Words of Wisdom

May you find the wisdom in these quotes to be an inspiration and guide in your life!

If you make yourself a doormat, people will wipe their feet on you.

The water that keeps the ship afloat is the same water that engulfs it.

When God gives hard bread, He gives sharp teeth!

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.

Everything is funny as long as it happens to someone else.

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

Drive carefully, your car is not the only thing that can be recalled by its maker

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is taking action in spite of fear.

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.

Do not be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

I am no longer afraid of the storm, because I am learning to sail my ship.

If your life is free of failures you are not taking enough risks.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. 

The only thing we can have to fear is fear itself.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

It is not the years in your life  but the life in your years that counts.

Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing till you get there.

The grass may be greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be enjoyed.

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have them the most live the longest.

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right.

Failure isn't falling down. It's staying down.