Action is the real measure of intelligence.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures.

When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

- Mark Twain

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life – time, if not asked to lend money.

- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

- Mark Twain

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

- Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

- Mark Twain

-Catherine Pulsifer

Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.

-Proverb

A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.

-Proverb

To the outside world we all grow old.
But not to brothers and sisters.
We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts.
We share private family jokes.
We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.
We live outside the touch of time.

-Clara Ortega
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

-Anna Quindlan

There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.

- Astrid Alauda

-Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

-Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.

-Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

-Mark Twain
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

-Edith Wharton
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

-Colette
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

-James Openheim

-E.E. Cummings

Laughter is an instant vacation.

-Milton Berle

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

-Woody Allen

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.

-Author Unknown

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

-Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

-Yiddish Proverb

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.

-Raymond Hitchcock

Robin Williams

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.

Proverb
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

-William Shakespeare
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

-Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

-Unknown
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.”

-Thomas Merton
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

-Unknown
“He who does not live life to it’s fullest can never know the true meaning of life …”

-Unknown
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

-Albert Camus

George Bernard Shaw

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

Anonymous

When our memories outweigh our dreams we become old.

Bill Clinton

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Woodrow Wilson

We should show life neither as it is or as it it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Leo Tolstoy

-Unknown

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

- Ezra Taft Benson

If I feel depressed, I go to work. Work is always an antidote to depression.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is the best medicine.

-Unknown
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

-Ben Franklin

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.

-C.P.Snow

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

-Unknown

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

-Diane Feinstein

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

- Michael Eyquen de Montaigne

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

- Josh Billings

Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.

- Malcolm Forbes

A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.

- Mario Puzo