As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
- Thomas A. Edison

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
- Janet Erskine Stuart

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
- Euripedes

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

Great hopes make great men.
- Thomas Fuller

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
- Samuel Goldwyn

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Laughter is the language of the Gods.
- Buddhist saying

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
- William Bennett

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
- Harriet Woods

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian and essayist

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
- William Feather

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
- Katherine Graham

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- William Hazlitt

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
- Henry Ford