“Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.”
     --Allophones Karr

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."
     --Judy Garland

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”
     --Sally Koch

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
     --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind."
     – Henry James

“To be loved, you have to be nice to others every day! To be hated, you don’t have to do squat.”
     --Homer Simpson

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
     --Ann Landers

“The best portion of a good man’s life is the little, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
     --William Wordsworth

“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
     --Booker T. Washington

"The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on."
     --Julia Alvarez

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
     --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities."
     --Norman Vincent Peale

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
     --Epictetus

"Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve."
     --Martin Luther King

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
     --Winston Churchill

"What you are will show in what you do."
     --Thomas A. Edison

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
     --Elbert Hubbard

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit."
     --Aristotle

"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."
     --Benjamin Franklin

"Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were attempted."
     --Earl Nightingale

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
     --Dale Carnegie

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
     --Theodore Roosevelt

"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
     --Samuel Johnson

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily."
     --Zig Ziglar

"Action is eloquence."
     --William Shakespeare

"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
     --Socrates

"Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy and understanding."
     --John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
     --St. Basil

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
     --Bonnie Jean Wassmund

"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."
     --Mary Martin

"One kind word can warm three winter months."
     --Japanese proverb

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."
     --Samuel Goldwyn

"Flatter me and I may not believe you. Criticize me and I may not like you. Ignore me and I may not forgive you. Encourage me and I may not forget you."
     --William Arthur

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
     --Voltaire

"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart."
     --Henry Clay

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."
     --Mother Teresa

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary."
     --Margaret Cousins