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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near the great goal, "I have done what I could.

Louis Pasteur

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Golda Meir

The more things you do, the more you can do.

Lucille Ball

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

Greg Anderson

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Greg Anderson

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Luigi Pirandello

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Lydia M. Child

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

Lydia M. Child

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

Magic Johnson

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

Magic Johnson

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Maimonides

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.

R. A. Torrey

I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.

R. A. Torrey

Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.

R. A. Torrey

If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

R. A. Torrey

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

R. A. Torrey

The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.

R. A. Torrey

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Ralph Marston

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

Anna Quindlen

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

Ralph W. Sockman

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Harry Truman

Adventure is not outside; it is within.

Ray Stannard Baker

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

Barbara Bush

You can't take life for granted.

Jennifer Lopez

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

Jennifer Lopez

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

Jennifer Lopez

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Marcus Garvey

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Margaret Atwood

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

Reese Witherspoon

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

Bear Bryant

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

Rene Magritte

To be the man, you've gotta beat the man.

Ric Flair

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Margaret Atwood

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

Benito Mussolini

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Walter Scott

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Margaret J. Wheatley

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Benjamin Disraeli

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Warren G. Bennis

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Warren G. Bennis

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

Billie Jean King

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

Billie Jean King

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Jim Carrey

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Franz Kafka

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Joan Rivers

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Bill Gates

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Bill Gates

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”

Bill Gates

“I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.”

Bill Murray

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Will Rogers

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Billie Jean King

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Coco Chanel

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

Courtney Love

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Billy Joel

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Bo Jackson

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

William Lyon Phelps

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

Phyllis Diller

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tom Brokaw

Let grace and goodness be the principal load stone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Mitch Albom

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Mitch Albom

“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Benjamin E. Mays

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance

Benito Mussolini

“The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”

Benito Mussolini

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

Alicia Keys

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Robert Kennedy

You haven't lived until you've died in California.

Mort Sahl

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

Ville Valo

Women are always beautiful.

Ville Valo

Business money is limitless.

Muhammad Yunus

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

John Le Carre

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Roland Barthes

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

David Frost

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.