D-L Thoughts For Every Day Agk

Thoughts for every day: Menu 1: Select the date
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July to December
Thoughts for every day: Menu 2: Select the date

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January to June
PEACE OF MIND
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
HAPPINESS
There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
ACCEPTANCE
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
Aughey
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE Envy comes from peoples ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
FRIENDSHIP
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
10
OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
Anon
11
FAITH AND BELIEF

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
Guideposts
12
PRAYER
Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.
John Aikman Wallace
13
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you dont believe in yourself.
William J.H. Boetcker
14
SELF-CONTROL
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
George Bernard Shaw
15
SELF-CONFIDENCE
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith
16
SIMPLICITY
What I do, I do very well, and what I dont do well, I dont do at all.
Anon
17
ONE DAY
Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
John H. Patterson
18
YESTERDAY: THE PAST

Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days youre going to miss in the years ahead.
Anon
19
TODAY: THE PRESENT

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
20
THIS MOMENT
If it werent for the last minute, nothing would get done.
Anon
21
MORNINGS
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
Edgar Watson Howe
22
EVENINGS
Sum up at night what thou has done by day.
Lord Herbert
23
TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
24
AVERAGE, BORING DAYS

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
25
DIFFICULT DAYS
The secret of patience to do something else in the meantime.
Anon
26
POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
Madeline Bridges
27
ENTHUSIASM
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
28
HOPE
Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
Anon
29
VISUALIZATION
We all live under the same sky, but we dont all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
30
ROLE MODELS
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Burke
31
CHANGE
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
32
DECISIONS
Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
33
INSTINCTS
Systems die; instincts remain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
34
DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

Skills vary. We must strive by that which is born in us.
Pindar
35
MOTIVATION
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Baruch Spinoza
36
REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
37
GOALS
The one thing worth living for is to keep ones soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
38
FEAR
Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
Ron Meyer
39
WORRY
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so theres no room left for worry thoughts.
Howard Chandler Christy
40
DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

Any coward can fight a battle when hes sure of winning.
George Eliot
41
SECURITY
There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur
42
RISKS
No one reaches a high position without daring.
Publilius Syrus
43
COURAGE
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius
44
WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US
The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
Anon
45
COMMITMENT
If you dont stand for something, youll fall for anything.
Michael Evans
46
GETTING GOING
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis
47
SUCCESS
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osler
48
LUCK
The one who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B.C. Forbes
49
OPPORTUNITY
The successful person is one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson
50
COMMITMENT
Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
Isaac Barrow
51
CONCENTRATION
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
Colonel Michael Friedsman
52
WORK
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
53
PERFECTION
The person with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann von Goethe
54
JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO

God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.
Katheryn Hulme
55
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
56
PERSEVERANCE
They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
Samuel Smiles
57
PROBLEMS
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie ten Bloom
58
FAILURES AND MISTAKES

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
59
THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY

Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
60
REACTING TO EVENTS
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger
61
SELF-PITY
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
62
PEACE OF MIND
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
63
HAPPINESS
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
64
ACCEPTANCE
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
65
FORGIVENESS
The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
Dr. Robert Anthony
66

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
67
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE The only normal people are the ones you dont know very well.
Foe Ancis
68

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
Vauvenargues
69
FRIENDSHIP
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.
Bob Lemon
70
ACCEPTANCE
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
G.K. Chesterton
71

Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.
Anon
72
FAITH AND BELIEF

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm
73
PRAYER
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
74
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
Im not OK, youre not OK - and thats OK.
William Sloane Coffin
75
SELF-CONTROL
When the fight begins within himself, a mans worth something.
Robert Browning
76
SELF-RELIANCE
Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
Frank Tyger
77
SIMPLICITY
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius
78
ONE DAY
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann von Goethe
79
YESTERDAY: THE PAST

Some folks never exaggerate - they just remember big.
Audrey Snead
80
TODAY: THE PRESENT

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Jim Bishop
81
THIS MOMENT
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
82
MORNINGS
With each sunrise, we start anew.
Anon
83
EVENINGS
Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.
Scottish proverb
84

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Isak Dinesen
85
AVERAGE, BORING DAYS

Being bored is an insult to oneself.
Jules Renard
86
DIFFICULT DAYS
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila
87

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
Herbert Samuels
88
ENTHUSIASM
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette
89
HOPE
Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without.
LeRoy Douglas
90
VISUALIZATION
A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see - and hits it.
Anon
91
ROLE MODELS
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
Tyron Edwards
92
CHANGE
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
Arthur Christopher Benson
93
DECISIONS
Full maturity is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
Angela Barron McBride
94

You dont get to choose how youre going to die. Or when. You can only decide how youre going to live.
Joan Baez
95

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
96
MOTIVATION
Dont let other people tell you what you want.
Pat Riley
97
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
98
GOALS
If you dont know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?
Basil S. Walsh
99
FEAR
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
100
WORRY
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
Krishnamurti
101

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it.
Olin Miller
102
SECURITY
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
103
RISKS
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
Erica Jong
104
COURAGE
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
James A. Michener
105
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Sir Winston Churchill
106
IGNORANCE
Painting is easy when you dont know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
107
GETTING GOING
We will not know unless we begin.
Howard Zinn
108
SUCCESS
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
109
LUCK
You dont just luck into things You build step by step, whether its friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
110
OPPORTUNITY
Opportunity knocks but once.
Anon
111
COMMITMENT
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
George P. Schultz
112
CONCENTRATION
One arrow does not bring down two birds.
Turkish proverb
113
WORK
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham
114
PERFECTION
If the best mans faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
Gaelic proverb
115

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels
116

The distance doesnt matter; only the first step is difficult.
Madame Marquise du Deffand
117
PERSEVERANCE
It isnt hard to be good from time to time Whats tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays
118
PROBLEMS
Every path has its puddle.
English proverb
119

Our mistakes wont irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
James E. Sweaney
120

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.
Robert R. Updegraff
121
REACTING TO EVENTS
When things go wrong, dont go with them.
Anon
122

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington
123
SELF-PITY
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
Og Guinness
124
PEACE OF MIND
If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Paula A. Bendry
125
HAPPINESS
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Agnes Repplier
126
ACCEPTANCE
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
127
FORGIVENESS
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Ghandi
128

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker
129
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
R.H. Stoddard
130

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
131
FRIENDSHIP
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
132

Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.
D.M. Street
133
FAITH AND BELIEF

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
2 Tm. 4:7
134
CHANGE
A fanatic is one who cant change his mind and wont change the subject.
135
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live.
Norvin G. McGranahan
136
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
Saint Francis de Sales
137
SELF-CONFIDENCE
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann von Goethe
138
SELF-RELIANCE
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
Swedish proverb
139
SIMPLICITY
There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
140
ONE DAY
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
141
YESTERDAY: THE PAST

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
Anon
142
TODAY: THE PRESENT

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Horace
143
MORNINGS
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
144
EVENINGS
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Eph. 14:26
145

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
146
DIFFICULT DAYS
God grant us patience!
William Shakespeare
147

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
148
ENTHUSIASM
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
William McFee
149
CHANGE
Every new adjustment is a crisis in selfesteem.
Eric Hoffer
150
VISUALIZATION
We all live under the same sky, but we dont all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
151
ROLE MODELS
A good example is the best sermon.
Anon
152
CHANGE
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
153
FORGIVENESS
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
154
INSTINCTS
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
Soren Kierkegaard
155

He who walks in anothers tracks leaves no footprints.
Joan L. Brannon
156
MOTIVATION
We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
157
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
158
GOALS
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
159
FEAR
Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
Shih King
160
WORRY
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish proverb
161

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny, the Elder
162
SECURITY
No one can build her security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather
163
RISKS
Unless you enter the tigers den, you cannot take the cubs.
Japanese proverb
164
COURAGE
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
165
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo
166
IGNORANCE
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus
167
GETTING GOING
If we really want to live, wed better start at once to try.
W.H. Auden
168
SUCCESS
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford
169
OPPORTUNITY
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
170
COMMITMENT
If you dont stand for something, youll fall for anything.
Michael Evans
171
WORK
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you havent planted.
David Bly
172
PERFECTION
Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.
Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
173

God doesnt make orange juice, God makes oranges.
Jesse Jackson
174

The distance doesnt matter; only the first step is difficult.
Madame Marquise du Deffand
175
PERSEVERANCE
It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
Confucius
176
PERSEVERANCE
It isnt hard to be good from time to time Whats tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays
177

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt
178
REACTING TO EVENTS
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
Abraham Lincoln
179
SELF-PITY
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andr Gide
180
PEACE OF MIND
Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.
Anon
181
HAPPINESS
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
182
ACCEPTANCE
One cannot get through life without pain What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
183
FORGIVENESS
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mt. 7:1
184

The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
185

Charity begins at home, and usually stays there.
Elbert Hubbard
186
HAPPINESS
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
187
FRIENDSHIP
When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.
Anon
188
HAPPINESS
Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?
A Course In Miracles
189

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
190
PRAYER
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
Oswald Chambers
191
PERSEVERANCE
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
192
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
Saint Francis de Sales
193
HAPPINESS
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didnt know you left open.
John Barrymore
194

If you expect nothing, youre apt to be surprised. Youll get it.
Malcolm Forbes
195
HAPPINESS
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Anon
196
ONE DAY
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
197
ACCEPTANCE
Lifes under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell
198
FORGIVENESS
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
Harriet Uts Nelson
199

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.
Thomas Fuller
200

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
William Hazlitt
201

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
202
FRIENDSHIP
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
203

You can promote your healing by your thinking.
James E. Sweeney
204
PRAYER
When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
Anon
205
HOPE
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
206
ACCEPTANCE
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J.C.F. von Schiller
207
CHANGE
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
Rollo May
208
DECISIONS
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
Harry A. Hopf
209
FORGIVENESS
They may not deserve forgiveness, but I do.
Anon
210

Id rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
George Burns
211

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
212
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
213
GOALS
Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
Chinese proverb
214
FEAR
Fear is the absence of faith.
Paul Tillich
215
WORRY
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish proverb
216
ACCEPTANCE
If you have a job without aggravations, you dont have a job.
Malcolm Forbes
217
FORGIVENESS
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Madame Dorothee Deluzy
218
RISKS
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
General George S. Patton
219
COURAGE
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
John Dewey
220

To be upset over what you dont have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
221

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
Dante Alighieri
222
ACCEPTANCE
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Anon
223
SUCCESS
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
224
OPPORTUNITY
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
225
FORGIVENESS
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
226

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
English proverb
227

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
Luther Burbank
228

With us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.
2 Chr.
229

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb
230
FRIENDSHIP
It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
Chinese proverb
231
PEACE OF MIND
There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.
L. Thomas Holdcroft
232
HAPPINESS
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
233
ACCEPTANCE
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
George Bernard Shaw
234
FORGIVENESS
Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
Arthur J. Rehrat
235

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you dont make.
Bill Veeck
236
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money cant cure.
Ogden Nash
237

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
238
FRIENDSHIP
One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.
William E. Holler
239

Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.
Phillip Hewett
240
PRAYER
When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.
Edward M. Goulburn
241
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
242
SELF-CONFIDENCE
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Thomas Merton
243
SELF-RELIANCE
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles
244
SIMPLICITY
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
245
ONE DAY
The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.
Anon
246
YESTERDAY: THE PAST

Never let yesterday use up today.
Richard H. Nelson
247
PRAYER
Dont pray when it rains if you dont pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
248
MORNINGS
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith
249

Most of the time we think were sick its all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe
250
ENTHUSIASM
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
251

Id rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.
William A. Hulbert
252
VISUALIZATION
Who is the wise man? He who sees whats going to be born.
Solomon
253
ACCEPTANCE
If you want a place in the sun, youve got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren
254
CHANGE
Nothing in this world is permanent.
German proverb
255
INSTINCTS
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
256

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
257
MOTIVATION
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
258
We cannot all be masters.
William Shakespeare
259
GOALS
Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you havent even begun to live.
William P. Merrill
260
FEAR
If you are afraid for your future, you dont have a present.
James Petersen
261
WORRY
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin
262

If we wait until weve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
263
RISKS
In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.
Dennis Dugan
264
COURAGE
Knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
265
GETTING GOING
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
Janet Erskine Stuart
266

Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
Susan L. Lenzkes
267
GOALS
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann von Goethe
268
RISKS
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain
269

He has enough who is contented with little.
Anon
270
ACCEPTANCE
There are things I cant force. I must adjust.
C.M. Ward
271
PERSEVERANCE
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
272

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Eleanor Roosevelt
273

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian proverb
274
FRIENDSHIP
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
Turkish proverb
275
HAPPINESS
No one gives joy or sorrow We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana
276
ACCEPTANCE
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.
Charles Dudley Warner
277
FORGIVENESS
Revenge could steal a mans life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis LAmour
278

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
279

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.
Frank A. Clark
280
ONE DAY
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
281
FRIENDSHIP
Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
Anon
282
MORNINGS
Days sweetest moments are at dawn.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
283
PRAYER
Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
The Desert Fathers
284
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Anon
285
SELF-RELIANCE
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
286
SIMPLICITY
If you arent going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath
287

More than enough is too much.
Anon
288
YESTERDAY: THE PAST

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Max Beerbohm
289
TODAY: THE PRESENT

So often we rob tomorrows memories by todays economies.
John Mason Brown
290
MORNINGS
With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
Anon
291

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
292
ENTHUSIASM
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
293
HOPE
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.
Anon
294
CHANGE
When youre through changing, youre through.
Bruce Barton
295
INSTINCTS
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
296
FRIENDSHIP
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
297

Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor.
298
PRAYER
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
299
FEAR
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
300

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
301
ENTHUSIASM
The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.
Thomas Arnold
302
RISKS
And the trouble is, if you dont risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
303
COURAGE
Youre only as sick as your secrets.
Anon
304
GETTING GOING
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
Alonzo Newton Benn
305
SUCCESS
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
306
COMMITMENT
Whether you are really right or not doesnt matter, its the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies
307
FEAR
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Anon
308
RISKS
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
309
PRAYER
Amazing things start happening when we start praying!
Anon
310
SUCCESS
Success comes before work only in the dictionary.
Anon
311
FEAR
Humor acts to relieve fear.
Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
312
HAPPINESS
Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.
313
ACCEPTANCE
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume
314
FORGIVENESS
Revenge could steal a mans life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Louis LAmour
315

Too many people miss the silver lining because theyre expecting gold.
Maurice Setter
316

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
317
FRIENDSHIP
They are rich who have true friends.
Thomas Fuller
318

I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
Ancient Persian saying
319
PRAYER
Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.
The Desert Fathers
320
SELF-ACCEPTANCE
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
321
SELF-RELIANCE
God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah Holland
322
COURAGE
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh
323
RISKS
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
324
FRIENDSHIP
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
325
TODAY: THE PRESENT

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, youll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West
326
PRAYER
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
Thomas B. Brooks
327
ONE DAY
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
328

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.
Andr Godin
329
GOALS
He who begins many things finishes but few.
Italian proverb
330
COURAGE
No great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.
German proverb
331

We are betrayed by what is false within.
George Meredith
332
Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get.
Anon
333
GOALS
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
Michel de Montaigne
334
FEAR
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
335
FRIENDSHIP
The best mirror is an old friend.
Anon
336
PRAYER
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
Dwight L. Moody
337
ONE DAY
Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions to actual deeds.
Grenville Kleiser
338
COURAGE
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
339
FRIENDSHIP
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian proverb
340
ONE DAY
Every day is a messenger of God.
Russian proverb
341
COURAGE
To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
John Cage
342
GOALS
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Locke
343
CHANGE
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
344
FRIENDSHIP
One whos our friend is fond of us; one whos fond of us isnt necessarily our friend.
345
HAPPINESS
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
346
CHANGE
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Arthur Christopher Benson
347
FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
Isaac Friedmann
348

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.
Robert Quillen
349

It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts 20:35
350
FRIENDSHIP
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyre not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when theyre not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasow
351
PRAYER
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
352
GOALS
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?
J.C.F. von Schiller
353
FRIENDSHIP
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
Anon
354
GOALS
Once you say youre going to settle for second, thats what happens to you.
John F. Kennedy
355
FRIENDSHIP
A man is known by the company he keeps.
Anon
356
GOALS
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell
357
MORNINGS
With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.
Anon
358
ACCEPTANCE
There are things I cant force. I must adjust.
C.M. Ward
359
ENTHUSIASM
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
General Douglas MacArthur
360
CHANGE
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
361

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
362
GOALS
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
Colonel Michael Friedman
363
FEAR
The habit of doing ones duty drives away fear.
Charles Baudelaire
364
WORRY
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
365

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh
366
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money cant cure.
Ogden Nash
367

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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD

FAITH AND BELIEF

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

TODAY: THE PRESENT

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

AVERAGE, BORING DAYS

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

FAILURES AND MISTAKES

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD

FAITH AND BELIEF

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

TODAY: THE PRESENT

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

AVERAGE, BORING DAYS

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

FAILURES AND MISTAKES

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY

THE ADVANTAGES OF ADVERSITY

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

OUR HIGHER POWER, OR GOD

FAITH AND BELIEF

YESTERDAY: THE PAST

TODAY: THE PRESENT

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES

WELL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF US

JUST DO THE FOOTWORK, THEN LET IT GO

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

FAILURES AND MISTAKES

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE

TOMORROW: THE FUTURE

POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELFFULFILLING PROPHESIES AND ACTIONS

DOING WHATS RIGHT FOR US

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME

COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS