FISH! Quotes 2006

1-1 "Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past." - Henry Ward Beecher

1-2 "Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer,
With never a thought of sorrow;
The old goes out, but the glad young year
Comes merrily in tomorrow."
- Emily Miller

1-3 "Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
This year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true."
- Lord Tennyson

1-5 "Many people experience a fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role such as that of husband or wife, parent or grandparent, manager or leader. It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus our attitudes or behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work our basic paradigms. In the words of Thoreau, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives if we get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow." - Stephen Covey from "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"

1-6 "Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well." - Danish proverb

1-7 "If something happens to you that you can't control, don't waste your time worrying about it. But if you can do something to fix it, then do it." - David "Pie" Crossnoe

1-8 "If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset." - Krishna Murti

1-9 "Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. "Lift Off" takes tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension." - Stephen Covey from "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"

1-10 "Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American Writer

1-11 "If you take the long road towards your goals and do things right, you will be rewarded. If you take short cuts, you will get cut short. Your rewards may not be financial, they may be spiritual or social, but they will most be in direct proportion with the effort you put forth." - Rev. Run

1-12 "Life can't give me joy and peace; it's up to me to will it. Life gives me time and space; it's up to me to fill it." - Unknown

1-13 "Always wear a smile to have a stress free day. It won't hurt smiling and creating an aura of a welcoming heart. Happiness in your heart can combat any form of adversity coupled with positive thoughts and faith. You'll embrace, face, and welcome all experiences with bliss and confidence in your heart and with poise and grace." - James Padilla

1-14 "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus

1-15 "When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space." - Pema Chodron

1-16 "Now, I say to you my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'" - Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at Civil Right March on Washington, August 28,1963

1-17 "I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars." - Martin Luther King Jr.

1-18 "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." - Martin Luther King Jr.

1-19 "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King Jr.

1-23 "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." - Albert Einstein

1-25 "Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life." - Marcus Aurelius

1-26 "Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation." - Anon.

1-27 "Everything gone is never gone for it is the beginning for new things to begin." - Unknown

1-28 "The substance of a 'dream' is really what is known to us, from reality. To experience the 'dream', live the dream through reality; it is, your dream!" - Donna Avvento

1-29 "Tears will not erase your sorrow; hope does not make you successful; courage will get you there." - John Pangalila

1-30 "Laugh at the imperfections; love the misdirections 'cause happiness is realizing that it's so much easier to smile." - Andy Brommel

2-2 "In life, remember that GOOD judgement comes from experience...and experience comes from BAD judgement. You gotta live to learn!" - Unknown

2-3 "To have a friend in my life like you doesn't mean sailing on a boat without any storms. Rather it means having a boat that can sail in every storm." - Babbu Pandu

2-4 "Life is struggle. The one who enjoys this struggle is the real winner." - Anupama Kamble

2-5 "The reason why birds can fly and simply we can't is that they have FAITH, for to have faith is to have wings." - Unknown

2-6 "Always remember who you are, and you will always know where you are going." - Stephanie Duxbury

2-8 "Sometimes, there are no words; only shoulders to lean on, hands to hold onto, and hugs to comfort you as best they can." - Unknown

2-9 "If we conduct our lives with grace and integrity, the mirror smiles back." - Lorraine Vost

2-11 "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same." - Flavia Weedn

2-12 "No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Mauriac

2-15 "He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has." - Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher

2-17 "All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that 'luck' is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation." - Unknown

2-18 "Refuse to let hope be squashed by mere possibilities. It is within you to choose hope until your last breath." - Victoria Wolfe

2-19 "The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity - even under the most difficult circumstances - to add a deeper meaning to his life." - Dr. Victor Frankl (from his book "Man's Search for Meaning.")

2-20 "If you face problems with confidence and make a decision that I CAN, nothing is impossible. Yes, miracles do happen but only if willpower is there." - Unknown

2-22 "What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph A. Addison

2-23 "Sometimes people have hurt us. We ask ourselves, 'Why me?' I say, 'Why not me?' The things we go through in life happen for a reason and help prepare us for the next step in life. Have faith in yourself and anything you want will happen. Always go forward, don't go backward." - Unknown

2-24 "Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't." - Pete Seeger

2-25 "...and just when you think I'm down for the count, I get back up AGAIN." - Traci Connelly

2-26 "There may be a lot of hurdles, like the stars, but there is only one thing to overshine them, like the sun, and that is courage." - Shakeel Mohammed

2-27 "When you are falling apart, open your heart and reach out. Somebody will definitely catch your hand and pull you together again." - Hartina Ahmed Tharbe

2-28 "I believe there are no efforts without errors, that is what makes us humans. But our ability to correct them is what makes us beings." - Festus Ehinome Ayemere

3-1 "It's amazing how you can lose so much and just when you believe you have nothing to live for, you look back and realize that you've gained so much more than you've ever lost." - Eda Suzer

3-2 "Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built." - James Allen

3-3 "Sometimes, the winds of time change, maybe people in your life will leave, go on to a better place, whatever it may be, no matter what, great memories are the key things to our lives. We live to fight, to hold on to them, and those memories are what keep us going." - Unknown

3-5 "If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again." - Flavia Weedn

3-7 "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

3-8 "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

3-9 "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin

3-11 "Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness." - George Bernard Shaw

3-13 "Giving of ourselves is the way we can change the world at the end of our fingertips." - Richard F. Schubert

3-15 "People aren't afraid of failure, they just don't know how to succeed. We are each responsible for our own success. Winning at what you do is no exception. To ensure a win, you must take a proactive approach." Jeffrey Gitomer

3-16 "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke

3-19 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Victor Frankl

3-20 "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

3-21 "My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny." - Elaine Maxwell

3-22 "As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes." - Mel Brooks

3-23 "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious this time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored." - Earl Nightingale

3-28 "The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher

3-29 "Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance." - Yoko Ono

3-30 "Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all." - David Fontana

3-31 "The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of thousand repulses and defeats." - Theodore Roosevelt

4-1 "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgements that leads to either fortune or failure." - Jim Rohn

4-2 "The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself." - Brian Tracy

4-3 "Others will underestimate us, for although we judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, others judge us only by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4-4 "You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there." - Venus Williams

4-5 "Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire." - Wayne Dyer

4-6 "I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong." - Stuart Wilde

4-7 "The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance, and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to our lives." - Albert Einstein

4-8 "At the center of your being you have the answer; You know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao-tzu

4-9 - "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." - Alexander Woollcott

4-10 "There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness." - Euripides

4-11 "Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness." - Thich Nhat Hanh

4-12 "I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." - Dr. Jonas Salk

4-13 "If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come." - Chinese Proverb

4-14 "Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass." - Paul Meyer

4-15 "When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up." - Les Brown

4-16 "Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass." - Ron Jaworski

4-17 "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne

4-18 "Few cases of eye strain have been developed by looking at the bright side of things." - Unknown

4-19 "Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough." - DeVos

4-20 "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches on the soul, and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickenson

4-21 "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." - William Shakespeare

4-24 "Do not strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking." - William B. Sprague

4-28 “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison

4-29 “Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” - William A Ward

5-1 “Life involves risk. Without risk, we are not living, loving or learning.” – Maria Haramis

5-2 "Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize." - Norman Vincent Peale

5-3 “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa

5-6 "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning

5-7 "Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right." - Aldous Huxley

5-8 "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." - Vince Lombardi

5-9 "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

5-10 "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness that this world affords." - Samuel Johnson

5-11 "We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it." - Sharon Salzberg

5-12 "I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful." - Bob Hope

5-13 “In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.” – Peter McWilliams

5-14 “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire

5-16 “Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.” – Katherine Anne Porter

5-17 “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

5-18 “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” – Og Mandino

5-19 “There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.” – Francis Bacon

5-20 “In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.” – Harry S. Truman

5-21 “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.” – George Orwell

5-22 “Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle

5-27 “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli

5-28 “Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.” - Confucius

5-29 “A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

5-31 “There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life." - Sister Mary Rose McGeady

6-5 “Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” - Ralph Blum

6-6 "Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life." – Og Mandino

6-7 “Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.” – Lord Chesterfield