We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
-- Charles De Gaulle

If you bow at all, bow low.
-- Chinese Proverb

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
-- Thomas H. Huxley

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
-- Arnold Bennett

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
-- Doris Mortman

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
-- Alban Goodier

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-- Dale Carnegie

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
-- Robert J. Sawyer

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
-- Ayn Rand

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
-- Tom Clancy

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
-- Michael Jordan

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
-- Lawrence Bixby

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
-- Epictetus

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
-- Charles A. Dana

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
-- Doris Lessing

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
-- Oscar Wilde

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
-- Napoleon Hill

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
-- James Thurber

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
-- Lord Byron

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
-- English Proverb

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
-- Harry Golden

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
-- John W. Gardner

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
-- Barry LePatner

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
-- Arnold Toynbee

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
-- Anonymous