Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
Related topics: Values Compassion Caring Kindness
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese 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
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
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
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The grass is not always greener
on the other side of the fence.
Fences have nothing to do with it.
The grass is greenest where it is watered.
When crossing over fences, carry water with you
and tend the grass wherever you may be.
- Anonymous
Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous
The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous
He who hesitates is lost.
- Proverb
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
Know When To Be Done.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Strike while the iron is hot.
- 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
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist 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)
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Every dog has his day.
- 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
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Hunker down.
- Anonymous
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
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