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"I have yet to find a man, whatever his situation in life, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he ever would do under a spirit of criticism." -- Charles M. Schwab
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again!" -- William E. Hickson
"Never cut what you can untie." -- Joseph Joubert
"To lose patience is to lose the battle." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." -- Russian Proverb
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." -- Dorothy Nevill
"What should not be heard by little ears should not be said by big mouths." -- Author Unknown
"Let us be patient, tender, wise, forgiving, in this strange task of living." -- Martin Armstrong
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." -- George Bernard Shaw
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." -- William James
"I used to think of inpatience as simply a natural part of some people's personality, but over the years I have come to conclude that habitual impatience is a mark of immaturity." -- Dr. Harold Lee Snow
"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Anybody can become angry -- that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." -- Aristotle
"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough." -- Helen Keller
"I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The best thing about the future is that is comes only one day at a time." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." -- Abraham Lincoln
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." -- Seneca
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." -- Thomas A. Edison
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." -- Thomas A. Edison
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." -- Thomas A. Edison
"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." -- W. B. Prescott
"Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself." -- St. Francis de Sales
"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." -- Margaret Lee Runbeck
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow." -- William Lyon Phelps
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too." -- Anne Frank
"Your best shot at happiness, self-worth, and personal satisfaction -- the things that constitute real sucess -- is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. Whether that is healing the sick, giving hope to the hopeless, adding to the beauty of the world, or saving the world from nuclear holocaust, I cannot tell you." -- William Raspberry
"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up to it yourself." -- Benjamin Franklin
"You have to sniff out joy, keep your nose to the joy-trail." -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -- Mark Twain
"We all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." -- Elmer Davis
"The wishbone will never replace the backbone." -- Will Henry
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face . . . You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary." -- Sally Ride
"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
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." -- Booker T. Washington
"If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart." -- Arab Proverb
"I expect to pass throught life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." -- William Penn
"A word of kindness if better than a fat pie." -- Russian Proverb
"One kind word can warm three winter months." -- Japanese Proverb
"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word." William Makepeace Thackeray
"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them." -- Benjamin Jewett
"Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplify, simplify." -- Henry David Thoreau
"A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments." -- Samuel Johnson
"Saving is greater than earning." -- German Proverb
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor." -- Vince Lombardi
"Never lef the fear of striking out get in your way." -- Babe Ruth
"It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it." -- Wally "Famous" Amos
"No farmer ever plowed a field by turning it over in his mind." -- George E. Woodbury
"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting." -- Dale Carnegie
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right." -- Walt Disney
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." -- Beverly Sills
"Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up agains the wind." -- Frank Harris
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