Quotations: Pick-Me-Up
Patience is the companion of wisdom.- St. Augustine
If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.- Erma Bombeck
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.- Will Rogers
Mistakes are doorways to discovery.- Unknown
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.- Japanese proverb
When you're sad, learn something.- Merton
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.- Anonymous
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.- Duke Snider
Faith is boundless and that which is truly holy is bound by faith...- Christopher Rowe, "Masters Tie"
He who throws mud loses ground.- FTD customer
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his brother.- Kahlil Gibran
Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.- Ashleigh Brilliant
When the world says, "Give up",- FTD customer
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.- Will Rogers
Keep your face to the sunshine,- Helen Keller
and you cannot see the shadows.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.- Charles Schultz, American cartoonist/humorist
It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The person who really wants to do something finds a way;- FTD customer
the others find an excuse.
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist
The place of the wound is the place of the healing.- Richard Bohr
Not everything that is faced can be changed,- James Baldwin, American novelist/writer
But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.- FTD customer
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.- FTD customer
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.- Epicurus
Dreams come true; without that possibility,- John Updike, U.S. novelist
nature would not incite us to have them.
Hold fast to dreams,- Langston Hughes, American poet
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.- Jiminy Crickett, Pinocchio
When all men think alike no one thinks very much.- Walter Lippmann
This above all: to thine own self be true.- William Shakespeare
Tomorrow is another day.- Scarlett O'Hara, in Gone With the Wind
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.- Robert F. Kennedy
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!- Emiliano Zapata, Revolutionary
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.- Lao Tsu
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.- William Blake, English poet
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.- Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.- Heinrich Heine
I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.- Ashleigh Brilliant
If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.- Leo Rosten
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.- Bugs Bunny
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.- Josh Billings
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.- Oscar Wilde
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.- Alan Saporta
Everything happens for a reason;- Chris Levi, Caribbean poet
If you can't find a reason for something,
there's a reason for that.
All beginnings are hard.- Chaim Potok, American novelist
Joy shared is twice the joy.- Unknown
Sorrow shared us half the sorrow.
There is less to this than meets the eye.-Tallulah Bankhead, American film actress
Remember that the mighty oak was once an acorn.- FTD Customer
The race is not always to the swift...- FTD Customer
but to those who keep on running.
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.- Wayne Gretzky
The race for quality has no finish line.- FTD Customer
A bend in the road is not the end of the world, unless you fail to make the turn.- FTD Customer
You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.- FTD Customer
No-one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.- FTD Customer
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.- FTD Customer
Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.- FTD Customer
No goal is too high if you climb with care and confidence.- Kristine Elises, 15
Dear Loved One: I'm working on all your problems. Please stay out of the way.- Your Friend, GOD
And will you succeed? You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)- Dr. Seuss
Don't wait for your ship to come in ... swim out to meet it.- FTD customer
It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes the game.- John Wooden
Cherish your yesterdays, dream your tomorrows, live your todays.- FTD customer
Impossible only defines the degree of difficulty.- FTD customer
You can't discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.- FTD customer
You are either part of the steamroller or part of the pavement.- FTD customer
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.- Luciano de Crescenzo
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.- FTD Customer
Weeping may endure for a night,- Psalms 30:5
but joy cometh in the morning.
You can't have more bedbugs than a blanket-full.- Spanish