Category: Quotations

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.William Arthur WardI’m not an optimist; I’m a realist, and this MN budget…

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.Jon Bon Jovi

Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea.  It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.Nolan Bushnell

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.Eric Hoffer

Having loosened our grip on the past, we are free to reach for the future.Ann D. Clark

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.Richard Bach

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.  It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.William Pitt