Life Is Daring Adventure

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

-- Helen Keller


"The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it."

-- Bill Nye


"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. "

-- Washington Irving


"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud."

-- Carl Sandburg

Seize Every Single Seconds

"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

-- Wayne Dyer


"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.


"The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself. "

-- Eckhart Tolle

Winners are Losers

"Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try. "

-- Dennis DeYoung


"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind."

-- Leonardo Da Vinci


"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything."

-- Win Borden


"Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be. "

-- Emmanuel

The Thing is to Move

"There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward!
The thing is to move!"

-- Edgar Cayce


"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness,
not because they never found it,
but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

-- William Feather


"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. "

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"Most misfortunes are the results of misused time. "

-- Napoleon Hill

Quality Questions Quality Life

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

-- Anthony Robbins


"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. "

-- Albert Einstein


"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires."

-- J. Paul Getty


"The highways of life are full of flat squirrels who couldn't make up their minds."

-- Arthur Wang

Brain Like Muscle

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."

-- Carl Sagan


"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

-- Richard Bach


"Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones."

-- Tim McCarver


"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."

-- William Allen White

A Great Life Is Born

"A great life is born in the soul, grown in the mind, and lived from the heart."

-- Suzanne Zoglio


"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."

-- Arther Wang


"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

-- Thomas Jefferson


"Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Anything Worth Achieving

"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish."

-- Chuck Norris

Lack of Commitment

"Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment."

-- Zig Ziglar


"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."

-- Sir Isaac Newton


"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

-- Martha Washington


"If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens."

-- Ashleigh Brilliant

Discipline and Luck

"One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck."

-- Carl Zuckmeyer


"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."

-- Wayne Dyer


"What are you doing today to become a champion?"

-- Drayton McLane Jr.