"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
--Mark Twain

"If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it."
--William Arthur Ward

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
--Snoopy

“The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.”
--William F. Scolavino

"If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it."
--Kathleen Norris

"The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it."
--Anonymous

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
--C. Archie Danielson

Anger
"When anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly."
--Sappho

"It usually takes two people to make one of them angry."
--Laurence Peter

Anticipation
“There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?”
--Marcus Annaeus Seneca

"Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured, From evils which never arrived!"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Apathy
“A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.”
--Peter Marshall

Appearance
"Judge not the horse by his saddle."
--Chinese Proverb

Appease
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
--Winston Churchill

Appreciation
"The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated."
--William James

Attitude
"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
--Washington Irving

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."
--Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
--William James (1842-1910)

"You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make your attitudes to fit those situations."
--Zig Ziglar, American author & motivational speaker

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
--Hugh Downs

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
--William Makepeace Thackeray

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number."
--Edith Armstrong

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."
--Alphonse Karr

"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
--Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Pastor, speaker & author

Awareness
"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."
--Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist & essayist