“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.”
Unknown “Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”
Werner Erhard “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Herman Cain “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
Mark Twain “There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.”
Unknown “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
Hugh Downs “People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln “The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.”
Unknown “If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”
Marie Osmond
“Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.”
Unknown “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
Norman Vincent Peale “Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
James Matthew Barrie “No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one.”
Unknown “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost.”
Jackson Browne “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
Unknown “Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
John Lennon “The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet.”
James Oppenheim “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Unkown “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”
Ed Cunningham “Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Louisa May Alcott “Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.”
Albert Schweitzer “When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
E. W. Howe “I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.”
Robert Brault “Carve your name on hearts and not marble.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
Len Wein “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust “There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”
Katherine Hathaway “Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.”
Dumas The Younger “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”
Fr. Jerome Cummings “It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.”
Marlene Dietrich “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.”
Unknown “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”
Abraham Lincoln “The only way to have friends is to be one.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.”
Anna Cummins
“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”
Woodrow Wilson “True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.”
David Tyson Gentry “One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.”
Unknown “If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”
Charlotte Bronte “Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.”
Unknown “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.”
Walt Whitman “A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.”
Unknown “True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie
“The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool”
William McFee “No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”
Samuel Goldwyn “There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
Unknown “Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence”
Henry Chester “The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.”
H. W. Arnold
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
Benjamin Disraeli “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”
Sir Winston Churchill “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.”
Isaac Disraeli “A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”
Charles Schwab “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.”
Mary Kay Ash “Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.”
Charles A. Cerami “Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”
Dale Carnegie “In the end, the size of a person's accomplishment can best be measured by the size of their heart.”
Unknown
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
John Wooden “Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
John Wooden “People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is a confession of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “There is no need to boast of your accomplishments and what you can do. A great man is known. He needs no introduction.”
Unknown “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Mahatma Gandhi “How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.”
Unknown “Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
John Wooden “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.”
Charles A. Cerami
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
Phillips Brooks “When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
Abraham Lincoln “If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?”
Neale Donald Walsch “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.”
John Lennon “The best indices to a person's character are how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
Abigail Van Buren “Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”
Aesop “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
James A. Michener
“Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.”
Seth Godin “Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.”
Seth Godin “Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.”
Andrew Carnegie
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
Helen Keller “To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson “The rainbows of life follow the storms.”
Unknown “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
John Lubbock “If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.”
Maya Angelou “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Helen Keller “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.”
Epicurus “Clear your mind of can't.”
Samuel Johnson “He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.”
Samuel Johnson “Dont cry because its over, smile because it happened.”
Unknown
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
E. Joseph Cossman “It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”
Unknown “Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.”
Henry Ford “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
William Shakespeare “Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.”
Maurice Seitter “If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.”
Cavett Robert “Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
John Wooden “In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”
Daniel L. Reardon “One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.”
Jack Penn “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere”
Unknown
“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 “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
Daniel J. Boorstin “Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison “The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”
Abraham Lincoln “There is no failure. Only feedback.”
Unknown “The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.”
H. G. Wells “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
Hugh Downs “The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.”
Unknown “If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”
Marie Osmond “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”
Roy Goodman