DARE TO BE GREAT!#

Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.  ~Les Brown


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~Henry Ford


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion.  You must set yourself on fire.  ~Arnold H. Glasow


The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley


If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.  ~J.M. Power


Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.  ~C.D. Jackson


Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.  ~Author Unknown


Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.  ~Author Unknown


God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.  ~Author Unknown


Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.  ~Woody Allen


Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.  ~Author Unknown


The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.  But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.  ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996


When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.  ~Charles C. Noble


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  ~Wendy Wasserstein


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.  ~Art Linkletter


Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.  ~Ralph Marston


To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  ~e.e. cummings, 1955


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland


Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  ~Confucius


You've got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  ~Dr. Seuss


Put your future in good hands - your own.  ~Author Unknown


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  ~Edmund Hillary


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.  ~Michelangelo



The man who has done his best has done everything.  ~Charles M. Schwab


There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.  ~Charles D. Gill


What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!  I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.  ~John Bunyan


The important thing is not to stop questioning.  ~Albert Einstein


The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.  ~Fred Dehner


Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light.  All other impossibilities are optional.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss


Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo


Dreams are free, so free your dreams.  ~Astrid Alauda


I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.  ~Pablo Picasso


What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.  ~Eleanor Powell


The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  ~Nelson Henderson


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.  ~David Brinkley


It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.  ~Author Unknown


Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.  ~Henry Ford


I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.  ~Allen H. Neuharth


In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.  ~Kristian Kan, Rich By 25


People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


Success comes in cans, not cant's.  ~Author Unknown


You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  ~Michael Jordan


If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.  ~Thomas Alva Edison


Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.  ~Max L. Forman


Don't let anyone steal your dream.  It's your dream, not theirs.  ~Dan Zadra


Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.  ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971


The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.  ~Author Unknown


I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.  ~Larry Bird


The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.  ~Author Unknown


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.  ~Thomas Edison


The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.  ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall


Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.  ~Ann Landers


When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown


If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.  ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com


There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.  ~Author Unknown


Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Don't find fault.  Find a remedy.  ~Henry Ford


To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution.  ~Joe Cordare


Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.  ~Buddha

BEST FRIEND FOREVER!#

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.  ~Arnold H. Glasgow


Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.  ~Author Unknown


A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.  ~Donna Roberts


Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.  ~Author Unknown


Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you.  They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.  ~Author Unknown


If you're alone, I'll be your shadow.  If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder.  If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow.  If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile.  But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.  ~Author Unknown


A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  ~Grace Pulpit


There are big ships and small ships.  But the best ship of all is friendship.  ~Author Unknown


The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.  ~Author Unknown


A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.  ~Author Unknown


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.  ~Author Unknown


It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.  ~Marlene Dietrich


A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.  ~Attributed to Heather Pryor


What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  ~Aristotle


I like her because she smiles at me and means it.  ~Anonymous


Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough


Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.  "Pooh!" he whispered.  "Yes, Piglet?"  "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw.  "I just wanted to be sure of you."  ~A.A. Milne


Hold a true friend with both your hands.  ~Nigerian Proverb


Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.  ~Flavia Weedn,Forever, © Flavia.com


Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.  ~Oprah Winfrey


A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.  ~Lois Wyse


A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.  ~Frances Ward Weller


A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.  ~Author Unknown


Friends are relatives you make for yourself.  ~Eustache Deschamps


You can always tell a real friend:  when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.  ~Laurence J. Peter


A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.  ~Leo Buscaglia

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.  ~Sicilian Proverb


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.  ~Elisabeth Foley


When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.  The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.  ~Henri Nouwen


In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.  ~Albert Schweitzer


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.  ~Dave Tyson Gentry


Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.  ~Virginia Woolf


The language of friendship is not words but meanings.  ~Henry David Thoreau


She is a friend of mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.  ~Toni Morrison, Beloved


Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.  ~Plautus


If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.  ~George MacDonald


Silences make the real conversations between friends.  Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.  ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing


Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter.  I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front.  We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.  I don't want to lose this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet.  ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992


It takes a long time to grow an old friend.  ~John Leonard


The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.  ~William Blake


A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.  ~William Penn


I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.  ~Katherine Mansfield


We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade.
~Caroline Sheridan Norton


Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life.  ~Sare and Cate


The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.  ~Barbara Kingsolver


There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.  ~Edith Wharton


I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.  ~Robert Brault,www.robertbrault.com


Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.  ~Anäis Nin


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Ah, how good it feels!  The hand of an old friend.  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Friendship is one mind in two bodies.  ~Menclus


In my friend, I find a second self.  ~Isabel Norton


A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.  Before him I may think aloud.  I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.  ~Swedish Proverb


Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.  ~Dinah Craik


I felt it shelter to speak to you.  ~Emily Dickinson


No road is long with good company.  ~Turkish Proverb


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.  ~Marcel Proust