APHORISMS (Positive Quotes)

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.--St. Augustine

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. - unknown

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. - Robert Fritz

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. - Jack London (1876 - 1916), Jack London's Tales of Adventure

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Every man dies. Not every man lives. - Tim Robbins

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. - Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), The Arm of the Starfish, 1965

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. - Gail Sheehy

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Edgar Watson Howe, essayist

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams

There's always a better way of doing things and either you or your competitor will find it. - Brad Anderson, CEO, SolArc, Inc.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. - Lloyd Alexander (author of "Prydain Chronicles")

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Marianne Williamson from Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992 [NOTE: This quote is frequently attributed incorrectly to Nelson Mandela from his 1994 inauguration speech]

"Only those who risk going far can possibly find out how far one can go." - TS Eliot

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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. - Mark Twain

If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney

Here is the test to find if your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - Agnes Repplier

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dare to be naive. - Buckminster Fuller

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. - Anonymous

What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. - Buddha

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

Success is never final. - Winston Churchill

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius

A good book has no ending. - R.D. Cumming

Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. - John Dykes

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcom Forbes

The impossible is often the untried. - Jim Goodwin

All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little. - Lafcadio Hearn

Nothing endures but change. - Heraclitus

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. - Walter Savage Landor

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. - Herman Melville

How glorious it is -- and also how painful -- to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. - Earl Nightingale

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. - Edward Phelps

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. - Marcel Proust

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it. - David Searles

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. - William Shedd

To him who is in fear everything rustles. - Sophocles

I am a part of all that I have seen. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. - Henry David Thoreau

And from the discontent of one man the world's best progress springs. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You teach best what you most need to learn. - Richard Bach

A life lived in fear is a life half-lived. - Portugese Proverb

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. - Coleman Cox

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. - Albert Einstein

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier. - Baltasar Gracian

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.' - Carl Jung

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. - Arthur Koestler

Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks. - Arthur D. Little

There is no security on earth; there is only opportunity. - Gen. Douglas MacArthur

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here. - Alfred A. Montapert

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. - Jawaharlal Nehru

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. - Ovid

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead. - Will Rogers

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away. - Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. - Dr. Dale Turner

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions - Kenneth Hildebrand

The most glowing successes are but reflections of an inner fire. - Kenneth Hildebrand

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