"All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for."
--Woodrow Wilson
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
--John Paul Jones
"One thing you can't recycle is wasted time."
--Anon.
Don't waste your energy worrying:
"Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway."
--Mary C. Crowley
"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down."
--George MacDonald
"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."
--Glenn Turner
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."
--Sophocles
"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk."
--Raymond Inmon
"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything."
--Win Borden
Yes, do keep it simple:
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
--Hans Hofmann
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
--Leonardo DaVinci
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
--Lin Yutang
"There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one."
--Elmer G. Leterman
"Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow."
--Glen Beaman
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein
Lessen the stress in your life:
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
--Sylvia Plath
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
--Sydney J. Harris
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
--Lao Tzu
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
--Henry Ford
"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."
--Sylvester Stallone
"If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."
--John Lubbock
Travel, and keep your eyes open when you do:
"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see."
--G.K. Chesterton
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
--St. Augustine
"I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine."
--Caskie Stinnett
"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."
--Henry Ford
"Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
--Chinese Proverb
"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company."
--Charles Evans Hughes
Don't give in to peer pressure:
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
--Anatole France
"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
--Bethania McKenstry
"To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color."
--Toller Cranston
"Out of the strain of Doing, into the peace of the Done."
--Julia Louise Woodruff
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned."
--Peter Marshall
"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves."
--Garth Henrichs
Don't play it safe:
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
--Carl Jung
"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."
--Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails." Explore. Dream. Discover.
--Mark Twain
"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."
--Charles DeLint
"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat."
--Ann Landers
"Hatred is one long wait."
--René Maran
You can't get hung up on "can't.":
"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
-- Epictetus
"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."
--Golo Mann
"It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life."
--Tony Robbins
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
--Kenji Miyazawa
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
--Steven Wright
Avoid that rut:
"The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions."
--Ellen Glasgow
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
--W. Edwards Denning
"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."
--Anon.
"God has entrusted me with myself."
--Epictetus
"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
"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."
--Raymond Hull
Chase the blues with a green thumb:
"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."
--Hanna Rion
"More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows."
--Spanish Proverb
"There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
--Marcelene Cox
"To look up and not down, /To look forward and not back, / To look out and not in, and / To lend a hand."
--Edward Everett Hale
"I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live."
--Louis D. Brandies
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
--Samuel Johnson
Dress for success, but don't let it make you nuts:
"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important."
--Janet Lane
"Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul."
--Mark Twain
"It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it."
--Albert Einstein
"The best place to use big words is in a crossword puzzle."
--Brian Koslow
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
--Charles Buxton
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
--T.S. Eliot
Don't let time pass you by while you're watching the calendar:
"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."
--Daniel Auber
"The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."
--Sigmund Z. Engel
"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."
--Brigitte Bardot
"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."
--Tertullian
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
--Arthur Conan Doyle
"Every survival kit should include a sense of humor."
--Anon.
Don't pass the buck, lest you shortchange someone else:
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say `I lost it.'"
--Sidney J. Harris
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
--Erica Jong
"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else."
--Ivern Ball
"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."
--Dr. Jonas Salk
"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."
--Winston Churchill
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
--Thomas Carlyle
Smile, and open up some opportunities:
"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles."
--George Eliot
"Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available."
--Jim Beggs
"A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it."
--Anon.
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
--Tom Robbins
"One of these days is none of these days."
--H. G. Bohn
"The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure."
--B.C. Forbes
Take a walk:
"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
--Jacqueline Schiff
"I have two doctors, my left leg and my right."
--G.M. Trevelyan
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
--Paul Dudley White
"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."
--Chinese proverb
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
--Sara Teasdale
"Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. "
--Franklin P. Jones
Drive yourself:
"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
--Angus Grossart
"The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it."
--Leo Aikman
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."
--Jimmy Johnson
"If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you didn't want."
--Anon.
Be too big to be envious:
"Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has."
--Elizabeth O'Connor
"Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own."
--Harold Coffin
"Envy is a waste of time."
--Anon.
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them."
--William F. Halsey
"Well done is better than well said."
--Benjamin Franklin
"Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped."
--African Proverb
Let your curiosity propel you:
"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."
--Sudie Back
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why."
--Bernard Baruch
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
--Samuel Johnson
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."
--Roy Disney
"The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle."
--Anon.
"Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to."
--Arnold H. Glasow
Make your day smoother with a little humor:
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road."
--Henry Ward Beecher
"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood."
--Mary Hirsch
"Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations."
--Ron Dentinger
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
--Confucius
"To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable."
--Barry Goldwater
"Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them."
--Anon.
Do your very best, and to heck with perfection:
"No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers."
--Anon.
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
--Elbert Hubbard
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."
--Harriet Braiker
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
--Leonardo DaVinci
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
--Nelson Mandela
Don't let anger beat you:
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."
--Buddha
"Get mad, then get over it."
--Colin Powell
"He who angers you conquers you."
--Elizabeth Kenny