Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, you work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Thomas A. Edison

Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.

Tina Turner

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself, something that's in all of us, I think - a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Vidal Sassoon

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

Amelia Earhart

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Anna Pavlova

To follow, without halt, one aim: There is the secret of success.

Anonymous

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little -- together we can do so much.

Proverb

A good rest is half the work.

Elmer G. Letterman

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Grace Hansen

Don't be afraid your life will end, be afraid it will never begin.

Anonymous

All art is autobiographical.

Rebecca West

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends; it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Alex Haley

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to out past, bridge to our future.

Anonymous

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% what you do with what happens to you.

Mark Twain

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

Robert E. Lee

Above all, do not appear to other what you are not.

Cato the Elder

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go.

Samuel Johnson

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Anonymous

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Bertolt Brecht

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Japanese Proverb

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

Sir Walter Scott

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.

Sidonie Gabrielle

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Henry Miller

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.

Jacqueline Kennedy

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot by watching.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Kozuko Okakura

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

French Proverb

The torch of love is lit in the kitchen.

H. G. Wells

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

Brenda Ueland

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Margaret Fuller

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Richard Bach

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.

Anonymous

There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.

Joe Farrell

I don't really care if my glass is 1/2 full or 1/2 empty - I'm just happy to have a glass.

Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher affects eternity; she can never know where her influence stops.

Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher affects eternity; she can never know where her influence stops.

Vincent Van Gogh

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardens who make our souls blossom.

German Saying

Leisure does body and soul good.

Chamfort

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Levi Leipheimer

There is no way of getting up it pretty. You just gotta give it everything you've got, suffer, put on your ugly face, and go for it.

(Pre-stage 12 interview in 2010 Tour de France talking about a 3km 10% hill at the end of the stage)

Charles Swindoll

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

Garrison Kellior

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Richard Bach

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Henry Drummond

Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.

Mother Theresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

C. S. Lewis

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

G. K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Abraham Kuyper

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

Martin Luther

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Henry Miller

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

Frederick Keonig

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ernest Hemingway

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Oscar Wilde

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

Dale Carnegie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

B. C. Forbes

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Art Linkletter

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Christopher Robin

You are braver than you know, stronger than you imagine and smarter than you think

Roger Rosenblatt

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves; and where they dream.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is a habit - cultivate it.

Dante

Infinite goodness has wide arms.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Mignon McLaughlin

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Louis Armstrong

What we play is life.

Marguerite Yourcenar

All happiness is a form of innocence.

Jacqueline Bisset

Character contributes to beauty.

Jonathan Swift

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Papa Ramadas

Simplicity is the nature of great souls.

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Flora Colao

Life is playfulness...
we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.

Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.

Robert McCloskey

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Dilbert

You're slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter.

Afghani Proverb

You cannot become that which you are not if you do not go through the way in which you have not.

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