Our aspirations are our possibilities. Samuel Johnson

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.Martin Luther King Jr.

Inventing is the mixing of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less materials you need. ~ Charles F. Kettering

The secret to success is constancy to purpose. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~ Jim Ryun

People can be cruel, and they will be. People can hurt you, break your heart and they will. But only you can let them KEEP hurting you.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. ~ Dwight David Eisenhower

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. ~ Chinese Proverb

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. Harry Kemp

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~ Robert H. Schuller

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. ~ Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. ~ Dirk Benedic

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation. Robert H. Schuller

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. ~ William Ward

you are not a boomerang; therefore once he throws you away you shouldn't come back. Don't take a u-turn. You are a Frisbee. Once he/she throws you away, you stay and wait for someone special to pick you up.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. ~ Viktor E. Frankl

The Dream is not what you see in sleep, dream is which does not let you sleep. Abdul Kalam

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. ~ Brian Tracy

Those who live in the past limit their future.

Great acts are made up of small deeds. ~ Lao Tzu

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ~ Serenity Prayer

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. ~ Elbert Hubbard

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~ Frederick Keonig

The Blessings of Peace The Beauty of Hope The Spirit of Love The Comfort of Faith May these be your gifts this Christmas Season.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. Richard Lamm

Maybe it's not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it's about starting over and creating something better.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~ Mother Teresa

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone

Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle. ~ Crystal Middlemas

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~ Dale Carnegie

True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie ~ Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Forget the risk and take the fall, if its what you want, then it's worth it all.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. ~ Peace Pilgrim

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. And the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it. -Steve Jobs

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently ~ Henry Ford

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Without love, we are birds with broken wings. Albom, Mitch

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! ~ Anthony Robbins

No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No enemy is more harmful than ignorance. Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have but rather of recognizing & appreciating what we do have.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring ~ La Rochefoucauld

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. ~ Bertrand Russell

Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish them.

Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. ~ Marsha Petrie Sue

Too often we don't realize what we have until its gone. Too often we're too stubborn to say sorry I was wrong. Too often it seems we hurt the ones closest to our hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration James Allen

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche