(501)When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(502)A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

William James

(503)If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Unknown

(504)Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some ask "What happened?"

Unknown

(505)The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

Will Smith

(506)Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

(507)Only those who do nothing at all make mistakes...but that would be a mistake.

Unknown

(508)Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Nelson Mandela

(509)It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Tom Brokaw

(510)Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

(511)You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

Maya Angelou

(512)If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Oscar Wilde

(513)Whenever you fall, pick something up.

Oswald Avery

(514)Optimist:

Someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

Robert Brault

(515)At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Albert Schweitzer

(516)Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

(517)When people are ready to change, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Andy Warhol

(518)Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Chinese proverb

(519)Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Jack Canfield

(520)Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry van Dyke

(521)I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Bob Dylan

(522)Try to be like the turtle—at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland

(523)Sometimes you climb out of the bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside—remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Charles Bukowski

(524)When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Sydney Harris

(525)If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Theodore Roosevelt

(526)The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

(527)It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(528)Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Oprah Winfrey

(529)One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman

(530)Good friends offer a shoulder when you need to cry. Best friends are there with a shovel to beat up who made you cry.

Unknown

(531)If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

Linda Sunshine

(532)You grow up the day you have your first real laugh—at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

(533)I was thinking one day and I realized that if I just had somebody behind me all the way to motivate me I could make a big difference. Nobody came along like that so I just became that person for myself.

Unknown

(534)That proves you are unusual...I am convince that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folk are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

The Wizard of Oz

(535)Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

(536)It's okay to look at the past and the future, just don't stare.

Unknown

(537)Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

(538)There is no experience better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmer

(539)A happy family is but an earlier Heaven.

John Bowring

(540)We didn't lose the game. We just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

(541)The difficult thing about children is that they come with no instructions. You pretty well have to assemble them on your own.

James Dobson

(542)Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

(543)In times like these it helps to recall there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey

(544)When you get to the end of all light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly.

Edward Teller

(545)It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters.

Mother Teresa

(546)As you grow older, you'll find that the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Zachary Scott

(547)Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg

(548)Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.

Unknown

(549)Kind words can be short and easy to speak. But their echoes are endless.

Mother Teresa

(550)Life is the only game where the object of the game is to figure out what the rules are.

Tom Seeley