You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.

Ben Carson

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.

Derek Jeter

When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.

Chinese Proverb

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

Kerry Healey

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

Anatole France

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Willa Cather

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to relationships, businesses, and even nations.

Steve Maraboli

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

David Friedrich Strauss

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

Virginia Woolf

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nevell Bovee