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01 Jun

Attitude Quotes

 Enjoy our deep and meaningful quotes about attitude. Your attitude in life will determine your success in life. Keeping a positive attitude, looking for the good in every situation is sometimes diffucult to do, but if you master this, then you will be successful. We hope these attitude quotes inspire you.

 The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes

Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Samuel Johnson

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
William James

An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan J. Bissonette

You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise
Zig Ziglar

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Martha Washington

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs.
Brian Tracy

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
Jerry West

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
John Homer Miller


24 May

Senior Graduation Quotes

Graduation is a time of celebration, a time of looking to the future, but not a time to stop learning.  Enjoy these senior graduation quotes and sayings and let them also be a reminder to always learn.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough we must do.
Goethe

When you know something, say what you know. When you don’t know something, say that you don’t know. That is knowledge.” Confucius

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
The more persistent we are, the more successful we become.
William Arthur Ward, from Truths For Living

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Remember all the happiness that comes your way in living. Forget each worry and distress; be hopeful and forgiving.
Priscilla Leonard, from Outlook

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Max Ehrmann, from Desiderata

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Martina Horner

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

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.
Christian D. Larsen, from The Optimist Creed

There will be challenges to face and changes to make in your life, and it is up to you to accept them. A
uthor Unknown, from Believe In Yourself

If you can’t be a highway then just be a trail, if you can’t be the sun be a star; it isn’t by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are!
Douglas Malloch, from Be The Best of Whatever You Are

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
Anatole France

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
William Arthur Ward

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt

Believe there are no limits but the sky.
Cervantes

I hope your dreams take you
to the corners of your smiles,
to the highest of your hopes,
to the windows of your opportunities,
and to the most special places your heart has ever known.
Author Unknown
 

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15 May

Happiness Quotes

 What is happiness?  How do we find it? Let these deep and meaningful happiness quotes give you thought for reflection on what being happy means.

Happiness is always a by-product.  It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.  But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles L. Morgan

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t’were his own.
Goethe

There are two things to aim at in life:  first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
Oprah Winfrey

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth. Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
John Templeton

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
Johann Pestalozzi

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. 
H. Jackson Browne

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. 
Channing Pollock

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

Joy is not in things; it is in us.
 Richard Wagner

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. 
John Stuart Mill

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank

I’ve grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Lawana Blackwell


15 May

Life Quotes

 We hope you enjoy these inspirational life quotes and you find they are meaningful. Some are deep thoughts from individuals and other sayings are deep in that they require thought to understand the authors meaning.

Just living is not enough.  One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

One of the ways to keep happiness in your life depends on how you approach and react to life itself.
Byron Pulsifer

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.
 Oscar Wilde

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
 Sandra Carey

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.
 Gail Sheehy 
 

Reflect on the blessings you have, set goals to keep you focused on the direction you want your life to go, but, most importantly, enjoy and be happy with each day as it comes!
C Pulsifer

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.  You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

Life is like a blanket too short.  You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
Marion Howard

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
Havelock Ellis

Life is the sum of all your choices. 
Albert Camus

To succeed in life, you need three things:  a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

Don’t let your ideas and goals be just a rehearsal. Take action and let them be the play of your life!
C Pulsifer

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. 
Grandma Moses


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