“Every man I meet is my superior in some way.  In that, I learn from him.”

 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is nothing inherently good or bad, it’s one’s thinking that makes it so.”

 -William Shakespeare

“If you want enemies, excel your friends, but if you want friends, let your friend excel you.”

 -Le Rochefoucauld

“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.”

 -Robert Louis Stevenson

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with unexpected success.”

 -Henry David Thoreau

“The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.”

-George Bernard Shaw

“There are two things to aim at in life – to get what you want and after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”

-Logan Pearsall Smith

“I shall pass this way but once.  Therefore any good that I can do or any kindness that I can show – let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.”

 -Theodore Dreiser

“Do what you feel in your heart is right, for you’ll be criticized no matter what.”

 -Eleanor Roosevelt

“Every man is a fool for five minutes every day.  Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.”

-Elbert Hubbard

 “Have you learned lessons only from those who admired you, were tender with you, and stood aside for you?  Have you not learned great lessons from those who rejected you and braced themselves against you?”

-Walt Whitman

“I measure my accomplishments not by how tired I am at the end of the day, but how tired I am not.”

-Daniel Josselyn

“It is a good thing to have to endure an agonizing experience occasionally.  It is good to know that we have hit rock bottom and survived.”

-Ted Ericksen

What are your favorite motivational sayings?