ONMOT-Dec2008

3/12 - "You don't have to be a famous person just to make your mark." ---No Doubt, "Different People"

4/12 - "I want you to know, everyone's got to face down the demons, maybe today. We can put the past away." ---Third Eye Blind, "Jumper"

4/12 - "Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away." ---Mariah Carey, "Hero"

5/12 - "You don't know what you have 'til your everything is gone. You need someone to show you how to live again." ---Blessid Union of Souls, "I Wanna Be There"

5/12 - "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but ain't no man got to be common." ---Satchel Paige

6/12 - "I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else." ---Arthur Ashe

6/12 - "All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen." ---Seth Godin"

7/12 - "Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge." ---Carmelia Elliot

7/12 - "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink."

8/12 - "It doesn't take strength to hold a grudge; it takes strength to let go of one." ---Jesse (John Stamos), Full House

8/12 - "Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy--and then just listen to what they say." ---Dave Joyner

9/12 - "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." ---Unknown

9/12 - "Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars--but you may get the moon." ---Carlton Young

10/12 - "For all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been.'" ---John Greenleaf Whittier

10/12 - "Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do." ---No Time to Cry by Lurlene McDaniel

11/12 - "A successful life doesn't require that we've done the best, but that we've done our best." ---H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

11/12 - "I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again." ---William Penn

"You never get a second chance to make a good first impression." ---Unknown

"All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign." ---Dan Pursuit

"An open mind opens doors." ---Unknown"Above all else, never think you're not good enough." ---Anthony Trollope

15/12 - "Do what you will, always." ---Dave Matthews Band

16/12 - "Think happy thoughts and you can fly." ---Peter Pan

16/12 - "Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible." ---Unknown

17/12 - "I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail." ---Muriel Strade

17/12 - "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." ---Robert F. Kennedy

18/12 - "At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done;..

.. not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored." ---Nathan C. Schaeffer



19/12 - "I would rather make my name than inherit it." ---W.M. Thackeray

19/12 - "I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be." ---Abraham Lincoln

20/12 - "You have to dance like no one is watching, and love like it's never gonna hurt." ---Unknown

20/12 - "Do not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate." ---Ella Wheeler Wilcox

21/12 - "Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn." ---Unknown

21/12 - "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." ---Henry David Thoreau

22/12 - "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do!" ---Walter Bagehot

22/12 - "You can sit around and wait for the good things to happen to you, or you can go out and make them happen." ---Unknown

23/12 - "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." ---Taylor Benson

23/12 - "Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst thing is not to try." ---Unknown

24/12 - "Failure is the path of least persistence." ---Unknown

24/12 - "Patience is counting down without blasting off." ---Unknown

25/12 - "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ---Will Rogers

25/12 - "We must conquer war or war will conquer us." ---Ely Culbertson

26/12 - "It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not." ---Albert Brooks

26/12 - "Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success." ---Michael Eisner

27/12 - "The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have." ---Carol Clurman

27/12 - "Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice." ---Robert Orben

28/12 - "There are no speed limits on the road to excellence." ---David Johnson

28/12- "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." ---Tobias Wolff

29/12 - "Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing." ---George Sheehan

29/12 - "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." ---Clarence Thomas

30/12 - "There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by." ---Annie Dillard

30/12 - "Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get a leg up." ---Dave Weinbaum

31/12 - "The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat." ---A.J. Cronin

31/12- "Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows." ---Michael Landon