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

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.
~sayings about attitude by Russell W. Davenport

There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything… He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
~inspirational sayings about Attitude quotes by George MacDonald

Don’t wait for people to be kind, show them how.
~attitude quotes by Unknown

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.
~famous quotes about Attitude by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

Quotations about Smiles

January 12, 2009


The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.  ~William Shakespeare, Othello


A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.  ~Author Unknown

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.  ~Andy Rooney

If you smile at someone, they might smile back.  ~Author Unknown

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.  ~Author Unknown

Quotations about Self-Respect

December 12, 2008

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.  ~Max Nordau

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.  ~Theodore Parker

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.  ~John Herschel

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.  ~William J.H. Boetcker

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.  I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.  ~Michel de Montaigne

Nice Success Quotes

November 29, 2008

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.  ~Irving Berlin


Success is simply a matter of luck.  Ask any failure.  ~Earl Wilson

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.  ~Jonatan Mårtensson

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.  ~Dale Carnegie

There is no success but your own success.  ~Leslie Grimutter

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about Life

November 18, 2008

Life is like a coin.  You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.  ~Lillian Dickson


We are born wet, naked, and hungry.  Then things get worse.  ~Author Unknown

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.  ~Author Unknown

Life is a cement trampoline.  ~Howard Nordberg

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.  ~Jeremy Taylor

Life… is like a box of chocolates – a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates.  So, you’re stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there’s nothing else to eat while you’re watching the game.  Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it’s gone too fast and the taste is fleeting.  In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper.  ~The X-Files

Life Quotes

November 11, 2008

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.  ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969


Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.  ~Richard Bach, Illusions

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  ~Michael Jordan

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.  ~Edmund Hillary

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.  ~Mark Twain

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.  ~Bruce Barton

William James Famous Quotes

November 2, 2008

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
~Author : William James Famous Quotes

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~Author : Mark Twain Inspirational Sayings

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
~Author : Anne Frank Nice Quotes

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
~Author : Minor White Photographer Great Sayings

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~Author : Albert Einstein Meaningful Sayings

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
~Author : Sydney Smith Wise Quotes

Quotations about Attitude

October 21, 2008

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”

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

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

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
~Author : BF Skinner Meaningful Sayings

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
~Author : Karl Marx Wise Quotes

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
~Author : Jonathan Swift Motivational Sayings

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
~Author : Pythagorus Famous Quotes

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
~Author : W B Yeats Inspirational Sayings

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
~Author : Kahlil Gibran Nice Quotes

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Great Sayings

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
~Author : Robert Frost Famous Quotes

You may not be in a class by yourself, but it sure doesn’t take long to call the roll.
~Author : Bum Philips Inspirational Sayings

Information is the currency of democracy.
~Author : Thomas Jefferson Nice Quotes

An idea is a feat of association.
~Author : Robert Frost Great Sayings

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
~Author : Freya Madeline Stark Meaningful Sayings

He hasn’t an enemy in the world – but all his friends hate him.
~Author : Eddie Cantor Wise Quotes

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic 1947 Motivational Sayings

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
~Author : William Henry Hudson Famous Quotes