Vision

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

~ Charles R. Swindoll (American Writer and Clergyman, b.1934)

Vision

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

~ Henri Matisse ( French Painter and Artist of the 20th century, 1869-1954)

Vision

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

~ Anonymous

Vision

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.

~ Joel Barker

Judgement

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.

~ Ian Percy

Judgement

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

~ Anonymous

Judgement

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

~ Dorothy Day (American reformer, Journalist and Founder of the Catholic Worker. 1897-1980)

Judgement

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives.

~ Anonymous

Judgement

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

~ Voltaire (French Philosopher and Writer. 1694-1778)

People

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

~ Albert Einstein ( Physicist . Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Poeple

People living deeply have no fear of death.

~ Anais Nin (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)

People

Most of us are about as happy as we make up their minds to be.

~ Abraham Lincoln (American 16th US President (1861-65). 1809-1865)

Poeple

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

~ John Harrigan

People

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

~ George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

Inspiration

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

~ Walter Winchell

Inspiration

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

~ John Quincy Adams (American 6th US President (1825-29),. 1767-1848)

Inspiration

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

~ Lao Tzu (Chinese taoist Philosopher. 600 BC-531 BC)

Inspiration

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.

~ Tom Krause ( motivational speaker, Teacher and Coach, b.1934)

Inspiration

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

~ Tom Krause ( motivational speaker, Teacher and Coach, b.1934)

Kindness

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

Kindness

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

~ Lao Tzu (Chinese taoist Philosopher. 600 BC-531 BC)

Kindness

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.

~ Anonymous

Kindness

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

~ Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

Kindness

Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.

~ Ashleigh Brilliant (English Author and Cartoonist, b.1933)

Truth

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

~ Albert Einstein ( Physicist . Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Truth

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

~ Albert Einstein ( Physicist. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Truth

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

~ Pearl Bailey (American Entertainer . 1918-1990)

Truth

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

~ Galileo Galilei (Italian natural Philosopher, Astronomer and Mathematician. 1564-1642)

Action

Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow.

~ Anonymous

Action

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

~ Maya Angelou (American Poet, b.1928)

Action

Action conquers fear.

~ Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Action

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

~ Napoleon Hill (American author, 1883-1970)

Action

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

Belief

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

~ James Allen (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)

Belief

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

~ Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

Belief

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.

Dr. Robert Anthony (Self-help author)

Belief

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

~ Charles F. Kettering (American engineer, inventor of the electric starter, 1876-1958)

Belief

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

~ Anonymous

Time

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

~ Jim Rohn (American Speaker and Author.)

Time

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.

~ Anonymous

Time

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

~ Albert Einstein ( Physicist . Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Time

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

~ Andrew Jackson (American 7th US President, 1767-1845)

Time

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.

~ Harvey MacKay

Time

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.

~ Harvey MacKay

Nature

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

Nature

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

~ Vincent van Gogh (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)

Nature

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

~ Albert Einstein ( Physicist . Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Nature

Nature is not human hearted.

~ Lao Tzu (Chinese taoist Philosopher. 600 BC-531 BC)

Hope

Where there's life, there's hope.

~ Terence (Ancient Roman comic Playwright and Dramatist. 195 BC-159 BC)

Hope

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

~ Jean Kerr (American Writer, 1923-2003)

Hope

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

~ Jean Kerr (American Writer, 1923-2003)

Hope

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it.

~ George Weinberg

Hop

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

Hop

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

Hope

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

~ Albert Einstein ( Physicist . Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Hope

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

~ Albert Einstein ( Physicist . Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Happines

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

~ Anonymous

Happines

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

~ Albert Einstein ( Physicist . Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Happines

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 (American business man, author and speaker)

Happines

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle

Happines

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle

Happines

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

~ Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)

Happiness

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

~ Anonymous

Art

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

~ Konstantin Stanislavsky (Russian Actor, 1863-1938)

Art

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

~ Robert Motherwell

Art

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

~ Thomas Merton ( 1915-1968)

Art

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

Art

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

~ Leonardo da Vinci (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer. 1452-1519)

Love

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

~ Brandi Snyder

Truth

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

~ Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Love

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

~ Anonymous

Love

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

~ Anonymous

Love

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

~ Anonymous

Love

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.

~ William Somerset Maugham (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)

Love

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

~ Morrie Schwartz

Wisdom

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

~ Antonio Porchia (Italian poet, 1886-1968)

Wisdom

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life

~ Sandra Carey quotes

Wisdom

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.

~ Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Wisdom

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.

~ Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Wisdom

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher He was the world's most influential philosopher. 428 BC-348 BC)

Wisdom

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle

Friendship

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

~ Albert Einstein (Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Friendship

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

~ David Tyson Gentry

Friendship

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

~ Tennessee Williams (American playwright. 1911-1983)

Friendship

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Anonymous

Friendship

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

~ Brandi Snyder

Life

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

~ Flora Whittemore quotes

Life

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

Life

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

~ Win Borden

Life

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

Life - James Dean

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

James Dean (American motion picture actor, symbol of rebellion, 1931-1955)

Ability - Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Ability - Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Ability - Malcolm S Forbes

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm S Forbes

Ability - Malcolm S Forbes

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm S Forbes

Ability - John Wooden

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

John Wooden

Ability - Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability - Zig Ziglar

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Zig Ziglar (American motivational Speaker and Author. )

Success - Arnold H. Glasgow

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Success - Sven Goran Eriksson

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

Sven Goran Eriksson

Success - Sven Goran Eriksson

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

Sven Goran Eriksson

Success - Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

Success - Herman Cain

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 (American business man, author and speaker)

Success - George Sheehan

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

George Sheehan (American physician, author and running enthusiast, 1918 - 1993)

Imagination - Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein ( Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Imagination - George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

Imagination - Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein ( Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

Imagination - Jamie Paolinetti

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

Jamie Paolinetti (American Schroeder Iron Pro Cycling)

Imagination - Jesse Jackson

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Jesse Jackson (American Civil-Rights Leader, Baptist Minister and Polition, b.1941)

William Shakespeare Quotes

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), `The Bard of Avon', English poet and playwright wrote the famous 154 Sonnets and numerous highly successful oft quoted dramatic works including the tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet;

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.