He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
Related topics: Wisdom
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous 
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
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You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
All the darkness of the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle,
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.
- Jewish Hanukah Prayer
Be the best that you can be.
- Anonymous
Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes,
but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done,
even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse.
There lies freedom, indeed.
- Anonymous
Be who you are and say what you feel
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind.
- commonly but falsely attributed to Dr. Seuss,
this misquote consists of the Bernard Baruch quote,
"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
with additional words added anonymously.
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