Be the change you want to see in the world.

--Gandhi

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths

rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

--John D. Rockefeller

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of

getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into

small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

--Mark Twain

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often

look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,

that we do not see the ones which open for us.

--Alexander Graham Bell

The only way to discover the limits of the possible

is to go beyond them into the impossible.

--Arthur C. Clarke

"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting

up and taking action."

-- Al Batt

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it,

because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination

you will ever need.

--Jerry Gillies

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we

going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be

businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success,

a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to

light a fire.

--Kim Woo-Choong, Founder and Chairman, Dawwoo

Obstacles are those frightful things you see

when you take your eyes off the goal.

--Hannah More

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

-- Gen. George Patton

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something

stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway;

we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible

use."

-- Earl Nightingale

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first,

and call whatever you hit the target.

--Ashleigh Brilliant

He who controls others may be powerful,

but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

-- Lau Tsu

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,

because your character is what you really are, while your

reputation is merely what others think you are.

--John Wooden

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on

sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot

make progress without making decisions.

--Jim Rohn

The first and most important step toward success is the

feeling that we can succeed.

--Nelson Boswell

Forgiveness is the fragrence of the violet,

that clings fast to the heel that crushed it.

George Roemisch

An excuse is a thin shell of truth stuffed with a lie.

Author unknown.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power

behind us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities

and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his

difficulties.

-- Harry Truman

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes,

but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

-- Tom Connelly

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

--Helen Keller

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision

is a nightmare.

--Japanese Proverb

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at

what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

--Kahlil Gibran

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the

shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

-- Helen Keller

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

-- Oprah Winfre

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise

grows it under his feet.

-- James Oppenheim

A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.

-- Chinese Proverb

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two

words when one will do.

-Thomas Jefferson

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition,

there are still untapped possibilities within us and new

beauty waiting to be born.

-- Dr. Dale Turner

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is

a nightmare.

-- Japanese Proverb

Success is not to be pursued, it is to be attracted by the

person you become.

-- Unknown

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 the safe harbor.

Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Discover.

-- Mark Twain

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and

nothing can stop him.

-- Alexander Solzenitsyn

If you can dream it, you can do it.

-- Walt Disney

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take

your eyes off your goals.

-- Author Unknown

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes,

but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

-- Tom J. Connelly

There is no such thing as a great talent without great

will-power.

-- Honore de Balzac

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often

look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that

we do not see the ones which open for us.

--Alexander Graham Bell

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory

of the tale of Orpheus; it moves stones and charms brutes. It

is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories

without it.

-- Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Some men see things as they are and say why?

I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"

--Robert F. Kennedy

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the

foundation of courage and true progress.

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

The only thing that stands between a man and what he

wants from life is often merely the will to try it and faith to

believe it is possible.

--Richard M. Devos

Integrity is one of several paths, it distinguishes itself

from the others because is it is the right path,

and the only one upon which you will never get lost.

--M. H. McKee

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

-- The Reverend Jesse Jackson

All things good to know are difficult to learn.

-- Greek Proverb

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.

Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of

its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

--Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

-- Benjamin Franklin

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

--- Ancient Proverb

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and

an unremitting devotion to the things you want to

see happen."

--Frank Lloyd Wright

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

--- Ancient Proverb

Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have

to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come

when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.

--Michael Jordan

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the

wind the stronger the trees.

--Williard Marriott

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

--Napolean Hill

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what

you say.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying

away small stones.

--Chinese Proverb

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as

well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing

people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's

vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's

performance to a higher standard, the building of a

personality beyond its normal limitations.

--Peter Drucker

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through

or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and

development of the spirit.

--M. Scott Peck, M.D.

The first and most important step toward success is the

feeling that we can succeed.

--Nelson Boswell

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be

no courage unless you're scared.

--Eddie Rickenbacker

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look

so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do

not see the one which has opened for us.

--Alexander Graham Bell

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are

the buts you use today.

--Les Brown

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money,

power, and influence.

--Henry Chestor

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you

a formula for failure-which is: Try to please everybody.

--Herbert Bayard Swope

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities;

an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

--Reginald B Mansell

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly

disguised as insoluble problems.

--Lee Iococca

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

--John Wooden

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the

most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

--Charles Darwin

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get

even less than you settled for.

--Maureen Dowd

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled

many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

--Ed Parker

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

--Alex Hamilton

The difference between a successful person and others

is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather

in a lack of will.

-- Vincent T. Lombardi

Bad is never good until worse happens.

-- Danish Proverb

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured

that the world will not raise your price.

-- Anon.

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the

life in your years"

-- Abraham Lincoln

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if

you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."

-- George Horace Lorimer

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An

important key to self- confidence is preparation."

-- Arthur Ashe

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent

people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation

of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to

appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the

world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden

patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one

life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is t

he meaning of success."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the

seeds you plant."

--Robert Louis Stevenson

"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful

bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble

as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your

head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be

bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

--Ann Landers

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have

conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."

--Dr. Jonas Salk

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find

one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will

discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself,

the other for helping others."

--Audrey Hepburn

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is

not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved.

-- William Jennings Bryant

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get

even less than you settled for.

-- Maureen Dowd

perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one

after another!

-- Walter Elliott

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every

experience in which you really stop to look fear in the

face.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

-- George Bernard Shaw

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.

-- Donald Trump

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

-- Martin Van Buren

It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and

not allow them to increase unacknowledged.

-- Edward W. Ziegler

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions:

could have, might have, and should have.

-- Louis E. Boone

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

-- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up

every time we fail.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your

ability to discover what you don't know.

-- Eric Allenbaugh

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try"

has performed wonders.

-- George P. Burnham

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your

enthusiasm.

-- Winston Churchill

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get

even less than you settled for.

-- Maureen Dowd

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

-- Tobias Wolff

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you

never take chances.

-- Julia Soul

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep,

for every dream precedes the goal.

-- Pamela Vaull Starr

If one desires a change, one must be that change before

that change can take place.

-- Gita Bellin

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly

live long enough to make them all yourself.

-- Sam Levenson

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done,

the only thing you'll have left is your character.

-- Vince Gill

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something

stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway;

we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible

use."

-- Earl Nightingale

"Nurture your thoughts with great thoughts, to believe in the

heroic, makes heroes."

-- Disraeli

Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast;

in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

--Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.)

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected

generally happens.

--Benjamin Disraeli

The past gives us experience and memories; the present gives us

challenges and opportunities; the future gives us visions and hope.

-- William Arthur Ward

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong

to live as well as think.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about

yesterday all the time.

--Charles F. Kettering

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is

willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets

far from shore.

--Dale Carnegie

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the

paint on it you can.

--Danny Kaye

A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater

than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse,

to avoid trouble.

--Mahatma Gandhi

You only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough.

--Joe Lewis

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its

undoing.

--Eva Young

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody

agrees that it is old enough to know better."

-- Anonymous

Wise men talk because they have something to say.

Fools talk because they have to say something.

-- Plato

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

-- Christopher Morley

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power

behind us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between a successful person and others is

not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather

in a lack of will.

-- Vincent T. Lombardi

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin

again.

-- Henry Ford

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

--Helen Keller

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at

what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

--Kahlil Gibran

Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of

happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.

--Sanskrit poem

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than

down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

--Jerry Chin

Risk more than others think is safe.

Care more than others think is wise.

Dream more than others think is practical.

Expect more than others think is possible.

--Cadet maxim, West Point Military Academy

The only thing that stands between a man and what he

wants from life is often merely the will to try it and faith to

believe it is possible.

--Richard M. Devos

Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second

base and keep your foot on first.

--Fredrick B. Wilcox

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the

foundation of courage and true progress.

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:

not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

--Colin Wilson

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not

an act but a habit.

-- Aristotle

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often

look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that

we do not see the ones which open for us.

--Alexander Graham Bell

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are

we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be

businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success,

a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to

light a fire.

--Kim Woo-Choong, Founder and Chairman, Dawwoo

There is no such thing as a great talent without great

will-power.

-- Honore de Balzac

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

--Helen Keller

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong

to live as well to think.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six

sharpening my axe.

-- Abraham Lincoln

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise

grows it under his feet.

-- James Oppenheim

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about

yesterday all the time.

--Charles F. Kettering

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as

well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing

people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's

vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's

performance to a higher standard, the building of a

personality beyond its normal limitations.

--Peter Drucker

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than

necessary to tell more than he knows."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower *

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,

because your character is what you really are, while your

reputation is merely what others think you are.

--John Wooden

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying

away small stones.

--Chinese Proverb

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but

the very best you will very often get it.

--W. Somerset Maugham

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what

you say.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and

nothing can stop him.

--Alexander Solzenitsyn

He that loses wealth loses much:

but he that loses courage loses all.

--Saavedra Cervantes

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll

probably never do much of anything.

-- Win Borden, President of Minnesota Assoc. of Commerce

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

--Rodin

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;

an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

--Sir Winston Churchill

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past,

but by the responsibility for our future.

--George Bernard Shaw

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts

make it.

--Marcus Aurelius

This was written by the CEO of Coca-Cola

Brian G. Dyson. It was used as Georgia

Tech's Commencement Address

Imagine life as a game in which you are

juggling some five balls in the air.

You name them - Work - Family - Health -

Friends - Spirit, and you're keeping all of

these in the air.

You will soon understand that work is a

rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce

back. But the other four balls - family,

health, friends and spirit are made of glass.

If you drop one of these, they will be

irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked,

damaged or even shattered. They will never

be the same.

You must understand that and strive for

balance in your life. How?

1. Don't undermine your worth by

comparing yourself with others. It is

because we are different that each of

us is special.

2. Don't set your goals by what other

people deem important. Only you

know what is best for you.

3. Don't take for granted the things

closest to your heart. Cling to them as

you would your life, for without them,

life is meaningless.

4. Don't let your life slip through your

fingers by living in the past or for the

future. By living your life one day at a

time, you live ALL the days of your

life.

5. Don't give up when you still have

something to give. Nothing is really

over until the moment you stop trying.

6. Don't be afraid to admit that you are

less than perfect. It is this fragile

thread that binds us together.

7. Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It

is by taking chances that we learn

how to be brave.

8. Don't shut love out of your life by

saying it's impossible to find. The

quickest way to receive love is to

give; the fastest way to lose love is to

hold it too tightly; and the best way to

keep love is to give it wings.

9. Don't run through life so fast that you

forget not only where you've been,

but also where you are going.

10. Don't forget that a person's greatest

emotional need is to feel appreciated.

11. Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge

is weightless, a treasure you can

always carry easily.

12. Don't use time or words carelessly.

Neither can be retrieved.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be

savored each step of the way.

Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a

Mystery, and Today is a gift:

that's why we call it - "The Present"

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

--Larry Eisenberg

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has

everything.

-- Arabian Proverb

We are not in a position in which we have nothing

to work with. We already have capacities, talents,

direction, missions, callings.

--Abraham Maslow

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right

to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn

new things and move forward with your life. Remember

that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting

your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human

can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more

productive person.

--Dr. David M. Burns

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get

even less than you settled for.

--Maureen Dowd

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

--Alex Hamilton

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths

rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

--John D. Rockefeller

"Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead.

-- Scottish Proverb"

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.

Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of

its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

--Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist"

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate

you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

-- Richard M. Nixon"

"Bad is never good until worse happens.

-- Danish Proverb"

"To execute great things, one should live as though one would

never die."

--Vauvenargues (1715-1747)

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the

life in your years"

-- Abraham Lincoln"

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have

conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."

--Dr. Jonas Salk

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent

people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation

of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to

appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the

world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden

patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one

life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is

the meaning of success."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice

you make along the way."

-- Stephen C Paul"

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get

even less than you settled for."

-- Maureen Dowd

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An

important key to self- confidence is preparation."

-- Arthur Ashe

"perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one

after another!"

-- Walter Elliott

"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful

bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble

as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your

head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, ""I will be

bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

--Ann Landers

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what

you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in

what you are doing."

-- Will Rogers

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every

experience in which you really stop to look fear in the

face."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"No man is a failure who is enjoying life."

-- William Feather

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those

poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,

because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory

nor defeat."

--Theodore Roosevelt

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your

enthusiasm."

-- Winston Churchill

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the

seeds you plant."

--Robert Louis Stevenson

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something

stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway;

we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible

use."

-- Earl Nightingale

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have

one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."

--Whitney Young, Jr.

"The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is

willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets

far from shore."

--Dale Carnegie

"Pain is inevitable but misery is optional"

--Barbara Johnson

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

--Napolean Hill

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first,

and call whatever you hit the target."

--Ashleigh Brilliant

Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.

---

Be bold and be strong,

And people will respect you. :

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about

yesterday all the time."

--Charles F. Kettering

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

--William James

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

-- Christopher Morley

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this

constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just

as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

-- Napoleon Hill

The difference between a successful person and others is

not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather

in a lack of will.

-- Vincent T. Lombardi

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

--Helen Keller

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes,

but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

-- Tom Connelly

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and

nothing can stop him.

--Alexander Solzenitsyn

Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell.

--Peter Brock

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin

again.

-- Henry Ford

Wise men talk because they have something to say.

Fools talk because they have to say something.

-- Plato

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.

--Einstein, Albert

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are

we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be

businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success,

a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to

light a fire.

--Kim Woo-Choong, Founder and Chairman, Dawwoo

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:

not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

--Colin Wilson

Integrity is one of several paths, it distinguishes itself

from the others because is it is the right path,

and the only one upon which you will never get lost.

--M. H. McKee

The only thing that stands between a man and what he

wants from life is often merely the will to try it and faith to

believe it is possible.

--Richard M. Devos

Risk more than others think is safe.

Care more than others think is wise.

Dream more than others think is practical.

Expect more than others think is possible.

--Cadet maxim, West Point Military Academy

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than

down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

--Jerry Chin

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are

small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that

much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones

will tend to take care of themselves.

--Dale Carnegie

Q: Why does a golfer wear two pairs of pants?

A: Because he might get a hole in one.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

--Helen Keller

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a

sundial in the shade?

--Benjamin Franklin

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin

again.

-- Henry Ford

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch

which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to

make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on

to future generations.

--George Bernard Shaw

"You must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you
should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tell you do. But our decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear and ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question. This question is one that only a very old man/woman asks... My benefactor told me about it once when I was young and my blood was too Vigorous for me to understand it. now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same; they lead to nowhere. They are paths going through bush, or into bush. In my own life I could say I have traveled long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Both paths lead no where; but one has heart the other doesn't/One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong, the other weakens you."
(Now I am not sure if I agree with all of that, but it’s a quote like all other quotes some high points and some low. But as they say you take the truth where you find it,
so take what you will from that.)

Susan Schutz: "You are a free person. I am so happy because in your freedom, you chose me to be your friend."

A Couple from Meetings with Remarkable Men

"He is stupid who is clever"

"Truth is that from which conscience can be at peace."

"A man is satisfied not by the quantity of food, but by the absence of greed."

"Happy is he who sees not his unhappiness."

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."

"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

"The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."

"...there is no such a thing as perfection"

"Each of us is in truth is an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside."

-Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach

"Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true."

"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true"

"I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are, in case you don't know..."

"Slight misunderstandings sometimes occur between us and yet they only serve to strengthen our friendship."

-Ludwig van Beethoven

"You know that nothing can ever change what we have always been and always will be to each other."