Seize The Day

1. Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.

-William Arthur Ward

2. If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. -Jesse Jackson

3. Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

4. Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain

5. Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

6. You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.

7. You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. -Abraham Maslow

8. Nothing lasts forever – not even your troubles.

9. Why not learn to enjoy the little things – there are so many of them.

10. I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. -Wernher von Braun

11. Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. -Bob Talbert

12. Think you can, think you can’t; either way, you’ll be right. -Henry Ford

13. Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination. -Roy M. Goodman

14. Only one feat is possible: not to have run away. -Dag Hammarskjold

15. We only do well the things we like doing. -Colette

16. Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root. -Malay proverb

17. Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. -Oscar Wilde

18. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. -Maori proverb

19. The reverse side also has a reverse side. -Japanese proverb

20. Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

21. If you don’t place your foot on the rope, you’ll never cross the chasm. -Liz Smith

22. It makes all the difference whether you hear an insect in the bedroom or in the garden. -Robert Lynd

23. What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

24. The only thing that sat it’s way to success is a hen. -Sarah Brown

25. Whatever good things we build end up building us. -Jim Rohn

26. A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn’t see the clouds at all – he’s walking on them. -Sam Levinson

27. One´s own thought is one´s world. What a person thinks is what he becomes.

28. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -Robert H. Schuller

29. How old would you be if you did not know how old you are?

30. Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, “I’m all right so far”? -Gretel Ehrlich

31. If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it. -Malcolm Forbes