INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do,  something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."  --Josh Billings "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."--Anon. "Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."--Anon "The most splendid achievement of all is in the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval." -- Denis Waitley "Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for 'just getting the job done.' Excel!" -- Tom Hopkins "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Good is not good where better is expected." -- Thomas Fuller Nothing is easy to the unwilling.--Nikki Giovanni In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.--R.H. Grenville "Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done." -- Jim Rohn "It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy." -- George Horace Lormier "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." -- Helen Keller "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't---Richard Bach "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." --Joan Borysenko "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."-- Budda "The purpose of life is a life of purpose."--Robert Byrne "It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."-- Millard Fuller "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." -William James "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -W. M. Lewis "Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be." -Jeremy Schwartz For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. -Laura Swenson "Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens." --Edward Young Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry for what might be done.--Anon. "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."--Anon. "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." -Robert Anthony "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." --H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." --Johann von Goethe "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." --Helen Keller "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." --Oscar Wilde "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." --Mark Twain "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." --Cynthia Nelms "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." --Abraham Lincoln "In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down." --Brian Weir Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.--Han Suyin The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. --John Berry "Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." --Les Brown The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.--Marcel Proust In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. --Thomas Jefferson Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. --Dave Gardner If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it! -- Jonathan Winters