Good Thoughts

1. Thoughts for every day:
Menu 1: Select the date
• January: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• February: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
• March: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• April: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
• May: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• June: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
July to December 1

2. Thoughts for every day:
Menu 2: Select the date
• July: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• August: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• September: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
• October: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• November: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
• December: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
January to June 2

3. PEACE OF MIND
• The mind is never right but when it is at
peace within itself.
• Lucius Annaeus Seneca
3

4. HAPPINESS
• There is no duty so much underrated as
the duty of being happy.
• Robert Louis Stevenson
4

5. ACCEPTANCE
• 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.
• Reinhold Niebuhr
5

6. FORGIVENESS
• Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
• Gerald Jampolsky
6

7. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• God brings men into deep waters not to
drown them, but to cleanse them.
• Aughey
7

8. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• Envy comes from people’s ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
• Jean Vanier
8

9. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Make yourself necessary to somebody.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
9

10. FRIENDSHIP
• True friendship comes when silence
between two people is comfortable.
• Dave Tyson Gentry
10

11. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR
GOD
• When we lose God, it is not God who is
lost.
• Anon
11

12. FAITH AND BELIEF
• Sorrow looks back, worry looks around,
faith looks up.
• Guideposts
12

13. PRAYER
• Prayer moves the hand that moves the
world.
• John Aikman Wallace
13

14. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• You can succeed if nobody else believes
it, but you will never succeed if you don’t
believe in yourself.
• William J.H. Boetcker
14

15. SELF-CONTROL
• Self-control is the quality that
distinguishes the fittest to survive.
• George Bernard Shaw
15

16. SELF-CONFIDENCE
• Experience tells you what to do;
confidence allows you to do it.
• Stan Smith
16

17. SIMPLICITY
• What I do, I do very well, and what I
don’t do well, I don’t do at all.
• Anon
17

18. ONE DAY
• Nothing in business is so valuable as time.
• John H. Patterson
18

19. YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old
days” you’re going to miss in the years
ahead.
• Anon
19

20. TODAY: THE PRESENT
• The best preparation for good work
tomorrow is to do good work today.
• Elbert Hubbard
20

21. THIS MOMENT
• If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing
would get done.
• Anon
21

22. MORNINGS
• Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up
in time to get an early start.
• Edgar Watson Howe
22

23. EVENINGS
• Sum up at night what thou has done by
day.
• Lord Herbert
23

24. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown
guest.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
24

25. AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS
• Everything considered, work is less
boring than amusing oneself.
• Charles Baudelaire
25

26. DIFFICULT DAYS
• The secret of patience … to do something
else in the meantime.
• Anon
26

27. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• Give to the world the best you have and
the best will come back to you.
• Madeline Bridges
27

28. ENTHUSIASM
• Give me a man who sings at his work.
• Thomas Carlyle
28

29. HOPE
• Hope is putting faith to work when
doubting would be easier.
• Anon
29

30. VISUALIZATION
• We all live under the same sky, but we
don’t all have the same horizon.
• Konrad Adenauer
30

31. ROLE MODELS
• Example is the school of mankind, and
they will learn at no other.
• Burke
31

32. CHANGE
• Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.
• George Bernard Shaw
32

33. DECISIONS
• Wherever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous
decision.
• Peter Drucker
33

34. INSTINCTS
• Systems die; instincts remain.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
34

35. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US
• Skills vary. We must … strive by that
which is born in us.
• Pindar
35

36. MOTIVATION
• To be what we are, and to become what
we are capable of becoming, is the only
end of life.
• Baruch Spinoza
36

37. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• Sometimes it is more important to
discover what one cannot do, than what
one can do.
• Lin Yutang
37

38. GOALS
• The one thing worth living for is to keep
one’s soul pure.
• Marcus Aurelius
38

39. FEAR
• Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only
a fool is never afraid.
• Ron Meyer
39

40. WORRY
• Every morning I spend fifteen minutes
filling my mind full of God, and so there’s
no room left for worry thoughts.
• Howard Chandler Christy
40

41. DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES
• Any coward can fight a battle when he’s
sure of winning.
• George Eliot
41

42. SECURITY
• There is no security on this earth. Only
opportunity.
• General Douglas MacArthur
42

43. RISKS
• No one reaches a high position without
daring.
• Publilius Syrus
43

44. COURAGE
• To know what is right and not do it is the
worst cowardice.
• Confucius
44

45. WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO
HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF
US
• The will of God will not take you where
the grace of God cannot keep you.
• Anon
45

46. COMMITMENT
• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll
fall for anything.
• Michael Evans
46

47. GETTING GOING
• Inspirations never go in for long
engagements; they demand immediate
marriage to action.
• Brendan Francis
47

48. SUCCESS
• The very first step towards success in any
occupation is to become interested in it.
• Sir William Osler
48

49. LUCK
• The one who is intent on making the most
of his opportunities is too busy to bother
about luck.
• B.C. Forbes
49

50. OPPORTUNITY
• The successful person is one who had the
chance and took it.
• Roger Babson
50

51. COMMITMENT
• Nothing of worthy or weight can be
achieved with half a mind, with a faint
heart, and with a lame endeavor.
• Isaac Barrow
51

52. CONCENTRATION
• Concentrate on finding your goal, then
concentrate on reaching it.
• Colonel Michael Friedsman
52

53. WORK
• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately,
you occasionally find men who disgrace
labor.
• Ulysses S. Grant
53

54. PERFECTION
• The person with insight enough to admit
his limitations comes nearest to
perfection.
• Johann von Goethe
54

55. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,
THEN LET IT GO
• God tests His real friends more severely
than the lukewarm ones.
• Katheryn Hulme
55

56. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• I recommend you to take care of the
minutes, for the hours will take care of
themselves.
• Lord Chesterfield
56

57. PERSEVERANCE
• They who are the most persistent, and
work in the true spirit, will invariably be
the most successful.
• Samuel Smiles
57

58. PROBLEMS
• Any concern too small to be turned into a
prayer is too small to be made into a
burden.
• Corrie ten Bloom
58

59. FAILURES AND MISTAKES
• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes,
but quickly to see how to make them
good.
• Bertolt Brecht
59

60. THE ADVANTAGES OF
ADVERSITY
• Strong people are made by opposition,
like kites that go up against the wind.
• Frank Harris
60

61. REACTING TO EVENTS
• What counts in making a happy marriage
is not so much how compatible you are,
but how you deal with incompatibility.
• George Levinger
61

62. SELF-PITY
• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we
yield to it, we can never do anything wise
in this world.
• Helen Keller
62

63. PEACE OF MIND
• Peace of mind is that mental condition in
which you have accepted the worst.
• Lin Yutang
63

64. HAPPINESS
• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how
dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
• Hosea Ballou
64

65. ACCEPTANCE
• We must accept finite disappointment, but
we must never lose infinite hope.
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
65

66. FORGIVENESS
• The angry people are those people who
are most afraid.
• Dr. Robert Anthony
66

67. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
• Karl Barth
67

68. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• The only normal people are the ones you
don’t know very well.
• Foe Ancis
68

69. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Generosity gives assistance, rather than
advice.
• Vauvenargues
69

70. FRIENDSHIP
• The two most important things in life are
good friends and a strong bull pen.
• Bob Lemon
70

71. ACCEPTANCE
• Acceptance is the truest kinship with
humanity.
• G.K. Chesterton
71

72. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR
GOD
• Some people talk about finding God, as if
He could get lost.
• Anon
72

73. FAITH AND BELIEF
• Only the person who has faith in himself
is able to be faithful to others.
• Erich Fromm
73

74. PRAYER
• Prayer does not change God, but it
changes him who prays.
• Soren Kierkegaard
74

75. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• I’m not OK, you’re not OK - and that’s
OK.
• William Sloane Coffin
75

76. SELF-CONTROL
• When the fight begins within himself, a
man’s worth something.
• Robert Browning
76

77. SELF-RELIANCE
• Your future depends on many things, but
mostly on you.
• Frank Tyger
77

78. SIMPLICITY
• What you do not want done to yourself,
do not do to others.
• Confucius
78

79. ONE DAY
• Nothing is worth more than this day.
• Johann von Goethe
79

80. YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Some folks never exaggerate - they just
remember big.
• Audrey Snead
80

81. TODAY: THE PRESENT
• It is difficult to live in the present,
ridiculous to live in the future and
impossible to live in the past.
• Jim Bishop
81

82. THIS MOMENT
• The only courage that matters is the kind
that gets you from one moment to the
next.
• Mignon McLaughlin
82

83. MORNINGS
• With each sunrise, we start anew.
• Anon
83

84. EVENINGS
• Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use
tonight.
• Scottish proverb
84

85. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• God made the world round so we would
never be able to see too far down the road.
• Isak Dinesen
85

86. AVERAGE, “BORING” DAYS
• Being bored is an insult to oneself.
• Jules Renard
86

87. DIFFICULT DAYS
• Pain is never permanent.
• Saint Teresa of Avila
87

88. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and
it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
• Herbert Samuels
88

89. ENTHUSIASM
• You will do foolish things, but do them
with enthusiasm.
• Colette
89

90. HOPE
• Hope is one of those things in life you
cannot do without.
• LeRoy Douglas
90

91. VISUALIZATION
• A genius is one who shoots at something
no one else can see - and hits it.
• Anon
91

92. ROLE MODELS
• People never improve unless they look to
some standard or example higher and
better than themselves.
• Tyron Edwards
92

93. CHANGE
• Readjusting is a painful process, but most
of us need it at one time or another.
• Arthur Christopher Benson
93

94. DECISIONS
• Full maturity … is achieved by realizing
that you have choices to make.
• Angela Barron McBride
94

95. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US
• You don’t get to choose how you’re going
to die. Or when. You can only decide
how you’re going to live.
• Joan Baez
95

96. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US
• There is just one life for each of us: our
own.
• Euripides
96

97. MOTIVATION
• Don’t let other people tell you what you
want.
• Pat Riley
97

98. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• No one has ever loved anyone the way
everyone wants to be loved.
• Mignon McLaughlin
98

99. GOALS
• If you don’t know where you are going,
how can you expect to get there?
• Basil S. Walsh
99

100. FEAR
• We are more often frightened than hurt;
and we suffer more from imagination than
from reality.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
100

101. WORRY
• If your eyes are blinded with your
worries, you cannot see the beauty of the
sunset.
• Krishnamurti
101

102. DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES
• To be absolutely certain about something,
one must know everything, or nothing,
about it.
• Olin Miller
102

103. SECURITY
• To keep oneself safe does not mean to
bury oneself.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
103

104. RISKS
• It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
• Erica Jong
104

105. COURAGE
• It takes courage to know when you ought
to be afraid.
• James A. Michener
105

106. WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO
HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF
US
• We shall draw from the heart of suffering
itself the means of inspiration and
survival.
• Sir Winston Churchill
106

107. “IGNORANCE”
• Painting is easy when you don’t know
how, but very difficult when you do.
• Edgar Degas
107

108. GETTING GOING
• We will not know unless we begin.
• Howard Zinn
108

109. SUCCESS
• Always aim for achievement, and forget
about success.
• Helen Hayes
109

110. LUCK
• You don’t just luck into things … You
build step by step, whether it’s friendships
or opportunities.
• Barbara Bush
110

111. OPPORTUNITY
• Opportunity knocks but once.
• Anon
111

112. COMMITMENT
• He who walks in the middle of the road
gets hit from both sides.
• George P. Schultz
112

113. CONCENTRATION
• One arrow does not bring down two birds.
• Turkish proverb
113

114. WORK
• To love what you do and feel that it
matters - how could anything be more
fun?
• Katharine Graham
114

115. PERFECTION
• If the best man’s faults were written on
his forehead, it would make him pull his
hat over his eyes.
• Gaelic proverb
115

116. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,
THEN LET IT GO
• An ounce of action is worth a ton of
theory.
• Friedrich Engels
116

117. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• The distance doesn’t matter; only the first
step is difficult.
• Madame Marquise du Deffand
117

118. PERSEVERANCE
• It isn’t hard to be good from time to time
… What’s tough is being good every day.
• Willie Mays
118

119. PROBLEMS
• Every path has its puddle.
• English proverb
119

120. FAILURES AND MISTAKES
• Our mistakes won’t irreparably damage
our lives unless we let them.
• James E. Sweaney
120

121. THE ADVANTAGES OF
ADVERSITY
• Never complain about your troubles; they
are responsible for more than half of your
income.
• Robert R. Updegraff
121

122. REACTING TO EVENTS
• When things go wrong, don’t go with
them.
• Anon
122

123. THE ADVANTAGES OF
ADVERSITY
• A problem is a chance for you to do your
best.
• Duke Ellington
123

124. SELF-PITY
• The opposite of having faith is having
self-pity.
• Og Guinness
124

125. PEACE OF MIND
• If you do not find peace in yourself, you
will never find it anywhere else.
• Paula A. Bendry
125

126. HAPPINESS
• It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
• Agnes Repplier
126

127. ACCEPTANCE
• Into each life some rain must fall, some
days must be dark and dreary.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
127

128. FORGIVENESS
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness
is the attribute of the strong.
• Mahatma Ghandi
128

129. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Each day comes bearing its own gifts.
Untie the ribbons.
• Ruth Ann Schabacker
129

130. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• We love in others what we lack ourselves,
and would be everything but what we are.
• R.H. Stoddard
130

131. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• What do we live for if not to make life
less difficult for each other?
• George Eliot
131

132. FRIENDSHIP
• There is nothing on this earth more to be
prized than true friendship.
• Saint Thomas Aquinas
132

133. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR
GOD
• Let God love you through others and let
God love others through you.
• D.M. Street
133

134. FAITH AND BELIEF
• I have fought a good fight, I have finished
my course, I have kept the faith.
• 2 Tm. 4:7
134

135. CHANGE
• A fanatic is one who can’t change his
mind and won’t change the subject.
• Sir Winston Churchill
135

136. SELF-KNOWLEDGE
• When a man begins to understand
himself, he begins to live.
• Norvin G. McGranahan
136

137. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• Do not wish to be anything but what you
are.
• Saint Francis de Sales
137

138. SELF-CONFIDENCE
• As soon as you trust yourself, you will
know how to live.
• Johann von Goethe
138

139. SELF-RELIANCE
• The best place to find a helping hand is at
the end of your own arm.
• Swedish proverb
139

140. SIMPLICITY
• There is only one meaning of life, the act
of living itself.
• Erich Fromm
140

141. ONE DAY
• We die daily. Happy those who daily
come to life as well.
• George MacDonald
141

142. YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Your past is always going to be the way it
was. Stop trying to change it.
• Anon
142

143. TODAY: THE PRESENT
• Seize the day, and put the least possible
trust in tomorrow.
• Horace
143

144. MORNINGS
• If God adds another day to our life, let us
receive it gladly.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
144

145. EVENINGS
• Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
• Eph. 14:26
145

146. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• I never think of the future. It comes soon
enough.
• Albert Einstein
146

147. DIFFICULT DAYS
• God grant us patience!
• William Shakespeare
147

148. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• Change your thoughts and you change
your world.
• Norman Vincent Peale
148

149. ENTHUSIASM
• The world belongs to the enthusiast who
keeps cool.
• William McFee
149

150. CHANGE
• Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-
esteem.
• Eric Hoffer
150

151. VISUALIZATION
• We all live under the same sky, but we
don’t all have the same horizon.
• Konrad Adenauer
151

152. ROLE MODELS
• A good example is the best sermon.
• Anon
152

153. CHANGE
• Because things are the way they are,
things will not stay the way they are.
• Bertolt Brecht
153

154. FORGIVENESS
• One forgives to the degree that one loves.
• Francois de La Rochefoucauld
154

155. INSTINCTS
• The conclusions of passion are the only
reliable ones.
• Soren Kierkegaard
155

156. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US
• He who walks in another’s tracks leaves
no footprints.
• Joan L. Brannon
156

157. MOTIVATION
• We talk on principle, but we act on
interest.
• Walter Savage Landor
157

158. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• Growth begins when we start to accept
our own weakness.
• Jean Vanier
158

159. GOALS
• You have to have a dream so you can get
up in the morning.
• Billy Wilder
159

160. FEAR
• Do not think of all your anxieties, you
will only make yourself ill.
• Shih King
160

161. WORRY
• Worry often gives a small thing a big
shadow.
• Swedish proverb
161

162. DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES
• The only certainty is that nothing is
certain.
• Pliny, the Elder
162

163. SECURITY
• No one can build her security upon the
nobleness of another person.
• Willa Cather
163

164. RISKS
• Unless you enter the tiger’s den, you
cannot take the cubs.
• Japanese proverb
164

165. COURAGE
• Confidence … is directness and courage
in meeting the facts of life.
• John Dewey
165

166. WE’LL GET WHATEVER WE NEED TO
HANDLE WHATEVER LIFE DEMANDS OF
US
• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to
grow on a branch that is too weak to bear
it.
• Victor Hugo
166

167. “IGNORANCE”
• No one knows what he can do until he
tries.
• Publilius Syrus
167

168. GETTING GOING
• If we really want to live, we’d better start
at once to try.
• W.H. Auden
168

169. SUCCESS
• Before everything else, getting ready is
the secret of success.
• Henry Ford
169

170. OPPORTUNITY
• I was seldom able to see an opportunity
until it had ceased to be one.
• Mark Twain
170

171. COMMITMENT
• If you don’t stand for something, you’ll
fall for anything.
• Michael Evans
171

172. WORK
• Striving for success without hard work is
like trying to harvest where you haven’t
planted.
• David Bly
172

173. PERFECTION
• Perfection never exists in reality, but only
in our dreams.
• Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
173

174. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,
THEN LET IT GO
• God doesn’t make orange juice, God
makes oranges.
• Jesse Jackson
174

175. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• The distance doesn’t matter; only the first
step is difficult.
• Madame Marquise du Deffand
175

176. PERSEVERANCE
• It does not matter how slowly you go, so
long as you do not stop.
• Confucius
176

177. PERSEVERANCE
• It isn’t hard to be good from time to time
… What’s tough is being good every day.
• Willie Mays
177

178. FAILURES AND MISTAKES
• The only man who makes no mistakes is
the man who never does anything.
• Eleanor Roosevelt
178

179. REACTING TO EVENTS
• Were it not for my little jokes, I could not
bear the burdens of this office.
• Abraham Lincoln
179

180. SELF-PITY
• Sadness is almost never anything but a
form of fatigue.
• André Gide
180

181. PEACE OF MIND
• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but
the presence of God no matter what the
conflict.
• Anon
181

182. HAPPINESS
• Happiness depends upon ourselves.
• Aristotle
182

183. ACCEPTANCE
• One cannot get through life without pain
… What we can do is choose how to use
the pain life presents to us.
• Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
183

184. FORGIVENESS
• Judge not, that ye be not judged.
• Mt. 7:1
184

185. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• The mere sense of living is joy enough.
• Emily Dickinson
185

186. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Charity begins at home, and usually stays
there.
• Elbert Hubbard
186

187. HAPPINESS
• Good friends, good books and a sleepy
conscience: this is the ideal life.
• Mark Twain
187

188. FRIENDSHIP
• When good cheer is lacking, our friends
will be packing.
• Anon
188

189. HAPPINESS
• Do you prefer that you be right, or that
you be happy?
• A Course In Miracles
189

190. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• Hope is like a road in the country; there
was never a road, but when many people
walk on it, the road comes into existence.
• Lin Yutang
190

191. PRAYER
• The whole meaning of prayer is that we
may know God.
• Oswald Chambers
191

192. PERSEVERANCE
• The great thing in this world is not so
much where we are, but in what direction
we are moving.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
192

193. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• Do not wish to be anything but what you
are.
• Saint Francis de Sales
193

194. HAPPINESS
• Happiness sneaks in through a door you
didn’t know you left open.
• John Barrymore
194

195. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be
surprised. You’ll get it.
• Malcolm Forbes
195

196. HAPPINESS
• Happiness is often the result of being too
busy to be miserable.
• Anon
196

197. ONE DAY
• We die daily. Happy those who daily
come to life as well.
• George MacDonald
197

198. ACCEPTANCE
• Life’s under no obligation to give us what
we expect.
• Margaret Mitchell
198

199. FORGIVENESS
• Forgive all who have offended you, not
for them, but for yourself.
• Harriet Uts Nelson
199

200. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Better a little fire to warm us than a great
one to burn us.
• Thomas Fuller
200

201. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• We are cold to others only when we are
dull in ourselves.
• William Hazlitt
201

202. TOMORROW: THE FUTURE
• I never think of the future. It comes soon
enough.
• Albert Einstein
202

203. FRIENDSHIP
• We secure our friends not by accepting
favors but by doing them.
• Thucydides
203

204. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• You can promote your healing by your
thinking.
• James E. Sweeney
204

205. PRAYER
• When the knees are not often bent, the
feet soon slide.
• Anon
205

206. HOPE
• All human wisdom is summed up in two
words - wait and hope.
• Alexandre Dumas
206

207. ACCEPTANCE
• Happy he who learns to bear what he
cannot change!
• J.C.F. von Schiller
207

208. CHANGE
• There is nobody who totally lacks the
courage to change.
• Rollo May
208

209. DECISIONS
• Often greater risk is involved in
postponement than in making a wrong
decision.
• Harry A. Hopf
209

210. FORGIVENESS
• They may not deserve forgiveness, but I
do.
• Anon
210

211. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US
• I’d rather be a failure at something I enjoy
than a success at something I hate.
• George Burns
211

212. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• For everything you have missed, you have
gained something else.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
212

213. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• Growth begins when we start to accept
our own weakness.
• Jean Vanier
213

214. GOALS
• Never try to catch two frogs with one
hand.
• Chinese proverb
214

215. FEAR
• Fear is the absence of faith.
• Paul Tillich
215

216. WORRY
• Worry often gives a small thing a big
shadow.
• Swedish proverb
216

217. ACCEPTANCE
• If you have a job without aggravations,
you don’t have a job.
• Malcolm Forbes
217

218. FORGIVENESS
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than a
friend.
• Madame Dorothee Deluzy
218

219. RISKS
• Take calculated risks. That is quite
different from being rash.
• General George S. Patton
219

220. COURAGE
• Confidence … is directness and courage
in meeting the facts of life.
• John Dewey
220

221. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• To be upset over what you don’t have is
to waste what you do have.
• Ken Keyes, Jr.
221

222. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• From a little spark may burst a mighty
flame.
• Dante Alighieri
222

223. ACCEPTANCE
• Things turn out best for people who make
the best of the way things turn out.
• Anon
223

224. SUCCESS
• A strong passion for any object will
ensure success, for the desire of the end
will point out the means.
• William Hazlitt
224

225. OPPORTUNITY
• I was seldom able to see an opportunity
until it had ceased to be one.
• Mark Twain
225

226. FORGIVENESS
• When you pray for anyone you tend to
modify your personal attitude toward him.
• Norman Vincent Peale
226

227. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• We never know the worth of water till the
well is dry.
• English proverb
227

228. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• The greatest happiness in the world is to
make others happy.
• Luther Burbank
228

229. JUST DO THE FOOTWORK,
THEN LET IT GO
• With us is the Lord our God, to help us
and to fight our battles.
• 2 Chr.
229

230. TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME
• It is better to light a candle than to curse
the darkness.
• Chinese proverb
230

231. FRIENDSHIP
• It is easier to visit friends than to live with
them.
• Chinese proverb
231

232. PEACE OF MIND
• There may be those on earth who dress
better or eat better, but those who enjoy
the peace of God sleep better.
• L. Thomas Holdcroft
232

233. HAPPINESS
• Most folks are about as happy as they
make up their minds to be.
• Abraham Lincoln
233

234. ACCEPTANCE
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the
world; the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself.
• George Bernard Shaw
234

235. FORGIVENESS
• Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king
or prince to grant a pardon.
• Arthur J. Rehrat
235

236. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Sometimes the best deals are the ones you
don’t make.
• Bill Veeck
236

237. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• The only incurable troubles of the rich are
the troubles that money can’t cure.
• Ogden Nash
237

238. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• If you judge people, you have no time to
love them.
• Mother Teresa
238

239. FRIENDSHIP
• One thing everybody in the world wants
and needs is friendliness.
• William E. Holler
239

240. OUR HIGHER POWER, OR
GOD
• Talking about God is not at all the same
thing as experiencing God, or acting out
God through our lives.
• Phillip Hewett
240

241. PRAYER
• When you cannot pray as you would, pray
as you can.
• Edward M. Goulburn
241

242. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• No one can make you feel inferior without
your consent.
• Eleanor Roosevelt
242

243. SELF-CONFIDENCE
• Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
• Thomas Merton
243

244. SELF-RELIANCE
• The greatest griefs are those we cause
ourselves.
• Sophocles
244

245. SIMPLICITY
• To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep
putting oil in it.
• Mother Teresa
245

246. ONE DAY
• The most important thing in our lives is
what we are doing now.
• Anon
246

247. YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• Never let yesterday use up today.
• Richard H. Nelson
247

248. PRAYER
• Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray
when the sun shines.
• Satchel Paige
248

249. MORNINGS
• When you rise in the morning, form a
resolution to make the day a happy one
for a fellow creature.
• Sydney Smith
249

250. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s
all in the mind.
• Thomas Wolfe
250

251. ENTHUSIASM
• Morale is the greatest single factor in
successful wars.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
251

252. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US
• I’d rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a
millionaire in any other city.
• William A. Hulbert
252

253. VISUALIZATION
• Who is the wise man? He who sees
what’s going to be born.
• Solomon
253

254. ACCEPTANCE
• If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got
to put up with a few blisters.
• Abigail Van Buren
254

255. CHANGE
• Nothing in this world is permanent.
• German proverb
255

256. INSTINCTS
• It is the heart always that sees, before the
head can see.
• Thomas Carlyle
256

257. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US
• The most exhausting thing in life is being
insincere.
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh
257

258. MOTIVATION
• A man will fight harder for his interests
than for his rights.
• Napoleon Bonaparte
258

259. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• We cannot all be masters.
• William Shakespeare
259

260. GOALS
• Unless you give yourself to some great
cause, you haven’t even begun to live.
• William P. Merrill
260

261. FEAR
• If you are afraid for your future, you don’t
have a present.
• James Petersen
261

262. WORRY
• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
but only saps today of its strength.
• A.J. Cronin
262

263. DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES
• If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the
uncertainties, it may be too late.
• Lee Iacocca
263

264. RISKS
• In order to find the edge, you must risk
going over the edge.
• Dennis Dugan
264

265. COURAGE
• Knowledge of sin is the beginning of
salvation.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
265

266. GETTING GOING
• Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor
the best opportunities; they will never
come.
• Janet Erskine Stuart
266

267. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what
I have before time forces me to appreciate
what I had.
• Susan L. Lenzkes
267

268. GOALS
• It is in self-limitation that a master first
shows himself.
• Johann von Goethe
268

269. RISKS
• Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
• Mark Twain
269

270. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• He has enough who is contented with
little.
• Anon
270

271. ACCEPTANCE
• There are things I can’t force. I must
adjust.
• C.M. Ward
271

272. PERSEVERANCE
• The great thing in this world is not so
much where we are, but in what direction
we are moving.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
272

273. FAILURES AND MISTAKES
• The only man who makes no mistakes is
the man who never does anything.
• Eleanor Roosevelt
273

274. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Who does not thank for little will not
thank for much.
• Estonian proverb
274

275. FRIENDSHIP
• Who seeks a faultless friend remains
friendless.
• Turkish proverb
275

276. HAPPINESS
• No one gives joy or sorrow … We gather
the consequences of our own deeds.
• Garuda Purana
276

277. ACCEPTANCE
• The most popular persons are those who
take the world as it is, who find the least
fault.
• Charles Dudley Warner
277

278. FORGIVENESS
• Revenge could steal a man’s life until
there was nothing left but emptiness.
• Louis L’Amour
278

279. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• That which does not kill me makes me
stronger.
• Friedrich Nietzsche
279

280. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark
of a Christian - to help them is.
• Frank A. Clark
280

281. ONE DAY
• I must govern the clock, not be governed
by it.
• Golda Meir
281

282. FRIENDSHIP
• Friendship is a plant which must be often
watered.
• Anon
282

283. MORNINGS
• Day’s sweetest moments are at dawn.
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
283

284. PRAYER
• Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all
circumstances give thanks.
• The Desert Fathers
284

285. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• To dream of the person you would like to
be is to waste the person you are.
• Anon
285

286. SELF-RELIANCE
• A wise man will make more opportunities
than he finds.
• Francis Bacon
286

287. SIMPLICITY
• If you aren’t going all the way, why go at
all?
• Joe Namath
287

288. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• More than enough is too much.
• Anon
288

289. YESTERDAY: THE PAST
• The past is a work of art, free of
irrelevancies and loose ends.
• Max Beerbohm
289

290. TODAY: THE PRESENT
• So often we rob tomorrow’s memories by
today’s economies.
• John Mason Brown
290

291. MORNINGS
• With every rising of the sun, think of your
life as just begun.
• Anon
291

292. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• Hope is like a road in the country; there
was never a road, but when many people
walk on it, the road comes into existence.
• Lin Yutang
292

293. ENTHUSIASM
• The will to conquer is the first condition
of victory.
• Marshal Ferdinand Foch
293

294. HOPE
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the
intangible and achieves the impossible.
• Anon
294

295. CHANGE
• When you’re through changing, you’re
through.
• Bruce Barton
295

296. INSTINCTS
• Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is
genius.
• George Bernard Shaw
296

297. FRIENDSHIP
• Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
weep and you weep alone.
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
297

298. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Not he who has little, but he who wishes
more, is poor.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
298

299. PRAYER
• The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
• Martin Luther
299

300. FEAR
• The greatest mistake you can make is to
be continually fearing you will make one.
• Elbert Hubbard
300

301. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• The only way to make a man trustworthy
is to trust him.
• Henry L. Stimson
301

302. ENTHUSIASM
• The difference between one man and
another is not mere ability … it is energy.
• Thomas Arnold
302

303. RISKS
• And the trouble is, if you don’t risk
anything, you risk even more.
• Erica Jong
303

304. COURAGE
• You’re only as sick as your secrets.
• Anon
304

305. GETTING GOING
• Courage to start and willingness to keep
everlasting at it are the requisites for
success.
• Alonzo Newton Benn
305

306. SUCCESS
• Success is going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
• Sir Winston Churchill
306

307. COMMITMENT
• Whether you are really right or not
doesn’t matter, it’s the belief that counts.
• Robertson Davies
307

308. FEAR
• Fear is the dark room in which negatives
are developed.
• Anon
308

309. RISKS
• The greater the obstacle, the more glory in
overcoming it.
• Moliere
309

310. PRAYER
• Amazing things start happening when we
start praying!
• Anon
310

311. SUCCESS
• Success comes before work only in the
dictionary.
• Anon
311

312. FEAR
• Humor acts to relieve fear.
• Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.
312

313. HAPPINESS
• Life is a romantic business, but you have
to make the romance.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
313

314. ACCEPTANCE
• He is happy whose circumstances suit his
temper; but he is more excellent who can
suit his temper to any circumstances.
• David Hume
314

315. FORGIVENESS
• Revenge could steal a man’s life until
there was nothing left but emptiness.
• Louis L’Amour
315

316. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• Too many people miss the silver lining
because they’re expecting gold.
• Maurice Setter
316

317. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• Real unselfishness consists in sharing the
interests of others.
• George Santayana
317

318. FRIENDSHIP
• They are rich who have true friends.
• Thomas Fuller
318

319. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw
a man who had no feet.
• Ancient Persian saying
319

320. PRAYER
• Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all
circumstances give thanks.
• The Desert Fathers
320

321. SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• You grow up the day you have your first
real laugh at yourself.
• Ethel Barrymore
321

322. SELF-RELIANCE
• God gives every bird its food, but he does
not throw it into the nest.
• Josiah Holland
322

323. COURAGE
• What would life be if we had no courage
to attempt anything?
• Vincent van Gogh
323

324. RISKS
• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and
building your wings on the way down.
• Ray Bradbury
324

325. FRIENDSHIP
• Friendship is like money, easier made
than kept.
• Samuel Butler
325

326. TODAY: THE PRESENT
• If you spend your whole life waiting for
the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.
• Morris West
326

327. PRAYER
• Cold prayers shall never have any warm
answers.
• Thomas B. Brooks
327

328. ONE DAY
• A man who dares to waste one hour of life
has not discovered the value of life.
• Charles Darwin
328

329. POSITIVE THINKING, AND SELF-
FULFILLING PROPHESIES AND
ACTIONS
• The quality of our expectations
determines the quality of our actions.
• André Godin
329

330. GOALS
• He who begins many things finishes but
few.
• Italian proverb
330

331. COURAGE
• No great things are done more through
courage than through wisdom.
• German proverb
331

332. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US
• We are betrayed by what is false within.
• George Meredith
332

333. REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
• Results are what you expect;
consequences are what you get.
• Anon
333

334. GOALS
• The soul that has no established aim loses
itself.
• Michel de Montaigne
334

335. FEAR
• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone
else is afraid of winning.
• Billie Jean King
335

336. FRIENDSHIP
• The best mirror is an old friend.
• Anon
336

337. PRAYER
• I firmly believe a great many prayers are
not answered because we are not willing
to forgive someone.
• Dwight L. Moody
337

338. ONE DAY
• Make the most of today. Translate your
good intentions to actual deeds.
• Grenville Kleiser
338

339. COURAGE
• God grant me the courage not to give up
what I think is right, even though I think it
is hopeless.
• Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
339

340. FRIENDSHIP
• Hold a true friend with both your hands.
• Nigerian proverb
340

341. ONE DAY
• Every day is a messenger of God.
• Russian proverb
341

342. COURAGE
• To accept whatever comes, regardless of
the consequences, is to be unafraid.
• John Cage
342

343. GOALS
• I believe half the unhappiness in life
comes from people being afraid to go
straight at things.
• William J. Locke
343

344. CHANGE
• If you want to make enemies, try to
change something.
• Woodrow Wilson
344

345. FRIENDSHIP
• One who’s our friend is fond of us; one
who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our
friend.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
345

346. HAPPINESS
• How unhappy is he who cannot forgive
himself.
• Publilius Syrus
346

347. CHANGE
• Very often a change of self is needed
more than a change of scene.
• Arthur Christopher Benson
347

348. FORGIVENESS
• Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
• Isaac Friedmann
348

349. COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS
• If you count all your assets, you always
show a profit.
• Robert Quillen
349

350. HELPING OTHER PEOPLE
• It is more blessed to give than to receive.
• Acts 20:35
350

351. FRIENDSHIP
• A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when
they’re not so good, and sympathizes with
your problems when they’re not so bad.
• Arnold H. Glasow
351

352. PRAYER
• We have to pray with our eyes on God,
not on the difficulties.
• Oswald Chambers
352

353. GOALS
• Why should I deem myself to be a chisel,
when I could be the artist?
• J.C.F. von Schiller
353

354. FRIENDSHIP
• Have but few friends, though many
acquaintances.
• Anon
354

355. GOALS
• Once you say you’re going to settle for
second, that’s what happens to you.
• John F. Kennedy
355

356. FRIENDSHIP
• A man is known by the company he
keeps.
• Anon
356

357. GOALS
• A person can grow only as much as his
horizon allows.
• John Powell
357

358. MORNINGS
• With every rising of the sun, think of your
life as just begun.
• Anon
358

359. ACCEPTANCE
• There are things I can’t force. I must
adjust.
• C.M. Ward
359

360. ENTHUSIASM
• It is fatal to enter any war without the will
to win it.
• General Douglas MacArthur
360

361. CHANGE
• Every saint has a past, and every sinner
has a future.
• Oscar Wilde
361

362. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT FOR
US
• A happy life is one which is in accordance
with its own nature.
• Marcus Annaeus Seneca
362

363. GOALS
• Concentrate on finding your goal, then
concentrate on reaching it.
• Colonel Michael Friedman
363

364. FEAR
• The habit of doing one’s duty drives away
fear.
• Charles Baudelaire
364

365. WORRY
• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it
comes due.
• William Ralph Inge
365

366. DOUBTS AND
UNCERTAINTIES
• Action will remove the doubts that theory
cannot solve.
• Tehyi Hsieh
366

367. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE
• The only incurable troubles of the rich are
the troubles that money can’t cure.
• Ogden Nash
367