motivational quotes from the west ..........

·        A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

-- Thomas A. Kempis

·        A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

-- Mark Twain

·        Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.

-- Mary Kay Ash

·        All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

-- Henry David Thoreau

· Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

-- Oscar Wilde

·        As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

-- Marian Anderson

·        Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.

-- Jesse Herman Holmes

·        Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

-- Phillips Brooks

·        Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

-- Mary Kay Ash

·        Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

-- Dr. Dale Turner

·        Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

-- Voltaire

·        Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

-- David Seabury 

·        Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.

-- Nolan Bushnell

·        Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

-- Louisa May Alcott

·        Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

-- Will Rogers

·        Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

-- Margaret B. Runbeck

·        Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

-- Leon J. Suenes

·        I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

-- Golda Meir

·        I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

-- Agatha Christie

·        I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

-- Martina Navratilova

·        I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

-- Louisa May Alcott

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

-- Martha Washington

·        If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

-- Margaret Fuller

·        If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

-- Mary Pickford

·        If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.

-- Glenn Clark