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Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.
May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.
Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.
Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.
If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?
Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.
Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.
I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.
Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.
Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.
Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."
It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart!
No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.
For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about what is desired and makes the wait more enjoyable.]
A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.