"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
Henri Matisse (Artist regarded as the most important French painter of the 20th century, 1869-1954)

"The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.""
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (American 35th US president (1961-63), 1917-1963)

"Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?"
Anonymous

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;*
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! "

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
English writer &, poet
from Rewards and Fairies, 1910, If

*These two lines are inscribed over the door to the center court at Wimbledon.

"You have to think big to be big."
Claude M. Bristol

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."
Frank Tyger

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

"The palest ink is better than the best memory."
Chinese Proverb

"Who would have thought this was possible. I was just a boy dreaming."
Narain Karthikeyan

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."
Italian Proverb

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

"I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present."
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpencepresent.

"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. Unfortunately most of us are completely unaware of this fact and we do not monitor our thoughts with the care needed so that we can create in our lives the results we say we want. Since the great majority of people do not feel worthy and deserving of abundant good fortune, radiant good health and total success in all areas of their lives that overriding thought pattern controls the results people get. The first order of business of anyone who wants to enjoy success in all areas of his her life is to take charge of the internal dialogue they have and only think, say and behave in a manner consistent with the results they truly desire."
Sidney Madwed

"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
Krishnamurti

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860

"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
Max Frisch

"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
Baltasar Gracian

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
Saint Francis de Sales

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

"Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it for he shall enjoy living."
Anonymous

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)

"It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret"
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (American athlete, one of the best female athletes in the world, b.1962)