Jenn's favorite quotes: September 2010

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.

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.