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.

Napoleon Hill

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

Orison Swett Marden

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Walt Whitman

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Charles Schulz

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.. downward !!

Jonathan Swift

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Lucille Ball

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Oprah Winfrey

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Euripides

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Muhammad Ali

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Muhammad Ali

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

William Faulkner

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity;  it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

Thomas Carlyle

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

W.T. Purkiser

Not what we say about our blessing, but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Epictetus

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Orison Swett Marden

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Jim Rohn

Happiness is not an accident, nor is it something you wish for.  Happiness is something you design.

William Arthur Ward

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work

Nelson Mandela

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate but is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Frank Tyger

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble as might your tongue.

Henry Ford

There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can.

Audrey Hepburn

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Richard L. Evans

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Herm Albright

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Adam Lawrence

Always treat a famous person as if they're not, and a person who's not as if they were.

Walt Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

RJS

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. This are from you and will come back on you.

RJS

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Einstien

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.

Sydney J. Harris

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"

Judy Collins

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

Mark Twain

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

RJS

Don't get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

RJS

Laughing at your mistakes can lengthen your life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

RJS

I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.

RJS

God, if I can’t have what I want, let me want what I have.

RJS

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

Robertson Davies

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

George Will

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

RJS

When you ASSUME = you make an ASS out of U and ME...so always Ask and never Assume.

Bob Proctor

You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution to it.

Funny

Retirement.. When you stop lying about your age and start lying around the house.

William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

RJS

You are free... when you are in control of yourself and do not wish to control others.