I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than the things I haven’t done. — Lucille Ball

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas A. Edison

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. — Confucius

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Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful. - Martin E. P. Seligman

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. _ Mary Lou Retton

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Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.

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I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I'm supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.

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We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

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