Quotes for July

"A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best." Author Unknown

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde

"An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded." Alexander Pope

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." Og Mandino

"I don't know any other way to lead but by example." Don Shula

"People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds." Jesse Owens

"Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre." David Sarnoff

"Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant." Charles A. Cerami

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." Katharine Hepburn

"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." Bruce Barton

"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." Charles Kingsley

"Be all you can be and live a good life -- have fun with it." Tina Yothers

"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear." Marcus Aurelius

"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be." William Adams

"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change." Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." Audrey Hepburn

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." George Bernard Shaw

"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do." George Bernard Shaw

"The only people who never fail are those who never try." Ilka Chase

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." Agnes Repplier

"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails." Leo Buscaglia

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." Dolly Parton

"Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience." Harold Ruopp

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Mark Twain

"I work every day -- or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it." Mordecai Richler

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." Kahlil Gibran

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams." Jeremy Irons

"Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself." Anthony Trollope

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you." Arnold Palmer

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." John Locke

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so." Marcia Wieder