1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
- “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
“Sometimes i want to shout to the whole world how lucky i am to have you as my friend but sometimes i want to hush…afraid that somebody might take you away from me.” – Unknown
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”- Bernard Meltzer
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”- Aristotle
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.” – Lois L. Kaufman
“Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.” – Swedish proverb
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” – Aristotle
“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.” – Homer
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” – Czech Proverb
- “What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome
- “I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.” – William Shakespeare
- “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.” – John Donne
- “Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.” – John Boyle O’Reilly
- “Friends have all things in common.” – Plato
- “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Artistotle
- “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
- “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Unknown
- “No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” – George Eliot
- “It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…” – Shelly
- “The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” – Wilson Mizner
- “The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” – Francoise Sagan
- “Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.” – Kahil Gibran
- “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.” – Bejamin Disraeli
- “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman
- “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
- “When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.” – Anatole Broyard
- “Friends are born, not made.” – Henry Adams
- “This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.” – Francis Bacon
- “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.” – Tehyi Hsieh
- “There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” – Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
- “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” – Edward Everett Hale
- “Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.” – James Fenimore Cooper
- “Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” – James Francis Byrnes