PEACE

"Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me."

Jill Jackson Miller

DREAMS

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney

LOVE

"Love always wins."

Morrie Schwartz as portrayed by Jack Lemmon in Tuesdays with Morrie.

ATTITUDE

" Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

Irving Berlin

SUCCESS

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

                                                  General George Patton

A MIND

"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word."

Andrew Jackson

KINDNESS

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.


Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC),
The Lion and the Mouse

PROMISES

"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once."




Norman Vincent Peale

FRIENDS

"The only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends."

Martin VanderHof, as portrayed by Lionel Barrymore in

"You Can't Take It With You"   1938

LOVE

"Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count."

                            Wolfman Jack

LIVING

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."
 
Michael Landon

FAILURE

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Thomas Edison

DETERMINATION

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."

                                  Helen Keller

WISDOM

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something"

                                           Plato

RESPONSIBILITY

                                                                                                                                              

"He who troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind."

Proverbs: 11:29

And quoted in the movie Inherit the Wind. 

RESPONSIBILITY

"No one will do it for you."

Ben Stein

WHO YOU ARE

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

Abraham Lincoln

Helping Others

''Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth.''

Roberto Clemente

FRIENDS

"My friends are my estate."

Emily Dickinson

INFERIORITY

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Givers and Takers

"There are two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers, The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

Attributed to Danny Thomas

PEOPLE

"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."

Charles Kuralt

The Truth

"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."

"Walter Cronkite"

Observing

"You can observe a lot, just by watching."

Yogi Berra

Anger

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred"

Thomas Jefferson

The Present

"The past is a ghost, the future a dream,
and all we ever have is now."
Bill Cosby

Looking For Love

"When all the days turn into night,
and your broken heart sees no love in sight.
Look not far down life's highway,
for you may miss a flower by the side of the road."

Scott B. Thompson, Sr.

Time

"Time will take your money, but money won't buy you time."

James Taylor

Life

"Life is tough. Life is tougher if you are stupid."

John Wayne

Hope

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

George Washington Carver

Destiny

"I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both."


Forest Gump, as portrayed by Tom Hanks

Taking

"All you can take with you is what you give away."

Sign on the wall of George Bailey's office

"It's A Wonderful Life"

Mothers

"A father may turn his back on his child, his brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all."

Washington Irivng

HAPPINESS

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."

Martha Washington

WAR

"It is well that war is so terrible,
that we may grow too fond of it."

General Robert E. Lee

LOVE

"We must love one another or die."

W.H. Auden

Sharing

"The miracle is this: the more we share, the more

we have."

Leonard Nimoy

Hate

"As long as you hate, there will be people who hate."

George Harrison

Being Successful

"If you want to be successful, it is just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."

Will Rogers

A Failure

"No man is a failure who has friends."

Angel Clarence Oddbody,

It's a Wonderful Life, 1946

Our Lives

"We make our living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

Sir Winston Churchill

A Heart

"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but how much you are loved by others."

The Wizard of Oz, 1939

As portrayed by Frank Morgan

Like What You Do

"Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else."

Paul Harvey

DOING RIGHT

"Always do right, you will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain, 1901

CARING

"No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care."

Teddy Roosevelt

PURPOSE

"Each of us was put here for a purpose, to build and not to destroy."

Red Skelton

Skelton, one of America's most beloved comedians, often ended his long running TV show with this phrase. Skelton explained that if, as a comedian, he made us forgot our troubles, if only for a few moments, then his roles as a comedian was complete.

Giving

"The greatest joy of living is the joy

that comes from giving."

Uncle Jed Clampett

The Beverly Hillbillies

Episode 5, Season 2

First aired Oct. 23, 1963