What matters

"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too."

Malcolm Forbes

What we can do

"We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here."

Mildred Taylor

Those who win

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

Bertie Charles Forbes
1880-1954, Financial Journalist, Author and founder of Forbes Magazine

Life's barricades -- or bridges?

"Setbacks and stressors are bridges to be crossed to our goals... not barricades to keep us from them."

Stephen Pierce
Speaker and Author

lifes

"Setbacks and stressors are bridges to be crossed to our goals... not barricades to keep us from them."

Stephen Pierce
Speaker and Author

Changing the world

"Maybe you can't change the whole world, but if you have love in your heart you can make small differences every day, which really does change the world, one life at a time."

Kristina Koncz

Habits

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

John Dryden

Getting started

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

Norman Vincent Peale

Being thankful

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

Oprah Winfrey

Making others happy

"You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."

Lydia M. Child
1802-1880, Abolitionist

Being thankful

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

Voltaire
1694-1778, Philosopher and Writer

Being thankful

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

Cynthia Ozick
Writer

Planning your life

"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."

Maria Mitchell
1818-1889, Astronomer