~William Shedd

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

~Mary Ritter Beard

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.

~RAJ~

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anybody who leaves you. And it doesn't mean that they are bad people,it just means that their part in your history is over.

​~Peter McWilliams

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

~Wayne Dyer

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

~​Willie Shoemaker~

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

~Malcolm Forbes

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.

​~Kathleen Norris

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

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~Denis Waitley

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

~Leonardo Da Vinci

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

RAJ

Life is like photography. You use the negatives to develop.

~Melody Beattie

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Raj

​Gratitude​

 can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Raj

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

~Theodore M. Burton

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

~Brian Jett

The greatest possession we have costs nothing, it's known as love.

~Raj~

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words.

~ Oscar Wilde

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

RJS

Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.

~Francois Muriac

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

~Roger Staubach

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something…hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

RJS

The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.

RJS

Your words are the greatest power you have.

RJS

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.

~Robert H. Schuller

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

~RAJ~

When you stumble… make it part of the dance.

RJS

The PAST is where you learned the Lesson. The FUTURE is where you Apply the Lesson.

~Bette Davis

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

~RJS~

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

~RJS~

It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame.

~David McKay

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

~Michael Jordan

I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Les Brown

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

Abraham Lincoln

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.

RJS

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it.

~Bill Cosby

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. 

~ Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

~Joel Barker

To be able to shape your future, you have to be willing and able to change your paradigm.

~Harry Main

If you believe you can do it, go out there and do it because that's the only way you're gonna get it!

~Eckhart Tolle

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

~W.J. Slim

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

~Napoleon Hill

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

RJS

Making a big life change is pretty scary. But, know what's even scarier? Regret.

~Maya Angelou

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

~Socrates

Let him who would move the world, first move himself.

RJ

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

RJ

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".

~Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

RJS

~Rick Beneteau

What we behold before our eyes is what we've been holding in our minds. 

RJS

You've only got three choices in life:   Give up, give in, or give it all you've got.

~William Arthur Ward

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, clim over them, or build with them.

~Denis Waitley

View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.

~J.K. Rowling

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. 

 

~Henry Ward Beecher

The art of being happy lies in the power of extractin ghappiness from common things.  

~Nido Qubein

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

~ Bernard Meltzer

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

~ Bernie S. Siegel

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go.  The past is over.  Forgive yourself and move on.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

RJS

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

~Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

~Norman Vincent Peale

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center.  So does a person.

RJS

Perfect maturity is when a person hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

~Og Mandino ~

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

~Rudyard Kipling

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

~Winston Churchill~

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

~John Maxwell

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

~Thomas Fuller

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

~Harvey Fierstein

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

~Henry David Thoreau~

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

~Talmud

We don't see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

~Elizabeth Towne

Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.

~Will Henry

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

~ Mildred White

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go though the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

~ Phillips Brooks

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

- Henry David Thoreau

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

~Dale Carnegie

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

~RJS~

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold; but so does a hard-boiled egg.

- Dr. Wayne Dyer

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

- Louis L’Amour~

There will come a time when you think everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

~ Ernest Holmes~

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

~Nido Qubein~

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

~William Arthur Ward

Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

~Estee Lauder~

When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.

~David Brinkley

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

~Abraham Lincoln

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

~Stanley Horowitz

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.

~Foster C. McClellan

Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life.

RJS

Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

- John A. Morrison

Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

~Florence Shinn

Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

~Vernon Howard

Drop the wrong thought and you lose the problem it creates.

~John Wooden

If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther.

~Paul Boese

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Ralph Emerson

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

~Neale Donald Walsch

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~Doug Kirchhofer

You can't get to happily ever after without turning the page.

~Jim Rohn

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

by Adam Dachis

Impossible Is Not a Fact. It's an Opinion.