To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese proverb

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

You think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
Richard Bach (Illusions)
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James

Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
Emanuel Swedenborg


Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer


People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Bonnie Jean Wasmund

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."
Danny Thomas


Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Epictetus

One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese Proverb

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love.
Lao-Tzu

In Compassion lies the world's true strength.
Buddha


Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Author:Leo Buscaglia