In the race to be better or best, miss no the joy of being.
—Unknown
When you sing don’t worry about the sound you hear or you’ll miss the music you could make.
—Unknown
One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
—Unknown
Topics: The Present, Worry
To awaken means to awaken out of the illusory world of the thinking mind into the real world of the present moment. This does not mean thatyour memory of the past or your sense of the future disappears. It is just that you no longer choose to live in the past or the future. You know that only the present moment can fulfil you and so you choose to live more and more in the present.
—Unknown
Identify your strengths and weaknesses. Learn new skills to achieve your goals in life.
—Unknown
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
—Unknown
Topics: Action
The past is behind; learn from it.
The present is here; live in it.
The future is ahead; prepare for it.
—Unknown
You don’t know what tomorrow holds, but you know who holds tomorrow.
—Unknown
If I had eight hours to chop a tree, I would spend six hours sharpening my axe.
—Unknown
Some men have a den in their home, while others just growl all over the house.
—Unknown
Topics: Men
When sorting junk and clutter put it into
one of 3 catagories – Duck, Dump, or Don’t do.
—Unknown
Man has a destiny and faith has a destination.
—Unknown
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
—Unknown
Topics: Imagination, Discovery, Research, Invention
Good management isn’t about doing everything faster, it’s about not doing things you don’t need to do.
—Unknown
Love heals what hate breaks.
—Unknown
In truth, there is no life outside of the present moment. We must come to terms with this simple fact.
—Unknown
You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.
—Unknown
Topics: Business
Selfishness is the detonator for the explosion of all other sins.
It is the hammer that breaks the Ten Commandments.
—Unknown
If you have someone special in your life, don’t wait to start loving them. Do not put it off for even one day. Make the choice to love now. Whoever loves you is only on loan from God, and he or she could be taken from you at any moment.
—Unknown
Why are the words good-bye, I’m sorry, and I love you so easy to pronounce but so hard to say?
—Unknown
Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.
—Unknown
Conscience — the little voice of morality that you wish had a body so you could punch it in the nose.
—Unknown
Who we are is but a stepping stone to what we can become.
—Unknown
The art of moving between, or switching, fields through different jobs, projects, or hobbies can be an effective way to generate unplanned unique insights. Seek some occupational diversification.
—Unknown
In some measure all that comes after you is going to be influenced and determined by the kind of life you make in your business of living. When viewed from such a height of vision, even the seemingly least important life gathers round it a glory which truly passes understanding.
—Unknown
Triumph is the extra umph added to the try.
—Unknown
It’s maturity that brings “impulse control”.
—Unknown
Your success will depend on your attitude to life.
—Unknown
There is no room for road-rage on the straight and narrow.
—Unknown
There is no reward so sweet as that which is hard earned.
—Unknown
Total silence does not exist for where there is life there is sound.
—Unknown
Life is a one-way street.
No matter how many detours you take, none leads back.
You must do the best you can with what you have.
—Unknown
Success is never lasting, and failure is never final.
—Unknown
Make decisions from the heart.
—Unknown
You don’t know me until you’ve walked in my footsteps and viewed the world from my perspective. You don’t know me until you’ve suffered my pain and endured my happiness. You don’t know me until you’ve bored my soul and died my death.
—Unknown
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.
—Unknown
Topics: Human Nature, Humanity, Smiling
If you believe in yourself, then nothing can stop you from achieving what you believe in.
—Unknown
Falling doesn’t make you a failure, staying down does.
—Unknown
Autograph your work with quality.
—Unknown
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
—Unknown
Topics: Courage, Truth
Success is a reward in itself,
But the greatest reward of success is knowing
you achieved it with hard work and dedication.
—Unknown
It takes as much time to wish as to plan.
—Unknown
He who never walks except where he sees other men’s tracks will make no discoveries.
—Unknown
God says, “If you can see it, I can build it.
If you can believe it, I can do it”.
—Unknown
I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness.
—Unknown
I believe in the sun … even when it’s not shining.
I believe in love … even when I feel it not.
I believe in God … even when He is silent.
—Unknown
Love is the greatest gift we can give or be given.
—Unknown
We can’t live our life over again, but we can really live up to our potential from this moment on.
—Unknown
God gave us mouths that close and ears that don’t. That should tell us something.
—Unknown
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
—Unknown
Luck is a loser’s excuse for a winner’s success.
—Unknown
The only person you have to be better than,
is the person you were yesterday.
—Unknown
Today is what it is because Yesterday was what it was,
and every Tomorrow must be what
all its Yesterdays shall make it.
—Unknown
Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.
—Unknown
Topics: Responsibility
Those who have passed from this world die
only when we, whom they loved, forget them.
—Unknown
Anybody who can still do at 60 what he was doing at 20, wasn’t doing much at 20.
—Unknown
To be old and wise, you first have to be young and stupid.
—Unknown
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
—Unknown
Topics: Opportunity, Work
Live more simply, so that you can find time to enjoy the little pleasures of life.
—Unknown
Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers.
—Unknown
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles… but no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.
—Unknown
Topics: Success
It’s not as hard to die for a friend as it is to find a friend to die for.
—Unknown
All the skills to solve a problem won’t help,
if you don’t have the will.
—Unknown
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
—Unknown
Topics: Love, Smile
You are immortal. Do not burden yourself with earthly
limitations. Every regret for shattered hopes of success
must be transformed into the joy of new achievements.
—Unknown
Everyone has a gift. Recognising the latent potential
we each have enables us to look beyond what the person
has done in the past and see that person as they could be.
—Unknown
There is a world out there waiting for me—and I intend to conquer it.
—Unknown
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
—Unknown
Be silent, or speak something worth hearing.
—Unknown
Your biggest challenge isn’t someone else. It’s the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs, and the voice inside you that yells “Can’t”, but you don’t listen. You just push harder. And then you hear the voice whisper “can”. And you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are.
—Unknown
True friendship is like a star, you don’t see it’s light in the brightness of prosperity; but in the darkness of adversity.
—Unknown
Depression is frozen rage—anger that has never been dealt with.
—Unknown
Often people who lack inner peace are victims of a
self-punishment mechanism. God will forgive them,
but sometimes they will not forgive themselves.
Often people will over-work to relieve feelings of guilt.
—Unknown
It is easy for others to put you down when they are simply agreeing with you.
—Unknown
Only a light bulb can go out each night and still be bright the next day.
—Unknown
The trouble with opportunity is that it only knocks. Temptation kicks the door in.
—Unknown
A lot of people come in and out of our lives;
But only a treasured few make a difference;
Leave an impression of love that lasts forever.
—Unknown
Learn from the past
Live for today
Look for tomorrow
Take a nap this afternoon.
—Unknown
You will not find what you do not live.
—Unknown
Never grow older. Just find a bigger playground.
—Unknown
Our background and circumstances may influence who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
—Unknown
Don’t let the good things of life rob you of the best things.
—Unknown
You can take the day off—but you can’t put it back on again.
—Unknown
90 percent of the decisions can be taken immediately on the basis of past experience, and only 10 percent require in-depth analysis.
—Unknown
The moment you have the power to dream, you have the power to make those dreams come true.
—Unknown
Don’t ask meaningless questions and you won’t get meaningless answers. Ask something with a full heart and you might get somewhere.
—Unknown
Don’t re-anything. Don’t re-do, re-peat, re-cover, re-finance – do it right the first time.
—Unknown
A good leader recognizes the difference between popularity and respect.
—Unknown
Don’t let a tragic past get in the way of a bright future.
—Unknown
It is urgent for us to see this: Nothing can improve until we see the link between our psychological level and the things that happen to us. If we are secretly blaming people or events for our problems, we miss the mark completely. There is a human cause for everything troublesome, and that cause is the very person who experiences the effect.
—Unknown
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
—Unknown
Topics: Success, Effort
Knock, Knock.
“Who’s there?”
“Opportunity.”
“Can’t be.”
“Why not?”
“Opportunity knocks only once.”
—Unknown
Topics: God
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you—not because they are nice, but because you are.
—Unknown
Yesterday is past—we cannot change it. Tomorrow is the future—it is unknown. But today is a gift—that’s why it is called the present.
—Unknown
Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
—Unknown
Big people give encouragement, little people give criticism.
—Unknown
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
—Unknown
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair; the beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
—Unknown
Time is like money: you can either spend, waste, or invest.
—Unknown
An international distress signal is discouragement.
—Unknown
Life is only a combination of different experiences. Demand to enjoy them all.
—Unknown
Friendship is like a treasure. When you find it, you share it.
—Unknown
The path towards the goal is always more interesting and enjoyable than reaching the actual goal itself; so start chasing your dreams and love every moment of the chase.
—Unknown
Success isn’t the opposite of failure. A runner may come in last, but if he beats his record, he succeeds.
—Unknown
If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you’ll end up not doing anything for anybody.
—Unknown
Debt is the noose and Satan is the hangman,
and executions take place every day.
—Unknown
To reach the destination, you have to move.
To move, you might have to fall down.
If you are afraid of falling down, don’t move.
If you don’t move, you won’t reach the destination.
—Unknown
When we don’t speak up about something through cowardice we must remember, silence is not always golden, sometimes it’s just plain yellow.
—Unknown
Friends bring out the best in us that other people don’t look hard enough to find.
—Unknown
If your dog plays checkers with you, don’t criticize his game, just be glad he plays the game at all.
—Unknown
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
—Unknown
If you speak before you think,
you find out what’s really on your mind.
—Unknown
Make changes with SNAPS
S-Specify the situation
N-Name your feelings
A-Ask for what you want to happen
P-Pay off – will be either positive or negative
S-So go for the positive result.
—Unknown
God saw a tear, and wiped it away with a smile from a friend.
—Unknown
Always remember, look forwards not back, believing in making your dreams all come true. Always believe in the best you can be and have faith in the things that you do.
—Unknown
Choose to say kind and tender words, for one day you might have to eat them.
—Unknown
It is not always easy to….
…apologize
…begin over
…take advise
…be unselfish
…keep trying
…be considerate
…think and then act
…profit by mistakes
…forgive and forget
but it usually pays.
—Unknown
We teach some by what we say. We teach more by what we do. We teach most by what we are.
—Unknown
I don’t have problems, just challenges.
My mistakes and failures are my lessons,
While my triumphs are milestones of my journey in life;
For life would be meaningless
If I ended my journey of learning and improving myself.
—Unknown
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
—Unknown
Topics: Happiness, Action
Before you talk about what you want, really appreciate what you have before it’s gone.
—Unknown
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
—Unknown
If you always blame others for your mistakes and failure, do you also credit them with your successes?
—Unknown
You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.
—Unknown
Winners don’t blame fate for their failures nor luck for their successes. They know that a goal is only as worthy as the effort that’s required to achieve it.
—Unknown
It’s only the view from where you sit that makes you fear defeat, but life is full of many aisles, so why don’t you change your seat?
—Unknown
Everyone you meet gives you exactly what he is, so wisely discover what he is.
—Unknown
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
—Unknown
Topics: Experience, Humanity
You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
—Unknown
Topics: Carpe-diem
Life offers two great gifts — time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.
—Unknown
You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out your heart is another story.
—Unknown
The trouble with doing nothing is that
it’s too difficult to tell when you’re finished.
—Unknown
Even if courage fails you, tell that special someone that you love them in anyway possible.
—Unknown
No matter what I do, someone is going to hate me for it, so I might as well do it anyways.
—Unknown
Our love is a circle, No beginning, no end.
For you are my partner And I am your friend.
—Unknown
Love is a funny thing; you can never see how one could love another until you do so yourself.
—Unknown
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak…sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
—Unknown
The world when seen through a little child’s eyes, greatly resembles paradise.
—Unknown
Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile.
—Unknown
Topics: Appearance, Smiling, Smile
Communication is the skeleton key of life. It opens all doors.
—Unknown
^A child learns …^
If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn;
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight;
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient;
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy;
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence;
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate;
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice;
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith;
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself;
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship,
He learns to find love in the world.
—Unknown
The door to success is labelled push.
—Unknown
There are three things which are real:
God, human folly and laughter.
The first two are beyond our comprehension
so we must do what we can with the third.
—Unknown
If we are to progress we must go forwards, not backwards. We can look backwards, we can learn from backwards, but we must not go backwards.
—Unknown
Laugh, Live, Smile, and Love… for what you get out of life comes from what you put in.
—Unknown
The more I encourage a child to think for
himself, the more he will care what I think.
—Unknown
Today I will be unafraid.
I will enjoy what is beautiful,
and I will believe that as I give to the world,
the world will give to me.
—Unknown
Don’t compare yourself to what others are, but to what you could be.
—Unknown
Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having.
—Unknown
Topics: Health
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
—Unknown
Topics: Success, Failure, Success & Failure, Satisfaction, Pleasing
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
—Unknown
Topics: Education, Society
In the morning sometimes I wake up grumpy
and sometimes I let him sleep in.
—Unknown
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.
—Unknown
You’re not a failure because you don’t make it, you’re a success because you tried.
—Unknown
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
—Unknown
Topics: Change, Survival
We need the power of love –
not the love of power.
—Unknown
Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be.
—Unknown
The focusing power of attention never fails.
It is the secret of success.
Concentrate. Then go after what you want.
—Unknown
Who tries, can.
Who wills, does.
Who learns, lives.
—Unknown
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
—Unknown
Topics: Laughter
A smile shortens the distance between two people.
—Unknown
Topics: Smile
If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.
—Unknown
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
—Unknown
Milk is a high fat fluid exclusively designed for turning a sixty-five pound calf into a 400 pound cow in a year!
—Unknown
There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.
—Unknown
If the times don’t demand the best from you, invent other times.
—Unknown
Sympathy sees and says, ‘I’m sorry’.
Compassion sees and says, ‘I’ll help’.
When we learn the difference, we can make a difference.
—Unknown
You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough.
—Unknown
Topics: Youth, Life and Living
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
—Unknown
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
—Unknown
Topics: Courage
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
—Unknown
Discipline is organised love.
—Unknown
Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor.
—Unknown
Topics: Justice
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
—Unknown
Nobody gives you power. You just take it.
—Unknown
Worrying about what’s right is always more important than worrying about who’s right.
—Unknown
It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.
—Unknown
Topics: Mistakes
Write your plans in pencil but give God the erase.
—Unknown
Your decisions determine your direction,
and your direction determines your destiny.
—Unknown
Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing.
—Unknown
Topics: Patience
Your future is determined by the choices you make today. Change your choices, change your life.
—Unknown
Stop looking at yourself through your own eyes, and see yourself through God’s eyes.
—Unknown
Don’t be someone to please everyone else, but be someone to please yourself.
—Unknown
An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
—Unknown
Topics: Opportunity
To love is one thing, to be loved is something and to have both is everything.
—Unknown
A smile is of no value until it is given away.
—Unknown
Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We’re looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.
—Unknown
Topics: Life
Life is too short to waste time blaming someone
else for your failures. No one can make you fail.
Life is never too short to take time to thank someone
else for helping you succeed. Anyone can help you succeed.
—Unknown
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when
our spirit has trouble remembering how to fly.
—Unknown
To love someone – is to love their potential into reality.
—Unknown
Patience in the present,
faith in the future,
and joy in the doing.
—Unknown
Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
—Unknown
I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
—Unknown
Topics: Live, Simplicity, Life
A challenge gives you the opportunity to flex your spiritual muscles.
—Unknown
Those who have nothing on their mind, usually have nothing in their mind.
—Unknown
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.
—Unknown
Topics: Gratitude
Winners find reasons to …
Losers find excuses not to.
—Unknown
Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
—Unknown
Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
—Unknown
Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
—Unknown
Lessons taught in fear are remembered, but lessons taught in love are cherished.
—Unknown
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
—Unknown
Our character is a reflection of the friends we keep.
—Unknown
You haven’t lost your smile at all, it’s right under your nose. You just forgot it was there
—Unknown
Topics: Smile
A match-stick has a head, but it does not have a brain.
—Unknown
Here, you have the remote. We’re lost. Let’s stop and ask for directions. Why don’t we go and see a romantic film for a change. No, let me take out the rubbish. I’ll just separate the white clothes from the coloured ones. Isn’t it my turn to change the baby? I’ll turn off the rugby so we can talk.
—Unknown
Athletes are driven by commitment to their sport, to themselves, to excellence itself. Commitment fuels the extra mile, the final set, the last quarter, the sprint to the line, going on when the body begs to stop.
—Unknown
When you read a book, it’s not just paper and ink. you feel for the charectors, gasp when they die, get hurt or get trapped. or cheer when they get out of a mess or do somthing great.
—Unknown
Teach children to use SPICE – and use it yourself.
S-Skill building.
P-Problem solving.
I-Imagination.
C-Communication.
E-Ego building.
—Unknown
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward in courage.
—Unknown
You laugh at me because I’m different, and I laugh at you because you’re all the same.
—Unknown
All the happiness you ever find lies in you.
—Unknown
Blaming yourself or others, or feeling hurt,
angry or worthless, mean you can keep the situation the same
and not have to move on. Therefore you don’t have to make changes.
So life stays safe – but you don’t make progress.
In what ways should you be making progress now?
What do you do and say to stop that happening?
Isn’t it time you stopped Saying and doing that?
If you saw your good friend Saying or doing this,
what would you wish they would do about it?
—Unknown
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
—Unknown
Topics: Success, Education, Learning
Skills are not copyright – they are transferable.
—Unknown
What we get is what we expect.
—Unknown
You are unique. In all the world’s history,
there was never anyone like you, and in all
the histories to come there will never be another you.
Do it now, make your success. Make it count.
—Unknown
Climb high, climb far.
Your goal is the sky, your aim the star.
—Unknown
Life is like a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
—Unknown
Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about what you have tried and failed, but what is still possible for you to do. To live is to change.
—Unknown
Memories are the glue that holds families together.
—Unknown
The ratio between hard work and luck is 70:30.
—Unknown
It’s not whether you win or lose; it’s how you play the game that counts.
—Unknown
P.R.I.D.E.
Personal Responsibility In Delivering Excellence.
—Unknown
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
—Unknown
Topics: Forgiveness, One liners, Love, Names, Enemies
When love becomes thin, faults become thicker.
—Unknown
Sometimes life seems hard and you really don’t know how you’re gonna get through it, some people write their feelings down, but i prefer to read what other people have written because their words really help me.
—Unknown
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110% effort.
—Unknown
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
—Unknown
Topics: Integrity
There is no accomplishment in life better than a peace of mind and a happy home.
—Unknown
Risks must be taken because, the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Only a person who risks is free.
—Unknown
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
—Unknown
The winner says, “It may be difficult but it’s possible;” the loser says, “It may be possible but it’s difficult.”
—Unknown
There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart… pursue those.
—Unknown
Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.
—Unknown
Topics: Criticism
In an argument, retaliation leads to escalation.
—Unknown
Looking back, may I be filled with gratitude;
Looking forward, may I be filled with hope;
Looking upward, may I be aware of strength;
Looking inward, may I find peace.
—Unknown
Grief is a most peculiar thing;
we’re so helpless in the face of it.
It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord.
The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver.
But it opens a little less each time and a little less;
and one day we wonder what has become of it.
—Unknown
To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.
—Unknown
If you drop a white glove into the mud, the glove will get muddy but the mud will never get glovey.
—Unknown
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – say little about his intelligence, but speak volumes about his laziness.
—Unknown
Loneliness is a poignant homing instinct, like that of migratory birds. It guides us back towards this assurance: We are not meant to live cut off from each other, from ourselves, or from the Universal Reality which gives us life. We are meant to dwell in love, which is a wholehearted “yes… to belonging.
—Unknown
Love is not a feeling, it is a decision—to do the very best we can for the other person.
—Unknown
It’s not what you gather,
But what you scatter,
That tells what kind of life you have lived.
—Unknown
A deed is judged by its motive.
—Unknown
As long as you have your ‘prickles’ out,
like a porcupine, no-one can get near you to hurt you.
You can’t hurt a porcupine – but you can’t hold
a porcupine either. So it’s not a win-win situation.
—Unknown
I’ve learned one thing during my time on the soccer fields:
It’s amazing how fast you can run
And the things you can do when you have a goal in mind.
It applies to the rest of my life, too.
—Unknown
It’s attitude, not aptitude, that affects your altitude.
—Unknown
If your mind is alert, if your heart is eager, and you keep on hustling, the thing you need will come your way.
—Unknown
Drive carefully – Inland Revenue needs you.
—Unknown
The optimist says, ‘My cup runneth over, what a blessing’. The pessimist says, ‘My cup runneth over, what a mess.’
—Unknown
I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
—Unknown
Topics: Horses
Intimacy occurs when the boundaries between
you and someone else melt, and your hearts touch.
—Unknown
Don’t worry about knowing people—just make yourself worth knowing.
—Unknown
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
—Unknown
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
—Unknown
Follow the master,
Face the devil,
Fight to the end,
Finish the game.
—Unknown
When you have a lot of problems,
and you think you can’t go on –
Isn’t it a blessing to find out you’re wrong.
—Unknown
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death hath no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
—Unknown
Topics: Books, Reading
Someone once asked me “why do you always insist on taking the hard road?” and I replied “why do you assume I see two roads?”
—Unknown
I’m too religious to believe in religion. You don’t have to believe in a sacred world. It slaps you in the face. It’s everywhere.
—Unknown
Better Management. Don’t manage stress or nuisances—get rid of them.
—Unknown
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.
—Unknown
Topics: Time Management, Carpe-diem, Living, Life, Discipline
Discover the power of praise—it will make your world a better place.
—Unknown
A list of man’s enemies is often a truer guide to his character than a list of his friends.
—Unknown
Life is like a book. You can’t look at the beginning and the end and know what it’s all about. You have to live it all the way through.
—Unknown
Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible.
—Unknown
Topics: Faith, Belief
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
—Unknown
Topics: Character, Excellence, Jobs
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
—Unknown
Topics: Gossip, Criticism, Equality, Man
The changing attitudess to life, from before to after having a family.
—Unknown
Whoever follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
—Unknown
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.
—Unknown
When your heart decides the destination, your mind will design the map to reach it.
—Unknown
Happiness is: Looking in a mirror and like what you see.
—Unknown
When you’re a little child your life is written in pencil.
When you’re older it is written in pen.
Repentance is what we use to erase our mistakes.
—Unknown
The probability of someone watching you is
proportional to the stupidity of your action.
—Unknown
As you awaken, your experience of yourself and the world will dramatically change. Fear, anxiety and conflict disappear as you enter into a world of love, peace and abundance. You come to know yourself as LOVE. You encounter the living Presence of God within you and within everything around you. It is as if the present moment is God. Separation dissolves as you enter into Oneness. This is what is meant by enlightenment. It is what Buddha spoke of. It is what Jesus spoke of. It is what Lao-Tzu and Krishna spoke of. It is what God promised to Abraham.
—Unknown
Of course intentions count. At the end of the day, all that matters is whether you were true to your ideals, whether you gave it your best shot, whether you can look yourself in the mirror in the morning and say, “I am proud of what I have done”.
—Unknown
Discouragement is the last tool of the devil.
When he can’t ‘down’ you with anything else,
he will use discouragement.
—Unknown
If you are feeling low, don’t despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.
—Unknown
Man succeeds because he believes he can, or he fails because he thinks he will.
—Unknown
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
—Unknown
Topics: Mentoring
If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten.
—Unknown
The way a man wins shows most of his character,
The way he loses shows all of it.
—Unknown
Topics: Character
If you don’t seem to be getting the answers you need –
are you asking the right questions?
What questions should you ask?
—Unknown
Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don’t know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it.
—Unknown
Topics: Kindness
If you don’t change direction, you’ll end up where you’re going.
—Unknown
You are what you are today because of what you lived yesterday.
—Unknown
With your arms, I am strong.
With your wisdom, I am a man.
With your love, I know who I am.
—Unknown
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
—Unknown
Topics: Action
Don’t tell me I’m burning the candle at both ends, tell me where to get more wax.
—Unknown
You have to be different to make a difference.
—Unknown
If you know something, it is in your head. When you believe something, it is in your heart.
—Unknown
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
—Unknown
Topics: Opportunity, Luck, Preparation, One liners
Ability & Attitude & Activity – Excuses = Success.
—Unknown
Love knows, not its own depth, until the hour of seperation.
—Unknown
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
—Unknown
Topics: Cats
Today’s mighty oak is just yesterdays seed that held its ground.
—Unknown
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
—Unknown
Topics: World
You find out who you are in silence. Go there by not trying to take your own thoughts with you.
—Unknown
Does that mean I never let my friends down? Does that mean the rhythm is always in step? It means that in spite of, or including these issues, I absolutely can count on them. And what is so valuable is that I don’t believe it is open to question.
—Unknown
You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.
—Unknown
Fifty years from now it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account or what your clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better place because you were important in the life of a child.
—Unknown
We are unlimited beings experiencing life in a physical body subject to the ceilings of our imagination.
—Unknown
Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.
—Unknown
To succeed in business, be daring, be original, be first.
—Unknown
Children need a father who is gentle beneath his firmness,
and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
—Unknown
A fellow can’t keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
—Unknown
Topics: Fear, Anxiety, Confidence, Courage, Opinion, Self-reliance
Friends come and go, but the memory of them will last forever.
—Unknown
If you have a strong mind,
and plant in it a firm resolve,
you can change your destiny.
—Unknown
Opportunity doesn’t come to those who wait, they are captured by those who dare to attack.
—Unknown
A ship at harbor is safe, but that’s not what the ship was built for.
—Unknown
Children are messengers that
we send to a time that we will never see.
—Unknown
Fear knocked at the door;
Faith answered;
No one was there.
—Unknown
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
—Unknown
Topics: Opportunity, Pessimism, Cynicism
People who lack energy may be disorganised by
their deep emotional and psychological conflicts.
—Unknown
A group of two hundred executives were asked what makes a person successful.
Eighty percent listed enthusiam as the most important quality.
—Unknown
Say to yourself – Yesterday I thought something was a problem.
Today I see it as a divine opportunity to stretch myself and progress.
—Unknown
True wealth can not be found in your bank account.
It can only be found in those you call friends.
Those with whom you share your deepest feelings.
And those who accept you for who you really are.
—Unknown
Topics: Friendship
Prayer should be our first resource rather than our last resort.
—Unknown
If you want to touch the past, touch a rock.
If you want to touch the present, touch a rose.
If you want to touch the future, touch a life.
—Unknown
Some teachers teach subjects,
some teach life, I think the person who
balances the two are those you never forget.
—Unknown
Some people build walls and some people build gates. Learn to break down walls and open gates.
—Unknown
Problems multiply when you take your eye off the goal.
—Unknown
Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey.
—Unknown
You have only failed if you fail to try.
—Unknown
The more we co-operate, the better we operate.
—Unknown
Although words seem to say so little,
I hope they help in some small way to ease the
sense of loss that you’re experiencing today.
—Unknown
Live every day as if it were your last because you never know when it might be.
—Unknown
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
—Unknown
They can take, by force as the case too often proves to be, the products of your energy. they can plunder what you have sown, by force as the case too often proves to be. but that you have produced, that you have sown anything at all, these are circumstances over which you, and no other, are the master.
—Unknown
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
—Unknown
We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
—Unknown
Topics: Age, Aging
Real love is believing in someone until
they are strong enough to believe in themself.
—Unknown
Nobody ever choked through swallowing pride.
—Unknown
Life does not require us to be the biggest or the best: It asks only that we try.
—Unknown
Before you go to bed at night give all of your cares and worries to God, He’ll be up all night anyways.
—Unknown
Failure accepts no alibis. Success requires no explanation.
—Unknown
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
If you love something; set it free. If it comes back; it was meant to be.
—Unknown
It is better to forget and smile, than to remember and be sad.
—Unknown
Topics: Smiling
If you place a low value on yourself, you can be sure the world will not overprice you.
—Unknown
The special moments and memories of your life will never change.
They will always be in your heart today and forever more.
—Unknown
When confronted with a Goliath-size problem, which way do you respond– “He’s too big to hit”, or “He’s too big to miss”?
—Unknown
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
—Unknown
Topics: Fear, Courage, Bravery, Judgment, Age
The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don’t have to gain, develop, or attain them. We’re like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don’t need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are — as soon as we quit pretending we’re small or unholy.
—Unknown
Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
—Unknown
I don’t care how much you know until I know how much you care.
—Unknown
Topics: Kindness, Caring
Thoughts are boomerangs, returning with precision to their source. Choose wisely which ones you throw.
—Unknown
It’s better for your teenagers to search your fridge late at night,
than some of the darker places they could find.
—Unknown
Your toughest opponent is the little voice inside you telling you to give up.
—Unknown
If you haven’t all the things that you want, be thankful for all the things that you don’t have that you didn’t want.
—Unknown
A wise man learns something new every day… the fool knows it all already.
—Unknown
No one can predict the height you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
—Unknown
There are a handful of people in this cold world
Who can warm the hearts of others.
Their happiness is genuine, their smiles sincere.
At first glance they appear to be like everyone else,
But a second look reveals an extra-ordinary person.
Thank you for being one of those people.
—Unknown
Success is often a matter of hanging on
longer, when others have given up.
—Unknown
A friend is there before you know it, to lend a hand before you ask it, and give you love just when you need it most.
—Unknown
I now appreciate all that I have. I am grateful for the smallest things today. I can always find something in my life for which to be grateful. I give thanks for everything that is now coming into my life. I rejoice in the wonders of life.
—Unknown
Some have the wisdom of old age and the energy of youth. Most have the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age.
—Unknown
Topics: Forgiveness
I Will
I will think of better ways.
I will develop ways to achieve positive attitude.
I will keep reviewing my goals.
I will accept that I cannot change.
I will learn from my mistakes.
I will start living.
I will smile.
I will be happy.
I will enjoy myself.
I will be honest.
I will remain humble.
I will put myself in the other person’s shoes.
—Unknown
Life is much like writing in ink. All you can do is read over your past and look forward to a blank page for your future that will soon be filled with words that can never be erased.
—Unknown
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
—Unknown
A bell does not sound till you ring it,
A song does not sound till you sing it,
And love was not put in your heart to stay,
For love is not love till you give it away.
—Unknown
Conceit is a strange disease. It makes everyone else sick except the person who has it.
—Unknown
Our lives are measured not by gain but giving
—Unknown
Instead of telling God how big your storm is, tell your storm how big your God is.
—Unknown
More children are punished for copying their parents, than for disobeying them. We should be what we want to see.
—Unknown
Happiness is like peeing your pants: Everyone can see it, but only you can feel it’s warmth.
—Unknown
Success is having. Excellence is being.
—Unknown
It is useless to tell a river to stop running; the best thing
it to learn how to sail in the direction it is flowing.
—Unknown
He who makes room in his heart for others, will himself find accommodation everywhere.
—Unknown
No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
—Unknown
Topics: Smiling
A pessimist is one who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
—Unknown
Of course I don’t look as busy as the men, I did it right the first time.
—Unknown
Let go and let God reveal to you who you are and what you can be.
—Unknown
Be happy; be supportive; be naughty; be just like the way you are; but don’t get bored.
—Unknown
Clear the clutter to create SPACE.
S-Sort – things into groups and piles
P-Purge – throw out or give away
A-Assign – things to new places
C-Containerise – put things in containers
E-Everything in its place.
—Unknown
Success comes when preparation meets opportunity.
—Unknown
You can make your mind recall anything you want, but it can only give back what it was first given.
—Unknown
She didn’t know it couldn’t be done, so she went ahead and did it.
—Unknown
Topics: Action, Possibilities, Potential
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn’t buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?
—Unknown
You never realize how much you love something till its gone.
—Unknown
You cannot teach what you don’t know,
Any more than you can come back from a place you ain’t been.
—Unknown
Pain is only weakness leaving your body, so don’t give up because it hurts keep going cause it makes you stonger.
—Unknown
If obstacles are getting in you way, you’re not seeing the goal clearly enough.
—Unknown
Accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative, Latch on to the affirmative, And don’t mess with mister-in-between.
—Unknown
There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.
—Unknown
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
—Unknown
In our lives we each act, evaluate, correct, then act again.
—Unknown
Happiness is a decision, not an experience.
—Unknown
A smile is the light in the window of your soul.
—Unknown
Service is nothing but love in work clothes.
—Unknown
Children are the dreams we send to a future that we will never see.
—Unknown
You can never make your own dreams come true by oversleeping.
—Unknown
A great mentor is one who aims for others’ abilities to surpass his own.
—Unknown
Living each moment to its absolute fullest is perhaps the only justification you have for receiving this incredible gift called life.
—Unknown
A rich man is not one who has the most,
but one who needs the least.
—Unknown
Failure is not getting knocked down, It’s refusing to get up.
—Unknown
Search for better ways to do things
and you will find success.
—Unknown
Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can’t use that as an excuse to hurt someone back. You’ll only hurt yourself.
—Unknown
To kill time – try working it to death.
—Unknown
It’s not our job to change other people—it’s our job to love them, while they change themselves.
—Unknown
Hold fast to your memories,
to all of the cherished moments of the past.
To the blessings and the laughter, the joys and
the celebrations, the sorrows and the tears.
—Unknown
The first stage of a huge shock is disbelief –
I can’t believe that’s happened.
As soon as you learn to accept what’s happened,
you are ready to move on in life and pretty soon
you see a job that’s interesting, or meet someone who looks good,
or find a project you want to be involved with,
and start putting emotions there that up till then you
had been pouring down the hole of your previous disaster.
—Unknown
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass—it’s about learning how to dance in the rain
—Unknown
What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experiences.
—Unknown
If you don’t have a test, you won’t have a testimony.
—Unknown
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don’t worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.
—Unknown
Topics: Vision
Smile
Smile, even if it is a sad smile,
Because sadder than a sad smile
Is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
—Unknown
Topics: Smiling
When in danger of becoming too self-important remember what the mother whale told her baby. “When you get to the top and start to ‘blow’ that’s when you get harpooned!”
—Unknown
Religion is for people afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for people who know that hell is simply having fear and not knowing of a love for all without condition.
—Unknown
A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise after success.
—Unknown
Topics: Praise, Encouragement, Support
Communication is to love,
what food is to the body –
without it the relationship dies.
—Unknown
Live today to the fullest. Remember it’s the first day of the rest of your life.
—Unknown
Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don’t believe in yourself, it will be hard for others to believe in you.
—Unknown
Imagination
Imagination—sparks dreams and laughter,
Dissolves barriers, expands knowledge and lights the mind.
Imagination also holds captive in dark places
Both the weak and strong, liquefies courage,
Builds enormous insurmountable fear.
—Unknown
Topics: Fear, Courage, Imagination, Knowledge
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
—Unknown
Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other’s minimum daily requirements.
—Unknown
Let go of the idea that your problem is permanent. Few troubles last forever. And those that cannot be solved can usually be managed.
—Unknown
Let your mind go, and your body will follow.
—Unknown
Only we can choose how great of an impact our actions have on others,
So choose something that does not discourage, but rather inspires.
—Unknown
The best way to spend Christmas is within your income.
—Unknown
Money is an excellent servant, but a horrible master.
—Unknown
From the ashes of failure bloom the roses of success.
—Unknown
A particular breed of dog may cost a lot of money, but only love will make its tail wag.
—Unknown
Faith will take us to the destination God wants us to get to. We have a destiny.
—Unknown
You may not have perfect teeth, or a nose to ever match, but if you’re smiling through your heart, that smile will be nothing less than beautiful.
—Unknown
Topics: Smiling
It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.
—Unknown
Topics: Confidence
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
—Unknown
Topics: Virtues, Knowledge
The only difference between a rut and a groove is their dimensions.
—Unknown
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
—Unknown
Topics: Kindness, Compassion, Helping, Service, Words
It’s not just that honesty is the best policy,
but honesty is the only policy.
—Unknown
We receive only that which we are willing to let in.
—Unknown
Give needed thought to your outer future, but give your whole life to your inner future.
—Unknown
The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
—Unknown
You cannot be a creator and a victim.
—Unknown
Topics: God
The most important issue is your spiritual growth. This is your real life.
—Unknown
Phrases you’ll never hear a man say
—Unknown
^Six Secrets of Success^
Expect to succeed.
You are what you think.
You become like those you associate with.
Really excel in one thing in life and it will spread to other things.
Education is worth any price you have to pay for it.
Then is then, and now is now. Forgive yourself, and move on and progress.
—Unknown
This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind… let it be something good.
—Unknown
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
—Unknown
Topics: Peace
The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.
—Unknown
Topics: Manners
There is no indigestion worse than that which comes from having to eat your own words.
—Unknown
The way to create happiness:
Keep your heart free from hate,
your mind from worry.
Live simply, expect little, give much.
Fill your life with love, scatter sunshine.
Forget self, think of others.
Do as you would be done by.
Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
—Unknown
Know-how will surpass guess-how.
—Unknown
Topics: Knowledge
Heroes don’t ask us to believe in them, they teach us to believe in ourselves.
—Unknown
Leadership is like moving a string: you cannot move it by pushing from behind; what you have to do is to get ahead and pull.
—Unknown
Why worry about tomorrow, when today is all we have?
—Unknown
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
—Unknown
Topics: Perseverance, Attitude, Courage, Virtues, Enthusiasm, Bravery, Fighting
I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.
—Unknown
No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
—Unknown
The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.
—Unknown
Topics: Alcohol
Photographs taped, grouted and sanded together so that they merge perfectly into a single plain surface.
—Unknown
We are not here to pursue happiness, but to pursue those things which produce happiness.
—Unknown
Leaving things to the last minute makes you edgy
and more likely to make mistakes. You lose time and
credibility, miss opportunities, and disappoint others.
—Unknown
You don’t have to know what to do. You have to do what you know.
—Unknown
The surest way to happiness is to lose yourself in a cause greater than yourself.
—Unknown
Write your life the way you want to. Life is a book. Each day is a day which you can’t rewrite.
—Unknown
How we affect other people is all we leave behind
when we leave this earth. Once we recognise
that message then we know what we are to do.
—Unknown
Courtesy is the oil that greases the wheels of life.
—Unknown
Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
—Unknown
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
—Unknown
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal, if he does it twice, you are a fool.
—Unknown
You have only one life, and it will soon be past, and only what’s done for God will last.
—Unknown
Opportunity knocks at the strangest times. It’s not the time that matters, but how you answer the door.
—Unknown
Topics: Opportunity
A hug is the body’s battery re-charge.
—Unknown
Defeat isn’t bitter, as long as you don’t swallow it.
—Unknown
All the joy in the world comes from focusing on the well-being of others, all the suffering in the world comes from focusing on our own.
—Unknown
Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
—Unknown
Life isn’t a destination, it’s a journey.
We all come upon unexpected curves and turning points,
Mountain tops and valleys.
Everything that happens to us
Shapes who we are becoming.
And in the adventure of each day,
We discover the best in ourselves.
—Unknown
Today I will not imagine what I would do if things were different.
They are not different. I will do my best with what material I have.
—Unknown
Did is a word of achievement;
Won’t is a word of defeat;
Might is a word of bereavement;
Can’t is a word of defeat;
Ought is a word of duty;
Try is a word each hour;
Will is a word of beauty;
Can is a word of power.
—Unknown
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
—Unknown
Topics: Goals
Look at yourself but never ask why you are you… .
There is a meaning for each being
Someone needs you, somewhere, sometime … .
—Unknown
Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you’re waiting for don’t pass you by.
—Unknown
It’s easy enough to be happy when life is flowing like a song, but the man worthwhile is the man who will smile when everything goes wrong.
—Unknown
You cannot lift another soul till you are
standing on higher ground than he or she is.
—Unknown
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
—Unknown
Topics: Hope, Achievement
The winner sees an answer in every problem;
The loser sees a problem in every answer.
—Unknown
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
—Unknown
Topics: Live, Attitude, Life, Perception, Vision, Miracles
Parents are not there to make their children happy,
because you don’t have any control over another person’s happiness.
They are there to teach frustration-tolerance and self-discipline.
—Unknown
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
—Unknown
Topics: Anxiety, Worry
Each of us is given a pocketful of time to spend however we may. We use what we will. We waste what we will. But we can never get back a day.
—Unknown
The great thing about experience is that you can’t borrow it, buy it or steal it, you must earn it.
—Unknown
Topics: Experience
It is love, not money – that makes you rich.
—Unknown
Do it
Delegate it, or
Dump it.
—Unknown
Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have — so spend it wisely.
—Unknown
Topics: Time, The Past, The Present, Forgiveness, Past
There is no kind of peace which may be purchased on the bargain counter.
—Unknown
Topics: Peace
Often what we choose for our lives is the choice for the next generation too.
—Unknown
A friend is a person who knows all about you but likes you anyway.
—Unknown
No matter how old you are, you are always somebody’s child, and if you are loved, you are always in somebody’s thoughts.
—Unknown
If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
—Unknown
Topics: Ideas
Strength does not come from strength, but the denial of having strength.
Weakness does not come from weakness, but the denial of having weakness.
—Unknown
Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired—it can only be earned.
—Unknown
When we stop judging ourselves we stop judging other people. When we start loving ourselves, we start loving other people.
—Unknown
No one is ever promised tomorrow, so make today your best.
—Unknown
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.
The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them.
Disagree with them. Glorify, or villify them.
But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things. They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
—Unknown
Topics: Change
The battery in a car works only because it has a positive and a negative. As parents we also must have the same balance and be kind and loving, but also tough when it is necessary.
—Unknown
A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
—Unknown
Don’t be afraid to attempt something new. Remember, it was amateurs who built the ark. It was professionals who built the Titanic.
—Unknown
No one ever collapsed under the burdens of a single day. It is when the burdens of tomorrow are added to it that it becomes unbearable. Live one day at a time — it’s all that we have that is a certainty anyway.
—Unknown
A house becomes a home when you can write, ‘I love you’ on the furniture.
—Unknown
Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused.
—Unknown
Topics: Laughter
Its not the ups and downs that make your life difficult, its the way you choose to deal with them.
—Unknown
Being average is neither here nor there,
you are as close to the top as you are the bottom.
—Unknown
One of our most useless weights is to believe in the necessity of human conflict.
—Unknown
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
—Unknown
Topics: Belief, Luck, Miracles
It doesn’t matter where you go, what you do,
or how much you have. It’s who you have beside you.
—Unknown
When the wise get angry, they lose their wisdom.
—Unknown
A well-beaten path does not always make the right road.
—Unknown
Be a lion at heart and do not forget the tact of a fox.
—Unknown
Do something bad and regret it. Do something good and forget it.
—Unknown
No matter what your present difficulty may be, someone else has been healed of it and so can you be healed.
—Unknown
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
—Unknown
Unless you are prepared to take risks,
you will do nothing, have nothing, and be nothing.
—Unknown
Common people working for a common end produce uncommon results.
—Unknown
What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
—Unknown
Topics: Time Management, Time, Focus and Priorities
Live every day as if it is your last—and one day you’ll be right.
—Unknown
We are judged by our actions, not our intentions. We may have a heart of gold, but so does a hardboiled egg.
—Unknown
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
—Unknown
Topics: Deception/Lying, Lies, Statistics
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
—Unknown
Forget about mistakes you made yesterday
The lessons you learned are good for today.
Never give up and think that you’re through
There’s always tomorrow to start off brand new.
—Unknown
The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most.
—Unknown
We don’t need to look where we are,
but where we are going.
—Unknown
I am young,
I live in a house my father owns
I sleep in a bed my father owns
Nothing is mine except my heart
And my fears and my growing knowledge
That not all roads would lead home anymore.
—Unknown
You have a gold mine when you have a goal mind.
—Unknown
We often rebel against the strenuousness and chaos of our time. But historically it has always been in such time that man won his great inner victories.
—Unknown
To be truly happy, you have to find a way to give to the world.
When you give to the world, the world gives to you.
What goes around, comes around.
—Unknown
Mothers are not paid for their work because it is priceless.
—Unknown
To change family life –
Husbands love your wives,
Wives respect your husbands,
Children obey your parents.
—Unknown
To be listened to and to be loved are so much alike –
that most people think they are the same.
—Unknown
When your physical environment is in alignment with your aspiration, success becomes the norm.
—Unknown
Topics: Success
Pain is temporary, pride is forever.
—Unknown
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
—Unknown
Topics: Kindness, Giving, Character, Living, Life, Love, Charity
The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.
—Unknown
If you don’t change today, your tomorrows will be like your yesterdays.
—Unknown
Love means the unconditional desire for the eternal well-being of a soul.
—Unknown
Confidence is not always being right, it’s not fearing being wrong.
—Unknown
Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you
will never pay attention to their limitations again.
—Unknown
I succeed because I expect to.
—Unknown
We do the best with what we know.
When we know better, we do better.
—Unknown
May there always be a smile on your face and laughter in your heart.
—Unknown
Topics: Smiling
We can learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp… some are
pretty…
some are dull… some have weird names… and all are different
colors….
But they all have to learn to live in the same box.
—Unknown
Days are like a suitcase –
some can pack in a lot more than others.
—Unknown
Fear and guilt are unpleasant bedfellows who disturb our sleep.
—Unknown
When you are in the world of the thinking mind, you are somewhere in the remembered past or the imagined future. You are in a world of thought, memory, concept, idea, opinion and belief. You are not here now. What you are experiencing is not of the present moment. It is not real. You are in a world of illusion (Maya) and yet you have come to believe that it real. Almost the entire human population is lost in this illusion. It is the sole source of our suffering.
—Unknown
Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.
—Unknown
The greatest home-run hitters still failed more than half the time! Don’t think of slip-ups as setbacks, realign your mind and think mistakes as learning opportunities.
—Unknown