View Single Post
 
Old Apr 10, 2008, 12:32 PM
Christina86's Avatar
Christina86 Christina86 is offline
Legendary
 
Member Since: Feb 2006
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 19,686
More quotations!

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

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 that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher
__________________