The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power,
To tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour.

To lose one’s wealth is sad indeed, to lose one’s health is more,
To lose one’s soul is such a loss as no man can restore.

The present only is our own, live, love, toil with a will;
Place no faith in tomorrow for the clock may then be still.

Etta Johnson

No one is beat till he quits,
No one is through till he stops,
No matter how hard failure hits,
No matter how often he drops,
A fellow's not down till he lies
in the dust and refuses to rise.

Fate can slam him and bang him around,
And batter his frame till he's sore,
But she never can say that he's downed
While he bobs up serenely for more.
A fellow's not dead till he dies,
Nor beat till no longer he tries.

Edgar Guest

Winners are too busy to be sad, too positive to be doubtful, too
optimistic to be fearful and too determined to be defeated!

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did.

So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.

The remarkable thing is - we have a choice every day of our lives regarding the attitude we embrace for that day.

We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

I’m convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you.

We are in charge of our attitudes.

Charles Swindoll