Words of Wisdom !?

Watch your thought, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character,
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dream with open eyes,
to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence

 
We who have lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl

To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent persons
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things.

Some people think in terms of problems and some in terms of solutions.

Two men look out through the same bars,
One sees the mud, and one sees the stars.

Your attitude determines your altitude.

An optimist is the one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessing get moldy, and then call them mishaps.

I have to get up on the right now, in the right key, then I sing the right song all day.

Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn.

It is the forgiving who are qualified to receive forgiveness.

The Bible says that whatsoever things are of good report--think on these things.

One of the great arts of living is the art of forgetting.

Before you flare up at someone's faults, take time to count to ten--ten of your own.

Forgiveness is the noblest revenge.

The world is full of beauty when the heart is full of love.

Our own weaknesses make us sympathetic with other's frailties and imperfections.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower sheds on the heel that crushed it.

To err is human, to forgive divine!

You have a tremendous advantage over the person who slanders you or does you a wilful injustice: you have it within your power to forgive that person.

The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone solve theirs.

Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job.

You should never let adversity get you down - except on your knees.

It's good to be a believer and know it, but it's better to be a believer and show it.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

'Success' in the eyes of the public does not necessarily constitute personal success.

One thing to consider first is, Don't let them scare you.

Happy are those who dream dreams. Blessed are those who have visions and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.  T. Huxley

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

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

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
K. Gibran

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith