"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

- James Harvey Robinson

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

- Thomas H. Huxley

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

- W.J. Slim

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 Bryan

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.


- Epictetus

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.
- Nolan Bushnell

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.


- Herbert Kaufman

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

- John Steinbeck

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

- David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.

- Charles Kingsley

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.


- Elizabeth Bibesco

Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.- Marcus Aurelius

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.- St. Thomas Aquinas

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.- -- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.- -- Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
- -- Wang Yang-Ming

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.- -- La Bruyere

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.- -- Anotole France

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is best after all.- -- Benjamin Spock

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
- Socrates, quoted in Cicero, 44 BC.

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Attitude determines altitude.- -- Unknown

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."– Winston Churchill, 1942

As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we've got.- David O. McKay

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.- Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you just keep playing, keep believing and have some faith, something good can happen.
- Washington Redskins coach Norv Turner, whose team became only the second in NFL history to win six games after losing the first seven games of the year. December 19, 1998

When you accept a job, have a plan for what you want to do next.

Do it right, or do it over and over, it's up to you

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.- Henry David Thoreau

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it!
- Mother Teresa

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.- Mother Teresa

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.- Robert Louis Stevenson

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
- - Henry Ward Beecher

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.- Louisa May Alcott

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.- Alexander Pope

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.- Knute Rockne

Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more often than anyone.- Anonymous

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.- Epictetus