Opportunites are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Never confuse your right to do something with the right thing to do.

Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.

You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.

A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.

Happiness is the peculiar feeling you get when you are too busy to be miserable.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

You cannot kindle a fire in others until you have one burning in yourself.

Keep your words soft and sweet, because you may have to eat them.

Some people reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall.

If you've made up your mind that you can't do something, then you're absolutely right.

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Friends should be like throw pillows; Comfortable to lean on, and unmindful of the weight.

Success comes not from the decisions of one person but from one persons influence on the decisions of many.

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.

The fall from our expectations and idealism is much harsher than the fall from reality.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim

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

Don't go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

I cannot control the wind, but I can adjust my sails.

Love, unlike baseball, is not called on account of rain.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart, or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Love is like quicksand. The deeper you fall in, the harder it is to get out.

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you aren't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

The essential saddness is to go through life without loving. But it would be almost equally sad to leave this world without ever telling those you loved that you love them.

If, out of time, I could pick one moment and keep it shining, always new, I'd pick the moment I met you.

If I gave you flowers as often as I thought of you, the world would be covered in roses.

Some people never say the words "I love you"... for like a child they are longing to be told.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

If I were to lose everything I had worked for in life all at once... As long as I still had you I would feel as if I were the richest man in the world.

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; And all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

Love is when thoughts of but one woman fill your heart, when she means more than life to you, when you know you would do anything for her and shall die if she is taken from you. Desire is when you ache to see her and touch her, when she causes your body to burn and tremble. Desire does not demand love before it can ensnare you, but desire with love creates a powerful bond.

Many people have caught my eye, but only you have caught my heart.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I'd walk in my garden forever.

There is only one reason why I'm always wearing my sweetest smile... it's because I'm always thinking of you.

If I could reach into the sky and grab a star every time I thought of you, I would have the entire midnight sky in the palm of my hand.

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Attitudes are contagious -- is yours worth catching?

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Have you ever noticed how little thought we give to things we couldn't live without before we got them?

Live so that tomorrow's happiness will not be marred by today's mistakes.

It is far better to be with the right few, than with the wrong many.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

If you think nobody cares, miss a couple of payments.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Nothing on earth, not even poets, can fathom how much the heart can hold.

An obstacle is somthing you see only when you take your eyes off the goal.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

At the end of your life you won't regret not scoring one more point or closing one more deal, you will regret time not spent with a wife, a husband, a child, or a friend.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

You may delay, but time will not.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

It's better to be silent and thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt.

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it's the only way to live life completely.

You can fall from a mountain. You can fall from above. But the best way to fall, is to fall in love.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

He who is inspired, makes better the life of one. He who inspires others, makes better the life of many.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

The first step to making a dream come true, is to wake up.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well--known toward what is arcane and concealed. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.