Necessity is the mother of invention. ...
by Anonymous

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous

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

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

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

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous

Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb

Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

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

Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous

Never quit.
- Anonymous

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous

Hunker down.
- Anonymous

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous

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

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb

Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb

If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous

The Joy is in the Journey.
- Anonymous

Never give up.
- Anonymous

Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

When the music changes, so does the dance.
- African Proverb

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb

Better late than never.
- Proverb

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