I'm like you - NY... I keep a running tally of quotes to switch around on my sig line LOL...
I have lots of favorites, but here's a few (sorry I only know who to credit on a few)
Live, live, live! Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death! (my sig line at the moment) -Auntie Mame
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. -Lin Yutang
The most important person on earth is a mother. She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral. She need not. She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral-a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body...Even the angels have not been given such a grace! What is more glorious than this-to be a mother. -Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.
Do your best and sleep in peace. God is awake.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. -Albert Ellis
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Life the life you have imagined. -Henry David Thoreau
Someday I hope to enjoy enough of what the world calls success so that somebody will ask me, "What's the secret of it?" I shall say simply this: "I get up when I fall down." - Paul Harvey
Dum spiro, spero (while I breathe, I hope)
Ora et labora (pray and labor)
(I love latin)
Fall seven times, stand up eight. (Japenese proverb)
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -Dr. Robert Schuller
Joy is not in things, it is in us. -Richard Wagner
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people can always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain
erm, that was more than a few. Sorry - I got started and I just couldn't stop! LOL