Thoughts Sent In 2008 | ||||
1/2/2008 | Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. | - | Oprah Winfrey | |
1/3/2008 | Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age. | - | Booth Tarkington | |
1/4/2008 | Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. | - | Samuel Lover | |
1/7/2008 | Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. | - | Spencer Johnson | |
1/7/2008 | Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you're only looking for a lucky break. | - | Monta Crane | |
1/8/2008 | Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. | - | Clarence Birdseye | |
1/9/2008 | It is all too easy to speed through life with our eyes focused only on the road ahead. The challenge is scanning the horizon from time to time to determine where we are headed. | - | Christopher Gergen and Gregor Vanourek | |
1/9/2008 | Only those who risk going too far will ever know how far they can go. | - | Good Stuff | |
1/10/2008 | Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. | - | African Proverb | |
1/11/2008 | One should know the value of Life better than to pout about part of it away. | - | Hester Lynch Piozzi | |
1/14/2008 | One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to his opinion. | - | Dale Carnegie | |
1/15/2008 | One of the hardest things to learn in life is where your business ends and somebody else's begins. | - | Oscar Levant | |
1/16/2008 | One man with courage is a majority. | - | Andrew Johnson | |
1/17/2008 | One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. | - | Edward B. Butler | |
1/18/2008 | One deed is worth a thousand speeches. | - | American Proverb | |
1/20/2008 | The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to something more positive . . . and begin to act accordingly. | - | Shakti Gawain | |
1/23/2008 | Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are. | - | C.H. Woodward | |
1/24/2008 | Not in time, place or circumstances, but in the man lies success… | - | Charles B. Rouss | |
1/25/2008 | Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get the more tired and breathless you become - but your views become more extensive. | - | Ingrid Bergman | |
1/28/2008 | Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. | - | Joseph Joubert | |
1/29/2008 | Learning is not compulsory, neither is survival. | - | Peter Zwack | |
1/30/2008 | Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got. | - | William Feather | |
1/31/2008 | Life in abundance comes only through great love. | - | Elbert Hubbard | |
2/1/2008 | Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond to it. | - | unknown | |
2/4/2008 | Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. | - | James Thurber | |
2/5/2008 | Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for. | - | Eve Arden | |
2/6/2008 | Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. | - | Leo Buscaglia | |
2/7/2008 | Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. | - | Jean De La Fontaine | |
2/8/2008 | Look it up - you'll remember it longer. | - | Michele Slung | |
2/11/2008 | Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. | - | Harry Emerson Fosdick | |
2/12/2008 | Celebrate what you want to see more of. | - | Thomas J. Peters | |
2/13/2008 | Confidence is courage at ease. | - | Daniel Maher | |
2/14/2008 | Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! | - | Henri F. Amiel | |
2/15/2008 | Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. | - | Arnold H. Glasgow | |
2/18/2008 | Looking back, we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings. | - | Dan Millman | |
2/19/2008 | Make good habits and they will make you. | - | Parks Cousins | |
2/20/2008 | Man's biggest mistake is to believe he's working for someone else. | - | Nashua Cavalier | |
2/21/2008 | Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them couldn't handle being laughed at. | - | Unknown | |
2/22/2008 | Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | - | Thomas Edison | |
2/25/2008 | You success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expect to do. | - | Brian Tracy | |
2/26/2008 | You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up, but you don't give up. | - | Chuck Yeager | |
2/27/2008 | You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. | - | Jan Glidewell | |
2/28/2008 | Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled. | - | Unknown | |
2/29/2008 | Wisdom is the reward you get from a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk | - | Dough Larson | |
3/3/2008 | Where there's life, there's hope. | - | Theocritus | |
3/4/2008 | When you're in deep water; the best thing to do is shut your mouth. | - | Unknown | |
3/5/2008 | When you have been wronged, a poor memory is your best response. | - | Unknown | |
3/6/2008 | What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. | - | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
3/7/2008 | What comes from the heart goes to the heart. | - | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
3/10/2008 | Well-being is not found in isolation, possessions, or power itself; it usually appears while serving others. | - | Manuel Arango | |
3/11/2008 | We want our minds to be clear - not so we can think clearly, but so we can be open in our perceptions. | - | Mary Caroline Richards | |
3/12/2008 | We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not contemplation. | - | Jacob Bronowsky | |
3/13/2008 | We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. | - | Joseph Campbell | |
3/14/2008 | We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. | - | John Henry Newman | |
3/17/2008 | Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's an experience. | - | Victoria Holt | |
3/18/2008 | Never let the difficulty of the task stand as an adequate reason for not acting; force yourself to identify precisely what is to be gained in the long run by delay. In most cases you'll find you can't. | - | Edwin Bliss | |
3/19/2008 | Never be afraid of throwing away what you have, if you can throw it away, it is not really yours. | - | R.H. Tawney | |
3/21/2008 | My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying | - | Laurence J. Peter | |
3/24/2008 | My friends are my estate. | - | Emily Dickinson | |
3/25/2008 | Most people see what is, and never see what can be. | - | Albert Einstein | |
3/26/2008 | Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. | - | W.N. Rieger | |
3/27/2008 | Most of the things worth doing in the world were said to be impossible before they were done. | - | Louis Brandeis | |
3/28/2008 | Most of us know how to say nothing; few of us know when. | - | Unknown | |
3/31/2008 | Most of the trouble in this world is caused by people wanting to be important. | - | T,S. Eliot | |
4/1/2008 | Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway. | - | Unknown | |
4/2/2008 | More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. | - | Francois Gautier | |
4/3/2008 | Memory is the one paradise out of which we cannot be driven. | - | Sacha Guitry | |
4/4/2008 | May you live to be a hundred - and decide the rest for yourself. | - | Irish Proverb | |
4/7/2008 | The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. | - | Dale Carnegie | |
4/8/2008 | The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. | - | John Burroughs | |
4/9/2008 | The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. | - | Louis D. Brandeis | |
4/10/2008 | The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty. | - | Charles Swindoll | |
4/11/2008 | The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize on it when it comes along. | - | H. Bertram Lewis | |
4/14/2008 | The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. | - | LEADERSHIP ... with a human touch | |
4/15/2008 | Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. | - | Helen Keller | |
4/16/2008 | Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. | - | B.C. Forbes | |
4/17/2008 | Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. The good news is that we can choose. | - | Greg Anderson | |
4/18/2008 | One person with passion is better than forty who are merely interested. | - | Thomas K. Connellan | |
4/21/2008 | One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand - to see that heaven lies about us here in this world. | - | John Burroughs | |
4/22/2008 | One half of life is luck, the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck. | - | Carl Zuckmayer | |
4/23/2008 | Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore. | - | Sandor Minab | |
4/24/2008 | None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime. | - | Gail Goodwin | |
4/25/2008 | None of the secrets of success will work unless you do. | - | W.T. Grant | |
4/28/2008 | No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality. | - | William Feather | |
4/29/2008 | No one has completed his education who has not learned to live with an insolvable problem. | - | Edmund j. Kiefer | |
4/30/2008 | No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount of excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. | - | Charles Kendall Adams | |
5/1/2008 | No matter what level your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. | - | James T. McCay | |
5/2/2008 | No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. | - | Charles P. Steinmetz | |
5/5/2008 | No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. | - | George Jean Nathan | |
5/6/2008 | No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it. | - | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |
5/7/2008 | No age or time of life,no position or circumstance, has monopoly on success. Any age is the age to start doing! | - | Unknown | |
5/8/2008 | Most successful men have not achieved distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. | - | Bruce Barton | |
5/9/2008 | Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. | - | James Harvey Robinson | |
5/12/2008 | More powerful than all the success slogans ever penned by humans is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself. | - | Gabriel Heater | |
5/13/2008 | Mistakes are the portals of discovery. | - | James Joyce | |
5/14/2008 | Maturity: acting your age instead of your urge. | - | Unknown | |
5/15/2008 | Many a man never fails because he never tries. | - | Norman Macewan | |
5/16/2008 | It is better to be wise than to seem wise. | - | Origen | |
5/19/2008 | Man are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ. | - | Moliere | |
5/20/2008 | Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. | - | Ralph Connor | |
5/21/2008 | Life isn't a science: we make it up as we go along. | - | Al Hirschfeld | |
5/22/2008 | Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts. | - | Anton J. Carlson | |
5/23/2008 | Learning is not worth a penny when courage and joy are lost along the way. | - | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi | |
5/27/2008 | Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. | - | Ella Fitzgerald | |
5/28/2008 | It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything. | - | Rene Coty | |
5/29/2008 | It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. | - | Albert Einstein | |
5/30/2008 | It's physically impossible to listen with your mouth open. | - | John Moe | |
6/2/2008 | Great minds like to think. | - | Chris Burns | |
6/3/2008 | Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. | - | Nathaniel Hawthone | |
6/4/2008 | Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. | - | Mahatma Gandhi | |
6/5/2008 | He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning. | - | Danish Proverb | |
6/6/2008 | He who graduates today, and stops learning tomorrow, is uneducated the day after. | - | Newton D. Baker | |
6/9/2008 | You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. | - | George Bernard Shaw | |
6/10/2008 | We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible. | - | Allan Massie | |
6/11/2008 | Don't undermine you're worth by comparing yourself to others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. | - | Brian Dyson | |
6/22/2008 | Love is not finding someone you can live with, it's finding someone you can't live without. | - | Rafel Ortiz | |
6/30/2008 | Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded. | - | Charles R. Schwab | |
7/1/2008 | Every one of us alone has the power to direct the course of our lives by choosing what actions we will or won't take. While sometimes it's easier to believe you don't have a choice, the reality is that you always have a choice to behave differently. | - | Francine Ward | |
7/2/2008 | Everyone is born "a somebody." You choose whether to stay a somebody or not by how you act. | - | Don McGee | |
7/3/2008 | Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. | - | Nolan Bushnell | |
7/7/2008 | Whines are the products of sour grapes. | - | Unknown | |
7/8/2008 | When you have a gift to offer, the world will make room for you. You must have patience and keep the faith. | - | Tyler Perry | |
7/9/2008 | We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves; we encourage each other in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. | - | Charles Lamb | |
7/10/2008 | We become what we expect to become. Greatness can be achieved only if we expect it from ourselves and from others! | - | James D. Ericson | |
7/11/2008 | We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. | - | Will Rogers | |
7/14/2008 | Comparison is the death of true self-contentment. | - | John Powell | |
7/15/2008 | Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of aggression or abrasion…. Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it, too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. | - | Diane Sawyer | |
7/16/2008 | Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. | - | Raymond Lindquist | |
7/17/2008 | Disregard your complaints and discover your gratitude. Release your trouble and restate your blessings. | - | Unknown | |
7/18/2008 | Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it. | - | Unknown | |
8/4/2008 | Don't ever promise more than you can give deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. | - | Lou Holtz | |
8/5/2008 | Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe. | - | Terese of Lisieux | |
8/6/2008 | Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which make the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by. | - | Johann Friedrich Schiller | |
8/7/2008 | Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be. | - | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
8/8/2008 | Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique. | - | Martin Buber | |
8/11/2008 | Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. | - | Thomas Edison | |
8/12/2008 | Experience teaches only the teachable. | - | Vernon Law | |
8/13/2008 | Failure is the greatest opportunity I have to know who I really am. | - | John Killinger | |
8/14/2008 | Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets, will reveal your own inner core of steel. | - | Georgette Mosbacher | |
8/15/2008 | For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness. | - | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
8/18/2008 | Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why people with mediocre talent but with great inner drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent. | - | Sophia Loren | |
8/19/2008 | Go for the big fish, You'll spend the same time baiting the hook. | - | Kevin DuPont | |
8/20/2008 | Happiness is good health and a bad memory. | - | Ingrid Bergman | |
8/21/2008 | Happy are those whose purpose has found them. | - | Unknown | |
8/22/2008 | Happy memories, like a lighted candle, light the dark places of later life. | - | Ruth Smeltzer | |
8/25/2008 | You have to decide for yourself what you really want. Walk as if you know where you're going. | - | Cathie Black | |
8/26/2008 | You don't need to be sick to get better. | - | Unknown | |
8/27/2008 | You don't have to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth to end up at the end of the golden rainbow. | - | Dianne Wilkerson | |
8/28/2008 | You can't solve a problem until you admit you have it. | - | RWL | |
8/29/2008 | Years do not make sages, they only make old men … some even before their time. | - | Og Mandino | |
9/2/2008 | Who, being loved, is poor? | - | Oscar Wilde | |
9/3/2008 | When you want something in life, you have to focus. | - | Rosalyn McMillan | |
9/4/2008 | When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart. | - | Russian Proverb | |
9/5/2008 | When you do all you can to enable others to have great moments, you'll be blessed with some matchless moments yourself. | - | E.H. Kinney | |
9/8/2008 | When duty calls, that is when character counts. | - | William Safire | |
9/9/2008 | One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. | - | Alexander A. Bogomoletz | |
9/10/2008 | Once in a while it really strikes people that they don't have to live in the way they have been told to. | - | Alan Keightl | |
9/11/2008 | Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. | - | Maxwell Maltz | |
9/12/2008 | Of all the passions fear weakens judgement most. | - | Cardinal De Retz | |
9/15/2008 | Don't Complain, just work harder. | - | Randy Pausch | |
9/16/2008 | Don't dwell on your mistakes. Get it right the next time. | - | Kirk Speraw | |
9/17/2008 | Dreams are … illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. | - | Marsha Norman | |
9/18/2008 | Every one minute you spend in planning will save you at least three minutes in execution. | - | Crawford Greenwald | |
9/19/2008 | Failure to recognize possibilities is the most dangerous and common mistake one can make. | - | Mae Jemison | |
9/22/2008 | When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. | - | Abraham Maslow | |
9/23/2008 | A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard. | - | Randy Paush | |
9/24/2008 | Your dream is not big enough if it doesn't scare you. | - | Mathias Schmelz | |
9/25/2008 | You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. | - | Dianne Feinstein | |
9/26/2008 | Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. | - | Alexander Hamilton | |
9/29/2008 | No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. | - | Tom Schulman | |
9/30/2008 | No man is rich enough to buy back his past. | - | Oscar Wilde | |
10/1/2008 | No man fails who does his best . . . | - | Orson Swett Marden | |
10/2/2008 | No date on the calendar is as important as tomorrow. | - | Roy W. Howard | |
10/3/2008 | Never say more than is necessary. | - | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | |
10/6/2008 | Wield love as your only weapon, and you will place yourself on the path to self-mastery, bountiful blessings, and the perfect peace we are all longing for. | - | Susan L. Taylor | |
10/7/2008 | Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth. | - | Yoruba Proverb | |
10/8/2008 | When you follow your bliss, doors will open…where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. | - | Joseph Campbell | |
10/9/2008 | When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to your ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. | - | Arland Gilbert | |
10/10/2008 | When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. | - | Confucius | |
10/13/2008 | Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. | - | Margaret Mead | |
10/14/2008 | My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. | - | J. Brotherton | |
10/15/2008 | My own experience has taught me this: If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be crossed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. | - | Maurice Chevalier | |
10/16/2008 | My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living. | - | George Burns | |
10/17/2008 | Most of the world's useful work is done by people who are pressed for time, or are tired, or don't feel well. | - | Unknown | |
10/20/2008 | More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. | - | Robert Smith Surtees | |
10/21/2008 | Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. | - | Galileo | |
10/22/2008 | Many things are lost for the want of asking. | - | English Proverb | |
10/23/2008 | Make the most of every failure. Fall forward. | - | Unknown | |
10/24/2008 | Look at a day when you are supremely satisified at the end. It's not the day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's the day when you had everything to do, and you've done it. | - | Lord Acton | |
10/27/2008 | Your mind is like a tree that grows, it is not a jar to be filled. | - | Chinese Proverb | |
10/28/2008 | Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. | - | Richard Bach | |
10/29/2008 | If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm. | - | Norman Vincent Peale | |
10/30/2008 | If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed. | - | Kate Halverson | |
10/31/2008 | We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. | - | May Sarton | |
11/3/2008 | So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. | - | John Sutherland Bonnell | |
11/4/2008 | The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. | - | Albert Ellis | |
11/5/2008 | The biggest trouble maker you'll probably ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror each morning. | - | Unknown | |
11/6/2008 | The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." | - | Nancy Barcus | |
11/7/2008 | The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. | - | Seneca | |
11/10/2008 | The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. | - | Colin Powell | |
11/11/2008 | The desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind. | - | Louis Marquis De Fontanes | |
11/12/2008 | The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake. . . | - | Nelson Boswell | |
11/13/2008 | The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's lapses. | - | David Storey | |
11/14/2008 | The good that men do lives on after them. | - | Ruth Gordon | |
11/17/2008 | The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is no in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. | - | Orson Swett Marden | |
11/18/2008 | Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. | - | Carl Sagan | |
11/19/2008 | If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule. | - | Barbara Jordan | |
11/20/2008 | If you want to motivate people, show them first how highly motivated you are. I always want people to work with me, not for me. | - | Billy Cunningham | |
11/21/2008 | If you let others dictate how you feel, you're going to be pretty miserable. | Danny Wuerffel | ||
11/24/2008 | If you don't know what you want, you won't recognize it when you get it. | - | Unknown | |
11/25/2008 | If you do the very best you can, the future will take care of itself. | - | George Mitchell | |
11/26/2008 | Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. | - | Elizabeth Carter |