Spicy Quotes

• “People don’t want more information. They want faith, in you, your goals, your success, in the stories you tell.” Annette Simmons
• “Great stories don’t appeal to logic, but they often appeal to our senses.” Seth Godin
• “People want to be moved and inspired, and they want to believe in something.” Carmen Gallo
• “The brain doesn’t pay attention to boring things.” John Medina
• “It all begins with an idea.” Christina Hamlett
• “The fastest way to influence your audience is through the heart, not the head.” Christophe Morin
• “Performance is not about getting your act together, but about opening up to the energy of the audience.” Benjamin Zander
• “The more energy, the more power you have to change minds and relationships.” David Sibbet
• “People don’t remember what we think is important. They remember what they think is important” John Maxwell
• “A great presentation gives smart ideas an advantage.” Nancy Duarte
• “You must be ruthless in your efforts to simplify your message to its absolute core.” Garr Reynolds
• “Simplicity is the greatest sophistication.” Leonardo DaVinci
• “Naturally sticky ideas are stuffed full of concrete words and images.” Chip Heath
• “Presentation  skills  are   worthy  of  extremely   obsessive  study.”     Tom  Peters  
• “If you think presentations cannot enchant people, then you have never seen a really good one.” Guy Kawaski
• “Effective speaking is a million-dollar skill, a pathway to success in all areas of your life.” Ty Boyd
• “People will take more cues from your body language and tone of voice than they will from your content.” Scott Eblin
• “Stories have a unique power to move people’s hearts, minds, feet and wallets.” Peter Gruber

• “All lasting business is built on friendship.”
• “Business is in itself a power.” -Garet Garrett
• “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” -Wayne Gretzky
• “Business is a combination of war and sport.” -Andre Maurois
• “Carpe per diem - seize the check.” -Robin Williams
• “The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.” -Tony Robbins
• “Too much of a good thing is wonderful.” -Mae West
• “There is no business like show business. But there are several like accounting.” David Letterman
• “Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.” -Frank Tyger
• “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -Albert Einstein
• “Ninety percent of the game is half mental.” Yogi Berra
• “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Do or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda
• “There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.” -General Douglas MacArthur
• “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.” -Mary Kay Ash
• “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill
• “Winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing.” -Vince Lombardi
• “Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hittin.” -Yogi Berra
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow… Learn as if you were to live forever.” -Mahatma Gandhi
• “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” -Unknown
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchhill
• “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” –Michelangelo
• “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison
• “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” Vince Lombardi
• “People are best convinced by things they themself discover.” - Ben Franklin
• “Your time is precious, so don't waste it living someone else's life.” -Steve Jobs
• “The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.” -Stephen Covey
• “Put your seat belt on because the fun has just begun.” -Michael Mann
• “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” - Proverbs 27:17
• “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.” -Warren Buffet
• “Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.” -Chinese Proverb
• “It's kind of fun to do the impossible.” -Walt Disney
• “It's not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to you!” - Aldous Huxley
• “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose”. -Dr. Seuss
• “People often say motivation don’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily!” –Zig Ziglar
• "Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon!” -Unknown
• “Inspiration exists, but only working it will find you.” -Pablo Ruiz Picasso
• “As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!” -Donald Trump
• “The rule is simple . . . you do it today!”
• “One finds limits by pushing them.” -Herbert Simon
• “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” -Jackie Robinson
• “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.” -Les Brown
• “When you really want to do something, the entire Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it…” -( The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho)
• “Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” - Will Rogers
• “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature's way of warning us to get busy.” -Dr. Henry Link
• “The eyes go where the car goes.” -The Art of Racing in the Rain
• “Chance favors only, the prepared mind.” -Louis Pasteur
• “You make your own luck.” - Dad
• “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” -Albert Einstein

• “The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch” Jim Rohn
• “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions” Naguib Mahfouz
• “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something” Plato
• “Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve” Napoleon Hill
• “There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters. Who never did. Who won't anymore... And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future” Anon
• “It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before...to test your limits...to break through barriers” Anon
• “Within you is the Divine Capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire ” Wayne Dyer
• “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” Albert Einstein
• “A good criterion for measuring success is the number of people you have made happy” Robert J Lumsden
• “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first” Mark Twain
• “If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room” Anon
• “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light” Aristotle
• “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! ” Audrey Hepburn
• “I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion” Muhammed Ali
• “Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start” Nido Qubein
• “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present” Jim Rohn
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” Winston Churchill
• “Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential” Winston Churchill
• “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure” Bill Cosby
• “Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally” David Frost
• “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success” Dale Carnegie
• “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome” Booker T Washington
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” C.SLewis
• “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best” Epictetus
• “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence” Helen Keller
• “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing” Thomas Jefferson
• “The first step is you have to say that you can” Will Smith
• “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night” Edgar Allan Poe
• “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails” William Arthur Ward
• “Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture” Lydia M. Child
• “Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back” Babe Ruth
• “The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path” Jim Rohn
• “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart” Steve Jobs
• “When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go” Carol Burnett
• “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear” Nelson Mandela
• “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life” Muhammed Ali
• “I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse” Florence Nightingale
• “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success” Swami Sivananda
• “The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way” Robert Kiyosaki
• “It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure” Bill Gates
• “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something” Steve Jobs
• “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure” Napoleon Hill
• “I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours” Henry David Thoreau
• “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other” Abraham Lincoln
• “If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it” Michael Jordan
• “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps” Confucius
• “I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done” Lucille Ball
• “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better” Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
11. We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism. –Kevin Kruse
12. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
13. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
16. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
17. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha
18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb
19. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
20. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
21. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
22. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
24. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
25. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
26. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
27. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
28. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
29. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain
30. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
32. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin
34. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
35. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
36. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus
37. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
40. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.  –Booker T. Washington
41. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
42. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
43. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
44. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato
45. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides
46. Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
47. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon
48. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius
51. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank
52. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
53. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
54. Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
55. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
56. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
57. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
58. You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown
59. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
60. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
61. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
62. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington
63. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
64. Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
65. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong
66. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
67. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
68. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby
69. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
70. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
71. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
72. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
73. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey
74. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
75. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
76. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  –Ann Landers
77. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
78. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
79. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens
80. Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
81. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks
82. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius

83. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey
84. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama
85. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
86. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
87. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.
88. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
89. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
90. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
91. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
92. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills
93. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
94. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
95. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
96. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
97. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln
98. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
99. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
100. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
101. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
102. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

• “You don’t take a photograph. You ask quietly to borrow it.”
  – Unknown


• “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”
  – Don McCullin


• “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”
  – Edward Steichen


• “It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
  – Paul Caponigro


• “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
  – Andy Warhol


• “Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
  – Diane Arbus

• “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
  – Dorothea Lange


• “Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”
  – Sam Abell


• “I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”
  – Gilles Peress


• “I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
  – Diane Arbus


• “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
  – Marc Riboud


• “Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.”
  – Anonymous


• “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.”
  – Ambrose Bierce


• “Photography is truth.”
  – Jean-Luc Godard

• “The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”
  – Annie Leibovitz


• “If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.”
  – Linda McCartney


• “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
  – Ansel Adams


• “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
  – Diane Arbus


• “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
  – Elliott Erwitt


• “One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.”
  – Annie Leibovitz


• “What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
  – Karl Lagerfeld

• “A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
  – Irving Penn


• “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
  – Matt Hardy


• “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
  – Elliott Erwitt


• “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
  – Ansel Adams


• “When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.”
  – Anonymous


• “I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
  – Annie Leibovitz


• “I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
  – Diane Arbus


• “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
  – Richard Avedon


• “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
  – Susan Sontag


• “I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.”
  – Wayne miller                                                                                                                                 

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
-- Oprah Winfrey


Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Donâ be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-- Steve Jobs

Smiling is my favorite exercise. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ~Thích Nhất Hạnh


The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. ~Robert Bloch


I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens. ~Jeb Dickerson,


Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb


I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Terri Guillemets


Wear a smile — one size fits all. ~Author Unknown


People are not perfect (except when they smile). ~Author Unknown


No matter how grouchy you’re feeling,
You’ll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth—
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer


Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes it’s just enough to smile sincerely. ~Mike Dolan, www.hawaiianlife.com


Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~Mother Teresa


A smile is like tight underwear — it makes your cheeks go up. ~Author Unknown


A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life’s worthwhile. ~Author Unknown


What a snapshot is to your life, your life is to eternity, so wouldn’t it be nice if eternity captured you smiling? ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ~Washington Irving


Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ~Charles Reade


A smile is the universal welcome. ~Max Eastman


Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to. ~Author Unknown


You’re never fully dressed without a smile. ~Martin Charnin


A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown


Smile, it lets your teeth breathe. ~Author Unknown


It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown. ~Author Unknown


The smile that flickers on baby’s lips when he sleeps — does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane


The teeth are smiling, but is the heart? ~African Proverb


All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile. ~Chris Hart


If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile. ~Author Unknown


Smile with your lips, smile with your eyes, smile with your heart and your soul and your life. ~Terri Guillemets


Smile! It increases your face value. ~Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias


Peace begins with a smile. ~Mother Teresa


A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it. ~Author Unknown


Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown


A smile is something you can’t give away; it always comes back to you. ~Author Unknown


A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown


It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart. ~Author Unknown