"Personal Success Quotes"
"Stop worrying about what others think of you. They probably spend more time thinking of what youthink of them and if they don't, then they are probably not worth thinking about."
Written in 2004 by Hilit H., Age 18 --- Israel
I wrote this because I find people spend too much time thinking of what others think of them and because ofthis, they miss up on the important things in life.
"Never confuse motion with action."
Benjamin Franklin
"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
St. Augustine
"Give it your all or expect nothing at all back!"
Written in 2004 by B. Lewtas --- United Kingdom
"Sometimes it is the act of taking care of yourself that teaches others how to take care of you."
Barbarella --- Submitted by G.J. --- California
It's just true.
"To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes."
Fritz Kunkel
"Good friends are hard to find. So when we do find them, we need to appreciate them.
Thanks for your many years of friendship."
Copyright © 2004 Latoya T. Robinson
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he or she gets to know something."
Wilson Mizner
"Patience will achieve more than force."
Edmund Burke
"Every interaction with someone is a relationship in the making, or a relationship in the breaking."
W. Leitzen --- Submitted by E. Mullen --- Rhode Island
"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
Carl Rogers
"You will never be greater than the vision that guides you!"
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Dina Guzzardo --- New Jersey
"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
Benjamin Disraeli
"The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical."
Alvin Toeffler
"There is more to life then having a boyfriend, playing handball, going to school, socializing, family and friends. It's the experiences and the lessons behind them that make life what it is, or what it could be."
Copyright © 2004 Kristen Penner
"If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all."
John F. Kennedy
"You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge."
Kahlil Gibran
"Yes, you could do the bare minimum to get by, but your maximum best would get you even further."
Copyright © 2004 Vanese Henley
"The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come."
W. Clement Stone
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
John Updike
"Love is not enough. But love and what love can do is more than just enough."
Copyright © 2003 Aminath Sharahath
"Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so."
Thomas Carlyle
"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments, I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."
Alexander Graham Bell