"Chicken Little only has to be right once."
"You've got to dance like no one's watching and love like it's never going to hurt."
"Wherever you go, whatever you do,
Don't ever forget there's someone who believes in you.
When you're lost and weary, follow your heart
'Cause you have a gift, you're one-of-a-kind,
God put you on this earth so you could shine,
You don't have to be afraid of the dark
Shine on, light up the world with your love.
With faith and desire, you can build a fire, shine on.
And let your dreams keep burnin' strong, oh, shine on." -Jeff Carson, Shine On
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." -Les Brown
"TODAY." -word carved on a stone on John Ruskin's desk
"Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible." -Escher
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."
"If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished."
"All things being equal, you loose!"
"One leaf is for Hope... The second is for Faith... The third is for Love... And the fourth is for L-U-C-K!"
"If you plan for the worst, all surprises are pleasant."
"If you do not look for snakes you cannot complain when one bites you."
"Half of everything is luck ... the other half, fate."
"Hold hands and knock down buildings." -Edward Gobble, DHS MB M&M Instructor
"Keep your face toward the sun and you cannot see the shadows."
"When you come to the point in your life when it's either over or under, take the fun way ... go around."
"Every problem has a limited life span."
"There are none as blind as those who will not see."
"Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect." -Told to the DHS IMD by Ray D. MacLean
"If you want a rainbow, be prepared to put up with the rain."
"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." -Joel Hawes
"Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into the jet engine" -Jason Hutchison
"The grass was greener before we painted it."
"Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow."
"It is really as bad as you think, and they are out to get you."
"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train."
"Behind every great man is a very surprised woman."
"Eat a live frog, every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you all day."
"A stick and honey always work better then a stick alone."
"Not thinking about the thorn doesn't make it hurt any less."
"Your on the road to success when you realize that failure is mearly a detail."
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor, is the minds of the oppressed."
"When there are shadows must there not also be light?"
"The person caught in the web of intrigue soon finds himself feed to the spider."
"Those who live in fear fall prey to their own disquiet."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"It is the nature of evil to turn you against yourself."
"The greatest harm can come from the best intentions."
"And that is what evil does: forces us all down dark pathways we otherwise would not have trod." -Rael of Arden
"If people lead then the leaders will follow."
"It's better to be hated for who you are, then to be loved for who you aren't."
"Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere won't hate it."
"Your only as good as your last performance."
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all." -Jean de La Bruyere
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -Walter Bagehot
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde
"Every problem contains it's own solution."
"Fate does not seek our consent."
"The bitterest tears are shed over graves for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." -H.B. Stowe
"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."
"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."-- Lou Holtz
"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone."-- Javan
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."-- A. A. Milne
"Don't dream it. Be it."--The Rocky Horror Picture Show
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."-- Jacob Riis
"So little of what might happen does happen."-- Salvador Dali
"I can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or rejoice because thornbushes have roses; it's all how you look at it."-- J. Kenfield Morley
"You make your own breaks."
"A woman doesn't need a penis to succeed in business. Though she does need balls. Also a good set of boobs doesn't hurt either... Basically, every businesswoman needs to learn how to juggle all four entities: balls and boobs." -Karen Salmansohn, How to Succeed in the Business World Without a Penis
"You are the master of your own destiny."
"It takes courage to push yourself to places that your have never been before... To test your limits... To break through barriers."
"Even if your on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there."
"I was full of anger and I had a simple choice: I could turn that anger against myself with disastrous results or I could take some of that energy and be productive."
"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement." -Snoopy
"You are worth every bit of validation you could possibly give yourself- but you have to give it to yourself. Don't expect it from other people."
"People who sing there own praises seldom get an encore."
"Before success comes in a person's life, they are sure to meet temporary defeat."
"Every problem has a limited life span."
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
"When no one else believe in you, believe in yourself."
"The winner is the one who can work harder for longer periods of time without quitting."
"The harder you work for something the more it hurts to fail."
"It's not whether you fail, it's whether your content with your failure." -A. Lincon
"To be good is not enough when you dream of being great."
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
"Avoid popularity, it has many snares, and no real benefit" -William Penn
"If you have a passion, you do what you want to do." - Mr. Holland's Opus
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
"Put all the nervous energy into the task at hand."
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it. " - Alan Kay
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."
"Fear less, hope more;
Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more;
and all good things will be yours." -Swedish Proverb
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T. S. Eliot
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -Walt Disney
"Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed."
"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." -Charles W. Chesnutt
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -John F. Kennedy, Jr.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
-Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." -Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done!"
"All serious daring comes from within." -Eudora Welty
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." -Albert Einstein
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -Albert Einstein
"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain."
"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought." -Albert Szent-Goyorgi
"Hitch your wagon to a star." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Kites rise highest against the wind--not with it." -Winston Churchill
"A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." -Oscar Wilde
"Bear in mind that:
The tradgedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal,
The tradgedy lies in having no goal to reach.
It is not a calamity to die with dreams,
But it is a calamity not to dream.
It is not a disgrace to not reach the stars,
But it is a disgrace to have to stars to reach for.
Not failure, but low aim is a sin."
Courage is grace under pressure." -Ernst Hemingway, Author
"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -David Lloyd George, British Politician
"Mastery is not about perfection:
it's about a process, a journey." -Leonard, Author
"This world belongs to the energetic." -Emerson
"The man who believes he can do it is probibly right." -Helve'Tius, French Philosopher
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." -Nixion, Former US President
"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration." -Allen, Teacher/Author
"A satisfie flower is one whose petals are about to fall. The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstasies of desire are working for larger and finer growth." -Sandburg, Poet
"If winter comes can spring be far behind?" -Shelley, Poet
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; after that, to enjoy it. Only the wiswst of mankind achieve the second." -Logan Pearsall Smith, from "Afterthoughts"
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it." -Winters, Actor
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." -Paige, Star Pitcher
"May your be blessed with the courage to accomplish all you can. To set no limitations and pursue your every plan. May you learn to appreciate each trait that you possess. To know that your potential will lead yout to success. May you be filled with confidence and given self-esteem. And be blessed with a future that fufills your every dream."
"God gives every bird it's food,
But he does not throw it into it's nest."
"Dare to dream- dare to try- dare to fail- dare to succeed." -Ward
"Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them." -L.M. Montgomery
"We may not have it all together, but together we have it all."
"Don't think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm."- Malayan Proverb
