Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. - Chinese proverb

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. - The Buddha

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

No one can pray and worry at the same time. - Max Lucado

The person who sends out positive thoughts
activates the world around him positively
and draws back to himself positive results.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Faith consists in believing when it is
beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
- Zig Ziglar

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington

“We say to our children, 'Act like grown-ups,' but Jesus said to the grown-ups, 'Be like children.'
 - Billy Graham

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

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't. - Bill Hybels

Courage doesn't always roar. 
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice 
at the end of the day saying, 
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

“If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You’re only a decision away from reconnecting.” ― Anne Graham Lotz

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. - Lao Tzu

At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.  - Randy Travis

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.
- Andy Stanley

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.
- John A. Shedd

The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy GarlandAlways be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

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

Anxiety & fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow. - Bill Graham

Anxiety & fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow. 
- Bill Graham

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

- Og Mandino

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." - Grace Hopper

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

"This above all: to thine own self-be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man."

- William Shakespeare

"The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. 
Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle.

- Albert Einstein

“Everyday we have plenty of opportunities to get stressed, angry or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let things upset you.” 
- Joel Osteen

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

God grant me the serenity 
To accept the things I cannot change; 
Courage to change the things I can; 
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
- Zig Ziglar

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
- Henry Ford

"Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach."
- Andy Stanley

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.Live your life so that when you die,the world cries and you rejoice.

   - Indian Proverb

"I have become my own version of an optimist.
If I can't make it through one door,
I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door.
Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."
- Rabindranath Tagoreee

“Your greatest ministry will most likely come out of your greatest hurt.”
   - Rick Warren

"A fresh start - a new day - a new month - a new year. Do you see each day as a fresh start or are you carrying yesterday into this brand new day. See the possibilities of beginning anew." 
- Theodore W. Higginsworth

"It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.” 
 - Mel Gibson

If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You’re only a decision away from reconnecting.

 - Anne Graham Lotz   

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete. - Lao Tzu

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Gandhi

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life”

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

the courage to change the things I can;

and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Happy Independence Day! - - On July 4, 1776, the thirteen colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States. Each year on July 4th, also known as Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
--Thomas Jefferson

If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
 - Norman Vincent Peale

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
     - Judy Garlandn of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

- Rabindranath Tagore

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

- Charles R. Swindoll

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
     - John Wooden

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life
- Rick Warren

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me."
- Jim Valvano

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs

Life would be infinitely happier
if we could only be born at the age of eighty
and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
  - Amelia Earhart

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb

We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
  - Joe Vitale

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
- Vince Lombardi

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers" - Jewish proverb

"Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens.
A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not
suddenly become filled on retirement."
- Dwight L. Moody

Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right.
  - Henry Ford

Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come.
Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino

What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
   - The Buddha

"Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't."
      Bill Hybels

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

""The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy."
- Dale Carnegie

"The greatest use for your life is to invest it in that which will outlast it."
- Rick Warren

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past,
decorate the present and transform the future."
- Osho

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
- Babe Ruth

"My impossibility is God's opportunity." - Buddy Owens

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."
- Helen Keller

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is getting what you want. 
Happiness is wanting what you get."
- Dale Carnegie

"Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - The Buddha

"Your greatest ministry will most likely come out of your greatest hurt"
- Rick Warren

Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come.
Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
- Helen Keller

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
- Billy Graham

"If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."
- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

"Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself -
have the compassion to forgive others,
and the courage to forgive yourself."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"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

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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." - Hugh Downs

"Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age."
- Max Lucado

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."

- Benjamin Franklin

"May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go." 
- Irish blessing

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

"God grant me the serenity 
To accept the things I cannot change; 
Courage to change the things I can; 
And wisdom to know the difference."
- Reinhold Niebuhr

"You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman."
- Max Lucado

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
- Woodrow Wilson

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you are patient in one moment of anger,

you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."

- Chinese Proverb