There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
- AnonymousNot being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
- Ashleigh BrilliantWhat a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
-George S. PattonChallenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. MarineDifficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
-William Ellery ChanningWhen one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham BellLook back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
-Bernice Johnson ReagonChallenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
-AnonymousThe measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
- PlutarchThe wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.
- Anonymous You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
- AnonymousNo one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor RooseveltSeldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
- AnonymousThe only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
- AnonymousEverything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent PealeThey always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy WarholOnly I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
- Mary EngelbreitA coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
- AnonymousTo succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
–Tony DorsettTo win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre CorneilleHe who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
- Anonymous The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
- Abbé D'AllanivalMan shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
- Rene DubosWe have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
- John W. Turk A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
- Chinese Proverbhough you may be under a dark tree, always look for the light shining through the branches
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- EpictetusHe who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
- ProverbsFailure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
- Anonymous Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonIt's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
- AnonymousThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Ann Landers"And now, as then, it's not fear that grips me, A heightened sense of things"
"all things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for"
"knowing what it feels like to be hurt is actually why we try to be kind to others.."
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.It's okay to mourn your failure, but never ever give up
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
- Zig ZiglarYou haven't failed until you quit trying.
- AnonymousSuccess is the proper utilization of failure.
- AnonymousBe patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
- Afghan ProverbA small house will hold a hundred friends.
- African ProverbWhat is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- AristotleThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonFriendship is not born of words alone.
- Armenian ProverbTell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
- Assyrian ProverbDo not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
- Czech ProverbBad friends prevent you from having good friends.
- Gabonese Proverb God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
- Ethel Watts MumfordSo long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- AnonymousA real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter WinchellAn insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- BuddhaOne who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
- Traditional ProverbFriendship doubles joy and halves grief.
- Egyptian ProverbA friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Fr. Jerome CummingsAnd in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham LincolnYou can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
- Chinese ProverbWhile we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
- Hasidic Proverb The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- James OppenheimHappiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
- Spanish Proverb It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonHappiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
- AnonymousUnless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
- Ray Lyman WilburThe grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. ChalmersThe best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
- Helen KellerNever look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
- The Reverend Jesse Jackson, American civil rights leaderI am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale
