Quotable Sentiments: Pick-Me-Up

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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
- Japanese proverb
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
- Duke Snider
He who throws mud loses ground.
- Unknown
When the world says, "Give up",
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
- Unknown
Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows.
- Helen Keller
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles Schultz, American cartoonist/humorist
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist
The place of the wound is the place of the healing.
- Richard Bohr
Not everything that is faced can be changed, But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin, American novelist/writer
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
- Unknown
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
- Unknown
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
- Epicurus
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike, U.S. novelist
Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes, American poet
When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.
- Jiminy Crickett, Pinocchio
When all men think alike no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
This above all: to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Tomorrow is another day.
- Scarlett O'Hara, in Gone With the Wind
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
- Emiliano Zapata, Revolutionary
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tsu
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake, English poet
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine
I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.
- Bugs Bunny
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
- Alan Saporta
Everything happens for a reason; If you can't find a reason for something, there's a reason for that.
- Chris Levi, Caribbean poet
All beginnings are hard.
- Chaim Potok, American novelist
Joy shared is twice the joy.
Sorrow shared is half the sorrow.
- Unknown
There is less to this than meets the eye.
-Tallulah Bankhead, American film actress
Remember that the mighty oak was once an acorn.
- Unknown
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky
The race for quality has no finish line.
- Unknown
You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
- Frederick Wilcox
No-one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
- Unknown
Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning.
- Psalms 30:5
You can't have more bedbugs than a blanket-full.
- Spanish