“The best time to plant a tree was always 20 years ago. The second best time is always today.” ~ old Chinese saying

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, It’s a matter of choice; It’s not a thing to be waited for, It’s a thing to be achieved.” ~ William Jennings Bryan

“When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it.” ~ Jim Rohn

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The only limits are, as always, those of vision.” ~ James Broughton

“Someone once asked me why do you always insist on taking the hard road? and I replied why do you assume I see two roads?” ~ unknown

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours.” ~ Richard Bach

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” ~ unknown

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” ~ William Feather

“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.” ~ Charles Schwab

“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Joshua J. Marine

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

“He is the most unfortunate who’s today is not better than yesterday.” ~ Muhammad

“Success can never be controlled, but performance always can.” ~John F. Murray

“If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.” ~Walter Reuther

Mom and Paul in 1961 Eleanor Krieger Evans, R.I.P. Oct. 4, 1925 – Feb. 8, 2007

“Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.” ~ unknown, may sound a little like Republican propaganda, but there you have it…. All these “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” people DO have a point. If you don’t help yourself, probably no one else is going to. Sad, but don’t think of it that way: get up and prove them all wrong!

“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.” ~Phyllis Bottome

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ unknown

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ~ unknown

“You always pass failure on the way to success.” ~ Mickey Rooney

“Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’ I know I’m close to success.” ~ Michael Flatley

“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.” ~ Jim Rohn

“God gives every bird it’s food, but does not always drop it into the nest.” ~ unknown, but I’d read his book!

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill

“To make yourself exceptional is the biggest achievement of your life.” ~ unknown

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have: three meals a day for their bodies, – education and culture for their minds – and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

On political activisim: “If you think you’re too small to be effective, you’ve never been in the dark with a mosquito.” — source unknown.

“You can lead a Republican to the facts, but you can’t make him think.” ~ unknown

“Electing a Republican is like hiring a carpenter who thinks hammers are evil.” ~ Source: Daily Kos diaries

Stolen from a Google Group:
“And this, children is Niagara Falls. It was built sometime in the late 1950s by Mr. Niagara to protect the United States from the evil forces of Canada.” ~ A History lesson from ‘Eeeeeek the Cat.’

“Technology, while adding daily to our physical ease, throws daily another loop of fine wire around our souls.” ~ Adlai Stevenson

Given to us by GreenSooner over at DailyKos: “Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House.” ~ Bob Herbert

“I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.” ~ Molly Ivins

“The tyranny of a principal in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.” ~ Montesquieu, 1748

“We can have a democratic society or we can have great concentrated wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.” ~ Justice Louis Brandeis, United States Supreme Court, 1916-1939

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Remember to have gratitude for your life. Thank God for your loved ones, and what you have.

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein.

Do you have a favorite quotation to add to my list? Just leave a comment, below and if I like your quotation, I’ll add it to the list and give you credit!