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Richard Wagner
(Composer, 1813-1883)

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Denis Waitley
(Motivational Speaker and Writer)

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Alice Walker
(Writer)

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

John Wanamaker
(US Department Store Merchant, 1838 - 1922)

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Arch Ward
(Promoter and sports editor, 1896-1955)

The most difficult part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Francine Ward
(Business Leader and Motivational Speaker)

Every one of us alone has the power to direct the course of our lives by choosing what actions we will or won’t take. While sometimes it’s easier to believe you don’t have a choice, the reality is that you always have a choice to behave differently.

William Arthur Ward
(Educator, 1921-1994)

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

Charles Dudley Warner
(Writer and Editor, 1829-1900)

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Andy Warhol

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Faye Wattleton
(Journalist)

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

J. C. Watts, Jr.

Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

Mae West
(Actor)

You're never too old to become younger.

Sheila Wellington
(Business Executive)

Succeeding in adversity makes success all the sweeter. At the end of the day, it's not how far you fall but how high you ounce.

H. G. Wells
(Writer, 1866-1946)

When a person realizes their littleness, their greatness can appear.

Wim Wenders
(Filmmaker)

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

Lizzie West
(Musician)

Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be.

Bishop Westcott

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

Edith Wharton
(Novelist, 1862-1937)

Life is either always a tight-rope or a feather bed. Give me the tight-rope.

E. B. White
(Humorist and Writer, 1899-1985)

[I] arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world.

Katharine Whitehorn

A good rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Dennis Wholey
(TV talk show host)

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

Marcia Wieder
(Dream coach)

Your purpose is anything that touches your heart and makes a difference to you.

Elie Wiesel
(Writer)

Nobody is stronger...than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

Oscar Wilde
(Playwright and Poet, 1854-1900)

Experience . . . is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Charley Willey

Make one person happy each day and in 40 years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

Angel Kyodo Williams
(Founder of the Urban Peace Project)

The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.

Art Williams
(Business Leader)

I believe that to win in life, you've got to become a dreamer again. You've got to become excited and "turned on" about your life and your future. ...And all most people really need is to know that there's a chance--an opportunity--for their dreams to come true.

Betty Williams
(Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)

When you go out into this world remember: compassion, compassion, compassion.

Pat Williams
(Basketball Executive)

Every experience is a learning experience. Every time we try something--win or lose--we learn, we grow, we attain more confidence and competence for the next time.

Robin Williams
(Actor and Comedian)

When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case.

Marianne Williamson
(Writer and Lecturer)

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

It is in the forgiveness of our weaknesses that we are healed of them, and the tenderness of a forgiven heart is a tenderness that will ultimately heal the world.

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Colin Wilson

We possess such immense resources of power that pessimism is a laughable absurdity.

Earl Wilson
(Columnist, 1907-1987)

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Edmund Wilson
(Critic and writer, 1895-1972)

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Woodrow Wilson
(28th U.S. President, 1856-1924)

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal-to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.

Kathleen Windsor

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

Oprah Winfrey
(Entrepreneur)

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Christa Wolf
(Writer)

The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

Stevie Wonder
(Musician)

I'm a work in progress, but if I know in my heart that I'm doing my best, that my heart's in the right place, that I have unconditional love, I feel okay.