Sometimes I’m so sweet even I can’t stand it. – Julie Andrews

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. – William John Bennett

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. – Timothy Bentley

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. – Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. – Tom Blandi

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth — in short, materialism — does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. – E. F. Schumacher

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. – Charles Prestwich Scott

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. – Hans Selye

We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make — there can be no doubt of that. We also have a great stock of scientific knowledge unknown to our grandfathers with which to operate. So novel are the conditions, so copious the knowledge, that we must undertake the arduous task of reconsidering a great part of the opinions about man and his relations to his fellow men which have been handed down to us by previous generations who lived in far other conditions and possessed far less information about the world and themselves. We have, however, first to create an unprecedented attitude of mind to cope with unprecedented conditions, and to utilize unprecedented knowledge. – James H. Robinson

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. – Sugar Ray Robinson

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. – Robert E. Speer

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – W. Clement Stone

The mind is everything; what you think, you become.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Smile when it hurts most.

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

The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.

Life is like a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action. – Dr. Jerome Brunner

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. – Eric Butterworth

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. – Julius Caesar

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won’t have a hydrant beside it. – Changing Times

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. – Glenn Clark

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money. You’ve got to love like you’ll never get hurt. You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching. You’ve got to come from the heart, if you want it to work. – Susanna Clark

It is not the position, but the disposition. – J. E. Dinger

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life. – Chris Evert

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

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. – Thaddeus Golas

Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative. – Vernon Grounds

People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. – Henry S. Haskins

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. – Raymond Holliwell

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. – Lena Horne

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. – William James

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. – Dupree Jordan

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. – Bela Karolyi

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. – Frederick Langbridge

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. – Vince Lombardi

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. – Chretien Malesherbes

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. – Louis L. Mann

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. – George Marshall

Attitudes are more important than facts. – Karl A. Menninger

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. – John Homer Miller

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be. – John R. Miller

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. – Earl Nightingale

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. – Candice M. Pope

You play the hand you’re dealt. I think the game’s worthwhile. – Christopher Reeve

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it. – Source Unknown

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts. – Denis Waitley

There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. – C. M. Ward

I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. – Martha Washington

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. – Willis Whitney

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. – Oscar Wilde

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! – Mclandburgh Wilson

Nothing will work unless you do. – John Wooden
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. – Jim Rohn

There are o! colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important. – Ruth Ross

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We’re in high school forever. It’s just what we do with it. – Rene Russo

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? – Michel De Saint-Pierre

Don’t be against things so much as for things. – Col. Harland Sanders
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. – Charles Swindoll

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. – Charles Swindoll

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude. – Amy Tan

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. – Uhland

A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. – Source Unknown

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. – Francesca Reigler

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. – Anthony J. D’Angelo (The College Blue Book)

If you want to change your life, change your mind.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

As the wheel follows the ox behind, we will become what our thoughts have made us.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I cannot do everything, but I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.

Your imagination has much to do with your life. It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. – Kahlil Gibran

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

Positive thinking won’t let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past – Charles Dickens

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill

If your happiness depends solely on external possessions and circumstances, your boat, in the sea of life, will inevitably turn to the safety of the harbor over and over again and you will miss the joy of sailing towards the unknown. – Lucy MacDonald

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street; I met a man who had no feet. – Ancient Persian Saying

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus (Lyrical and Critical Essays)

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. – Earl Nightingale

Believe you can and you’re half way there. – Theodore Roosevelt

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. – Mary Kay Ash

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. – Doug Larson

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

They can because they think they can.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose. – Source Unknown

Theories and goals of education don’t matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings. – Lou Ann Walker

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. – Woodrow T. Wilson

Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. [1 Thessalonians 4:11] – Bible

I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. – Carl Rogers

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. – Sir William Ramsay

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

I would live to study, and not study to live. – Francis Bacon

For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities – Daniel Goleman

I want to be great, something special. – Sugar Ray Leonard

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. – Marya Mannes

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. – Francis Picabia

Nobody’s ever the greatest anything. – Maralyn Polak

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. – Jean Rostand

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. – John Ruskin

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. – William Shakespeare

He is not great who is not greatly good. – William Shakespeare

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. – Harry S. Truman

If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts. – Source Unknown

It is necessary to be slightly under employed if you are to do something significant. – James Watson

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it. – Brigham Young

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary — they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. – Henri Frederic Amiel

The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. – Sir Max Beerbohm

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender. – William Booth

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. – Phillips Brooks

What millions died that Caesar might be great? – Joseph Campell

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. – Ray Charles

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions. – Benjamin Disraeli

I can write good songs. I can sing ‘em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck. – Adam Duritz

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon –but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right? – Bob Dylan

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. – William F. Halsey

There would be no great men if there were no little ones. – George Herbert

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down. – Hitopadesa

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. – Samuel Johnson

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy. – Jean De La Fontaine

Just do what you do best. – Red Auerbach

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. – Francis Bacon

I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill] – Arthur James Balfour

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste. – Lucille Ball

Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Napoleon Bonaparte

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. – Source Unknown

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. – Marquis De Vauvenargues

They are able because they think they are able. – Virgil

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. – Booker T. Washington

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. – Charlotte Whitton

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. – Stevie Wonder

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

Ability is a poor man’s wealth. – M. Wren

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

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains – Ken Carey

The king is the man who can. – Thomas Carlyle

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite. – Thomas Carlyle

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. – Andrew Carnegie

When it is a question of God’s almighty Spirit, never say, “I can’t.” – Oswald Chambers

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. – Agatha Christie

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. – Marcus T. Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. – Marcus T. Cicero

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. – Malcolm S. Forbes

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. – Henry Ford

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. – James A. Froude

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. – Jennie Garth

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. – Edward Gibbon

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. – Oliver Goldsmith

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. – Robert Half

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. – Gail Hamilton

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. – John Andrew Holmes

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team! – Lou Holtz

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. – Elbert Hubbard

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. – Kin Hubbard

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Certainly we’re not satisfied with just winning games. We’ve been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better. – Mario Lemieux

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. – Titus Livy

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. – Orison Swett Marden

Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. – Grace Moore

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. – John Henry Newman

Ability is sexless. – Christabel Pankhurst

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. – Charles Caleb Colton

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. – Thomas A. Edison

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. – Desiderius Erasmus

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. – Douglas Everett

When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar. – William Faulkner

Others have done it before me. I can, too. – Corporal John Faunce

Man cannot live by incompetence alone. – Laurence J. Peter

The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker. – Earl Pitts

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. – John G. Pollard

Behind every able man, there are always other able men. – Chinese Proverb

When one must, one can. – Yiddish Proverb

If you count all your assets you always show a profit. – Robert Quillen

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. – Theodor Reik

We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand upright… – Mary Caroline Richards

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, “Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.” – Anthony Robbins

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. – Theodore Roosevelt

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. – John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. – John Ruskin

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. – George Bernard Shaw

A genius can’t be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman. – Thomas Somerville

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. – Sir William Temple

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. – Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one…characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. – Source Unknown

do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me. – Groucho Marx

I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them. – W. Somerset Maugham

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind] – Margaret Mitchell

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere. – Mac Orlan

Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave. – Yiddish Proverb

Unhurt people are not much good in the world. – Enid Starkie

There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can’t. – Source Unknown

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, “Well, here I am!” and those who come in and say, “Ah, there you are.” – Frederick L. Collins

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close. – William T. Davis

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. – Horace

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. – William Dean Howells

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. – Leigh Hunt

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. – Judith Stern

The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries. – R. S. Storrs

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. – Henry David Thoreau

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either. – Mark Twain

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else. – Source Unknown

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it. – Source Unknown

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires. – Abigail Van Buren

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. – Alfred North Whitehead

Experience is the key to greatness. – Arthur Williams

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience — well, that comes from poor judgment. – Cousin Woodman

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. – Cleveland Amory

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed…. And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – St. Augustine

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. – Arnold Bax

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. – Ezra Taft Benson

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. – Josh Billings

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. – Eric Butterworth

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. – Cadman

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives. – Lord Chesterfield

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. – Rene Daumal

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn’t be enough left to run it. – Henry Ford

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers. – Brigham Young Fun

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. – Gail Godwin

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes. – Wilfred T. Grenfell

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. – Audrey Hepburn

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. – Aldous Huxley

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. – Mick Jagger

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced — even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. – John Keats

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. – Alphonse De Lamartine

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. – Vernon S. Law

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

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

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around. – Terry Mccormick

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. – Menander of Athens

Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater

One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. – Norman Vincent Peale

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. – Chinese Proverb

A burnt child dreads the fire. – English Proverb

I know by my own pot how the others boil. – French Proverb

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. – Joseph Roux

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word “experience” have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. – Bertrand Russell

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! – George Bernard Shaw

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world – Bernie S. Siegel

Leisure is the exultation of the possible. – Martin Buber

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? – William H. Davies

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. – Benjamin Franklin

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. – H. L. Mencken

It should be noted that children’s games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities. – Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. – Henry David Thoreau

A hobby is hard work you wouldn’t do for a living. – Source Unknown

I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. – Aristotle

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue – Natalie Clifford Barney

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher

Don’t worry about genius. Don’t worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: “Don’t grumble. Plug on!” – Sir Thomas Treves

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. – Mark Twain

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn’t hear the referee. – Source Unknown

I am confident. I never give up. – Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

I never gave up, even when people told me I’d never make it. – Bob Wickman

We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are. – Tobias Wolff

It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. – John Wooden

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us. – William Wordsworth

Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there. – David Zucker

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. – J. Askenberg

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. – Henry Ward Beecher

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16] – Bible

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. – Ambrose Bierce

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. – Bjorn Borg

Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal. – Tom Bradley

A jug fills drop by drop. – Buddha

gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. – Edmund Burke

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. – Thomas Carlyle

Never, never, never, never give up. – Winston Churchill

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. – James J. Corbett

They, that unnamed “they,” they’ve knocked me down but I got up. I always get up — and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I’ve long ago named them me. – Gregory Corso

You are never a loser until you quit trying. – Mike Ditka

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. – Walter Elliott

God Almighty hates a quitter. – Samuel Fessenden

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

There’s only one way you can fail, and that’s to quit. – Brian Hays

I’m proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. – Orel Herhiser

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. – Herodotus

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. – Napoleon Hill

If at first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed. – Curly Howard

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. – Helen Keller

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. – Abraham Lincoln

Never despair, keep pushing on! – Sir Thomas Lipton

Persevere in virtue and diligence. – Titus Livy

I never thought I didn’t have a card to play. – Jim Lovell

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. – Lucretius

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. – Rene Mcpherson

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold. – Dr. A. B. Meldrum

I will hold. – Motto

The only way to overcome is to hang in. – Dan O’Brien

When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row. – Alice Paul

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. – H. Ross Perot

No one wants to quit when he’s losing and no one wants to quit when he’s winning. – Richard Petty

Never say die. – Proverb

It’s always too soon to quit. – David T. Scoates

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. – Sydney Smith

You have to persevere. You have to do it. I have insecurities. But whatever I’m insecure about I don’t dissect it, but I’ll go after it and say, “What am I afraid of?” I bet the average successful person can tell you they’ve failed so much more than they’ve had success. I’ve had far more failures than I’ve had successes. With every commercial I’ve gotten, there were 200 I didn’t get. You have to go after what you’re afraid of. – Kevin Sorbo

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

Life is what happens to you while you’re working for your future. – Anonymous

I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer. – Anonymous

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. – Anonymous

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. – Truman Capote

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. – Ashley Smith

All the worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. – Sean OCasey

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win youre still a rat. – Lilly Tomlin

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

Live every day to the fullest. When going to the bathroom take a newspaper! – Anonymous

Drinking is not a solution, unless we are talking about alcohol. – Anonymous

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. – Christopher Isherwood

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. – Ross Perot

God, if I can’t have what I want, let me want what I have. – Anonymous

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Anonymous

Our lives are like a candle in the wind. – Anonymous

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. – Anonymous

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. – Anonymous

In life, its not who you know thats important, its how your wife found out. – Joey Adams

Life is a long process of getting tired. – Samuel Butler

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football. – Anonymous

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. – Anonymous

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. – Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. – Bertrand Russell

You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough. – Anonymous

Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke. – Anonymous

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. – Anonymous

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you’re in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get. – Anonymous

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say – I want to see the manager. – William S. Burroughs

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all. – Arthur Balfour

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

Life is just one damned thing after another. – Elbert Hubbard

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. – Anonymous

Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. – Anonymous

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Anonymous

There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Anonymous

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. – Brendan Gill

Life is like a game of poker: If you dont put any in the pot, there wont be any to take out. – Moms Mabley

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Anonymous

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. – Anonymous

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. – Anonymous

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde

Lifes not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow. – Cherralea Morgen

We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. – Anonymous

Life is rather like a tin of sardines – were all of us looking for the key. – Alan Bennett

Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. – Overlung

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the body and soul of wit. – Jean Paul

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. – Mark Van Doren

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. – Aristotle

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. – Lord Chesterfield

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. – Noel Coward

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. – George Eliot

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. – Samuel Johnson

Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. – Overlung

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the body and soul of wit. – Jean Paul

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. – Mark Van Doren

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. – Aristotle

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. – Lord Chesterfield

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. – Noel Coward

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. – George Eliot

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. – Samuel Johnson