Mark Twain

Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt do than by the ones you did do.

-Julius Charles Hare

Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Elbert Hubbard

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

~Harry S. Truman

Work Hard--Do your best--Keep your word--Never get too big for your britches--Trust in God--Have no fear--and Never forget a friend.

Epictetus

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Paul Cezanne

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Albert Ellis

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

~Suzanne Zoglio

A great life is born in the soul, grown in the mind, and lived from the heart.

RJS

The highways of life are full of flat squirrels who couldn't make up their minds.

~William Feather

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Anais Nin

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Robert Brault

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

~Suzanne Zoglio

A great life is born in the soul, grown in the mind, and lived from the heart.

Buddha.

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

RJS

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

H Raja

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

Galileo Galilei

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

~Carl Zuckmeyer

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

~Carl Zuckmeyer

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

Jackson Brown

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

RJS

Always strive to add rungs to your ladder of life.

Unknown

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.

RJS

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

RJS

After years of research, scientists have discovered what makes woman happy........ Nothing !! J

H A Raja

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

RJS

A day will never be any more than what you make of it.  Practice being a "doer"!

rjs

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

RJS

Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something.

RJS

Some people bring happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.

RJS

We all judge others, but we all hate it when others judge us.

RJS

When u can't laugh on the same joke again & again, then why do u keep crying over the same thing over and over again.

RJS

When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

RJS

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

RJS

Overprepare, then go with the flow.

RJS

The most important sex organ is the brain.

RJS

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

RJS

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"

RJS

What other people think of you is none of your business.

RJS

Time heals almost everything. Give time some time.

RJS

Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

RJS

God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

RJS

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

RJS

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

RJS

Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.

RJS

Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

RJS

If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

RJS

Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

RJS

All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

RJS

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

RJS

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

RJS

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

RJS

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

RJS

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

RJS

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

RJS

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

RJS

Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

RJS

Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

RJS

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

RJS

Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

RJS

Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

RJS

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

RJS

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

RJS

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

RJS

When in doubt, just take the next small step.

RJS

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

~Albert Schwietzer

Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Edgar Cayce

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

RJS

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

RJS

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love.

RJS

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Publius Terence

Fortune favors the brave and escapes the miser and scared

~Elizabeth Browning

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

RJS

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. 

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Samuel Johnson

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is all gates, all opportunities.

RJS

It is not the person who has too little, but the person who always craves more, that is poor.

Richard Hooker

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are.

RJS

It’s better to have an intelligent enemy than a foolish friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Thomas Carlyle

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

Mary Anne Radmacher~Hershey

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I'll try again tomorrow.

Dale Carnegie

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

W. Somerset Maugham

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Henry Ford

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Franklin Roosevelt

To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.

Richard Monckton Milnes

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

Viktor Frankl

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Polybius

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.

Yogi Berra

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

Aldous Huxley

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Kahlil Gibran

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Michel de Montaigne

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Brian Tracy

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Samuel Butler

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.

Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Charles Noble

You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.