Your life

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

Les Brown
Speaker

Finding happiness

"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
1889-1981, Publisher and Author

Daylight in the mind

"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."

Joseph Addison

Facing your fears

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."

Brendan Behan
1923-1964, Poet, Novelist, and Playwright

Believing in yourself

"Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you."

Oscar Wilde

Dreaming dreams

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."

Leo Jozef Suenens

Never quit

"Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity."

Arthur Pine

Telling someone thanks

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."

Margaret Cousins
1905-1996, Writer

A cheerful heart

"The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshoot of goodness."

Christian Nestell Bovee
1820-1904, Author

Giving pleasure to others

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

Julia Child