An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
- Bill Vaughan

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.
- Benjamin Franklin

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
- Henry Ward Beecher

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
- Edith Lovejoy Pierce

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.
- Ellen Goodman

If you want something you have never had, be prepared to do something you have never done.

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
- Doris Mortman

Evermore people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
- Viktor Frankl

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

There are two kinds of pain: pain of risk and pain of regret.
- Kare Anderson

If opportunity does not knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
- William Wallace

God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.
- Rumi

Have less, do less, be more.

Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
- William Morris

He who has learning without imagination has feet but no wings.
- Stanley Goldstein

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau

Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. – Elaine St. James

One distinguishing mark of an unregenerate man is ingratitude.
- E. J. Conrad

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
- A. W. Tozer

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – Christopher Robin (A.A. Milne)

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

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
- William J. H. Boetcker

The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
- Albert Einstein

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
- Hare

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
- Estonian proverb

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge

No man ever listened himself out of a job.
- Calvin Coolidge

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
- Dame Rose Macaulay

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
- Spanish Proverb

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold – but so does a hard-boiled egg.
- Author Unknown

Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.
- Benjamin Franklin

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- James Joyce

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
- Earl Nightingale

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Thomas Edison

For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
- Carl Sagan

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Thomas Paine

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
- William Ward

A good memory is one that can remember the day’s blessings and forget the day’s troubles.

When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.
- C.S. Lewis

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
- Arthur Christopher Benson

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
- L. Thomas Holdcroft

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

In our lives, trouble is inevitable, misery is optional.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
- William Glasser