Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. …….American Proverb

Success is a journey not a destination. ………Arthur Robert Ashe

Success is only ten percent effort inspiration
and ninety per cent perspiration. …..Edward A. Moses

I have learned that Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. ….Booker T. Washington

The two most important requirements for major Success are:
first, being in the right place at the right time,
and second, doing something about it. …..Ray Kroc

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ……….Beverly Sills

The great secret of Success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
......Author Unknown

In order to Succeed, your desire for Success should be greater than your fear of failure.
……Bill Cosby

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.
This is the secret of Success. ……..Swami Sivananda

Success is dependent on effort. ………. Sophocles

A person is a Success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do. ……. Bob Dylan

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another,
with no loss of enthusiam. .......Sir Winston Churchill

PAIN

There are no gains without Pain. ……Benjamin Franklin

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. ……..George Eliot

Pain is life; the sharper, the more evidence of life. ……Charles Lamb

Without Pain, there is no coming to consciousness. …….Carl Jung

The greatest evil is physical Pain. ..…Saint Augustine

There is no Pain so great,
as the memory of joy in present grief. ……Aeschylus

Your Pain is the breaking of the shell
That encloses your understanding. …..Khalil Gibran

Pain nourishes courage. …..Mary Tyler Moore

Pain is short-lived, but Pride lasts a lifetime. ……. Elvis Stojko

ANTICIPATION

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. …….Lucius Seneca

There is no terror in a bang, only in the Anticipation of it. …… Alfred Hitchcock

Our thinking and our behavior are always in anticipation of a response.
It is therefore fear-based. ……Deepak Chopra

We anticipate what’s to come,
Then ignore what’s actually here. ……Stephen Rechtschaffen

Not to anticipate, is already to moan. ……Leonardo da Vinci

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight. ……Benjamin Franklin

The wise man avoids evil, by anticipating it. ……Publilius Syrus

What we anticipate seldom occurs;
What we least expected generally happens ……Benjamin Disraeli

REMEMBRANCE

Remembrance is the only paradise;
Out of which we cannot be driven away. ….. Johann Paul Richter

For love of country they accepted death. …….. James A. Garfield

The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem. …….. Rev. Aaron Kilbourn
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,

Love leaves a Memory no one can steal. …….From a headstone in Ireland

The legacy of heroes is the Memory of a great name;
- And the inheritance of a great example. …….Benjamin Disraeli

Who kept the faith and fought the fight;The glory theirs, the duty ours. …….Wallace Bruce

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. …….Thomas Campbell

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation! ……Thomas William Parsons

With the tears a Land hath shed,Their graves should ever be green. ……. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

LIFE

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the Lives of others. ……..Pericles

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ……Khalil Gibran

A man who dares to waste one hour of life,

Has not discovered the value of life. ........Charles Darwin

Life is like an onion;
You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you cry. .....Carl Sandburg

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. …….Albert Einstien

Life is not advancement, it is Growth.
It does not move upwards, but expands in all directions. ……..Russell G. Alexander

Life is a Challenge; -Meet it.
Life is a Song; - Sing it.
Life is a Dream; - Realize it.
Life is a Game; -Play it.
Life is love; -Enjoy it. …….. Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

A man’s Life consists not in the abundance of things he possesses. ……Luke 12:15

Live your life while you have it.
Life is a splendid gift, there is nothing small about it. …..Florence Nightingale

Life is a network of invisible threads. …..George Eliot

Life without the courage for death, is slavery. ……Seneca

Only a life lived for others, is a life worthwhile. ……Albert Einstein

The great use of life is to spend on something that will outlast it. …..James T. Adams

Life is not advancement; It is growth.
It does not move upward, but expands outward in all directions. ……Russell G. Alexander

He who fears corruption, fears Life. …….Saul David Alinsky

Life is wasted on the Living. …..Douglas Adams

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when.

You can only decide how you're going to live; -- Now. ……..Joan Baez

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. …. Okakura Kakuzo

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. …….. Jim Rohn

Only a life lived for others is worth living. ……..Albert Einstein

We make a living by what we get;
But we make a life by what we give. ……Winston Churchill

WE never live; We are always in the expectation of life. …….Voltaire

Learn as if you were to live forever;
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. …..Mohandas Gandhi

JOY

A thing of beauty, is a Joy forever. …….John Keats

The only Joy in the world is to begin. …….Cesare Pavese

Joy is prayer, Joy is strength, Joy is love. …….Mother Teresa

The Joy of a spirit is the measure of it’s power. ……Ninon de Lenclos

Joy is not in “things”; It is within Us! …..Sarah Ban Breathnack

To get the full value of Joy,
You must have somebody to share it with. …….Mark Twain.

One Joy scatters a hundred grieves. …….Chinese Proverb

Joy is too exquisite to last,
And yet, is more exquisite when past. .........James Montgomery.

PREJUDICE

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ………..William Hazlitt.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy,
as it is upon education. ……… David Ruggles.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
……Marguerite, Countess of Blessington.

Our Prejudices are like physical infirmities,
We cannot do what they prevent us from doing. ………John L. Spalding

When the judgement is weak, the Prejudice is strung. .......Kane O'Hara

Opinions founded on Prejudice are always sustained
with the greatest violence. ......,Francis Jeffrey

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid Prejudice.
….. Mark Twain

LONELINESS

All the Lonely People, where do they all come from? ……..John Lennon

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. …….Joseph F. Newton

Loneliness is not a fault, but a condition of existence. …….Ivan Albright

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. …….Mother Teresa

The surest cure for vanity is Loneliness. …….Thomas Wolfe

You cannot be alone,
if you like the person you are alone with. …….Wayne Dyer

Nothing is more lamentable and sterile than a man content to live alone. ….Harold Pinter

Loneliness shows us what should be;
Society shows us what we are. ……..Robert Cecil

What Loneliness is more lonely than Distrust? …….T. S. Eliot

MOTHER

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. …….W. R. Wallace

A man loves his Sweetheart the most, his Wife the best,
--but his Mother, the longest. ….Irish Proverb

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made Mothers. ……Rudyard Kipling

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my Angel Mother. ………Abraham Lincoln

The most important thing a father can do for his children,
is to love their Mother. …..Author Unknown

No gift to your Mother can ever equal her gift to you; - Life ……..Author Unknown

A Mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary. …….. Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all little children ……..William Makepeace Thakeray

If I had a single flower for every time I think about my Mother, I could walk forever in my garden .......Claudia Gandhi

TRUST

Love all, Trust a few, do wrong to none. …….William Shakespeare

Leap, and the net will appear. …..John Burroughs

A man who doesn’t Trust himself can never ever trust anyone else. …..Cardinal De Retz

To be Trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. …..George McDonald

It takes years to build up Trust, and only minutes to destroy it. …..Author Unknown.

Trust lies at the core of love; there can be no true love without trust. …..M.K.Soni

The only way to make a man Trustworthy, is to Trust him. ……Henry Stimson

The essence of Trust is not in it’s Bind, But in it’s Bond. …..Author Unknown.

Trust only one who has gone through it. ……Virgil

Trust men and they will be true to you. …….Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never Trust the teller; Trust the tale. ……. D. H. Lawrence

Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose;
and the hardest thing in the world to gain back. …..R. Williams

Wise men put their Trust in ideas, not in circumstances. …..Author Unknown

As soon as you Trust yourself, you will know how to live. …..Goethe

Put more Trust in nobility of character,
Than in an oath. …..Solon

IGNORANCE

To be ignorant of one’s Ignorance, is the malady of Ignorance. A. Bronson Alcott

Ignorance is salvageable, but Stupidity is forever. …..Author Unknown

The most violent element in society is Ignorance. ……Emma Goldman

It is impossible to defeat an Ignorant man in an argument. ……William G. McAdoo

Only two things are infinite, the Universe and Human Ignorance,
and I'm not sure about the former. ………Albert Einstein

The Evil that is in the world, almost always comes from Ignorance. …..Albert Camus

Ignorance is the mother of admiration. George Chapman

There will always be Ignorance, and ignorance leads to Fear. .......Bill Gates

Not Ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance,
is the death of knowledge. …..Alfred Whitehead

The pleasures of Ignorance are as great, in their way,
as the pleasures of knowledge. …….Aldous Huxley

A great deal of Intelligence can be invested in Ignorance. ……Saul Bellow

The trouble with the world is that the Ignorant are cocksure,
and the intelligent are full of doubt. ……..Bertrand Russell

Everyone is Ignorant, only on different subjects. ……..Will Rogers

All you need in this life is Ignorance and confidence,
and then success is sure. …….Mark Twain

I have never met a man so Ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. …….Galileo Galilei

A person is never happy except at the price of some Ignorance. ……Anatole France

SERENITY

God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference. …. Reinhold Niebuhr

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but Peace within the storm. ……..Author Unknown.

Despair is the Damp of Hell,
as Joy is the Serenity of Heaven. ……. John Donne

Serenity, is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. …….Johnny Miller

Serenity is the feeling that nothing is a waste of time. …….Thomas Szasz

Serenity and Inner Beauty come when we wait on God. ……Eva Burrows

He who would be Serene and Pure needs but one thing, Detachment ….Meister Eckhart

Do your work, then step back. This is the only path to Serenity. ……Tao Te Ching

DREAMS

We are such stuff as Dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ……William Shakespeare

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out
the true meaning of its creed. ........Martin Luther King, Jr.
Trust in Dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. ……Khalil Gibran

Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?"
I Others dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?" ……George Bernard Shaw

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. …….Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their Dreams. ….Eleanor Roosevelt

Who looks outside, Dreams; Who looks inside, Awakens …………Carl Jung

Hold fast to your Dreams, for if your dreams die;
Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. .......Langston Hughes


The Dream of yesterday is the hope of today;
….And the reality of tomorrow. …..Robert H. Goddard

To those who can dream, there is no such place as Faraway. …..Author Unknown

Dreams are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. …Eric Fromm

Dreams are the seeds of change. …..Debbie Boone

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. …..Tupac Shakur

Those that do most, Dream most. …..Stephen Leacock

Dreams are free. So free your Dreams. …..Astrid Alauda

When I dream, I am ageless. …..Elizabeth Coatsworth

INTELLIGENCE

To perceive things in the germ is Intelligence. ……Lao Tzu

It’s not that I’m so Smart,
It’s just that I stay with problems longer. …..Albert Einstein

Be as Smart as you can, but remember that,
it is always better to be Wise than to be smart. …..Alan Alda

Knowledge is often mistaken for Intelligence.
This is like mistaking a cup of milk for the cow. ………Author Unknown

A sign of Intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance. …..Author Unknown

Intelligence without ambition, is like a bird without wings. …..C. Archie Danielson

The true sign of Intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ……Albert Einstein.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. …..Stephen Hawking

DIFFICULTY

All Difficult things have their origin in that which is easy. …..Lao Tzu

It is not because things are Difficult that we do not dare,
It is because we do not dare, that things are Difficult. …..Seneca

The distance is nothing,
it is only the first step is Difficult. …..Madame Marie du Deffand

To find a fault is easy, to do better may be Difficult. …..Louis Nizer

A fool always fails because he thinks what is Difficult, is easy. John Collins

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly,
Ever acquire the skill to do Difficult things, easily. …..James J. Corbett.

Difficulty strengthens the mind, as labor does the body. ….Seneca

The greater the Difficulty, the greater the glory. ……Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never trust the advice of a man in Difficulties. ….Aesop

All things are Difficult, before they are easy. …….Thomas Fuller

There are two ways of dealing with Difficulties;
Either you alter the difficulties or
Alter yourself to meet them. …..Phyllis Bottoms

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ……Edward R. Murrows

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them,
is the highest human felicity. ……Samuel Johnson

Divide each Difficulty into as many parts
as is feasible and necessary to resolve it ……Rene Descartes

The pessimist sees Difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every Difficulty. …….Sir Winston S. Churchill

Do not pray for an easy life;
Pray for the strength to endure a Difficult one. …….Bruce Lee