- “If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.” – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “Failure is an event, never a person.” – William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!
- “The only time you don’t fail is the last time you try anything – and it works.” – William Strong
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
- “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby
- “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
- “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
- “Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert Schuller
- “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles F. Kettering
- “One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.” – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- “A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.” – Elmer G. Letterman
- “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
- “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” – Fr. Jerome Cummings
- “Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew
- “Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.” – Jewish Saying
- “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
- “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” – Nigerian Proverb
- “A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” – Apocrypha
- “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” – Unknown
- “Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.” – Claude Mermet
- “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian (1647)
- “Friendship needs no words…” – Dag Hammarskjold
- “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay (1871)
- “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
- “If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris
- “There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.” – Alexandre Dumas
- “Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.” – Robert Brault
- “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
- “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Unknown
- “Anger is one letter short of danger.” – Unknown
- “Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- “People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” – Will Rogers
- “Never write a letter while you are angry.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Get mad, then get over it.” – Colin Powell
- “The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” – Bede Jarrett
- “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966
- “In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” – Mark Twain
- “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” – Malachy McCourt
- “Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.” – Robert Brault
- “If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” – Korean Proverb
- “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” – Albert Einstein
- “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” – George Jean Nathan
- “Anger is short-lived madness.” – Horace
- “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot
- “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” – Lyman Abbott
- “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
- “Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.” – Unknown
- “Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.” – Sweetpea Tyler
- “Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
- “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” – James Fallows
- “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg
- “Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.” – Lemony Snicket
- “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.” – Unknown
- “Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?” – Jareb Teague
- “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha
- “Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.” – Seneca
- “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” – Louis L’Armour
- “Never strike your wife – even with a flower.” – Hindu Proverb
- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894
- “Anger is a bad counselor.” – French Proverb
- “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.” – Neil Kinnock
- “The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.” – Wilson Mizner
- “To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” – William H. Walton
- “The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff
- “When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” – Marcus Antonius
- “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman
- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately
- “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957
- “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown
- “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder
- “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault
- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh
- “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown
- “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux
- “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown
- “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown
- “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson
- “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman
- “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings
- “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
- “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy
- “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault
- “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson
- “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd
- “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather
- “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman
- “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner
- “We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.” – Cicero
- “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides
- “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil
- “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
- “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
- “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright
- “A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
- “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
- “The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.” – Owen Feltham
- “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Dennis Waitley
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
- “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” – Josh Billings
- “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Earl of Beaconsfield
- “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar
- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Jospeph Addison
- “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin
- “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” – Henry W. Longfellow
- “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” – Shakespeare
- “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields