A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

>> John Burroughs

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

>> Raymond Chandler

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

>> Zig Ziglar

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

>> Charles Schulz

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

>> Abigail Van Buren

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.

>> W.C. Handy

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

>> Arnold Bennett

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

>> Ken Hudgins

Do not look to the ground for your next step; greatness lies with those who look to the horizon.

>> Norwegian Proverb

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

>> Hosea Ballou

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different.

>> Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

>> Lao-Tzu

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

>> William A. Ward

It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

>> Diana Rankin

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

>> David M. Burns

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

>> Rita Mae Brown

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet.

>> Tom Robbins

Make your life a mission --- not an intermission.

>> Arnold Glasgow

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

>> Samuel Johnson

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

>> Oscar Wilde

Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little happy high notes. Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the cymbals and the minor keys.

>> Jim Rohn

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

>> Charles Schulz

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

>> Stephen Hawking

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

>> Ruth Renkel

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

>> F. Scott Fitzgerald

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

>> Bill Watterson

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

>> Channing Pollack

If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning.

>> Griff Niblack