Quotations: Pick-Me-Up

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

- St. Augustine

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.

- Erma Bombeck

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.

- Unknown

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

- Japanese proverb

When you're sad, learn something.

- Merton

If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.

- Anonymous

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

- Duke Snider

Faith is boundless and that which is truly holy is bound by faith...

- Christopher Rowe, "Masters Tie"

He who throws mud loses ground.

- FTD customer

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his brother.

- Kahlil Gibran

Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

When the world says, "Give up",
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

- FTD customer

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

- Will Rogers

Keep your face to the sunshine,
and you cannot see the shadows.

- Helen Keller

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
It's already tomorrow in Australia.

- Charles Schultz, American cartoonist/humorist

The person who really wants to do something finds a way;
the others find an excuse.

- FTD customer

When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist

The place of the wound is the place of the healing.

- Richard Bohr

Not everything that is faced can be changed,
But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- James Baldwin, American novelist/writer

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

- FTD customer

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

- FTD customer

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

- Epicurus

Dreams come true; without that possibility,
nature would not incite us to have them.

- John Updike, U.S. novelist

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes, American poet

When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.

- Jiminy Crickett, Pinocchio

When all men think alike no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

This above all: to thine own self be true.

- William Shakespeare

Tomorrow is another day.

- Scarlett O'Hara, in Gone With the Wind

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

- Robert F. Kennedy

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

- Emiliano Zapata, Revolutionary

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

- Lao Tsu

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

- William Blake, English poet

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt, former U.S. First Lady

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

- Heinrich Heine

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

- Leo Rosten

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.

- Bugs Bunny

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

- Josh Billings

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

- Alan Saporta

Everything happens for a reason;
If you can't find a reason for something,
there's a reason for that.

- Chris Levi, Caribbean poet

All beginnings are hard.

- Chaim Potok, American novelist

Joy shared is twice the joy.
Sorrow shared us half the sorrow.

- Unknown

There is less to this than meets the eye.

-Tallulah Bankhead, American film actress

Remember that the mighty oak was once an acorn.

- FTD Customer

The race is not always to the swift...
but to those who keep on running.

- FTD Customer

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

The race for quality has no finish line.

- FTD Customer

A bend in the road is not the end of the world, unless you fail to make the turn.

- FTD Customer

You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

- FTD Customer

No-one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.

- FTD Customer

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

- FTD Customer

Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

- FTD Customer

No goal is too high if you climb with care and confidence.

- Kristine Elises, 15

Dear Loved One: I'm working on all your problems. Please stay out of the way.

- Your Friend, GOD

And will you succeed? You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)

- Dr. Seuss

Don't wait for your ship to come in ... swim out to meet it.

- FTD customer

It's not so important who starts the game, but who finishes the game.

- John Wooden

Cherish your yesterdays, dream your tomorrows, live your todays.

- FTD customer

Impossible only defines the degree of difficulty.

- FTD customer

You can't discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- FTD customer

You are either part of the steamroller or part of the pavement.

- FTD customer

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

- FTD Customer

Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning.

- Psalms 30:5

You can't have more bedbugs than a blanket-full.

- Spanish