SUCCEEDING QUOTES:

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
- Henry Ford

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
- Helen Keller

Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.
- Dennis Kinlaw

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.
- Doris Lessing

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
- Oprah Winfrey

Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
-Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), football coach for the NFL

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
- Jane Goodall

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.
- Katzenbach & Smith

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have got to set your self on fire for it.
- Anonymous

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

Change in all things is sweet.
- Aristotle (384-322 BC) - Greek philosopher

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.
- Fredrick Hudson Ecker, Chairman Metropolitan Life

Leaders are like eagles, they don't flock, you find them one at a time.
- Unknown

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
- B. F. Harris

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
- Jane Goodall

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
- Mark Twain

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
- Stephen Covey

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
- Katharine Hepburn

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1959)

The infinity of stars in the darkest night sky is there to remind us, there is nothing that can keep the mind from dreaming and the heart from hoping.
- Unknown

Never be content with someone else's definition of YOU. Instead, define yourself by your own beliefs, your own truths, your own understanding of who you are and how you became. And never be content until you are happy with the unique person YOU are.
- Unknown

Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.
- Anonymous


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FOOD FOR THE HEART QUOTES:

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
- Adam Michnik

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
- Somerset Maugham

"TIME IS...
Too slow for those who Wait,
Too swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve,
Too short for those who Rejoice,
But for those who Love...
Time is not."
- Henry Van Dyke

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
-Mother Teresa

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
- Ivan Panin

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
- Charles Dickens

No matter where people of integrity are, who they are with, or what kind of situation they find themselves in, they are consistent and live by their principles.
- John C. Maxwell

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
- Roy R. Gilson

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Intense love does not measure; it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

There is no reality except the one contained within us.
That is why so many people live such an unreal life.
They take the images outside of them for reality
and never allow the world within to assert itself.
- Herman Hesse

One should count each day a separate life.
- Seneca

Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other is not yet...
- Unknown

Sometimes we feel that what we do is just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

The crosses we bear are not supposed to be heavy enough to crush us, ...but they are heavy enough to bend our knees.
- Unknown

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
- John Homer Miller

Give others recognition at every opportunity. It will build them up and motivate them. And it will make you a person of significant influence in their lives.
- John C. Maxwell

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."
(Ecclesiastes 12:13)

Happiness is taking in all the wonders of life - its joys, its sorrows, its sunshines, its smiles-learningsmiles - learning from the experiences each one brings you, and then, from a caring heart, giving them all away again.
- Unknown



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HUMOROUS QUOTES:

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
- Katherine Cebrian

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog — few people are interested, and the frog dies.
- EB White, "A Subtreasury of American Humor"

Honk if you hate bumper stickers that say "Honk if ..."
- Unknown

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
- Woody Allen

Those who can’t laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
-Anonymous

If you are completely buried in an avalanche, dig a small hole around you and spit in it. The saliva will fall down, giving you an idea of which direction is up. Dig up.
- A survival tip from the "Worst Case Scenario" calendar

I've developed a new philosophy...only dread one day at a time.
- Charlie Brown

Wise men talk because the have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
- Plato

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
- W. C. Fields

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees. Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I don't perspire. Children trust me. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week. The laws of physics do not apply to me.
- In response to the "Anything else" section on an application form

Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.
- Anonymous

You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.
- Rita Rudner

The Attorney for the Defense will quit referring the Prosecutor as "Demon Spawn from Hell".
- Judge to [anti-choice] | [pro-life] attorney David Broderick.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

You ever look up the word dictionary in a dictionary? A little hand comes out and smacks you one.
- Unknown

"When Arizona became a state in 1912, the first man it sent to the United States Senate was a loquacious cowboy called Henry Fountain Ashurst. In his first address to the Senate, Mr Ashurst boasted that Arizona was 'poised to become a veritable paradise.' Only two things were needed, he said: 'Water, and lots of good people'. According to legend, a senator from New England responded, 'If the gentleman from Arizona will forgive me, that's all they need in hell.'"
- Seen in "The Economist"

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble.
- Dennis Fakes

The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?
-Unknown

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
-Unknown

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in though the cat door.
- Jeff Foxworthy

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
- George Carlin

When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time - I think I've forgotten this before.
- Stephen Wright

The 2nd day of a diet is always easier than the 1st. By the 2nd day you’re off of it.
- Jackie Gleason

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction and a cat. The last ingredient is usually the hardest to come by.
- Stephen Baker

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'
- Ronnie Shakes

For the first two years of a child’s life, we spend every waking hour trying to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.
- Erma Bombeck

The way to fight your wife is with your hat - grab it and run.
-Anonymous

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.
- Groucho Marx

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It’s dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
- Mark Twain

Baby’s room should be close enough to your room so you can hear baby cry, unless you want to get some sleep, in which case baby’s room should be in Peru.
- Dave Barry

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a phone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
- Guy Lombardo

He’s nice to people ‘n animals...but you oughta hear him talkin’ to a golf ball!
- Dennis the Menace