Cute Quotes, cool sayings
Bloom where you are planted.

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified.

Don’t postpone joy.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheaper than medicine..

All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.

You know your in love when the hardest thing to do is say goodbye

If you love someone tell them, because hearts are often broken bywords left unspoken

Alter your attitude and you can alter your life.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. – Eric Golnik

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. - David Feherty

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me. - Zina Garrison

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. - Ellen Glasgow

"To the world, you may be one person; but to one person, you may be the world!"

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

Life is a garden, Good friends are the flowers and time spent together... life's happiest hours
And friendships like flowers, blooms ever more fair... when carefully tended by dear friends who care.

If I could take your troubles I would toss them in the Sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a Mountain Or catch a Rainbow fair, But let me be what I
know best A Friend that's always there.

A million words couldn't bring you back I know because I've tried, Neither could a million
tears I know because I've cried.

Once upon a time, something happened to me,
it was the sweetest thing, that could ever be,
a fantasy, a dream come true, it was the day that I met you

Somewhere there's someone, who dreams about your smile, and finds in your presence,
that life is worth while, so when you are lonely, remember it's true, somebody somewhere
is thinking of yo

We may fight, and we may cry, but my love for you will never die

It takes a minute to like someone, an hour to love someone, but a lifetime to forget someone

I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends.


Famous cool quotes

A zebra does not change its spots. - Vice President Al Gore

It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one -Phil White

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
- John Wooden

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde

" 'My country right or wrong' is like saying 'my mother drunk or sober.' " - G. K. Chesterton


"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." - Thomas Jefferson, 1807


"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way." - Robert Frost, 1935


"We must all hang together, or, assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776


"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." - Benjamin Franklin


"It is not disease, but the physician; it is the pernicious hand of government alone which can reduce a whole people to dispair." - Junius

Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - Bertrand Russell


"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." - Abraham Lincoln

Quotes by FAmous People
If you judge people, you have no time to love them
Author: Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given.
Author: Mother Teresa

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. - George Bernard Shaw

Be led by reason. - Greek Proverb

Only the educated are free. - Epictetus

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten , but they may start a winning game. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. - Samuel Butler

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. - Anatole France

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid. - Albert Einstein

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin D'Israeli

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried. - Frank Tyger

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. - Christopher Wren

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
Author: Emily Bronte

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 which has opened for us
Author: Helen Keller

Where there is love there is life
Author: Mahatma Gandhi

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right
Author: Henry Ford

Half knowledge is worse than ignorance. - Thomas B. Macaulay

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. - Robert Southey

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

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt. - Antoinette Deshoulieres

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned. - Duke of Wellington

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
Thomas Blount

Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time. - Marcel Proust.

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Author: Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Author: Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Author: Mother Teresa

Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.
Author: Vince Lombardi

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Author: Plato

You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Author: Abraham Lincoln

Education is the ability to meet life's situations. - Dr. John G. Hibben

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. - Ancient Indian Proverb

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth that humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei

Think for yourself. Whatever is happening at the moment, try to think for your self. - Jean Riboud

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action.
Author: Mother Teresa

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love
Author: Mother Teresa

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion.
Thomas Jefferson

He that never changes his opinion, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow that he is today. - Tyron Edwards

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes when they do.
Malcolm Forbes

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err. - Thomas Carlyle

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. - Jeremy Taylor

Only intuition can save you from the most dangerous individual of all, the articulate incompetent. - Robert Bernstein

What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of a latent idiocy. - Marie Corelli

Arguing with a fool proves there are two. - Doris M. Smith

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular, but reason remains the property of the few. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles. - Benjamin Franklin

Nice Friendship Quote : "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." -- Bernard Meltzer.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. -- Cindy Lew

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.-- Albert Camus

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln

Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Nigerian Proverb

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
-- Apocrypha

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.-- Anonymous

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try. -- Claude Mermet

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
-- Baltasar Gracian (1647)

"Friendship needs no words..."
-- Dag Hammarskjold.

"Friends are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871)

"The best mirror is an old friend."
--George Herbert

More Friendship quotes :

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -- Hasidic Saying

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

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. -- Samuel Paterson

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.-- John Evelyn

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.-- Swedish proverb

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.-- Anonymous

Count your age with friends but not with years - Anonymous

Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness. -- Lois L. Kaufman

"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino (1537)

"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
-- Hillaire Belloc

"The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
-- Robert Alan

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."
-- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
-- Aristotle (4th century B.C.)

"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe unto him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
-- The Bible: Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.

"A friend loves at all times."
-- The Bible: Proverbs 17, 17.

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell (1763)

"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell (1711)

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
-- Lord Byron (1806)

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
-- Cicero (44 B.C.)

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
-- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)

"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)

"A good friend is my nearest relation."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)

"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

"Your friend is your needs answered."
-- Kahil Gibran

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
-- Kahil Gibran.

"Let your best be for your friend..."
-- Kahil Gibran

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
-- Kahil Gibran

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
-- Samuel Johnson

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."
-- La Rochefoucauld (1665)

"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.


I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?


Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love." -- Charles Peguy

"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom." -- William Penn

"No man is useless while he has a friend." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"A friend is a present you give yourself." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." -- Tehyi Hsieh

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -- Mark Twain

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.-- Proverbs 24:26

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." -- Len Wein

"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
-- Woodrow Wilson

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship. -- Mary Dixon Thayer

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.
-Anonymous

It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.-- Marlene Dietrich

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-Samuel Paterson

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. -- Sicilian Proverb

Good friends are good for your health.-Irwin Sarason

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. -- Henry David Thoreau

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
-Sydney Smith

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. -- Mahatma Gandhi


One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!-- Doug Larson

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. -- Len Wein

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -- Czech. Proverb

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. -- Thomas Wilson

Faith Quotes
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keeping what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -- George Elliot

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.--St. Augustine

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. -- Mahatama Gandhi

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.--Bible

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. -- Soren Kierkegaard

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea. -- Anne Morrow Lindberg

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. -- Matthew Arnold

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary. -- Major Kira Nerys

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible. -- Thomas Robert Gaines

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. -- Elton Trueblood

Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.-- Mahatma Gandhi

Failure Quotes
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. -- Amar Gopal Bose

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -- Confucius

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. -- Edwin Louis Cole

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. -- Robert H. Schuller

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. -- Tom Hopkins

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.-- Ross Perot

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. -- Marva Collins


Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage--and that's the same thing.-- George Lorimer

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.-- Denis Waitley

Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. -- Denis Waitley

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. -- Napoleon Hill

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.-- Marilyn vos Savant

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.-- Richard R. Grant

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners encountered heart breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They finally won by their defeats. -- B. C. Forbes

Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.--Richard M. Nixon

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.-- Lao-Tzu

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.-- Colin Powell

If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win. -- Walter Reuther

Short love Quotes
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -- Mother Teresa

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.-- Nora Roberts


Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. -- Bertrand Russell

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' -- Erich Fromm

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything. -- Source Unknown

The only reward for love is the experience of loving. -- John LeCarre

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. -- Anonymous

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back it's yours. If it doesn't, it never really was in the first place. -- Anonymous


Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. -- Benjamin Franklin

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -- Franklin P. Jones

Happy Quotes
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. -- Kitaro Nishida

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde

"What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
-- George Asaf

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
-- Richard Bach.

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
-- Mildred Barthel.

"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor..."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
-- William Bennett

"What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
-- Richard Owen Cambridge.

"He who sings frightens away his ills."
-- Cervantes

"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
-- Chinese proverb

"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper -- the more it is spent, the more of it remains."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"The supreme happiness of live is the conviction that we are loved."
-- Victor Hugo.

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
-- Douglas Jerrold.

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
-- Helen Keller

"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."
-- La Rochefoucauld.

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
-- Karl Marx

"To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power."
-- Vimalia McClure

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will."
-- Dan Millman

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
-- John Stuart Mill.

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
-- Doris Mortman

"I wish you all the joy that you can wish."
-- William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice).

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
-- Mark Twain.

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Happiness...it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.--Franklin D. Roosevelt

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.--Harrison Ford

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.-- Edwin Percy Whipple

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 which has opened for us. -- Helen Keller

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. -- Carl Jung

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

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. -- Fredrick Koeing

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. -- Dale Carnegie

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. -- Jim Rohn

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.--Theodore I. Rubin

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- ZIGGY

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others. -- A. Nielsen

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -- Victor Hugo

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.-- Charles Langbridge Morgan

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. -- Mildred Barthel

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid Bergman

sports quote
Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
-Lou Brock

Dont look back. Something might be gaining on you.
-Satchel Paige

If at first you dont succeed, you are running about average.
-M.H. Alderson

When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm gonna prove you wrong.
-Picabo Street

The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that.
-Dan OBrien



When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
-Bill Shoemaker

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
-Seneca

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime.
-Babe ruth

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top.
-O.J. Simpson

The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
-Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
-Pat Riley



Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
-William A. Ward

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
-Charlie Finley

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
-A J Kitt

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
-Archie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner ( 5ft 9)

There's no substitute for guts.
-Paul Bear Bryant

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
-Alberto Tomba

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
-Lou Holtz

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging
-Hank Aaron

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
-Joe Paterno

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
-Joe Paterno

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
-Muhammad Ali

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
-Honore de Balzac

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that
whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
-Vince Lombardi

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
-Michael Jordan

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
-George Shultz

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
-Greg LeMond

To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
-Tony Dorsett

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
-Magic Johnson

Set your goals high, and dont stop till you get there.
-Bo Jackson

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
-Gale Sayers

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a mans determination
-Tommy Lasorda

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-Coach Darrel Royal

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
-Damon Runyon

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.
-Robert Strauss

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
-Ronnie Lott

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
-Steve Young

I know that Im never as good or bad as any single performance. Ive never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always
been able to leave the game at the arena.
-Charles Barkley

Whats the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
-Terry Bradshaw

Ain't no chance if you dont take it.
-Guy Clark

In war there is no substitute for victory.
-Douglas MacArthur

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
-Joe Paterno

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. Thats the mark of a true professional.
-Joe Paterno

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
-Ray Knight

To be prepared is half the victory.
-Miguel Cervantes


The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
-Vidal Sassoon

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
-Jean-Claude Killy

Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and cross-training simply gives you the best return on your investmentbalanced fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun.
-Paula Newby-Fraser

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fearnot absence of fear.
-Mark Twain

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-Amelia Earhart

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
-Chuck Noll, ex-Pittsburgh Steelers Coach

When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
-Duffy Daugherty

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vincent T. Lombardi

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win....Channel your energy. Focus.
-Carl Lewis

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
-Dennis Waitley


There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or youre OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.
-Pat Riley

The game isn't over till it's over.
-Yogi Berra

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
-Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
-John Wooden

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.
-Moses Malone

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
-Thomas Jefferson

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Edison



You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
-Joe Namath

If you don't do whats best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
-Julius Erving

If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race. Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the raceits up to you.
-Dave Scott, Triathlete

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didnt have a chance to win.
-Arnold Palmer


Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
-Pat Riley

If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
-Author unknown

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers

I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
-Jean-Claude Killy

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
-Samuel Johnson

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
-Shannon Miller

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
-Bruce Jenner

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
-Van Morrison

He who stops being better stops being good.
-Oliver Cromwell


Soccer
In the Scottish Cup you only get one crack at the cherry against Rangers or Celtic
Tom Ferrie


Football
Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings
George Will


Motor Racing
Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.
Murray Walker

Courage Quotes
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
--B. C. Forbes

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Have courage to use your own understanding!
--Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
--Peter Senge

Life Shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
--Anais Nin

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement
--George Adams

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish . . . courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
--Margaret Truman

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
--Richard Strauss, on conducting

Definition of courage: 'Grace under pressure.'
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it possible--show me your achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
--Ayn Rand The Fountainhead.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Confidence Quotes
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence
--Vince Lombardi

My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.
--Georgio Armani

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
--George Herbert.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
--Marie Curie Polish-French chemist

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others She does not care to be herself.
--Anais Nin

Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
--Brian Tracy

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in your world.
--Brian Tracy

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
--Arsenio Hall actor

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
--Tom Landry

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen
--John Redman Coxe

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions
--Earl Gray Stevens

Self confidence is the key to the universe.
--Carrol Wrackley

Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.
--Jack Gibb

Cute Friends Quotes
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
* Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
* Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
* You can only go as far as you push.
* Actions speak louder than words.
* The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
* Don't let the past hold you back; you're missing the good stuff.
* Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while, you might miss it.
* A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have.
* If you think that the world means nothing, think again. You might mean the world to someone else.
* When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there
* True friendship never ends.
* Friends are forever.
* Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
* Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.
* What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?
* NOBODY IS PERFECT UNTIL YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM. (Isn't that the truth?)
* Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
* Most people walk in and out of you life. But only friends leave footprints in your heart.

Send this on to everyone special in your life, even the people who really make you mad sometimes. Whether we realize it or not, everyone we know is very special to us. When we look back on our younger years, we will remember the people who went to school with us, the people who made us laugh, the people who hung out with us when nobody else would, and the people who made our lives much better simply by being a part of it.

There may be somebody who is thinking about you RIGHT NOW and wishing that you were around. That's the wonderful thing about friendship-you always feel loved and cared about.

The most important thing to remember is... Always appreciate the friends that you have. A fight may come and go very easily, but a friendship could last forever. For every second spent in anger, a minute of happiness is wasted. So send this to your friends and let them know that you care.