ATTITUDE

"I dwell on possibilities"
--Emily Dickenson

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which more than anything else, will determine the outcome."
--William James

"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains."
--Anne Frank

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
--Helen Keller

"What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become."
--Ann Landers

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds."
--Albert Schweitzer

CELEBRATION

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

CHEERFULNESS

"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper-the more it is spent, the more it remains."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

CHOICES

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
--Helen Keller

COURAGE

"You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy."
--Carol Burnett

"Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
--Vincent Van Gogh

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. An one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage."
--Walt Disney

Curiosity

"Ideas come from curiosity."
--Walt Disney

DREAMS / FUTURE

"We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past."
--Winston Churchill

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream"
--Eleanor Roosevelt

HUMOR

"Nothing is quite as funny as the unintended humor of reality."
--Steve Allen

"I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people"
--Jackie Mason

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing"
--Mark Twain

IMAGINATION

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly"
--Lauren Becall

LESSONS / INSIGHTS

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

LOVE YOURSELF

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
--Lucille Ball

OPPORTUNITIES

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
--Anne Frank

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."
--Jonas Salk

"Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
--Ann Landers

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me."
--Walt Disney

"The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome."
--Helen Keller

"I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself; my work and my God."
--Helen Keller

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
--Louisa May Alcott

"About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that may seem insurmountable...I have had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and self-discipline."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

PERSISTENCE

"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
--Booker T. Washington

PERSPECTIVE

"The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself."
--Dale Carnegie

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some people see things as they are and ask why. Other people dream of things that never were and ask why not"
--Robert Kennedy

POSITIVE THINKING

"In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief there can be no successful outcome."
--William James

RESOLVE

"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve."
--Benjamin Franklin

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
--Helen Keller

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

SUCCESS

"The four Cs as secret of my success--curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy."
--Walt Disney

"Well done is better than well said."
--Benjamin Franklin