The impossible is often the untried.

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

You don't marry someone you can live with. You marry someone you can't live without.

To the world, you're just one person. To one person, you can mean the world.

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Add one small bit to the truth and you inevitably subtract from it.

One advantage in growing older is that you can stand for more and fall for less.

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion.

Love is an act of faith. And whoever is of little faith is of little love.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Never start frowning because you never know who's falling in love with your smile.

Most people walk in and out of your life, but only friends leave footprints in your heart.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

You can only go as far as you push.

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.

Life's short. If you don't look around every once in a while, you could miss it.

A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.

Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give us.

When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.

Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.

A true love story never has an ending.

We are responsible for not only what we say but also for how we say it.

Your words may hide your thoughts, but your actions will reveal them.

All good things come to those who wait, provided one knows what one is waiting for.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Life is tragic for the person who has plenty to live on, but nothing to live for.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Today is the gift you may wish you had back tomorrow.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

One thing we can't recycle is wasted time.

The tragedy of life is not so much what we suffer, but rather what we miss

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Love is such a big word, it really should have more letters.

In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.

Follow what you love and it will take you where you want to go.

A life spent loving... is a life well-spent.

People don't care how you know until they know how much you care.

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

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Every life comes with a story... and a possibility for a great adventure.

I would rather have 30 minutes of 'wonderful' than a lifetime of nothing special.

How many people do you know who spend their lives taxiing down the runway of life, revving their engines, but afraid to take off? We were all designed to fly!

As you grow older, you'll find that the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

History doesn't belong to the best. It belongs to those who want it the worst.

There are only so many tomorrows.

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue these.

To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.

There are many compliments that may come to an individual in the course of a lifetime, but there is no higher tribute than to be loved by those who know us best.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

The best things to hold on to in life is each other.

We need to think of ourselves as gifts to be given and to think of others as gifts offered to us.

The conclusion is always the same: love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy of the world.

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.

The best proof of love is trust.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

True friends stab you in the front.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I have forged my own life, but not alone; my friends have made the better part of it.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Setting a goal is good. Achieving it is awesome.

The great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.

Go where life takes you. You may be surprised at what it gives.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.

There are 2 ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

There is no death when you live in the hearts of those who love you.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.

In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

A day without sunshine is like night.

He who laughs, lasts.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in strength.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Do everything. One thing may turn out right.

Better days are just around the corner. They're called Saturday and Sunday.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

How can there be such a difference between a day off and an off day?

Smile - it's the 2nd best thing you can do with your lips.

I don't know why we're here, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with enjoying ourselves.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Remember this - that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Don't trust your head... it's not the best part of you.

The praise of the praiseworthy is the greatest reward.

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's NOT in disguise.

Life isn't just the front page -- it's the comics, too.

No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway!

Sit loosely in the saddle of life.

There are only 2 things you 'have to' do in life. You 'have to' die and you 'have to' live until you die. You make up all the rest.

Treasure this day, and treasure yourself. Truly, neither will ever happen again.

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

When the emotion is love... everyone is a poet.

When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.

There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.

Make us happy and you make us good.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Some pursue happiness, others create it.

Good friends, good books and a sleep conscience: this is the ideal life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

The little things are infinitely the most important.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them.

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

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose another sixty seconds of happiness.

Enjoy yourself. These are the ''good old days'' you're going to miss in the years ahead.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

There is no armor against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.

Good is not good where better is expected.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.

No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Love only what befalls you and spun for you by fate.

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way thing turns out.

No rose without a thorn.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive,but do not forget.

Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

The little things are infinitely the most important.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.

Things are rarely as bad as you expect, but when they are,
its worse than you ever expected.

Considering the fortune you might have lost, you'll have to admit you're rich already.

A man should always consider... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

He who limps still walks.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.

There must be more to life than having everything.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

God gives us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.

One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.

Friendship and wine should be old.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Books and friends should be few but good.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Frienship is one bind in two bodies.

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.

I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it gets.

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Ye have not, because ye ask not.

God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Our thanks go God should always precede our requests.

Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.

I'm not OK, you're not OK -- and that's OK.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.

We're all in this together... alone.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

True Friendship is like sound health; The value of it is not known until you lose it.

I can only change myself; But sometimes that is enough.

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Too much of a good thing... is wonderful.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

To be simple is to be great.

Everything should be made as simple as possible... but not simpler.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It only gets worse.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

Some folks never exaggerate -- they just remember big.

The 'good old times' -- all times, when old, are good.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.

Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been.

'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

This is not a dress rehearsal. This is It.

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.

Get busy living... or get busy dying.

The really big visions we hold should never be focused too tightly.

If we never take time, how can we ever have time?

The time is always right to do what is right.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend It!

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it pertains to what is past and what is to come.

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

The morning is wiser than the evening.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.

Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.

Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.

Politeness costs nothing and gains everything.

If you think everything is under control, you're not going fast enough!

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.

The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones that do.

Life is not about getting what you want but about accepting what you already have.

No one is taller than the last guy standing.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

A dream is a wish your heart makes.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll still land among the stars!

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

If fate locks the door, go in through the window.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."

Take time to be sure, but be sure not to take too much time.

HANDLE WITH CARE. That's what the packaging of the heart reads.

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Thank God for sleep! And when you can't sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Poets are like baseball players. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

This, too, shall pass.

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in the books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

There ain't no cloud so thick that the sun ain't shinin' on t'other side.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Difficulties are often doors to growth.

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.

It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

The longer the wait, the greater the weight.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.

Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be.

It takes a tremendous amount of effort to create something that looks effortless.

When you have nothing to offer, there's alot to go around.

When you have nothing to offer, there's alot to go around.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Never whistle for the wind unless you want it to blow.

Silence is golden... when you can't think of a good answer.

80% of success is showing up.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

If you are not a part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

Late to Bed, Early to Rise; Work like Hell, and You'll be Wise.

When choosing between two evils, I always take the one I haven't tried before.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

It's the possibility of darkness that makes the day seem brighter.

Time is a face on the water.

We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it back.

Comfort served cold is better than no comfort at all.

The goodbyes we say and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive.

True love protects itself.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

Knock the t off the can't.

People who never get carried away should be.

A man who looks in the mirror thinks he's shaving the face of God.

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

Forget about why, figure out how.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Rice is good if you're hungry and you want to eat 2,000 of something.

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Never let someone's job title be the sole indication of their worth.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.