J.B. Priestly

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
- J.B. Priestly

Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato

Buddha

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
- Buddha

Henry Ward Beecher

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Edward Dahlberg

“When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.”
- Edward Dahlberg

Henry Ward Beecher

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. - Henry Ward Beecher

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Roy E. Moody

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
- Roy E. Moody

Will Rogers

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.
- Will Rogers

Baruch Spinoza

“Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.”
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)

William Congreve

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish, discovers the folly of the chase."
- William Congreve

Louisa May Alcott

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
- Louisa May Alcott

Jay Leno

A new study shows that licking the sweat off a frog can cure depression. The down side is, the minute you stop licking, the frog gets depressed again.
- Jay Leno

Confucius

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
- Confucius

William James

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
- William James

Evenus

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
- Evenus

Robert Benchley

"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people."
- Robert Benchley

Benjamin Disraeli

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Ron Nesen

"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source."
- Ron Nesen

Chilo

Speak no evil of the dead.
- Chilo

Evan Esar

"Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing."
- Evan Esar

Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
- Honore de Balzac

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lily Tomlin

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.
- Lily Tomlin

Marquis De Vauvenargues

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
- Marquis De Vauvenargues

Charles Dickens

“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.”
- Charles Dickens

Ronald Reagan

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
- Ronald Reagan

Napoleon Hill

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Thomas Alva Edison

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Mark Twain

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
- Mark Twain