Welcome To Today’s Thought
Thoughts & Quotes To Carry You
Through Your Day
Β “It’s never too late to be what you might have been”
– George Eliot π
“Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal”
-Don Shula π
Β “Most people fail in life because they major in minor things”
~ Anthony Robbins π
Β “When you know better you do better.β
~ Maya Angelou π
“Recover, Renew, Reflect, Regain, Regrow, Reconnect, Relax”
~ Jean Wethmar π
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear
and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain π
“Live out of your imagination, not your history”
-Stephen Covey π
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely”
-Auguste Rodin π
“Your life does not get better by Chance, it gets better by Change”
– Jim Roh π
βOur greatest glory is not in falling, but in rising every time we fall”
-Confucius ”Β π
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”
~Eleanor Roosevelt π
“Real living is living for others”
~Bruce LeeΒ π
“You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person”
– Scott Sorrell π
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often”
– Winston Churchill π
“Make a choice to take a positive path today”
~ Bryan Dodge π
“Attitudes are contagious.Β Are yours worth catching?”Β
~Dennis and Wendy Mannering π
“Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.”Β
~Author Unknown π
“Kind people are the best kind of people”
~Author Unknown π
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future”Β
~Paul Boese π
“Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy”Β
~Gretta Brooker Palmer π
“Happiness is an inside job”
~William Arthur Ward π
“Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and
expecting the other person to die”Β
~Author Unknown π
“Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how”Β
~Author Unknown π
“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway”Β
~Henry Boye π
“Every day you should reach out and touch someone.Β
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back”
~Maya Angelou π
“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health”
– Voltaire π
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions”
~Dalia Lama π
Β “It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to”Β
~Annie Gottlier π
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”Β
~Winston Churchill π
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it,
change the way you think about it”Β
~Mary Engelbreit π
“Be curious always!Β For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it”Β
~Sudie Back π
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder”Β
~Ralph W. Sockman π
“When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves”
~Victor Frank π
“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations”
~Faith Baldwin π
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
and it is not possible to find it elsewhere”Β
~Agnes Repplier π
“You have the Answer.Β Just get quiet enough to hear it”Β
~Pat Obuchowski π
“My heart filled with love, flowing over with joy,
my own little drum that I like to march by”
~Gunda Fijnje-Nolan π
“You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you.”
~Astrid Alauda π
“Happiness is a direction, not a place”
~Sydney J. Harris π
“Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important”Β
~Janet Lane π
“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness”
~Lady Blessington π
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out
how far one can go.”
~T.S. Eliot π
“If you want to make your dreams come true,
the first thing you have to do is wake up”Β
~J.M. Power π
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending”Β
~Attributed to Carl Bard π
“It is never too late to be who you might have been”Β
~George Eliot π
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine”
~Anthony J. D’Angelo π
“Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts,Β
It’s what you do with what you have left”Β
~Hubert Humphrey π
“There are exactly as many special occasions in life
as we choose to celebrate”
~Robert Brault π
“Happiness is an attitude.Β We either make ourselves miserable or
happy and strong. The amount of work is the same”Β
~Francesca Reigler π
“So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains,
and we never even know we have the key”Β
~The Eagles, “Already Gone” π
“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures”Β
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. π
“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have”
~Ken S. Keyes, Jr. π
“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality”Β
~Alfred Painter π
“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.Β
Have you used one to say thank you?”
~William A. Ward π
“The only people with whom you should try to get even are
those who have helped you”
~John E. Southard π
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be”Β
~Abraham Lincoln π
“Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture”
Β ~Kak Sri π
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness.Β
It will change your life mightily’
~Gerald Good π
“A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap”Β
~Miriam Muhammad π
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy π
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude”Β
~Cynthia Ozick π
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.Β
If you want to be happy, practice compassion”Β
~Dalai Lama π
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has”
Β ~Henry Ward Beec π
“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions,
but in the fewness of my wants”Β
~J. Brothertonher π
“Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health”
~Author Unknown π
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it”Β
~Confucius π
“He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away”Β
~Raymond Hull π
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else”Β
~Judy Garland π
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others,
that in the end we become disguised to ourselves”
~FranΓ§ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld π
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are”
~E.E. Cummings π
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem”Β
~David Carradine π
“Never be bullied into silence.Β Never allow yourself to be made a victim.Β
Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself”Β
~Harvey Fierstein π
“Learn to be what you are,
and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not”
~Henri Frederic Amiel π
“There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament”
~Henry Van Dyke π
“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are”Β
~Roy Disney π
“You’ve got a lot of choices.Β If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore
and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice”
~Steven D. Woodhull π
“Life is the sum of all your choices”Β
~Albert Camus π
“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming
but we can choose which one to surf”Β
~Jonatan MΓ₯rtensson π
“Every survival kit should include a sense of humor”Β
~Author Unknown π
“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it”Β
~Frank A. Clark π
“Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume”
~Jean de Boufflers π
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste,
that they hurry past it”Β
~Soren Kierkegaard π
“The essence of pleasure is spontaneity”Β
~Germaine Greer π
“No one is perfect… that’s why pencils have erasers”Β
~Author Unknown π
“Sometimes when you hold out for everything,
you walk away with nothing”
~ Ally McBeal π
“When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target”
~George Fisher π
“Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect,
then you develop some confidence”Β
~Rosalynn Carter π
“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it”
~Mark Twain π
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you”Β
~Lewis B. Smedes π
Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β “Forgiveness is a funny thing.Β It warms the heart and cools the sting”Β
~William Arthur Ward π
“Forgiveness is a gift to yourself”
~ A Course In Miracles π
“Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things”Β
~Author Unknown π
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness”Β
~Norman Cousins π
“A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose”
~Tom Wilson π
“Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you.Β
They are not perfect but are always perfect for you”
~Author Unknown π
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goal”
~Henry Ford π
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down”Β
~Arnold Glasow π
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on”
Β ~Franklin D. Roosevelt π
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other,
but in looking together in the same direction”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery π
“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness”Β
~Author Unknown π
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention”Β
~Oscar Wilde π
“Learn to smile at every situation.Β
See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability”Β
~Joe Brown π
“The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude”
Β ~Dennis S. Brown π
“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger
than the brain cell it occupied”Β
~Arnold Glasow π
“Adversity is like a strong wind.Β It tears away from us all but the things that
cannot be torn,so that we see ourselves as we really are”Β
~Arthur Golden π
“A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don’t have to be
the one at fault to be the one who’s sorry”Β
~Robert Brault π
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart”
~Kongzi π
“In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren’t true than
the things that never came true because you didn’t believe”Β
~Robert Brault π
“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler”Β
~Denis Waitley π
“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks
that others throw at him or her”
~David Brinkley π
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up
something and finding something else on the way” Β
~Franklin P. Adams π
“When one bases his life on principle,
99 percent of his decisions are already made”
Β ~Author Unknown π
“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you”
~Marsha Norman π
“All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do”Β
~Author Unknown π
“If you don’t manage your emotions,
then your emotions will manage you”
~Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman π
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have,
and one of the best things you can be”
~Douglas Pagels π
“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour”
~Author Unknown π
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow;
it empties today of its strength.”
– Corrie Ten Boom π
“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure”Β
~Don Wilder and Bill Rechin π
“Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop”Β
~Usman B. Asif π
“Forgive.Β It doesn’t erase their crime but why
should you do the time.Β Let go of resentment.”
Β ~Dodinsky π
“A friend knows the song in my heart and
sings it to me when my memory fails”
~Donna Roberts π
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them,
is the true measure of our Thanksgiving”Β
~W.T. Purkiser π
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up”Β
~Mark Twain π
“Act as if what you do makes a difference.Β It does.”Β
~William James π
“When you really want change, reinforcement will come from your heart.”Β
~Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman π
“Limits Begin Where Your Vision Ends, Visualize and Dream”
~ Author Unknown π
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom”
Β ~Thomas Jefferson π
“Swallow your pride occasionally, it’s non-fattening! ”
~Author Unknown π
“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles”
Β ~Mignon McLaughlin π
“Ideas can be life-changing.Β
Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.”Β
~Jim Rohn π
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
~William Shakespeare π
“If you haven’t any charity in your heart,
you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
Β ~Bob Hope π
“I am learning all the time.Β The tombstone will be my diploma.”Β
~Eartha Kitt π
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
~Ludwig Wittgenstein and Robert Byrne π
“The most important thing in communication is
to hear what isn’t being said.”
~Peter F. Drucker π
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that,
it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
~Jan Glidewell π
“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”
~Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati π
“Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.”
Β ~Iara Gassen π
“Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.”
Β ~Maltbie Babcock π
“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right,
but the optimist has a better time on the trip.”
Β ~Daniel L. Reardon π
“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”
Β ~Benjamin FranklinΒ π
“Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart.Β
They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present,
to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow.”
Β ~Dodinsky π
“Adopt the pace of nature:Β her secret is patience.”
Β ~Ralph Waldo Emerson π
“Striving for excellence motivates you;
striving for perfection is demoralizing”
Β ~Harriet Braiker π
“When the world says, Give up, Hope whispers, Try it one more time.”
~Author UnknownΒ π
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
Β ~Walter Elliott π
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end,
may also be only the beginning.”
Β ~Ivy Baker π
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
Β ~SΓΈren Kierkegaard π
“Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when
they lose direction and begin to bend.”
Β ~Walter Savage Landor π
“I must do something” always solves more problems than
“Something must be done.”
Β ~Author Unknown π
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
Β ~Agnes Repplier π
“The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.”
Β ~Author Unknown π
“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.Β
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”Β
~Hans Margolius π
“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”Β
~Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris π
“Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.”
~Albert Einstein π
“Time heals what reason cannot.”
~Seneca π
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him,
and to let him know that you trust him.”
~Booker T. Washington π
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are,
where else do you expect to find it?”
~DΕgen Zenji π
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
~Norman Cousins π
“Give thanks for what you are now,
and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.”
~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros π
“Worry is a misuse of imagination,
drag your thoughts away from your troubles.”
~Dan Zadra & Mark Twain π
“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”
Β ~Grace Pulpit π
“Life’s problems wouldn’t be called “hurdles” ,
if there wasn’t a way to get over them.”
Β ~Author Unknown π
“Friends are family you choose for yourself.”
Β ~Author Unknown π
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry,
show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.”
Β ~Author Unknown π
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.Β
That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”
Β ~Emily Kimbrough π
“Well done is better than well said.”
Β ~Benjamin Franklin π
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”Β
~Harry Golden π
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Β ~Winston Churchill π
“Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.”
Β Gabrielle Roth π
“When you are through changing, you are through.”
Β ~Bruce Barton π
“There is no personal charm so great
as the charm of a cheerful temperament.”
Β ~Henry Van Dyke π
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall
too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”
~Roderick Thorp π
“There are no foolish questions,
and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”
Β ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz π
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
Β ~Flora Whittemore π
“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.”
Β ~Edgar Cayce π
“Character is what emerges from all the little things you
were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”
Β ~Mignon McLaughlin π
“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.”
Β ~Roger Ebert π
“How strange to use “You only live once” as an excuse to throw it away.”
~Bill Copeland π
“Experience is not what happens to a man.Β
It is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Β ~Aldous Leonard Huxley π
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
Β ~Elbert Hubbard π
“You block your dream when you allow your fear
to grow bigger than your faith.”
Β ~Mary Manin Morrissey π
“Without forgiveness life is governed by…
an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
~Roberto Assagioli π
“There are big ships and small ships.Β But the best ship of all is friendship.”
Β ~Author Unknown π
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
Β ~Diana Scharf Hunt π
“Two kinds of gratitude:Β The sudden kind we feel for what we take;
the larger kind we feel for what we give.”
~Edwin Arlington Robinson π
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.”
Β ~James Openheim π
“Let the rays of your heart shine on all who pass by.”
~Terri Guillemets π
“What is the opposite of two?Β A lonely me, a lonely you.”
Β ~Richard Wilbur π
“Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.”
~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy π
“It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.”
Β ~Author Unknown π
“Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth,
wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.”
Β ~Robert Brault π
“Warning:Β Humor may be hazardous to your illness.”
Β ~Ellie Katz π
“Never tell people how to do things.Β
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
Β ~George Smith Patton π
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
Β ~David Star Jordan π
“We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow.”
Β ~Woodrow Wilson π
“Good instincts usually tell you what to do,
long before your head has figured it out. ”
~Michael Burke π
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”
Β ~Author Unknown π
“Always walk through life as if you have
something new to learn and you will.”
Β ~Vernon Howard π
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.
If you’re alive, it isn’t.”
~Richard Bach π
“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path
without brightening our own.”
Β ~Ben Sweetland π
“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.”
Β ~Thich Nhat Hanh π
“If you are still talking about what you did yesterday,
you haven’t done much today.”
Β ~Author Unknown π
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.”
Β ~Franklin D. Roosevelt π
“Never say, “oops.”Β Always say, “Ah, interesting.”Β
~Author Unknown π
“Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.”
Β ~Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach π
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Β ~Susan J. Bissonette π
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you;
worry that they are always watching you.”
~Robert Fulghum π
“Follow your passion, and success will follow you.”
~Terri Guillemets π
“The obstacles of your past can become the gateways
that lead to new beginnings.”
Β ~Ralph Blum π
“Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. “
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. π
“The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.”
Β ~Bob Hawke π
“Each moment is a place you’ve never been.”
Β ~Mark Strand π
“Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.”
Β ~Tom Stoppard π
“You Possess the power to change your thoughts.
It is the greatest Power, the Power to Choose”
~ Bob Proctor π
“It is better to step forward into growth
than to step backwards into safety”
~ Bob Proctor
“The first step in getting somewhere is to decide
that you are not going to stay where you are”
~ Bob Proctor π
“The more you take responsibility for your past and present,
the more you are able to create the future you seek.”
~ Celestine Chua π
“Life is what your thoughts make it. Alter your thoughts about
situations and alter your reality”
~ David Wilson π
“It doesn’t matter where you are, You are nowwhere
compared to where you can go”
~ Bob Proctor π
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny
matters compared to what lies within us”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson π
βPeople will forget what you said, people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feelβΒ
~ Maya Angelou π
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