, writer, former manager of the folk rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service		view
12/05/07	You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.	Ronald Reagan (1911-2004),40th U.S. President		view
12/04/07	Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man, give him power.	Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th U.S. President		view
11/24/07	To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.	Henry Ford (1863-1947), founder of Ford Motor Company		view
11/20/07	To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.	Henry Ford (1863-1947), founder of Ford Motor Company		view
11/19/07	Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.	James M. Barrie (1860-1937)		view
11/19/07	When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.	Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology		view