| Thoughts Sent In 2002 | ||||
| 1/2/2002 | The greatest high you can get in life is by helping somebody. | - | Timothy Stackpole - N.Y.C. firefighter who perished while rescuing people in the World Trade Center attacks. | |
| 1/4/2002 | Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. | - | John Wayne | |
| 1/7/2002 | When people say, "It can't be done" or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting. | - | Lynn Hill | |
| 1/8/2002 | To the daring belongs the future. | - | Emma Goldman | |
| 1/9/2002 | There is a purpose for our lives far grander and more significant than perhaps we might have ever considered. | - | David McNally | |
| 1/10/2002 | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | - | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 1/11/2002 | The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish. | - | Yogi Berra | |
| 1/14/2002 | Success is a commitment not a wish. | - | Unknown | |
| 1/15/2002 | Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. | - | Wilfred Grenfell | |
| 1/16/2002 | Only ideas that we actually live by are of any value. | - | Hermann Hesse | |
| 1/17/2002 | Most look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 1/18/2002 | Make an effort. Not an excuse. | - | Unknown | |
| 1/21/2002 | An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. | - | Freidrich Engels | |
| 1/22/2002 | Don't worry about what the world wants from you, worry about what makes you come more alive. Because what the world really needs are people who are more alive. | - | Lawrence Leshan | |
| 1/23/2002 | Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them. | - | Ethiopian Proverb | |
| 1/24/2002 | He who knows others is clever; he who knows himself is enlightened. | - | Lao-Tzu | |
| 1/25/2002 | If there were nothing wrong in the world, there wouldn't be anything for us to do. | - | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 1/28/2002 | Imagination is the true magic carpet. | - | Norman Vincent Peale | |
| 1/29/2002 | It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. | - | Erma Bombeck | |
| 1/30/2002 | Life without mission is a tremendous omission. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 1/31/2002 | Most people have a desire to look at the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. | - | John C. Maxwell | |
| 2/1/2002 | No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. | - | Unknown | |
| 2/4/2002 | People and rubber bands have one thing in common: they must be stretched to be effective. | - | John Maxwell | |
| 2/5/2002 | Smart people learn from their own mistakes. Smarter people learn from the mistakes of others. | - | Michael Altshuler | |
| 2/6/2002 | The beginning is always today. | - | Mary Wollstonecraft | |
| 2/7/2002 | The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. | - | Ben Stein | |
| 2/8/2002 | The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. | - | Robert J. McKain | |
| 2/11/2002 | There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction. | - | John F. Kennedy | |
| 2/12/2002 | To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. | - | Steve Prefontaine | |
| 2/13/2002 | When we see problems as opportunities for growth, we tap a source of knowledge within ourselves which carries us through. | - | Marsha Sinetar | |
| 2/14/2002 | Giving love is doing, and there's always more to do. | - | Randy Travis | |
| 2/15/2002 | How fantastic is the unexpected victory. | - | Dave Weinbaum | |
| 2/18/2002 | A lot of guilt comes from the feeling that we have more influence than we really do. | - | Dan Gottlieb | |
| 2/19/2002 | Anger is the only thing to put off till tomorrow. | - | Slovakian Proverb | |
| 2/20/2002 | Don't cry because it's over - smile because it happened. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 2/21/2002 | From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. | - | Dante Alighieri | |
| 2/22/2002 | Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. | - | L.J. Cardinal Suenens | |
| 2/26/2002 | If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. | - | Kurt Lewin | |
| 2/27/2002 | It may be those who do most, dream most | - | Stephen Leacock | |
| 2/28/2002 | Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions. | - | Peter F. Drucker | |
| 2/28/2002 | Respect is not a gift. You have to earn it. | - | Unknown | |
| 3/1/2002 | May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future. | - | Chinese Proverb | |
| 3/4/2002 | Maybe if we did a better job of listening, history wouldn't have to repeat itself. | - | LEADERSHIP ... with a human touch | |
| 3/5/2002 | Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. | - | Dave Barry | |
| 3/6/2002 | People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 3/7/2002 | Pray for a good harvest, but keep on hoeing. | - | Sign Post | |
| 3/8/2002 | Reputation is what you are perceived to be. Character is what you are. | - | John Wooden | |
| 3/11/2002 | Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge. | - | Abraham Heschel | |
| 3/12/2002 | We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life. | - | James Van Praagh | |
| 3/13/2002 | To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. | - | Elbert Hubbard | |
| 3/14/2002 | There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yest+B1535erday and tomorrow. | - | Robert J. Burdette | |
| 3/15/2002 | The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. | - | Marcel Proust | |
| 3/18/2002 | The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. | - | Tolstoy | |
| 3/19/2002 | The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. | - | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 3/20/2002 | Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far. | - | Euripides | |
| 3/21/2002 | Real communication happens when people feel safe. | - | Ken Blanchard | |
| 3/22/2002 | One thought driven home is better than three left on base. | - | James Liter | |
| 3/25/2002 | You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. | - | Wayne Dyer | |
| 3/26/2002 | Visualize this thing that you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin to build! | - | Robert Collier | |
| 3/27/2002 | To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 3/28/2002 | There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. | - | French Proverb | |
| 3/29/2002 | The saddest words of tongue or pen are those you didn't think of then. | - | Betty Billipp | |
| 4/1/2002 | The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision something, you can do it. | - | Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
| 4/2/2002 | The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. | - | Florence Shin | |
| 4/3/2002 | Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for the next hill. | - | Maya Angelou | |
| 4/3/2002 | Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. | - | Mike Ditka | |
| 4/4/2002 | Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within. | - | Steven H. Coogler | |
| 4/5/2002 | Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers. | - | Seneca | |
| 4/8/2002 | Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. | - | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 4/9/2002 | Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. | - | W.J. Cameron | |
| 4/10/2002 | Losers pass the buck while winners make it. | - | Michael Altshuler | |
| 4/11/2002 | It's one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. | - | Kenneth Auchincloss | |
| 4/12/2002 | It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is better from the top. | - | Good Stuff | |
| 4/15/2002 | If you're standing still, you're going backward. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 4/16/2002 | I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. | - | Woodrow Wilson | |
| 4/17/2002 | Happiness hides in life's small details. If you're not looking, it becomes invisible. | - | Joyce Brothers | |
| 4/18/2002 | Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house, If you can't control it, it will burn everything and destroy you. | - | Cus D'Amato | |
| 4/19/2002 | Doubt your doubts. | - | Joe Batten | |
| 4/22/2002 | Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. | - | Leo Aikman | |
| 4/23/2002 | A little spark kindles a great fire. | - | Spanish Proverb | |
| 4/24/2002 | Winners keep track of results. Losers keep track of reasons. | - | George Sheehan | |
| 4/25/2002 | We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. | - | Michael Crichton | |
| 4/26/2002 | There is nothing wrong with man possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. | - | Billy Graham | |
| 4/29/2002 | The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. | - | Marcus Aurelius | |
| 4/30/2002 | The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next. | - | Mignon McLaughlin | |
| 5/1/2002 | The hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last. | - | Charles Dickens | |
| 5/2/2002 | The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration; then more practice and more concentration. | - | Babe Didrikson Zaharias | |
| 5/3/2002 | Stop trying to impress others - strive to impress yourself | - | Mike Scicchitano | |
| 5/6/2002 | Perspiration is to inspiration what sunlight is to morning glories. | - | O.A. Battista | |
| 5/7/2002 | Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. | - | Samuel Johnson | |
| 5/8/2002 | Men grow making decisions and assuming responsibilities for them. | - | Bill Marriott, Sr. | |
| 5/9/2002 | Lost years are worse than lost dollars. | - | Yiddish Proverb | |
| 5/10/2002 | Just as the hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so the routine of everyday life can keep us from seeing the vast radiance and the secret wonders that fill the world. | - | 18th-century Chasidic saying | |
| 5/13/2002 | It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person some scars. | - | Garrison Keillor | |
| 5/14/2002 | It doesn't matter where you're coming from; all that matters is where you are going. | - | Brian Tracy | |
| 5/15/2002 | It is not for us to forcast the future, but to shape it. | - | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | |
| 5/16/2002 | I'm not a has-been. I'm a will-be. | - | Lauren Bacall | |
| 5/17/2002 | If you had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose. | - | Malcolm Forbes | |
| 5/20/2002 | When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. | - | Leo Burnett | |
| 5/21/2002 | Truth is the only ground to stand upon. | - | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | |
| 5/22/2002 | They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. | - | Andy Warhol | |
| 5/23/2002 | The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made. | - | Norman Vincent Peale | |
| 5/24/2002 | The pain is temporary. The pride is forever. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 5/28/2002 | When things go wrong, remember this . . . Champions expect pain. | - | Keith Ziegenbein | |
| 5/29/2002 | To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. | - | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 5/30/2002 | There is one quality more important than "know-how." This is "know what," by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what are purposes are to be. | - | Norbert Wiener | |
| 5/31/2002 | The secret of happiness? Enjoy the small pleasures. | - | Samuel Smiles | |
| 6/4/2002 | The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. | - | Robert J. Schiller | |
| 6/5/2002 | So long as there's breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success; if I persist long enough I will win. | - | Og Mandino | |
| 6/6/2002 | Remember every job is a self-porrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. | - | James A. Brewer | |
| 6/7/2002 | Love builds highways out of dead ends. | - | Louis Gittner | |
| 6/10/2002 | A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's fortune's accomplice. | - | Sting | |
| 6/11/2002 | Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. | - | Robert Half | |
| 6/12/2002 | Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. | - | Robert Frost | |
| 6/13/2002 | Fatigue is often caused not by work but by worry, frustration, and resentment. We rarely get tired when we are doing something interesting and exciting. | - | Dale Carnegie | |
| 6/14/2002 | Good supervision is the art of giving people a shot in the arm without letting them feel the needle. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 6/17/2002 | A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. | - | Chinese Proverb | |
| 6/18/2002 | A loving heart is the truest wisdom | - | Charles Dickens | |
| 6/19/2002 | All know the way. Few actually walk it. | - | Bodhidharma | |
| 6/20/2002 | An idea is only as good as its execution. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 6/21/2002 | Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. | - | Serbian Proverb | |
| 9/3/2002 | Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. | - | Paul Goodman | |
| 9/4/2002 | When you have nothing to say, say nothing. | - | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| 9/5/2002 | Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. | - | Maurice Setter | |
| 9/6/2002 | Things do not happen. They are made to happen. | - | John F. Kennedy | |
| 9/9/2002 | Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself . . . . Treat yourself as you would someone you really loved. | - | Louise Hay | |
| 9/10/2002 | You are not struck where you are unless you decide to be. | - | Wayne Dyer | |
| 9/11/2002 | This is the highest wisdom that I own . . . freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. | - | Goeth | |
| 9/12/2002 | Two parts to wisdom - 1) Having a lot to say. 2) Knowing when to say it. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 9/13/2002 | The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination. | - | Pir Vilayat Khan | |
| 9/16/2002 | A hundred years from now, it won't mater what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove, but the world may be different because you were important in the life of a child. | - | Unknown | |
| 9/17/2002 | Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. | - | Og Mandino | |
| 9/18/2002 | Dare to be yourself. | - | Andre Gide | |
| 9/19/2002 | Embrace change. It's going to happen whether you like it or not. | - | Odette Pollar | |
| 9/20/2002 | First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you, whether you're inspired or not . . . Habit is persistence in practice. | - | Octavia Butler | |
| 9/22/2002 | A man's real wealth is the good he does in the world. | - | Muslim Hadith | |
| 9/24/2002 | As I grow old, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. | - | Bebe Moore Campbell | |
| 9/25/2002 | Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. | - | William Jennings Bryan | |
| 9/26/2002 | Even if you can't get over it, get on with it. | - | Dave Weinbaum | |
| 9/27/2002 | For the unlearned, old age is winter. For the learned, it is the season of the harvest. | - | Hasidic Saying | |
| 9/30/2002 | Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. | - | Miguel De Cervantes | |
| 10/1/2002 | Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. | - | Albert Schweitzer | |
| 10/2/2002 | I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have if he or she would put forth the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. | - | Mahatma Gandhi | |
| 10/3/2002 | If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. | - | Unknown | |
| 10/4/2002 | If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. | - | Dalai Lama | |
| 10/7/2002 | A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. | - | Herb Caen | |
| 10/8/2002 | An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. | - | Margaret Atwood | |
| 10/9/2002 | Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail. | - | Marva Collins | |
| 10/10/2002 | Fascination works better than frustration. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 10/11/2002 | Gratitude is not only the greatest of all the virtues, but the parent of all the others. | - | Cicero | |
| 10/14/2002 | Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders. | - | Bob Moawad | |
| 10/15/2002 | If opportunity doesn't knock . . . Build a door. | - | Milton Berle | |
| 10/16/2002 | If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters. | - | Loretta Young | |
| 10/17/2002 | It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile. | - | Hubert H. Humphrey | |
| 10/18/2002 | It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. | - | Lillian Hellman | |
| 10/21/2002 | I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else. | - | Lance Armstrong | |
| 10/22/2002 | Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all you heart. | - | Pat Riley | |
| 10/23/2002 | Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 10/24/2002 | Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. | - | E.L. Konigsburg | |
| 10/25/2002 | Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. | - | Thomas Edison | |
| 10/29/2002 | Success is not purchased at any one time, but on the installment plan. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 10/30/2002 | The first duty of love - is to listen. | - | Paul Tillich | |
| 10/31/2002 | The mark of shame does not wash away. | - | Omaha Indian Proverb | |
| 11/1/2002 | The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 11/4/2002 | There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. | - | Booker T. Washington | |
| 11/5/2002 | Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. | - | Gene Brown | |
| 11/6/2002 | When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 11/7/2002 | When you rule your mind you rule your world. When you choose your thoughts you choose your results. | - | Imelda Shanklin | |
| 11/8/2002 | You never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. | - | Irish Proverb | |
| 11/12/2002 | When you are in your 90s and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really "What did you stand for? Did you make a positive difference for people? | - | Elizabeth Dole | |
| 11/13/2002 | We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. | - | Charles Swindoll | |
| 11/14/2002 | There is no security in life, only opportunity. | - | Mark Twain | |
| 11/15/2002 | There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. | - | Logan Pearsall Smith | |
| 11/18/2002 | A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance. | - | Paul Duffy | |
| 11/19/2002 | Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. | - | James Bryant Conant | |
| 11/20/2002 | Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking. | - | J.C. Watts Jr. | |
| 11/21/2002 | Do noble things, do not dream them all day long. | - | Charles Kingsley | |
| 11/22/2002 | Enough is better than too much. | - | French Proverb | |
| 11/25/2002 | Few of us will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events … It is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. | - | Robert F. Kennedy | |
| 11/26/2002 | Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. | - | Gail Sheehy | |
| 11/27/2002 | The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose word of thanks will not be heard. | - | Gaylord Nelson | |
| 12/2/2002 | The only person who can make you happy is you. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 12/3/2002 | The heart that loves is always young. | - | Greek Proverb | |
| 12/4/2002 | The best way to motivate other people to help you fulfill your goals is to help them fulfill their goals. | - | Deepak Chopra | |
| 12/5/2002 | The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. | - | Persian Proverb | |
| 12/6/2002 | Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. | - | Carl Sagan | |
| 12/9/2002 | A competitive world has two possibilities for you. You can lose. Or if you want to win, you can change. | - | Lester C. Thurow | |
| 12/10/2002 | A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. | - | Walter Winchell | |
| 12/11/2002 | Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. | - | Jesse Owens | |
| 12/12/2002 | Children are our most valuable natural resource. | - | Herbert Hoover | |
| 12/13/2002 | Defeat isn't bitter, as long as you don't swallow it. | - | Bits & Pieces | |
| 12/16/2002 | Don't get complacent. Push yourself out of your comfort zone and set higher standards of achievement for yourself. Once you've achieved a standard of excellence, never let it rest - push yourself even higher. | - | Dave Anderson | |
| 12/17/2002 | Every moment is the right one to be kind. | - | James A. Brewer | |
| 12/18/2002 | Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one. | - | Joan Chittister | |
| 12/19/2002 | Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. | - | Richard Byrd | |
| 12/20/2002 | Happiness is the best cosmetic. | - | Karen Duffy | |
| 12/23/2002 | There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. | - | Unknown | |