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Maltbie D. Babcock
(Clergyman, 1858-1901)

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

Lauren Bacall
(Actor)

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Francis Bacon
(Philosopher and Politician, 1561-1626)

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Richard Bach
(Writer)

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Joan Baez
(Folk Singer)

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.

Pearl Bailey
(Entertainer, 1918-1990)

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Philip James Bailey
(Poet, 1816-1902)

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.

Alexander Bain
(Philosopher and psychologist, 1818-1903)

Instinct is untaught ability.

Christina Baldwin
(Writer and educator)

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

James Baldwin
(Writer, 1924-1987)

The trick is to love somebody. If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

Ernie Banks
(Major league baseball player)

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy any place.

Harry F. Banks

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.

Judith M. Bardwick
(Sociologist)

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself--your strengths and your limitations--in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

Vincent Barnett
(Former president of Colgate University)

Almost everything is more complicated than it seems, but almost nothing is hopeless.

Julia Barr
(Actor)

Compassion is about stepping outside yourself. It means acknowledging that you're part of something larger by finding a way to be of help, aid, and support for those we share the world with, even animals.

Marilyn C. Barrick
(Psychologist and Writer)

Give yourself a pat on the back each time you hang in there when you're scared.

Sir James M. Barrie
(Author and Playwright, 1860-1937)

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one  has to do.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Ethel Barrymore
(Actor, 1879-1959)

When life knocks you to your knees . . . well, that's the best position to pray, isn't it?

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

John Barrymore
(Actor, 1882-1942)

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Lionel Barrymore

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.

Bernard M. Baruch
(Presidential Advisor, 1870-1965)

To me, old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Joe Batten
(Motivational speaker and consultant)

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

O. A. Battista
(Scientist and Writer)

There's nothing like a vacation with the entire family to make you appreciate that  taking life easy can be hard work.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much  they love them while they're still alive.

Nothing is more important to the future of an idea than the first step you take to try it out.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

Vicki Baum
(Writer and Playwright, 1888-1960)

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

Rene Bazin
(Writer)

There is no need to go searching for a remedy for the evils of the time. The remedy already exists--it is the gift of one's self to those who have fallen so low that even hope fails them.

Simone De Beauvoir

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

May Lamberton Becker
(Editor and writer, 1873-1958)

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

John L. Beckley

Authority is a poor substitute for leadership.

Henry Becque

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety  or the handle of faith.

John Beecher

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

Ludwig van Beethoven
(Composer)

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes.

Isabella Mary Beeton

A place for everything and everything in its place.

J. C. Bell

When you are looking for obstacles, you can't find opportunities.

Roy Benjamin

You are a fortunate person, indeed, if you can begin each day accepting the fact that during that day there will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones, disappointments, surprises, unexpected turns of events.

Arnold Bennett
(Writer, 1867-1931)

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Dan Bennett

One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.

Henri Louis Bergson
(Philosopher, 1859-1941)

Time is nature's way of preventing everything from happening at once.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Milton Berle
(Comedian, 1908-2002)

Laughter is an instant vacation.

If opportunity doesn't knock ... build a door.

Claude Bernard
(Physiologist, 1813-1878)

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Tristan Bernard
(Writer and Lawyer, 1866-1947)

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.

William Bernbach
(Advertising executive, 1911-1982)

The greatest risk of all is the risk of going unnoticed.

Wendell Berry

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate  hope of survival.

John Berryman

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Cathy Better

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Aneurin Bevan
(Politician, 1897-1960)

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Carisa Bianchi

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

James G. Bilkey

You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension, and discipline are taken out of your life.

Maeve Binchy
(Writer)

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

Claude T. Bissell

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Joh Bjelke-Petersen
(Political leader)

Always make yourself essential, that's been my golden rule.

William Blake
(Poet and Author, 1757-1827)

I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with  my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow.

Mary Kay Blakely
(Journalist and writer)

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet.

Kenneth Hartley Blanchard

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Marjorie Blanchard

If you are not working on your ideas each day, you're working on someone else's.

Rachel Blanchard

I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.

Smiley Blanton
(Speech pathologist, 1882-1966)

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

Marguerite Power Blessington
(Writer, 1789-1849)

Friends are the thermometers by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Edwin Bliss
(Writer)

Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can - unless, of course, you happen to be a worm.

William J. H. Boetcker
(Clergyman,1873-1962)

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

Antoine-Roger Bolamba

What we need is a happiness bridge where two hearts that are strangers can make an exchange of their gifts.

Erma Bombeck
(Humorist, 1927-1996)

If you can't make it better you can laugh at it.

Edward de Bono

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Daniel Joseph Boorstin
(Historian and Writer, 1914-2004)

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

Evangeline Booth
(Social Reformer, 1865-1950)

It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them. It is not what we receive, but what we give to others.

David Boren

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm.

Nadia Boulanger
(Conductor and Musician, 1887-1979)

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Margaret Bourke-White

Work to me is a sacred thing.

Christian Nestell Bovee
(Writer, 1820-1904)

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Elizabeth Bowen
(Writer, 1899-1973)

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself--in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Louis Brandeis
(Jurist, 1856-1941)

If we would be guided by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

Robert Brault

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share, and sought advantage over no one.

Richard Brautigan
(Writer and Poet, 1935-1984)

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
(Founder of the Simple Abundance Charitable Fund)

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Stephen A. Brennan

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route  to success.

Robert Bresson
(Filmmaker, 1901-1999)

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best--that is inspiration.

Fanny Brice

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be--because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you?

Ruby Bridges
(Civil rights activist)

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

Arthur Brisbane

How to be a better reporter: See a thing clearly and describe it simply.

Rhonda Britten
(Life coach and motivational speaker)

Asking for support from the right people at the right time helps you summon the courage to show more of who you are to the world.

Po Bronson
(Writer)

There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.

Dr. Joyce Brothers
(Psychologist)

In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

What's important is how frequently you're happy, not how intensely. Those peaks of happiness - getting swept off your feet, scaling a mountaintop, winning a bundle in Las Vegas - are nice, but happiness comes down to being quietly content most of the time.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Anita Brookner
(Art historian and novelist)

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

John Seely Brown
(Research center director)

The job of leadership today is not just to make money. It's to make meaning.

Les Brown
(Motivational Speaker)

Life is more meaningful when you are always looking to grow and working toward a goal.

Rita Mae Brown
(Novelist)

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Sir Thomas Browne
(Physician and essayist, 1605-1682)

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Robert Browning
(Poet, 1812-1889)

My sun sets to rise again.
'At the 'Mermaid'"

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Benjamin “Dink” Bruce

You never know who the people are that you’ll meet and how they’ll influence your life in the future.

Lenny Bruce
(Comedian, 1925-1966)

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

There are never enough "I love you's".

Edna Buchanan
(Writer)

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Buddha

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Luis Bunuel
(Filmmaker, 1900-1983)

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

Edmund Burke

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Leo Burnett
(Advertising Executive, 1891-1971)

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Mark Burnett
Founder of the Eco Challenge)

I will guarantee you that the day you step outside your comfort zone by making success your goal is the day you discover that adversity, risk, and daring will make life sweeter than you ever imagined.

John Burroughs
(Naturalist and writer, 1837-1921)

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

Ellen Burstyn

What a lovely surprise to discover how un-lonely being alone can be.

Valorie Burton
(Life enrichment specialist)

The person that you are right now is a reflection of what you practice most. When you look in the mirror, what does your reflection say about the habits you practice?

Barbara Bush
(41st 1st Lady)

Believe in something larger than yourself.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life--and life must have joy.

George Herbert Walker Bush
(41st U. S. President)

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Give something to the community in one way or another. It doesn't have to be dramatic, it doesn't have to be in the newspapers. But you need to have the satisfaction of knowing you're helping make somebody else's life a little brighter.

Samuel Butler
(Writer, 1835-1902)

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Sight and all the other senses are only modes of touch.

Charles Buxton

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.