"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as
conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

-- Ann Landers

"Building a better you is the first step to building a
better America."

-- Zig Ziglar

"The difference between try and triumph is just a
little umph!"

-- Marvin Phillips

"Laughter is much more important than applause.
Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward."

-- Carol Channing

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up
again."

-- Bonnie Prudden

"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a
hole."

-- Anonymous

"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine
out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."

-- Madame de Tencin

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is
the natural consequence of consistently applying the
basic fundamentals."

-- Jim Rohn

"People travel to wonder at the height of the
mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long
course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass
by themselves without wondering."

-- St. Augustine

"Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does
not depend on what we have, but on what we are."

-- Henry Van Dyke

"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and
the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be
honest with ourselves."

-- Walter Anderson

"Don't be afraid of showing your feelings; be afraid of
regretting it when you didn't."

-- Laura Springer

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail
again. Fail better."

-- Samuel Beckett

"If you don't know where you are going, how can you
expect to get there?"

-- Basil S. Walsh

"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in
fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit
my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less
afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it
becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my
significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me
as blossom, goes on as fruit."

-- Dawna Markova

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect
leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly
under your belt, that's real power."

-- Clint Eastwood

"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it
makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst
thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head
high because then you'll start to feel better. If
you're going to get any joy out of being depressed,
you've got to stand like this."

-- Charlie Brown

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up."

-- Thomas Edison

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

-- James Allen

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an
unimportant day."

-- Alexander Woollcott

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy
is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of
looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at
life's realities."

-- Dr. Seuss

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been
given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or
use it for good. What you do today is important because
you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When
tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its
place is something that you have left behind... let it
be something good."

-- Author Unknown

"I am not confused, I'm just well mixed."

-- Robert Frost

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that
my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it
should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a
superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function
of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my
days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

-- Jack London