Thoughts

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~Marilyn vos Savant

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
~Helen Hayes

A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
~David Brinkley

Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved.
~William Jennings Bryant

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".


Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
~Anne Frank

There are many ways of being frivolous, only one way of being intellectually great; that is honest labor.
~Sydney Smith

Don't avoid obstacles.....Defeat them !
~Gabriel Yared

If the things we believe in are different than the things we do, there can be no true happiness.
~Dana Telford

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
~Epicurus

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
~Charles Jones

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
~Elbert Hubbard

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.
~George F. Tiltonood

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
~Anna Quindlen

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.
~Simon Patrick

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
~Margaret Lindsey

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
~Norman Mailer

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
~Doug Larson

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves a wise man.
~Buddha

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
~Ayn Rand

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
~John MacNaughton

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
~M. Scott Peck

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
~Mark Twain