GREAT QUOTES

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995


Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering


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


If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. ~Oscar Wilde


Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire


I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying


If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert


It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier


Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey


Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill


Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Author Unknown


There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. ~Roald Dahl


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana


Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler


If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit


So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key. ~The Eagles, "Already Gone"


He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson


I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party! ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com


The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. ~Foster's Law


Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book


Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. ~Bill Meyer


We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893


Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~Attributed to both Jonathan Swift and Benjamin Franklin


To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness


Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark


The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton


If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. ~Vince Lombardi


My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ~J. Brotherton


There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~Publius Terentius Afer


I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln


Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart


In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays


Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. ~Buddha


There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. ~William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues


I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ~Abraham Lincoln


Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health. ~Author Unknown


Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.
~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946



To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. ~Ancient Proverb


Make your optimism come true. ~Author Unknown


True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ~Charles Caleb Colton


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius


I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl


The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. ~Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok


Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
~William Shakespeare


Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb


Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox


A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~Robert Frost


If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James


Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818


When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long. ~Author Unknown


A friend will remind you that assumptions born of malice are better dealt with by gleefully sticking your tongue out. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com


What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things. ~Glorie Abelhas


Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield


Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
Which fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight.
~Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, 1909


Whenever you fall, pick something up. ~Oswald Avery


Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton


My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him. ~Margot Asquith


Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown


We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard


If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one... ~William Cowper


I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it? ~Henry Moore


I wish I was a glow worm,
A glow worm's never glum.
'Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!
~Author Unknown


We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the