Words of Wisdom

Every Wednesday, or rather some Wednesdays, my posts are words of wisdom.  On this page you can find each quote and link to the post.

If you have favorite words of wisdom, I'd love to hear them!

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm ....Winston Churchill

Make a list of things to do today. At the top of the list put "eat chocolate". Now you will get at least one thing done today! ~ Gina Hayes


Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.  ~Leon J. Suenes

"The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him—and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires." ~ J. Paul Getty



"Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success." ~Robert J. Ringer

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or in anything else, for that matter. ~Lee Iacocca

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell

If you want to look young and thin, hang out with old fat people! ~Anonymous

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work.  ~ Pearl Buck


Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ~Thomas Jefferson

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.” ~Hugh Walpole, Sr.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb

“The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.” ~Margaret Atwood

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.  ~Ted W. Engstrom

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. ~Wayne Dyer

You Can Be Whatever You Want To Be!

by: Donna Levine

There is inside you

All of the potential

To be whatever you want to be; 

All of the energy

To do whatever you want to do. 

Imagine yourself as you would like to be, 

Doing what you want to do, 

And each day, take one step

Towards your dream. 

And though at times it may seem too

difficult to continue, 

Hold on to your dream. 

One morning you will awake to find

That you are the person you dreamed of, 

Doing what you wanted to do, 

Simply because you had the courage

To believe in your potential

And to hold on to your dream

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plautus

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.  ~ Madame Marie Curie

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path --Agatha Christie

Life is too short to trudge through it depressed and defeated. You are never defeated, nor can you be defeated, until you give up. There will always be unforseen obstacles in life. Never give in and never give up. ~ Ray Lammie


Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day ~ Author Unknown

"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you

never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what
you can do except the limitations of your own mind."-- Darwin P. Kingsley

If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude.~ Maya Angelou