A liar will not be believed even if he tells the truth.
~Aesop

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
~Julia Alvarez

I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how YOU made them FEEL.
~Maya Angelou

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
~Mary Kay Ash

Sometimes you wreck the bike...sometimes the bike wrecks you.
~Ashley

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
~Richard Bach

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
~J.M. Barrie

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
~Jon Bon Jovi

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to- day basis.
~Margaret Bonnano

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
~Dale Carnegie

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
~Sandra Carey

The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
~Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
~Chinese Proverb

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
~Sir Winston Churchill

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
~from the movie Cinderella Story

Each man's life touches so many other lives, and when he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
~Clarence

Minds are like parachutes, they only work when open.
~Thomas Dewar

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
~Annie Dillard

Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
~Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
~Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
~Albert Einstein

It's never too late to be who you might have been.
~George Eliot

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
~Jim Elliot

The years teach much which the days never knew.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind you and what lies ahead of you means little compared to what lies within you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
~Albert Einstein

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, the second is disastrous.
~Margot Fonteyn

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
~Anatole France

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
~Benjamin Franklin

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
~Robert Frost

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
~Judy Garland

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
~Romain Gary

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
~Jules de Gaultier

The impossible is often the untried.
~Jim Goodwin

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
~Wayne Gretsky

I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental like on a breeze. But I...I think maybe it's both...maybe both happening at the same time.
~Forrest Gump

Momma always says there's an awful lot you could tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been. I've worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I could remember my first pair of shoes.
~Forrest Gump

My momma always said you gotta put the past behind you before you can move on. And I think that's what my running was all about.
~Forrest Gump

Sometimes I guess there just aren't enough rocks.
~Forrest Gump

My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
~Forrest Gump

Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest. If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.
~Mrs. Gump

I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring.
~Tom Hanks from the movie Cast Away

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
~Jimi Hendrix

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
~Katherine Hepburn

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
~William Ernest Hocking

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
~John Holt

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
~Victoria Holt

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
~Lyndon B. Johnson

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
~Samuel Johnson

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
~Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller

Some days you eat the bear...and some days the bear eats you.
~Stephen King

If you think you are too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
~Anita Koddick

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
~Jack Lemmon

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
~H. T. Leslie

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
~Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~Abraham Lincoln

It doesn't matter how often you get knocked down; what matters is how often you get back up.
~Vince Lombardi

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
~Erin Majors

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
~Og Mandino

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.
~Groucho Marx

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
~Benjamin Mays

Dreams say I wish; goals say I will.
~Bob Moore

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
~George Jean Nathan

Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
~Ovid

We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
~Blaise Pascal

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but is woven into the lives of others.
~Pericles

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
~Plutarch

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
~Pythagoras

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
~Nido Qubein

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
~G. Randolf

Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby.
~Ruth E. Renkei

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
~Jean Paul Richter

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
~Teddy Roosevelt

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
~John Ruskin

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~Marilyn vos Savant

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
~Charles Schultz

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
~William Shakespeare

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
~George Bernard Shaw

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
~Scottish Proverb

We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without brightening our own.
~Ben Sweetland

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
~Mother Teresa

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
~Unknown

Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
~Unknown

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
~Unknown

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~Unknown

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
~Unknown

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
~Unknown

Sow your own seeds and plant your own garden, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
~Unknown

Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't permanently solve any problems, but it makes thing more acceptable for awhile.
~Unknown

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
~Unknown

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.
~Unknown

A mother holds her children's hands for awhile, their hearts forever.
~Unknown

Write your plans in pencil, but give God the eraser.
~Unknown

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
~Unknown

If God is your co-pilot, switch seats.
~Unknown

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
~Henry Van Dyke

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.
~John Wayne

It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
~Jessamyn West

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
~Oscar Wilde

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
~William Butler Yeats

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
~Zig Ziglar