Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Guy Finley

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Victor Cousins

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Lee Iacocca

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Lucretius

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Mary Shelley

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Matthew Prior

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Proverb

He who hesitates is lost.

Guy Finley

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

Booker T. Washington

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Albert Schweitzer

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Stendhal

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

George S. Patton

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Arthur C. Clarke

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

St. Clement of Alexandra

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Thornton Wilder

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Johann Gottfried

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

RJS

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

William B. Sprague

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Charles R. Swindoll

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

John Wooden

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

Abraham Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.

Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Martin Luther King, Jr

The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where the stand in times of challenge and controversy.

Apocalypto

No civilization can be killed unless it is dead from within.

Blaise Pascal

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.