Quotes We Love!

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

-- Confucius

Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin

The most effective tool I have discovered in whipping the demons is to have regular victories in my life every single day. When you do something right, take a moment and savor the feeling. Even a little victory does wonders for your confidence and motivation.

-- Hyrum Smith

Failure is an event, never a person.

-- William D. Brown

Look back over your life, and I think you'll find that your cop-outs have cost you much more than your worst mistakes.

-- Barbara Sher

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

-- Winston Churchill

Don't quit five minutes before the miracle happens.

-- Anonymous

The important thing is to act, not to act flawlessly.

-- Edwin Bliss

The procrastinating man is ever struggling with ruin.

-- Greek poet Hesiod (more than 2,800 years ago!)

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. -- William James

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

-- Seneca

Progress, not perfection.

-- Anonymous

You cannot love something and have passion for it only when it goes the way you want it to go. -- Football coach Dennis Green, after being fired by the Minnesota Vikings

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

-- William Feather

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

-- Marie Osmond

Life breaks us all sometimes, but some grow strong at the broken places. -- Ernest Hemingway

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.

-- David Burns

When we cannot change a situation, resolution comes through the way we choose to handle it within ourselves.

-- Gerald Coffee

Life is tough, but I am tougher.

-- Anonymous

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

-- William Hazlitt

The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves.

-- Peggy Noonan

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Theresa

The best thing you can do behind a person's back is pat it.

-- sign on a church

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

-- William James

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones. Speak them rather now instead.

-- Anna Cummins

The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.

-- G.K. Chesterton

Make a person like himself/herself a little better, and I promise he/she will like you very well indeed.

-- Lord Chesterfield

You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself.

-- Deepak Chopra

Another way to move up the self-esteem scale is to decide that you are going to spend a little more time dwelling on your successes -- the things you feel good about having done -- and less time wallowing in errors and failures.

-- James W. Newman

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside can't hurt you.

-- African proverb

Positive thinking is realistic thinking. It always sees the negative, but it doesn't dwell on the negative and nurture it, letting it dominate the mind. It keeps the negative in proper size and grows the positive big. -- Norman Vincent Peale

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts the moment you get up and doesn't stop until you get to the office. -- Robert Frost

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.

-- Robert Gallagher

Think you make silly mistakes? The classic book The Grapes of Wrath was once translated into another language -- and it came out as The Angry Raisins!

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

-- Phyllis Diller

I'm holding a seminar on multiple personality disorder and it takes me forever to fill out the name tags.

-- Niles Crane on "Frasier"

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

-- Carrie Snow

Mom, can I take you to my therapist? Because he thinks I'm making you up.

-- Grace on "Will & Grace"

As someone pointed out recently, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

-- Jean Kerr

Even if I get past my problems, I'm just going to go out and get new ones.

-- Ally on "Ally McBeal," in response to a friend's suggestion of professional counseling

My friend's father was proud of his family of six children. He frequently referred to his wife as "Mother of Six," much to her annoyance. Finally, she cured him of his habit.

At the end of a party, he called out loud enough for everyone to hear, "Ready to go, Mother of Six?" "Any time you are," she replied, "Father of Four."

-- from "Reader's Digest"