“The cost of a thing is that amount of life that must be exchanged for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody!”
Benjamin Franklin
“It’s right to be contented with what you have, but never with what you are.”
Sir James Mackintosh, a Scottish philosopher
“Have patience. In time the grass becomes milk.”
Persian poet Saadi Shirazi
“Our message is not that we have it all together. Our message is that we know the one that does!”
Author unknown
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people that get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“Yesterday ended last night.”
Cyrus N. K. Curtis
“God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep and you shall have corn to sell and keep.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.”
C.W. Wendte
“Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.”
Coleman Cox
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington
“No one is a failure until he blames somebody else. As long as you accept the blame for failure, you won’t be a failure because you’re in a position to change the situation.”
Charlie Jones
“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.”
Chinese proverb
“If you don’t have a little bit of heartache, how do you know when you’re happy?”
Jane Powell
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.”
Winston Churchill
“Never. Never. Never. Never. Give up!”
Winston Churchill
“No rule for success will work, if you don’t.”
Arnold H. Glasow
“If you believe, all things are possible to him that believes.”
Jesus Christ
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”
President Woodrow Wilson
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
The Apostle Paul
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.”
The Apostle Paul
“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.”
Henry Ford
“Doers get to the top of the oak tree by climbing it. Dreamers sit on an acorn.”
Unknown
“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”
Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
Abraham Lincoln
“In the long run men hit only what they aim at.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
Mother Teresa
“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.”
Mort Walker
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come in and say, ‘Ah, there you are.’”
Frederick L. Collins
“There are four great phrases in life – ‘I love you,’ ‘I believe,’ ‘I’m sorry,’ and ‘I forgive you.’ The greatest of these is ‘I forgive you.’”
J. Tilton
“To every {thing there is} a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up {that which is} planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (KJV)