Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche
Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don’t now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate. – Richard C Cabot
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. – Thomas Jefferson
When your joy is sincere you are a smile-millionaire, a genuine smile distributes the cosmic currents – prana to every body cell. – Parmahansa Yoginanda
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do…doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don’t want to do, they won’t. – James Gould Cozzens
When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick. – Bill Lemley
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight. – it’s the size of the fight in the dog-Dwight D Eisenhower
Well done is better than well said-Benjamin Franklin
We should take from the past its fires and not its ashes. – Jean Juares
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. – Judge Learned Hand
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, doing their practical duty well; then that they may be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin
We must become the change we wish to see in the world. – Mohandas K Gandhi
We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. a lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. everybody should have his personal sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm…as a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence. – Andre Kostelanetz, conductor
We like someone because. We love someone although. – Henri De Montherlant
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies. – Roderick Thorp
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, “here and now”, without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank. – Ortega y Gusset
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another-until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. – Richard M Nixon
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin D Roosevelt
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. – Confucius
To give life a meaning one must have a purpose larger than oneself. – Will Durant
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. – Thomas Edison
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. – William Faulkner
Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor. – William Cobbett
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and those who love it are not equal to those who live it. – Confucius
Those who enjoy happiness do so because they have earned it with their thoughts. – Alan Cohen
those who dream by night in the dust recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. – T E Lawrence
They conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theres nothing wrong with being a self-made man if you don’t consider the job finished too soon. – John Mooney
There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for the poor men to know how rich men work. – Edward Atkinson
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. – Christopher Morley
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. – David Starr Jordan
The world has no room for cowards. we must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. and yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when you return from your daily victory and defeat. – Robert Louis Stevenson
The work does not come out of inspiration. Inspiration comes out of the work. – Dr. Ida P Rolf
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. – Franklin S Richards
The tragedy of the world is that men have given first class loyalty to second class causes, and these causes have betrayed them. – Lynn Harold Hough
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. – John F Kennedy