Favorite Quotations

Below, you'll find some of my favorite quotations.  I have noted, where applicable, the author attributed to the quote.  A few of the quotes were obtained from the line of Successories inspirational products.

Cloud Nine gets all the publicity, but Cloud Eight is actually cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view.

- Unknown

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

- Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.

- Unknown

"If you didn't know how old you are,
how old would you be?"

- Lil from Survivor 7

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take;
but by the moments that take our breath away!

- George Carlin

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

- Unknown

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
 they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

- Unknown

The secret of happiness is not in doing one what likes, but in liking what one has to do.

- James M. Barrie

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

- Stacia Tauscher

Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. - Unknown

Love is like everything else;  if you don't have it you can't give it."

  - Walt Disney

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

  - Abraham Lincoln

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for
us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."

 -Patrick Young

 "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." 

- Charles Schulz

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, and hour to appreciate them, but then an entire life to forget them.

In order to discover new oceans, one must have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Cherish your yesterdays, and dream your tomorrows, but live your todays.

Love doesn’t make the world go round, but it sure makes the ride worthwhile.

Some people watch things happen, and some people make things happen, while others wonder what happened.

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb, for that is where the fruit grows.

Those who complain how the ball bounces are usually the ones who dropped it.

Snowflakes are one of mother nature’s most fragile elements, yet look what they can do when they stick together.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Your attitude in life often determines the altitude you can achieve.

You can’t steal second base without first taking your foot off first.

If you don’t pick up the ball and run with it, somebody else will!

Remember this: When you’re through changing, you are through.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you'll never have to worry about your feet.

If you do not believe in yourself... chances are that nobody else will.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

Don't wait for your ship to come in... swim out to meet it.

ATTITUDE - Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

TEAMWORK - Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to achieve uncommon results.

 SUCCESS - Some people dream of success...while others wake up and work hard at achieving it.

To be a winner, all you need to give is all you have.

CHANGE - A Bend In The Road Is Not The End Of The Road...Unless You Fail To Make The Turn.

PRIORITIES - A Hundred Years From Now It Will not Matter What
My Bank Account Was, The Sort Of House I Lived In, Or the Kind Of Car I Drove,
.But The World May Be Different Because I Was Important In The Life Of A Child.

CHALLENGES - Anyone Can Hold The Helm When The Sea Is Calm.

CUSTOMER SERVICE - If We Don't Take Care Of The Customer... Somebody Else Will.

TEAMWORK - Coming Together Is A Beginning... Keeping Together Is Progress... Working Together Is Success.

New Beginnings - In Life What Sometimes Appears To Be The End Is Really A New Beginning.

The Essence of Survival - Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run
 faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed... Every Morning a Lion Wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. 
t doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... 
When the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

COURAGE - We Take Risks Not To Escape Life...But To Prevent Life From Escaping Us.

Essence of Leadership - A true leader has the confidence to stand alone,
the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen 
to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes 
one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. 
In the end, leaders are much like eagles... they don't flock, you find them soaring alone.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.

- Les Brown

If you can’t make light of your troubles, then keep them in the dark.

Time may wrinkle the brow, but should never weary the spirit.

If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, then please don’t say it.

Work is the best thing ever invented for killing time.

Try to drive so that your license expires before you do.

Never throw mud. You may not hit your mark, and you’ll still have dirty hands.

The only way to settle a disagreement in on the basis of what’s right - not who’s right.

‘Tis better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

- James Dean

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when
the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.

- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

- Robert Frost

For fast acting relief try slowing down.

- Lily Tomlin

If you think you are too small to do a big thing, try doing small things in a big way.

Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.

A temper is a valuable and personal possession, so don’t lose it.

Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have. So spend it wisely.

Only when it is the darkest, is when you see the light.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Teachers open the door, but you must choose enter by yourself.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta be willing to put up with the rain.

- Dolly Parton

Even the tea kettle, when up to its neck in hot water, still manages to sing its song.

God will only give you as much as you can handle.

If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you,
it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with.

- Anonymous

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we only borrow it from our children.

- Haida Indian Saying

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

- Flip Wilson

An archer cannot hit the bullseye if he doesn't know where the target is.

- Anonymous

Bloom where you are planted.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

- Lauren Bacall

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

- Lily Tomlin

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

- Bob Dylan

The country clubs, the cars the boats, Your assets may be ample,
But the best inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example.

- Barry Spilchuk

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

- Katherine Whitehorn

To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones Aimed with angry art, 
Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart.

- Phyllis McGinley

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

- Frank Tyger

If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.

- Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby)

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Phyllis Diller

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.

- Shigenori Kameoka

Better to bend than to break.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

- Lord Chesterfield

If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

- Giordano Bruno

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

- Roger Miller

The best way out is always through.

- Robert Frost

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes,
but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

- Tom J. Connelly

A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully
upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell

 A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

- Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

- Elbert Hubbard

The smallest deed done is greater than the grandest intention

Twenty years from now
you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

When you're finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess?

The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind, I will live forever.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.

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