Daily Facebook Quotes

You can Be

2012-03-05T00:51:00.000-08:00

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

Fate

2012-03-04T02:13:00.000-08:00

He either fears his fate too much,

Or his deserts are small,

Who dares not put it to the touch

To gain or lose it all.

Marquis of Montrose

Hope

2012-03-03T02:13:00.000-08:00

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,

and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

Walter Scott

Track

2012-03-02T00:50:00.000-08:00

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”

- Will Rogers

Troubles in Life

2012-03-01T00:50:00.000-08:00

“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”

- Josh Billings

Can't Avoid

2012-02-29T02:12:00.000-08:00

It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.

Publius Syrus

The Future

2012-02-28T18:12:00.000-08:00

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

I can

2012-02-28T00:49:00.000-08:00

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

– Hellen Keller

Fear

2012-02-27T18:12:00.000-08:00

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

Lucan

Opportunity

2012-02-27T00:54:00.003-08:00

Like a Man

2012-02-27T00:49:00.003-08:00

“Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.”

- Henri L. Bergson

Experience

2012-02-26T02:11:00.000-08:00

We also deem those happy, who from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills and without descanting on their weight.

Junvenal

Each Season

2012-02-25T02:11:00.000-08:00

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

2012-02-24T01:57:00.000-08:00

It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.

Chas. Austin Bates

Pain

2012-02-23T17:57:00.000-08:00

How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

Good Cheer

2012-02-22T01:56:00.000-08:00

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never happen.

James Russel Lowell

Present Fears

2012-02-21T01:56:00.000-08:00

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

William Shakespeare

Miserable

2012-02-20T01:55:00.000-08:00

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Seneca

Last Day

2012-02-19T01:52:00.000-08:00

Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful.

Horace

Trouble

2012-02-18T01:49:00.000-08:00

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

Doubts

2012-02-17T01:48:00.000-08:00

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

Jonathan Edwards

Will It?

2012-02-16T01:43:00.000-08:00

Ask yourself this question:

"Will this matter a year from now?"

Richard Carlson, writing in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

Life's Hardships

2012-02-15T01:43:00.000-08:00

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

Nichiren Daishonen

Fear Not

2012-02-14T01:42:00.000-08:00

Be just, and fear not.

Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,

Thy God's and truth's.

William Shakespeare

Worry Kills

2012-02-13T01:42:00.000-08:00

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.

Henry Ward Beecher