“Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.” — Mike Ditka
“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me, because I, too, am fluent in silence.” — R. Arnold
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” — Ayn Rand
“It gets late out there early.” — ‘Yogi’ Berra
“Compassion is a verb.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done.” — Cullen Hightower
“You just don’t luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.” — Barbara Bush
“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.” — Albert Einstein
“A good beginning makes a good end.” — Louis L’Amour
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.” — Miguel de Cervantes
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.” — Oliver Goldsmith
“You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.” — E. L. Doctorow
“Don’t just do what makes you happy…do what makes you great.” — Charlie Day
“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” — Audrey Hepburn
“You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you.” — James Baldwin
“There’s many a pessimist who got that way by financing an optimist.” — Unknown
“I’ve learned to stop rushing things that need time to grow.” — Unknown
“We teach children to color inside the lines, and then expect adults to think outside the box.” — Frank Sonnenberg
“Successful people do what they have to do, whether they feel like it or not.” — Brian Tracy
“My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.” — Elizabeth Taylor
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — John Locke
“If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.” — Unknown
“Stubbornness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.” — John Wooden
“Don’t re-think; pre-think.” — Vikrant Parsai
“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.” — Alfred De Musset
“She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away.” — Dia Reeves, Bleeding Violet
“Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.” — Nathan Mayer Rothschild
“Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.” — Dr. Thomas Fuller
“To be successful, you need family and friends. But, to be very successful, you need enemies and competitors.” — Unknown
“The ‘what ifs’ and ‘should haves’ will eat your brain.” — John O’ Callaghan
“Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.” — David Brown
These dogs are very well-behaved. Each waits until their name is called before proceeding to the chow line. They appear to be called in a random order, but could be conditioned to the same daily roll call. All goes well UNTIL…the very last dog who seems to have the patience of Job or resents being called last. I think you will enjoy this very short video.
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“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” — Elizabeth Bowen
“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.” — Pat Riley
“Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don’t just survive. Celebrate.” — Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
“People who have gift of gab, often do not know how to wrap it up.” — Unknown