There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start, and others.       

~ Robert Byrne ~

 

If all you want is security, you may become more afraid of life than death.     

 ~ James F. Byrnes ~

 

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.

 ~ Robert Anthony ~

 

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

~ Elbert Hubbard  ~

 

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

 ~ James A. Michener ~   Space, 1982

 

Big shots are only little shots who kept shooting.

~ Christopher Morley ~

 

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

 ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau ~

 

The "difficult" can be done immediately;  The "impossible" takes a little longer.

~ George Santayana ~

 

Take a risk; you can't steal second with your foot on first-base.

~ Fredrick Wilcox ~

 

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

~ Arabian Proverb ~

 

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

~ Stephen Vincent Benét ~

 

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel ~ 1856

 

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

~ Josh Billings ~

 

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties - - or you alter yourself.

~ Phyllis Bottome ~

 

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

 ~ Pierre Corneille ~

 

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

~ Frank Crane ~

 

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes  ~

 

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.  Doubt separates people.  It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

~ Buddha ~

 

Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

~ Cecil Beaton ~

 

 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.  There is a thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.  So what the hell, leap.

~ Cynthia Heimel ~

 

Forgiving is not forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt.

~Mary McLeod Bethune~