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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Guy Finley

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Victor Cousins

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Lee Iacocca

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Lucretius

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Mary Shelley

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Matthew Prior

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Proverb

He who hesitates is lost.

Guy Finley

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

Booker T. Washington

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Albert Schweitzer

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Stendhal

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

George S. Patton

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Arthur C. Clarke

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

St. Clement of Alexandra

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Thornton Wilder

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Johann Gottfried

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

RJS

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

William B. Sprague

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Charles R. Swindoll

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

John Wooden

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do…

Abraham Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.

Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Martin Luther King, Jr

The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where the stand in times of challenge and controversy.

Apocalypto

No civilization can be killed unless it is dead from within.

Blaise Pascal

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.