A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best. —Ken Doherty More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. —James Bryant Conant More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter. —Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it. —Randy K. Milholland More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older. —Randy Pausch More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. —Holly Lisle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee. —Ben Jonson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. —Paulette Bates Alden More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed. —Elizabeth Aston More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. —Og Mandino More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. —Ethel Barrett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can think of many reasonable excuses for needing a cocktail, but Cinco De Mayo is always a no-brainer. —Rachel Hollis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke. —Edwina Currie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. —François Rabelais More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. —Francis Bacon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email