Anonymous
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Attitude determines altitude.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.