I’ve always been fascinated with quotes because in one or two sentences you can be motivated and inspired to change the way you think, feel, and behave. In fact, a good quote heard or read at the right time, can change your life forever.

The following quotes are some of my favorites. If you have a favorite, by all means send it on, and I’ll post it on this page or on the blog.  Enjoy!





"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that he didn't trust me so much."
---Mother Teresa

"I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get."
---Fran Tarkenton

"If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'"
---Robert Townsend, former CEO of Avis

"I have observed that folks are generally as happy as they made up their minds to be."
---Anonymous

"Plant trees where you will never sit."
---Anonymous

"One reason why a dog is such a lovable creature is that his tail wags instead of his tongue."
---Anonymous

"You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less."
---Mike Murdock

"Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge the other guy's out dancing."
---Buddy Hackett

"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
---Robert Half

"Character is what you have when nobody is looking."
---Marie Dressler

"Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you."
---Mike Murdock

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn from him."
---Anonymous

"Nothing is all wrong. Even a clock that has stopped running is right twice a day."
---Anonymous

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

"To change our perspective in a conflict is to move from a point of view to a viewing point."
---Aiki Approach

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
---Elbert Hubbard

"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing."
---Anonymous

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continually remember it."
---Anonymous

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."
---Anonymous

"Do not wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day."
---Bruce Barton

"God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter."
---Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais

"Most of us are worrying about the future so much that we can't enjoy the present."
---Harold Sherman

"If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average."
---M. K. Alderson

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants."
---Epicurus

"God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest."
---J. G. Holland

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
---Charles Lamb

"Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now - and then got it back again."
---Anonymous

Maybe you've become overweight so you'll have the pleasure of becoming thin.
---Doris Wild Helmering