"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use
them that counts."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide
your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your
mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you
control your own destiny."

-- Albert Ellis

"The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is
'if.'"

-- Chi Chi Rodriguez

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the
chess player, not the chess piece."

-- Ralph Charell

"Let it never be said by future generations that indifference,
cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals
of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the
strivings of us all prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been
correct when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically
bound to the starless midnight of racism and war."

-- Nelson Mandela

"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember.
Involve me, and. I'll understand."

-- American Indian Proverb

"Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?"

-- Dennis and Wendy Mannering

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." -- John Dewey

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find
what interests you and that you can do well, and put your
whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and
natural ability you have."

-- John D. Rockefeller, III

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the
highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by
them."

-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow."

-- Howard Hendricks

"Think for a minute about what makes you fabulous and how you
can celebrate it."

-- Laura Mercier

"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant
it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem
than the person at the bottom."

-- Sandra Day O'Connor

"Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them.
Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who
gets the credit."

-- Harry S. Truman

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

-- Scott Adams

"Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth... Tame the
dragon and the gift is yours."

-- Noela Evans

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes
for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be
learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at
least, others can learn from."

-- Al Franken

"Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old
is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of
it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have
lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it
is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life."

-- Robertson Davies

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or
sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the
human spirit."

-- Helen Keller

"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but
love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the
mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes
it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead
of creating the perfect love."

-- Tom Robbins

"Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today
well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and
every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this
day."

-- Sanskrit Proverb

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

-- Henry Van Dyk

"Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work
harder for what you want."

-- Robert Bringle

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live,
remember that."

-- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

"Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health;
nothing is worse for your health than boredom."

-- Mignon McLaughlin