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Money Quotes, Financial Sayings, Quotations about Wealth

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. ~Author Unknown Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last [...]

Quotes about Being Yourself

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. ~Oscar Wilde All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ~Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, [...]

Thank You Quotations

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my [...]

Quotations about Missing Someone

Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color. ~W.S. Merwin, “Separation” Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. ~George Linley Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and [...]

SELF-ESTEEM Quotes

“If you have real internal value, you don’t need a loud, expensive imitation.” — Denis Waitley “Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.” — Nido Qubein “The most influential person who will talk to you all day is you, so you should be very careful about what you [...]

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES Quotes

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.” – Horace “The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.” — William Mather Lewis [...]

Positive Sayings – Wise Attitude Sayings

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader’s Digest, June 1995 Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. [...]

Success Sayings

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection [...]

wedding quotes sayings

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~Martin Luther A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you. ~Author Unknown Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~English saying used on poesy rings Love [...]

graduation quotes sayings

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let [...]

leadership quotes sayings

Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ~Gene Mauch The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~Elaine Agather You don’t have to hold a position in order to [...]

birthday quotes sayings

There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear… But yours gives most; for mine did only lend [...]

life quotes sayings

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking [...]

quotable quotes sayings

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope. ~Edgar Howe Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be [...]

great quotes sayings

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty Reese A snowflake is one of God’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author Unknown The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its [...]