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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston Writer
I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

Victoria Principal American actress
You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, time stays, we go.

Austin Dobson (1840 - 1921)
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C. S. Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963)
Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Golda Meir Israeli (Russian-born) politician (1898 - 1978)
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Roger Ebert (American film Critic, Lecturer and Writer)
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Diogenes the Cynic
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo (26/2/1802 Besançon – 22/5/1885 Paris)
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Anne Roiphe (American Writer, b.1935)
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim (1882-1932)
Education does not end at any point in our lives; it is an ongoing journey to be carried with us everyday throughout our lives.

Thomas Powell (a teacher, writer, and entrepreneur)
Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Marva Collins (born August 31, 1936)
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

James M. Barrie (May 9, 1860 – June 19, 1937)
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Jim Rohn (September 17, 1930 - December 5, 2009)
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Christopher Marlowe (26 February 1564- 30 May 1593)
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Brad Henry (born July 10, 1963)

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. McGill (born November 7, 1969)
I would simply like to be forgiven and forgotten. There is no need to remember me. The need is to remember yourself!

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990)
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887)
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles R. Schwab (born July 29, 1937)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882)
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain.

Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915)
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564- April 23, 1616)
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Confucius traditionally 28 September 551 BC – 479 BC
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

George Herman Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Thomas Paine (1737- 1809)
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007)
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Thomas J. Watson (1874 – 1956)
Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad Ha'am (1856 - 1927)
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian (1601 – 1658)
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Austin Phelps (January 7, 1820 - 1890)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 – 1927)
Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns a professor
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

Hannah Green Joanne Greenberg
Law is order, and good law is good order.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian (1601 – 1658)
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman (1930 - ) American politician
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,nAnd he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD)
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.

Real Live Preacher January 4, 2003
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopen (1788 - 1860)
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - )
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov (April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004)
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900)
The wisest men follow their own direction.

Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849),
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Cynthia Ozick O Magazine, September 2002
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter (September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990)
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961)
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Lois McMaster Bujold Ethan of Athos, 1986
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign, 1999
There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.

Kirby Larson Hattie Big Sky, 2006

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott (March 10, 1913 – December 21, 1989
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826)
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973)
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt in National Enquirer
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790)
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1990)
The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato (428/427 BC - 348/347 BC)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato (428/427 BC - 348/347 BC)
He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.

Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April,18 1955)
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie (November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955); Motivational Author
Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); Politician, Writer, Scientist
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

Horace Bushnell (1802-1876); Clergyman, Theologian
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Judy Garland (1922 – 1969) an American actress and singer
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Irvin S. Cobb (1876 – 1944) an American author, humorist, and columnist
You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.

Michael Levy (born 11 July 1944)
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
Life is an open sea, the truth is the wind in our sails.

Talib Kweli (born in 1975), an African-American MC from Brooklyn, New York
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) Real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch Biographer, essayist, priest, ambassador, magistrate
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

William Penn (1644 – 1718)
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault (1820 – 1890) an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Robert Orben (born in 1927), an American magician and professional comedy writer
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Business is a combination of war and sport.

André Maurois (1885 - 1967) a French author
Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Alberto Nikas Computer Scientist
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.

Charlie Brown Main protagonist in the comic strip, Peanuts
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill (1874 – 1955)
"What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

Frank Hall Crane (1873 – 1948), an American stage and film actor and director
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale (1921 – 1989) an American motivational speaker and author
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) the 16th President of the United States
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis, 1898 – 1963)
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945), U.S. professor of physics and scientist
To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915) an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher.
Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

Vipin Sharma an Indian actor born in New Delhi
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719),an English essayist, poet and politician.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Zig Ziglar (born in 1926), an American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997)

Fear less. Hope more; Eat less. Chew more; Whine less. Breathe more; Talk less. Say more; Love more. And all good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore M Hesburgh (born in 1917) a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968) an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), US humorist, novelist, short story author
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry van Dyke (1852 – 1933) American author, educator, and clergyman.
Friendship: a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears.

Marlene Dietrick (1901 – 1992) American actress and singer
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie (November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955)
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem (February 18, 1859 - May 13, 1916)
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius (551–479 BC)
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington (February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799)
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie (November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955)
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Czech Proverb
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong O Magazine, February 2004
One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren (July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013)